After the Ball is Over

Well, the elections are over and I've had a good depression (and several other oxymorons). So I'm taking a break from important personal business to share a thought (no sense holding onto it until it spoils).

So here's the thing, my fellow Americans: we've taken the wrong approach to this political message business. Same as you, most likely, I voted for people who took positions I agreed with and sponsored legislation I liked. And if they said or voted for things I didn't like, I remembered them prattling on about public service and representing all constituents. So I kept supporting them as long as I liked most of what they said and did.

How last century was that?!!

What we should have been doing all along, besides paying attention only to those who share our opinions, is thinking up ways to contradict, befuddle, mystify, and silence people who don't share our opinions. Like the majority of our elected officials and news commentators have been doing.

So here's the new me (and you, I hope, when you add your own provisions and slogans):

** Women and gays have been getting all our attention when it comes to personal choices. This is sexist and genderist. Men should insist on equal,or even better, treatment:
!! Unmarried men must refrain from any activity that could lead to the loss of viable reproductive material.

** Persons of color and women have been getting most of the attention when it comes to protecting our right to vote. White male adults should insist on better-than-equal treatment:
!! White men must prove their eligibility to vote by reciting the first four sentences of the Declaration of Independence and the entire Preamble to the Constitution before casting their ballots. If they want to use mail-in voting, they must re-register and complete their eligibility requirements at least 12 weeks, but no more than 40 weeks, before each election.

And here are a few slogans we've been using indiscriminantly, that I've modified a bit:

** Hatred is a family value.

** Better dead than well read.

** No taxation. (adding more words is unnecessary and probably anti-American)

** You can fool most of the people most of the time, and that's how you win elections.