By David Glenn Cox
The boss never has to tell you what he wants. If you make widgets, make more widgets. Even if you’ve never met the boss. The number of widgets you’ve manufactured is sure to please. And maybe one day the boss comes downstairs direct to the factory floor to personally make you the widget foreman. Day shift, section R. You knew instinctively this was the way to the boss’s heart even without being told.
Now let’s say you work for a major media outlet. And the twin sisters of caution and prudence choose not to provoke the incoming boss. He is unknown except for his reputation. Which honestly, isn’t too good. Probably best to tone it down for a while and not draw his ire, right off. Whatever happened to that piece about the dog show? Maybe something about the new cars or Veterans Day. Yeah, that’s the ticket! Lots of flags and saccharin syrup about patriotism! Sure, that’ll be great!
YMCA! It’s fun to stay at the YMCA!
Brass bands and pretty girls in long dresses singing patriotic songs. You know, the Brady Bunch! They don’t need to be told anything, do they? Do they? Facing the most well-known criminal conspiracy ever to masquerade as a government, since perhaps Roman times. They will say what exactly? You could end up naked in a rainforest in El Salvador talking like that. What are you going to do then smart guy? Or they could just disappear you.
It's a common tactic in authoritarian governments. Since the justice system works hand in glove with the government. The sudden disappearance of an unfriendly journalist or two, should be studied at great length over the years like Jimmy Hoffa. Just don’t look near the soccer field. There’s nothing there, despite the rumors, we’ve already “checked.”
IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE! IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE! IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE!
This is a Christian nation filled with kindhearted souls who would never do anything like that. People want to please the boss. If the boss smiles or pretends not to care, what other instruction do you need? If the boss steals, you steal too! (See: Russian military) They didn’t tell you to do it, but yes, they did. If they reward the person who arrests the most illegals. I bet you can beat that record and take your wife on a trip to Hawaii. She’d like that! If they’re giving out four hundred water bottles a day. I bet we can cut that down to 200. You just share amigo!
The boss is bound to be pleased with me saving money. There are only supposed to be two hundred migrants housed here and we have four hundred And Saved Money too! I think I smell a promotion! The boss says I have to get rid of two hundred migrants immediately. What else could I do? I stopped counting them.
In the classic film Casablanca, a drunken Humphrey Bogart says, “I bet they’re still asleep in America!” Political indoctrination, get ready because here it comes. They are still asleep in America and it’s potentially fatal. Makes me glad I’m a piss ant like you! The huge vast swamp of American nonreaders of my blog protects me, and I thank them for their nonreadership. They are my sword and shield. Were I ever to become widely popular my life would be immediately put in jeopardy! Or I would be writing about the new Buicks. So don’t read this and don’t recommend it to your friends. This will be our little secret.
Did you know the US built a modern prison in Iraq? It was only missing one little feature most modern prisons have. It had no rooms for suspects to meet with their lawyers. Because it didn’t need any. Just being there was proof enough of your guilt. And when the International Red Cross came knocking to interview the prisoners. You know like they do in the movies sometimes to check on the prisoner’s health and wellbeing. US officials told them to go pound sand and go away.
A prison built with US taxpayer dollars, but it can’t happen here. Stress positions and waterboarding. Nooo, this is a Christian nation with laws and protections against unlawful torture. That’s what that nice piece of paper says and then, there’s what the boss wants! And the boss wants confessions and I want a promotion!
It's only human nature, African Americans receiving phone calls after the election saying slavery was making a comeback. Are you surprised? That is who won the election! The King promised deportations. And he will have them. Did you think he was kidding? Do you think they wouldn’t help load the trucks or the train cars? Do you think they wouldn’t try to run a campaign bus off the highway, in a burst of overenthusiasm?
During the Stanford experiment in 1971, college students were chosen at random to play either guards or prisoners in a mock jail. Originally, the experiment was planned for two weeks but the experiment had to be cancelled after just five days, due of the increasing brutality of the guards. Just human nature.
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street! There is nothing uniquely German about Fascism. “Hi, this is Rachael Maddow and your old pal, Joe Scarborough welcoming you to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! Oh look! Here comes Snoopy! Weee!”
Whatever they will do to other people’s children is only practice for what they intend to do to your children.
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
