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TESTING THE NEW HEADING SYSTEM

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TESTING THE NEW HEADING SYSTEM

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This is an edited and revised (but still badly written) repost of an article previously displayed on a former website, written a few months after the Anointed One was Immaculated.

There is a mass movement of pawnish soldiers, decades on the march, unwittingly carrying in formation, for their generals, the last nails which will finally seal the coffin of the Constitution. They have been handed weapons made of not blood, sweat and toil, but of shame, fear and anger. They have been through a training so basic that it trumps any notion of reason and logic. You can’t really blame them for forging the chains we can believe in, because they do not know any better. “Liberal”, “socialist”, “leftist”, “Progressive”, and other common names for the current feel-good ideology are just too vague for use. My dark ponderings have revealed the perfect name: “Emocrat”!

America is an Emocracy!

We are ruled not by reason, but by feeling. Will Universal Health Care ruin our nation’s economy, result in rationing and employ “End Of Life Counseling” instead of an operation for the elderly and infirm? Very likely, but who cares? It’s Emocratic to give everybody free health care, so it must be good. And what about free markets in general? If we could just end all competition, everyone could be happy. An Emocrat just wants to be happy — regardless of the misery implicit in their desired outcome. (And to stay in power is the greatest happiness of a politician, which is why they foster this movement.)

Emocratic politics are simple: If someone else is happy while you are not, it makes you angry. You blame them for your unhappiness. They must give up some of their happiness to your sadness, to make you happy. And anger makes us all unhappy, so we can’t have that! Things that make you angry must be suppressed. It’s the Emocratic way!

Emocrats live on the edge of reason, even though they think they’re rational. They listen to NPR after-all, not some passionate ideologue who spouts unhappy thoughts. Continue reading →