[OccupyCU] Fw: The Dems: time to bury Mom

[David Johnson]

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From: Larry Duncan 
To: Larry Duncan 
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 7:27 PM
Subject: The Dems: time to bury Mom




Man Kept Dead Mother's Body In A 'BACKPACK For Nearly A Decade'
Investigators searching for missing Japanese centenarians in a well-publicized nationwide hunt made a particularly grisly discovery this week when they reportedly found the remains of a 104-year-old Tokyo woman stuffed into her son's backpack.

The remains were found by police Thursday in an apartment in Tokyo's Ota ward, where the dead woman's 64-year-old son lived. He told police his mother had died in June 2001, but that he hadn't been able to afford a proper funeral or burial.

           - Huff Post World, Aug. 20, 2010



While waiting around for the train to a political tomorrow (a metaphor itself) to finally leave the station, my favorite pastime is imagining new metaphors for the relationship between U.S. unions and the Democratic Party.

How about the man who won’t bury his dear old, dead mom? The unions imagine a past when the Democrats (fantasy Mom) took care of them. Now, this daydream is more and more impossible to feed, as cruel reality clashes with make-believe. Mom has been dead for some time now. The Democratic Party dumped the Employee Free Choice Act, hit the accelerator on imperialist militarism, sanctioned torture, sided with Wall Street, condoned war crimes, bombed public education. The autopsy report is very long.

The situation has become, of course, quite toxic for the household where the cadaver is being kept. Obviously a health hazard, and a menace to the neighborhood, it can only mean the most serious kind of pathology for the psyche of the ‘loyal’ son.

Mommy is dead, the imaginary political past cannot be returned to. The child, to find the road to a healthy future, will have to find the strength to face this reality, to confront the challenge to stand on its own. First step: bury Mom.

I have applied for an extension on this metaphor, but that’s all I have to say for now.

-Larry Duncan
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