[Newspoetry] Theater of the Absurd

[DL Emerick]

An open letter to American Political Party Chairmen --

 

STOP TREATING US LIKE DUMMIES:

 

There's no doubt that costuming is important, if you design catalogs pictures or
window displays of dummies, modeling clothes.

 

But, when you permit the deliberative bodies of our government and its
supporting political parties to be turned into the display of dummies, you
destroy the essential foundation of democracy.

 

Democracy is a debate about real issues that affect the lives of ordinary
people.  Wages and health care, social security and Medicare, the continuing
pointless waste of American resources on an ill-conceived and poorly managed
diversionary war in Iraq are prime examples of such attempts to dummy down
American politics.

 

Likewise, too, the showy debates upon flag burning, gays, marriage and even
abortion have no real and substantial impact upon the daily lives of the
overwhelming number of Americans.

 

These are examples of a theater of the absurd which American politics so wildly
and willingly pursues, while the American people stand like dummies, awed by
such stirring emotional debates, while their the quality of their own lives
continues to decline.

 

Shame upon you, Oh Chairmen, for engaging in such evil political practices.
Shame upon you for allowing private considerations -- of the financial ability
to compete -- lead to an empty and pointless competition that has no care for us
ordinary Americans.  Shame upon you.  None of you deserve to hold office unless
you begin to serve the true interests of us, the American people.  None of you
will serve our true interests until you stop the shenanigans you design for
window display dummies and begin to debate, earnestly, the quality of life
issues that you have so woefully neglected in recent years.

 

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