Maybe.

Trying to keep it light.

I could have gotten all serious...

Then someone would have said that it was entirely too something else.

But I didn't.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

My point remains.

Call me condescending or call me widely experienced. I do not give a damn.

"The base" is ALWAYS with us.

And by the numbers it is an immovable 30% here in the United States.

They were Tories in the days  of the American Revolution.

You can see them in Haiti, in France, in China, in Somalia...you can see them EVERYWHERE.

The lowest poll numbers Bush gets? What are they? 32%? 31%? 28%? + or - 3 points? THAT'S the bottom line percentage in this country, and I have a suspicion that if a genetic test could be devised for basic base and were applied all over the globe...that's the percentage you would come up with everywhere.

Roughly a third of the people of this world ARE "base". And an easily marshaled base as well. Not so smart, but the numbers are there.

Give them pitchforks or muskets or M 16s or votes and tell them to go get the bad guys...why by God, they DO it!!!

"Which way did he go, which way did he go???" stumbled the eternal base character in the Bugs Bunny myth. The dumb dog. But in those cartoons, there was always only ONE dumb dog. And one smart wabbit.

I personally think that those Warner Brothers myths helped us immeasurably to prevail against the Nazis, and would LOVE to see similar myths in action today.

Here in America.

But back then the myth-makers were mostly smart immigrants with a rebellious streak (Except of course for the 30% base that came out of Disney), and now...?

Now the 30% rules the airwaves.

AND the country.

The United States of DisneyLand.

And that 30% always and forever eventually crashes.

Because they are too fucking stupid to see their own shoelaces, let ALONE tie them.

Now when I see and hear people saying things like "WOW!!! Looks like we've got them on the RUN!!!"...which I have seen altogether too often recently on left blogworld (Check out my current diary What are YOU thinking? for more on that subject.) I feel that it is literally my DUTY to step in and say "WAIT a minute, here!!! They do NOT 'run'. They have nowhere to "run" to. And they do not change. either. They are eternal and must...however temporarily...be BEATEN!!! Decisively. Or else the human race is finished. Over. Kaput. Done with. On the back end of the evolutionary slippery slope. And every time you/we DO "beat" them, then the John Philpot Curran principle comes into effect and we have to do the same damned thing over again. Forever. Or until we finally lose. Because there IS no "winning" with them. We NEED them. To fulfill the natural balance of nature."

(John Philpot Curran from his speech on the Right of Election of Lord Mayor of Dublin, July 10, 1790. "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and punishment of his guilt.")

So I tried to keep it light.

And I'm glad that you found it humorous. That was my intent.

But behind the humor...I am as serious as death here.

The left's failures over the last 60+ years are DIRECTLY attributable to its inability to realize that the base does not change its mind.

It quite literally HAS NO MIND TO CHANGE.

Not very damned much of one, anyway.

It does what it is told to do, until the food and shelter runs out. And then it riots in the streets. When we break OUR "eternal vigilance"...which is a totally natural human tendency, especially among the intelligent ("Phew!!! I'm glad THAT'S over. Let's go have a few beers.")...why, before y'know it, there they jolly well are again, in the White House in the Reichstag, in the Kremlin, in the President's mansion in Somalia or Haiti, and once again we have trouble right here in Riuver City. Trouble with a capital T and that stands for sTupidity.

Strong but wrong.

So I "condescend" to try to say this.

Any which way I can.

it is NOT "condescension", Booman.

It is terror.

I literally feel TERROR at how close to the edge we are in this country right now, and I dfeel that i MUST do my little bit every chance I get to warn people.

Paul Revere, v.2.

"The Basish are coming!!! The Basish are coming!!!"

And we MUST NOT underestimate their capacity for stupidity.

They are eternal.

And they are DANGEROUS.

Sorry if I offended.

It was not my intent.

My INTENT...as always...is to wake people the fuck up.

And when I hear some version of the "ZZZZzzzz" sound and I have the time to do so.

I try.

Any which way I can.

Time's up now, though...gotta go to work.

But...JUST like the base...

I'll be baaaaack...

Later...

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West