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Party Games

What are the odds that either Democratic or Republican leaders will ever again remember how to host a Party? Imagine these invitations we receive: Dear Ms. Democrat, Dear Mr. Republican, Please come to our Leadership Party, primarily to listen to us rant and rave about why to avoid going to any of those other parties, and how to avoid asking stupid primal questions, too hypnotized by lust for anthrocentric hypnotic power games. This is not my idea of recreation or creative expression or even entertainment much less an improvement over Charades wherein at least you can choose to listen through all those less than excellent solutions: not this not that not now not later not before. Why is it not OK to ask more resonant political and economic questions at political and economic leadership parties? Perhaps we could skip the depressing alcoholic punch, try some THC, while playing political and economic charades, opening both-and bicamerality where either-or had been the only strategic advantage for monopoly winning outcomes. I’m deep-bone tired of Musical Chairs and Pin the Tail of responsibility on the other party’s butt of sociopathic non-accountability. Decent political parties don’t play Spin the Porky Competition Bottle all night behind smoke-filled self-engorging doors. I would rather stay home and continue losing Solitaire, but thanks so much for not thinking of me or my family when you are designing your non-party, rearranging our furnishings to help pay your mortgage and send your kids to supremely private anthrocentric schools teaching all those non-good BusinessAsUsual Monopoly questions. No thanks for crappy party favors and invitations to crashdump that Other Party rather than enjoy a more cooperative civil right to party hearty healthy happy swimming together in one environmental pool; not flying apart with everyone striking other guests and hosts like overstuffed piñatas. What are the odds of conjoining our deeper Left-Right EcoBalancing Party, a polypathic slice of co-operative poli-economic Paradise?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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