Big Brother will never get over it

VICTOR RYFIS is a senior member of the Flesh & Blood "High Jinx Feltaforce," an advanced programmer whose code and spirit animates LieJinx, published poet, former Eagle Scout, Navy SEAL, right-wing-born-again, and re-born yet again as a left-wing born-again. He has a bone to pick with the Christian Right, considering them Pharisees & worse. It started in the Reagan years, arguments with his buddha-socialist older brother culminating over the Republican effort to redefine condiment as vegetable, that is, Ketchup, to feed, as SEAN, with incandescent scorn put it:

"growing children--if the children are hungry, prayer in the schools should include a request for new leadership, don't you think, Vic? Huh? the children whose hunger God's Own Party was, is, almost by definition, officially willing to allow…Vic, come on, you know what Jesus would do. Think about it, would the Great Communicator fail or succeed in convincing Jesus of the need for such a thing, that, okay, so many children so glad for a meal, who'd clean their plates! will have less, something cheaper, one less vegetable, courtesy of the richest nation in history.

As if stepping OVER the downtrodden instead of ON is a moral option!

Look, FDR welcomed the hatred of established wealth & power, where needed, flew in the face of it, without fear. "I welcome their hatred" he said, in public! Imagine that now! Imagine a Republican President ever again warning as Eisenhower of the "Military-Industrial Complex"? can you imagine that? Now imagine the Great Communicator, don't you think his heart is more aflutter in cutting taxes for millionaires than expanding healthcare for the uninsured? That's what they put their warpaint on for! That's it, that's all they're about, so, well, if seeing were believing then I'd have to believe in the Devil, because in so many telling Republican Details, yes Vic, I DO see the DEVIL. He's just like you're always saying, "very subtle, very devious, full of subterfuge & disguise. Well Amen Brother! Nailed that one. But not exactly the board you thought. What would the Great Communicator say if Jesus said "better a yoke be tied around your neck & you be dropped into the sea than harm come to one of these little ones" what do you think--think he might shake his head and say to Christ, "there you go again…" I think he'd try, alright, in that genial way, but, I'd guess Christ would finally get impatient with the whole notion, and say something right in his face, like, "get thee behind me!..."

In effect, that's what he, and the powers that be, but Especially Republicans--have done, and do today. And, Vic thought, remembering these exchanges, like scripture says, Judgement Day is going to have some big surprises in store. Some infinitely rude awakenings.

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