Herschel Walker likes guns. Boy, does he ever! He likes to play Russian Roulette, “more than once,” he said, and went onto say that if people go to his house to compete against him (whatever that means), he’ll load a gun with one bullet and put it to his head and pulled the trigger, “without even thinking about it,” he said to an interviewer, not me.
He wonders why there are apes when human evolved from them. He likes to arrange images of syringes into a form that easily resembles a swastika. (Herschel is a black football star, who can’t see the swastika … American politics will take ANYONE! More later …)
Herschel has a history of violent behavior. His ex-wife said that he held a gun to her temple. Now compare and contrast that act to this:
Herschel thinks OJ Simpson should be a mentor for young athletic kids. Maybe OJ can teach them how to kill people who piss him off (instead of putting a gun against your own temple) and get away with it.
According to American gun laws, (if I understand them, since it’s soooo hard given that the two sides fight about their guns about as much as those guns kill people in mass shootings), a person who is mentally unstable should not be allowed to have a gun.
Right? Right, America? Your laws, not mine. (If I had laws to govern you, you wouldn’t have guns at all. You’d have slingshots and spitballs … just like in the 1950s, which seems to be where Republicans want the country to return to. Or how about hippy flowers and peace signs? Time for a new Age of Aquarius?)
Herschel is a moron. He is a Republican. Those two sentences put together are an example of “redundancy”. So how about this for an idea to prevent morons like Herschel (or anything named Trump) from getting into politics:
Around 375 BC some Greek guy named Plato (not Play-Do, and not Mickey Mouse’s dog) proposed a weird idea. Plato saw how corrupt politicians were in his day (not like today, or forever), how some of them just lied, cheated, stole, or paid their way into the political game (it paid well and gave an average person tons of power over others, making and breaking laws – lots of fun!)
Plato said: alright, enough is enough. These ‘kings’ need to have brains in their heads if they want to lead. (Remember, Americans, you did NOT invent democracy. The Greeks kinda did, although it existed before them, but they wrote stuff down, and when you write it down, later people can see how smart you were).
Plato says let’s make sure our kings are also philosophers. Meaning: make sure they can think. Now, granted, it didn’t entirely work ‘cuz human beings are easily corrupted and money swells egos like tumors, which brains can never compete with (this is also why Marx was wrong when he thought communism would work on a large scale; too much money makes people turn into … Putin, Xi, Stalin, Mao … the list goes on, all those wonderful ‘worker’s paradises’ where the workers get fucked worse than in capitalist countries … I ramble. In the words of Lou Reed, “Sorry it took a while.”)
But at least Plato tried. He found what he thought would be an answer to a serious problem.
Alas, Plato is long dead. But politicians are not. They are a species all their own. They rule not by brains but by money and power – and that’s it (don’t be fooled when they say they’re working hard for YOU and YOUR needs and wants.)
So my ‘modern’ idea: every person who is or who wants to be a politician has to go to school and take something known as ‘political science’!
Oh no!
The politician-in-training not only has to pass all their courses, but their courses and grades have to be made public knowledge. And they have to take a broad range of courses: politics from ancient Egypt and China to Marx and Mill and Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville and Orwell and every thinking beast in between.
If you swing left, you still have to read right, and vice versa.
Once you have an education, then you get to do an apprenticeship with an established politician. Work your way up. “Politician” may be the only job that you can get without actually being qualified to do.
Change that.
Otherwise, more fucking insipid morons like Herschel, Donald, Marjorie Taylor, Lauren, Josh, Boris, and tons of others will keep screwing around with a nation as though they were at a Frat party kegger.
Not the Cowardly Lion, nor the Tinman with no heart, nor Dorothy or Toto longing for home, but the Scarecrow was the one without the brains.
Stop electing Scarecrows and your country hopefully won’t turn into another Oz.
