On the Astral Plane,Republicans and Some Democrats are Slime Doggies

After watching a recent X-Files, Psychic Vera told her husband, Psychic Chuck that the slime that covered FBI agent, John Doggett, reminded her of the experience she had on the astral plane the night before.

"I think I forgot about it intentionally because it was so unpleasant," Vera told her husband. "But like all the rest of my dreams and visions, I've learned that my psyche will not allow me to evade the truth."

Although Psychic Chuck didn't really want her to describe what she'd seen on the astral plane because his imagination was so vivid, Vera went ahead anyway, partially to get it out of her system. She'd learned that clogging up her mind with nasty visions was just as toxic to her body as eating greasy junk or fast food.

"On the astral plane," she began, "I saw many well known Republicans and a few Democrats covered with a viscous liquid. It was particularly repulsive because their faces were clearly recognizable, but all were placed on dog bodies."

"Why go on?" Chuck said, "I get the picture. I can see that Trent Lott was there with his ugly slime covered poodle face. And Dick Armey was arm and arm with Tom Delay, Repulsive is right. I guess that's why Andre in Amsterdam refers to them as Repulsivans. But you said some of the Democrats were covered with slime as well."

"Yes, unfortunately, I did say that. I'd like to think the Democrats are better, and indeed they are for the most part, but still you'll find that some of them are wimpy and spineless. Eight of them rolled over just like good dogs for Georgie Bush. When they voted for Ashcroft for Attorney General, I thought of the Weimar Republic."

"Remind me," Chuck said.

"The Weimar Republic was the weak Democratic government that was installed after World War I in Germany. Because it didn't have a majority, they formed coalitions with the bourgeois parties of the center and right-wing. They were afraid of forming coalitions with the left wing even though that meant alienating the working class. In 1920, a General Luttwitz led troops into Berlin and installed a Prussian bureaucrat as Chancellor. The democratic government did nothing to stop the takeover and instead fled to Southern Germany. Further, the Chief of the Army refused to defend the duly installed government. After a trade union strike proved to the fraudulent chancellor that he couldn't hold power, he withdrew. Ebert, head of the Republic returned, but failed to either punish the Chief of the Army for failing to defend the Republic or the personnel that refused to strike against the military takeover. Hyperinflation took over in 1923 when the government refused to raise income taxes to support workers that were unemployed and printed worthless paper money instead. All goods, including food became scarce. The weakness of the democratic government in the 20's made it a sitting duck for the Nazi takeover in the thirties.

"So your saying that the Democrats are not standing up for the working class and the majority of Americans who voted for the policies of Al Gore, and are getting rolled over by the Republicans. You really think it could get as bad as Germany?" Chuck asked. "I don't, even though there a few similarities like the big tax cut that's coming our way. We won't see much of it. Neither will the poor, who get hit by payroll taxes more than income taxes. It's another big Republican sham."

" I'm not sure whether if it will get as bad as Germany but I tell you," Vera said, "I've been hearing from a lot of frightened women about what is happening in this country. And it's not just the women. There are many well known male writers that are distressed about what has occurred. I just read an article in the Nation, for example, by Vincent Bugliosi, the lawyer that prosecuted Charles Manson. He referred to the five Supreme Court Justices that elected Bush as criminals and labeled the episode as 'one of the most frightening and dangerous events ever to occur in this country'."

"I understand and I agree. But it can't happen here. Another Hitler."

"Maybe not," Vera said, "but something bad has taken over. Can't you feel it?"

"It won't last. I really don't think Bush is going to last the four years, do you? You've predicted that he wouldn't".

"I keep on thinking about that, but then I think about Cheney."

"He's got heart trouble. He won't make it either."

"Then what? Something worse? My mind won't even take me there."

"By that time they'll be voted out."

"Don't be too sure. One of the reasons the Nazis came to power was the tendency of the German people to ignore the dark things that were happening right in front of them. After WWI , they just wanted peace and to keep their money and possessions. J.A.S. Grenville in A History of the World in the Twentieth Century writes that "a political democracy requires that the majority feel a concern for their rights and the rights of others and are ready to defend them." Many of our own citizens have ignored what happened in the last election and the disenfranchisement of black voters in Florida, and the majority seems to now want a tax cut even though they showed a complete lack of interest during the campaign. They seem to be like lemmings, ready to go over the cliff to their and our destruction."

"Don't worry, they'll come around."

"I'm not so sure."