And so, we now approach yet another Charley Brown/Lucy and the football episode; in this instance, the midterm elections.  Charley Brown, here, is personified by the general public; Lucy, with her football and dauntless, smug face in tow, personified by Madison Avenue in collusion with the politicians running for re-election or first-timers seeking (ahem!) their first term. All in all, one group set is determined to annihilate or outdo the other by as many seats as possible.  And since America, Mexico and Canada have merged into the corporate entity it now is, it has become the Ameri-Mexi-Canuck way, yes?  The drama is on.  What will Madison Avenue & Cohorts (Lucy) do this time round to attract and maintain the attention and prescribed involvement of the Ameri-Mexi-Canuck landscape (Charley Brown)?  Lucy is going to have come up with something especially enticing to lure Charley Brown in this time.

“Come on, now, Charley Brown!  It’s okay. Don’t worry!  I won’t lift it away as usual this time round.  I promise.  Come on.”

Sadly, Charley Brown has developed bruises and, consequently, such an aching ass throughout all these years he has grown somewhat doubtful.  He has come to feel he’s been played all along.  Well, that is, maybe.  He just needs a little assurance he won’t be landing on his poor, aching ass yet again.  Still, Lucy is all the more determined to lure him in.

“Come on, now, Charley Brown.  I know you can do it.  We’re counting on you.  Come on.” This she says with the most convincingly sincere expression on her face.

Charley Brown contemplates his bruised and aching ass.

And so, during the whilst we, ourselves, may contemplate (bruised and aching butts and all) as best we can what has transpired thus far:  we now have our very first hermaphrodite President-voted in large measure because the public felt he/she would be more sensitive to the needs of the people (where on earth they get such a preposterous idea is anyone’s guess); to the chagrin (understandably) of many, he/she has turned out to be on the payroll as with those before him/her; he/she has not only not fulfilled any of the promises or pledges made during campaign stops but has furthered as well as expanded the same, old genocidal acts on the world population as with his/her predecessors; to boot, more unnecessary, costly, utterly insane wars; interested parties along major pharmaceutical and medical concerns are now liberally compensated at year end since they somehow manage to not make their yearly profit-guess who picks up the tab?   We have for some time now had a military/police state (let’s call that shovel a spade).  Once upon a time these assaults were aimed chiefly at the coloreds and other designated lesser breeds, a technique of getting one group to feel more privileged over another.  Nowadays, we’re all basically screwed.  Apparently, these powers-that-be are bored and wish to keep something, anything, in motion.  And so, what has this latest shmo (or, if you will, Shmill) fellow/fella at the White House accomplished?   Zilch; nada; zero.  Most voters feel let down.  A chief promise, as you may recall, was to ease off on the military/police state.  Most people actually believed that meant to decrease, diminish or eliminate it.

Shall we blame this fellow/fella, for the failures of this sad joke once referred to as democracy? Well, before we dawn on hoods and carry crosses to burn or start carrying stones to be thrown, perhaps it’s a good deal we look a bit closer at the situation-if anything, just for laughs. Has the so-called Democratic Party backed this President?  Just in case we’ve been asleep at the wheel, the answer is a most resounding, “absolutely not!”  Clearly, the two still existing parties have grown more and more indistinguishable from one another.  Couples counseling, anyone?

Charlie Brown:  She keeps lifting the football every time.  My ass hurts.  I’m starting to have some doubts.

Lucy:  He’s such a naïve, good-natured, trusting fool; so, what’s wrong with a little fun?

Charlie Brown: But, my butt aches.

Lucy:  Oh, pooh!

Indeed, Madison Avenue & Cohorts have their work cut out for them.  Will they pull it off yet again as they continue with their campaign of massive financial bilking of public funds to pay for more wars, genocide and Miss Ameri-Mexi-Canuck Beauty Pageant?  No worries, mate!  Fore, heeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Lucy:

“Alright, Charley Brown, let’s show us a little back bone, here.  You know you want to.  Come on, now.  I promise:  it’ll be different this time.  I won’t lift it up at the last moment; so, come on, now.  Give it all you’ve got.  Come on, now.  Come on.”

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