“Pizzaonian
Emerging” 2 – Courtesy of the Pizzaonian Art Institute, Abe Straction, curator
What do you have when you are seeking resolution between two parties whose negotiating position is not to negotiate? You have the reality and the absurdity of the American political system.
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln
Well Abe, it looks like they might be there. As you learned so well during your civil war there is no enemy who hates Americans as much as other Americans.
It is the irony of the “world’s greatest democracy” that it has never been able to reconcile the many differences created by its regional diversity and so-called integrated cultures. Even more absurd is the time that is spent on selling just the opposite to the world and to the American people. American should know better, but they do love to wallow in the fantasy of “one America.”
The current crisis in American politics, at first glance, appears to more of the same. What you again have is the usual intransigence and posturing between Democrats and Republicans that we have seen in the past, only to have them at the last minute – and we do mean at the last minute – come up with a stop-gap resolution.
Regardless how absurd the resolution may seem, for reasons inexplicable to Pizzaonians; the compromise works.
So what makes this different? For one, the world is tired of the world’s greatest super power acting like a three-year-old. It has to be unnerving to many of your allies who rely on your military power and economic stability to have to run scared every time someone in your Congress makes a nonsensical statement or takes an equally ludicrous position.
Second, you have newly emerging, powerful nations that are happy to see you falter in your resolve. They look for every opportunity to keep you in your place. The one thing that saves the U.S. is your detractors need you as much as your allies. They are not stupid. They want to see a weakened America, but not so weak world instability would result. However, this is a temporary situation and will not last forever.
Ironically, your detractors no longer have to pursue your slow destruction. You have come up with a much cheaper and more effective way to do this. Ironically, it is your elected representative – the U. S. Congress.
If someone had told us that a devious alien power had managed to severe Washington D.C. from the rest of the country and make it a separate floating island of bloated self-seekers, most Pizzaonians would have found it plausible. What else explains the obvious self-destructive myopia that seems to have infected your politicians?
Their motto could very well be “destroy the country in order to save it.” Again, this is much the same as “fornicating for chastity.”
As I said in the beginning, we in Pizzaonia watch in shocked amusement. Since so many of us are Americans who portalized to Pizzaonia, we are concerned with what has become a political crisis that is building to a crescendo.
I am left with two quotes that come to mind from Mark Twain.
“There is no
distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
"Sometimes I wonder
whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles
who really mean it."
I think that pretty much sums it up. Until next time,
Machala Pizzavelii, political correspondent for “The Pizzaonian” a division of the Pizzaonian Newsertainment Network.
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