Keeping an ear to the political grass roots
“The People are finally waking up.”
I never trust anyone who says “The People are waking up”. Â It suggests merely a perceived sway of political fortunes in their direction from a parcel of insanity — on a level that has never been seen in the history of America or the World.
“You mean Occupy?” I ask, obligingly.
“That’s part of it. Â But no. Â The people are buying guns. Â Oregon alone had a record gun sale this year. Â They’re getting ready.”
“Hm.”
“And they’ve gotten to Obama. Â And make no mistake, Obama isn’t on our side… he’s with someone else. Â The people have forced him to veto this bill passed by Congress which would set up internment camps. Â This is real. Â It’s not opinion. Â It’s real.”
“OK.”
“That President. Â He almost signed away our sovereignty at Coppenhagen. Â He would have done so if he could have gotten away with it. Â But he didn’t. Â The People wouldn’t let him. Â This was 2009. Â Long before Occupy.”
“OK.”
“Because it’s the guns.”
I pass by a telephone pole with an odd image of Obama. Â I guess. Â “President Obama holds a press conference on the illegal activities of the Northwest Wacko Cult”. Â I cannot really place this message politically. Â I think it’s anti-Obama (elected off of style and image and with chants of “Yes We Can”, etc, while doing Wall Street’s bidding)… but it’s not really clear. Â This competes against the latest iteration of a kind of obviously more Democratic Party activist who has moved back from some Perry jibes to … Romney… above the question “Who Let the Dogs Out?” — which is a reference to a forgotten piece of racial awkwardness from the 2008 campaign, and perhaps too an awkward dog travelling incident.