The Tall Dark Stranger

There is an old joke that I was reminded of today as many people stood up for the Supreme Courts decision to allow corporations to spend all the money thay wanted or could afford to spend as a part of election campaigns. This decision can not be allowed to stand or it will surely be the undoing of our democracy and the republic. But, this is just one more case of corporate interests taking over our lives. Here is the joke.

In an old western town, a man swings open the doors of the bar and looks around, obviously very mad and looking for someone. At the end of the bar he spots a man drinking a whiskey and he walks up to him, getting very close to the man's face.
This is the way the conversation went.
"Are you the one they call the tall dark stranger?"

"Yep"

"Are you the man who stole all of my cattle?"

"Yep"

"Are you the man who burned my fields and destroyed my crops?"

"Yep"

"Are you the man who raped my wife and my daughters?"

"Yep"

"Are you the man who then burned down my house?"

"Yep"

"Are you the man who then killed all my family, leaving me alone and broke?"

"Yep"

"Well buddy, next time, let's watch that shit!!!"

Conservatives in this country are so busy hating that which they feel so smug in hating that they are allowing the Supreme Court and corporations to do to all of us what the Tall Dark Stranger did to the rancher. These "freedom loving fanatics" are giving away every freedom that they have so that they can rack up points in their stupid little game of "Who are the real patriots?" There is indeed cultural snobbery at work in this country and it is the people who are what my Italian son calls "Red Neck Wannabes" that are the snobs. Meanwhile their accomplices in suits are destroying our country with the blessing of these Wannabes. It is enough to turn you into a Grenola.