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Crazy Idea

I was watching Thursday football tonight–I will be honest here, and admit beer was involved in this post–and this crazy idea hit me: what if instead of football we dedicated three hours every Thursday and Monday night to substantive policy debates about the future of America?  I know, the future of the most powerful and affluent nation in the history of the world is not exactly “EXCITING”, but what if we could pretend that foreign policy decisions matter, that monetary policy matters, that the fiscal policies of local, State and particularly the Federal government matter?  What if we pretended for some short period of time that the future of our children was important enough for us to tear ourselves away from men in tights throwing an unround ball?

Ludicrous, I know.  We all know that bad things never happen to Americans, and that no matter WHAT we do, everything will turn out swimmingly, since that is what happens in the movies.  We can always rely on that implausible Deus Ex Machina.

Still, lets’ continue down this path to crazyland:

What if we could link up conservatives and self-identified Liberals, not for stupid courtroom dramas once every two to four years, but twice weekly?

What if we debated the future of the national debt, on national TV, twice a week for a month?  Would Americans still be ill informed fucking imbeciles?  No, I doubt it. 

How is it we have become so stupid?  Nightly sleeping pills, delivered by the complicit media. It’s very frustrating, not least because the intelligent can plainly see that the policies advocated in absentia by the media (they never place their voice honestly on things; they just condemn through faint praise actually workable ideas) will work TO hurt most the people they claim they are helping.  The whole thing is a goatfuck start to finish, where NOBODY is helped except the elites who did not need helping in the first place.

Then they lie about it, to themselves, and everyone else, and resent INTENSELY those who fail to join them in their fantastic voyage, one at odds with the realities of those they are supposed “helping”.

Come on, y’all, let’s take a ride
Don’t you say shit, just get inside
It’s time to take your ass on another kind of trip
‘Cause you can’t have the hop if you don’t have the hip

 

Grab your gat with the extra clip
And close your eyes and hit the switch
We’re going to a place where everybody kick it
Kick it, kick it, yeah, that’s the ticket

 

Ain’t no bloodin’, ain’t no crippin’
Ain’t no punk ass nigga’s set trippin’
Everybody’s got a stack and it ain’t no crack
And it really don’t matter if you’re white or black

 

I wanna take you there like the Staple Singers
Put something in the tank and I know that I can bring ya
If you can’t take the heat, get yo’ ass out the kitchen
We on a mission

 

Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage
Slide, slide, slippity slide
With switches on the block in a ’65
Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage
Slide, slide, who ride?
No valley low enough or mountain high

 

I’m tryin’ to find a place where I can live my life
And maybe eat some steak with my beans and rice
A place where my kids can play outside
 

Without livin’ in fear of a drive-by
 

And even if I get away from them drive-by killers
I still got to worry about those snitch ass niggas
I keep on searching and I keep on looking
But niggas are the same from Watts to Brooklyn

 

I try to keep my faith in my people
But sometimes my people be acting like they evil
You don’t understand about runnin’ with a gang
‘Cause you don’t gang bang

 

And you don’t have to stand on the corner and slang
‘Cause you got your own thang
You can’t help me if you can’t help yourself
You better make a left

 

Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage
Slide, slide, slippity, slide
I do what I do just to survive
Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage
Slide, slide, who ride?
That’s why I pack my 45

 

Life is a bitch and then you die
Still tryin’ to get a peace of the apple pie
Every game ain’t the same ’cause the game still remains
Don’t it seem kinda strange? Ain’t a damn thing change

 

If you don’t work, then you don’t eat
And only down ass niggas can ride with me
Hop, hop, hop your five quickly down the block
Stay suckafree and keep the busters off your jock

 

You gotta have heart, son, if you wanna go
Watch this sweet chariot swing low
Ain’t nobody cryin’, ain’t nobody dyin’
Ain’t nobody worried, everybody’s tryin’

 

Nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin’
If you wanna have something, you better start frontin’
What ya gonna do when the 5 roll by?
You better be ready, so you can ride

 

Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage
Slide, slide, slippity, slide
When you’re living in a city it’s do or die
Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage
Slide, slide, who ride?
You better be ready when the 5 roll by

Just roll along, that’s what you do
Just roll along, that’s right
Just roll along, that’s what you do
Just roll along, that’s right

 

Do you want to ride with me? Do you want to ride with me?
Do you want to ride with me? Do you want to ride with me?
Do you want to ride with me? Do you want to ride with me?
Do you want to ride with me? Do you want to ride with me?