Archive for July 18th, 2005
Populist
Posted by Bob in Bob, Coaching Session on 07/18/2005
I make a lousy elitist.
I have mentioned before that I am secretly offended when someone says to me, apologetically, “I don’t agree with everything you say.” It never occurred to me that anyone should agree with everything I say. What sort of egotistical idiot do they think I am?
Once when I was in Washington someone watched me whispering Words of Wisdom in a congressman’s ear. The congressman had obviously waited for me to show up before he took action.
Also, he had secret messages for me which I hurried away with.
Obviously, this congressional leader needed my help. That impressed the hell out of the people watching.
Of course he needed me. That was why he paid me a salary.
So I was on the steps of the Longworth Building at eight o’clock at night. I had been working since a quarter till seven. A lobbyist or reporter who had watched the proceedings chased me down and asked, “Who exactly ARE you?”
I was tired, so I told him the truth, “On Capitol Hill, you are either a congressman or you are a flunky.”
“I am an extremely well-paid flunky.”
I never minded being a flunky to a good man who has presented his ideas to the people and has been elected to represent them. As a senior staffer, my job was to help him do it. The only power I had was in choosing the person I decided to work for.
To expand on this point, a VERY inexperience lobbyist once said to me the words you NEVER say to a senior staffer on Capitol Hill:
“You staffers are the ones who really make policy.”
I replied with the truth, “The second I start believing that is the second I am out of here. There is only one person who has a right to be in this office, and that is the congressman. And even he only has the right to be here for two years at a time.”
“The minute I start believing I am the boss is the moment I am out of here.”
A professional staffer does not think he makes policy.
Another group tried to tell me how powerful I was. They were the people who said they thought I was a true intellectual and wanted to be part of my elite. They would indicate that “people like us” should be in control.
I confided to them that I really AM a populist. I really do believe in the fundamental wisdom of white Americans.
I really am disappointed when my people go nuts over some fashion given to them by professors and media elitists.
The average elitist thinks that a world of colored people would be great if those colored people would follow the dictates of elitists like him. I know it would be just like very other colored country on earth. Every one of them has an elite.
I believe in white people. I think I have a lot to say to them that they need to hear.
Not the least of what I have to tell them is to believe in themselves.
The bottom line is that it is up to them to rule the world, not me.
More Routine Cruelty to Children
On the Seinfeild show there was an episode about a Jewish circumcision.
We have this pointless and vicious procedure done to baby boys because it came from the Old Testament. Early Christianity rejected circumcision as a requirement to join the church because adult converts wouldn’t stand for it. But baby boys can’t right back.
So Seinfeld’s friend George went to a circumcision and was asked to help out. Naturally he screwed up and he the bis ended up with serious injuries.
The bis is any Jewish guy with a knife. He performs circumcisions professionally. There is party where the baby is cut by the bis, and everybody has a fine time except the baby.
But George screwed up helping the bis, so the next scene was in the emergency room.
Why were they in an emergency room after a ceremony in which somebody was SUPPOSED to get gashed in an agonizing way? Because it was ADULTS who got hurt.
The baby was SUPPOSED to be bleeding and in agony. But because George screwed up he and the bis both got cuts and THEY were bleeding. George spoiled the party.
If adults get hurt, it’s serious.
More Routine Cruelty to Children
On the Seinfeild show there waas an episode about a Jewish circumcision.
We have this pointless and vicious procedure done to baby boys because it came from the Old Testament. Early Christianity rejected circumcision as a requirement to join the church because adult converts wouldn’t stand for it. But baby boys can’t right back.
So Seinfeld’s friend George went to a circumcision and was asked to help out. Naturally he screwed up and he the bis ended up with serious injuries.
The bis is any Jewish guy with a knife. He performs circumcisions professionally. There is party where the baby is cut by the bis, and everybody has a fine time except the baby.
But George screwed up helping the bis, so the next scene was in the emergency room.
Why were they in an emergency room after a ceremony in which somebody was SUPPOSED to get gashed in an agonizing way? Because it was ADULTS who got hurt.
The baby was SUPPOSED to be bleeding and in agony. But because George screwed up he and the bis both got cuts and THEY were bleeding. George spoiled the party.
If adults get hurt, it’s serious.
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