Keeping the Sacrifices Hidden – Straw Men, Trojan Horses
and Pick-Pockets   I’ve been pondering this strange dearth of
political bumper-stickers, which seems to me to be unprecedented
for a year of national elections.  Particularly contests over
who’s to be king.  Maybe it’s just the fact it doesn’t matter
anymore.  The scrapings of US production so far gone what’s left
isn’t worth stealing.   But maybe there’s another factor at
work.  One of the big let-downs of the post WWII era for kings,
king-makers, wannabe kings and king-makers, war profiteers, and
economic shell-game artists, was the citizenry.  They were
stupid, but not as stupid as they needed to be to satisfy the
hopes and expectations of those who needed their [preferably
active, but at leat tacit] consent to be gang raped.  By the end
of the Vietnam War it became obvious that, aside from a few
mindless flag-wavers and a re-definition of the word ‘patriot’,
most of the citizenry wouldn’t support long-duration undeclared
wars, for instance.  Even wh