since the 1930s or thereabouts ( we could include the 20s and il duce just as a comparison to pennsylvania avenue...he turned out to be mostly windage...the pennsylvania business is still under deliberation...and we will get to that soon ) a good deal of the cachet of being a "party member" has faded and "official party business" has been rendered ominous ( although it is difficult to take the democrats seriously a lot of the time )...still i was somewhat nonplussed when i found that they had something they wanted to talk over with me...
turns out it was the "official 2018 democratic party survey" ( clearly they do not read this blog...i am not a democrat even though i have voted for them...i have never pulled the straight party lever...voted green in 2016 in fact...or, perhaps, they don't really care about my opinions...in their survey or here in the electron stream...that this may be the case is clear to me and i am hoping to show you why )..it has some biting questions about trumpy which are probably germane...it had some about the republican party as well...but that was assassinated in 2016...someone should let them know the game has changed a bit...i don't think it will be me...
it had a friendly, chatty cover letter from tom perez, the chair of the committee about the need to rebuild, organize ( best of luck ), modernize, and win! which also had two boldface sections giving me the lowdown on what it would cost me to become a party member and ( probably ) not have my meticulously filled out survey filed in the wastebasket upon receipt with no cash...
just to be sure i understood the deeper meaning of the survey it too had a boldface section detailing the costs of my membership and it provided a variety of ways to remit the "party dues"...they wanted to make it as simple and as thoughtless a process as they possibly could...i am, after all, simply a "voter"...a necessity in the charade of public service...but only to a point..i may join them but having expectations of some kind of return should be discouraged...
there was a neighborly little message to the postal workers who handled the envelope to move it along because my views were vital...and "oh yeah, there might be some cash in here"...there was a friendly reminder on the envelope telling me i could save the dnc some money if i used my own envelope and stamp to mail the survey ( and cash )..i am supposing i could hold onto the post-paid one as a souvenir of my importance...and, come to think of it...there was a short message at the end asking me if maybe i could afford to kick in an extra three buck to "defray the cost of processing the survey"...well...as a grossly underemployed ( and, trust me, there will be a torrent of blog posts on that little adventure when the time is right...catch me in december, if not before...i have information to impart ) worker i am disinclined to expend any resources on what i can only see as a losing proposition...i have no faith in the democrats doing much of anything than lining their own pockets...they may not be as arrogantly obvious about their kleptocratic bent as trumpy is but that doesn't mean the are not as venal...they are just quieter about it...much the same way nixon was quieter about obstructing justice and suborning perjury...in all this old al hamilton is beaming down from wherever it is that arrogant fucks go when the shuffle off...his system of disenfranchisement is humming along...and his portrait is engraved on some of that lovely cash... they are all on the same bus in whoretown...always have been...where is the lake of fire?
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