An Open Letter To Congress
We see you.
We see what you’re doing. We see you selling out the American people to line your pockets with the finest silk which will then be used to impress the most discreet whores in the beltway. We see you.
We see the gears beginning to turn. Or maybe, we only see now that the gears were always turning. That it was always this way. You never acted on behalf of the better interests of the American people, of your constituents, of your families and friends. You acted on behalf of yourselves, striving for your own benefit. Not out of anything simple like greed or base corruption, but something far more sinister. You believe that you ARE the system. That it begins and ends with you. That you are, by your very nature, inherent to it. That it cannot exist without you there to grease the wheels and coil the springs and do all the little things that all the little people with all their little problems are simply too simple to do. You believe that you are irreplaceable. You believe that so long as the deeds you do are done in the dark that you will not be seen. But we see you.
We see you, House Republicans, preparing to bury legislation that would force The President to reveal his foreign entanglements. Don’t think you’re being sly, nobody is even surprised. The American people lost faith on you when they woke up from the drunken binge that saw your election. When they realized you would just rubberstamp anything the foul smelling homunculus in the White House asked for. That you would stand by and watch as monster after monster entered his cabinet, pausing only long enough to declare insane limits on the debate surrounding their confirmation. That you would act with such callous disregard for the well being of the American people. That you could be bought so cheaply. Hell, if the people had known you could be bought so cheaply, we would have bought you. I’m looking at you, Roy “30K For A Secretaryship” Blunt. We see you.
We see a coming storm. We see a political ruling class who has forgotten that they serve at the pleasure of the people. And don’t think I’m just talking to the Republicans, we see you too Democrats. We haven’t forgotten how badly you fucked us. Not just in terms of the awful positions you forced us to take, but the way we didn’t even get to come afterwords, you blueballing sacks of shit. You looked at the most anti-establishment electorate in decades, a voting population fed up with government as usual, willing to lash out and vote for a Pussy Grabbing Game Show Host who hates Mexicans, and you decided that the best candidate to tap into this anti-establishment energy was Hillary Goddamn Clinton. In terms of tactical blunders, it ranks up there with The Charge Of The Light Brigade. But at least those poor bastards got a poem. You left us with nothing. You lost the Senate, the House, the Presidency, and should The Beast in the White House get his way, the Supreme Court. You were like a goalie showing up to Game Seven of the Cup finals with no pads and no stick because “There’s no way I’ll get scored on, look how bad their wingers are.” Then you get scored on repeatedly, lose the game, and angrily blame a goalie you demanded be traded before the playoffs even started. We see you.
We see all of you, the parasites inhabiting the power structures. The worms in the gut of America. You’ve made the tragic mistake of misidentifying the source of your authority. You are not ordained by God, you are not granted this power as a result of mere wealth. Wealth got you your position, but that position only has the authority that everyone agrees it has. And you’ve been doing everything in your power to ensure that everyone questions your authority. And maybe that was the goal. Break up the Federal Government, install a series of Fiefdoms dotting the countryside. Finally give our landed gentry what they’ve wanted. Or maybe you’re just fat and lazy and thought nobody would notice or care. We noticed. We cared. We saw you.
What I say next, I say not as a threat. I still believe in the rule of law, in the system as a whole. I believe that when gunk and residue collects in an engine, you don’t throw the engine out. You clean it until it works again. No, what I say next, I say as a warning. A reminder that not everyone thinks like me.
