By Paul Edwards

December 09, 2018 "Information Clearing House" -     The Blue Wave crested the reef but the Red Tide still pollutes the fetid lagoon behind it. Democrats got the House back while Republicans outdid themselves, electing and retaining some of the most astoundingly repulsive Crackers ever to walk on two legs out of Yoknapatawpha County, with the wizened hillbilly, Ma Kettle of Alabama, being perhaps most egregious.

That said, all over the nation the vacuous, credulous naifs who exerted themselves in the putative cause of truth and virtue are now waiting with bated intellects for the Certain Overthrow of Trumpian Diabolism and the dawning era of Grand Regeneration of the democracy they never had.

It is profoundly grim that the great mass of Americans is leash-trained to embrace creeds as hollow, cruel, and false as those of the parties. It’s the Charlie Brown Syndrome raised to the 9th power in scope and cynicism. This Bait and Switch is run on both camps--the hostile, alienated, stupidly phobic, untermenschen Trumpetariat, and the credulous, myopic, witlessly hopeful, myth-addled, exceptionalist Democratic cadre--so effectively that both deathgrip their manky dogmas as they are herded into the abattoir, butchered, and fed to our ravenous Minotaur, the Capitalist War Machine.