Preview — A polemical anthology of political antinomies
A Polemical Anthology of Political Antinomies
1. You cannot drain the swamp if you are flooding the zone.
2. Nobody with any wits will ever think of amputating legs as ambulatory healthcare.
3. Babies won’t drill for long, if the oil poisons them to death.
4. If you put yourself between bankers and pitchforks, then you’re banking on the former.
5. No child will be left behind, so that all of them can grow watching 9-second reels.
6. In your nuts, you feel he’s got the guts—only a total dickhead would do such things.
7. You may be better off than four years ago, but forty years ago we were all much saner.
8. The changes you can believe in are those that you’d rather not live through yourself.
9. Chickens, pots, cars, and garages abound: Yet people can’t afford any of those.
10. You side with them wholeheartedly, and they bleed you dry from behind.
11. Republicanism can be rejuvenated, but the same is true of fascism.
12. You don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, but you can’t remember yesterday either.
13. Return to normalcy isn’t desirable per se, if the norm is outright reeking shite.
14. Forward, forward, forward… Oops! There was a cliff.
15. They make you proud again because they do all the things of which you should be ashamed.
16. We are stronger together, so that we can squash the outcasts once and for all.
17. It’s morning again, but that means that the night will descend again too.
18. Prosperity and progress are the drivers of ecological catastrophe and social collapse.
19. Reforms brought about results: Previous progresses have been duly annihilated.
20. Vote yourself a farm, turn into a peasant.
Picture: Farmers, Uncle Sam Asks You... To Get Ready for the Census Taker. Artist unknown, c. 1942-45. NARA 514239 (NAID 513498; NAIL NWDNS-44-PA-752), Still Picture Records Section, National Archives. Public domain (via Wikimedia Commons); no claim to U.S. Government work.