Unlike Senator Rand Paul, I have not plagiarized Wikipedia’s CliffNotes on movie storylines. Today’s Tea Party brand Republicans, with their disingenuous Libertarian-view allegiance (taking corporate money and promulgating anti-war convictions, while using military veterans for political gain, as they cut off their pay), are like the Changeless in M.A. Foster’s The Morphodite of The Transformer Trilogy (1981, p. 21–23, e-book). Despite their claim on the Constitution and patriotism, like Foster’s Changeless, it could be said of Rand and ilk that “They gave allegiance to no flag,” (but the slavery-tainted Confederate Flag) “for they came from every sort of state… Their tongues were Babel, and their home cultures as diverse as fish in the sea… they all held one thing in common with a belief that would not die, that the rate of change that was the pace of Time had run out of control, and they knew the present was inferior to the past, and growing more so daily, and they wanted no part of a future they neither understood, liked, nor profited by… they had found El Dorado… where they could go and let Time pass them by forever.

“And so they came, settled… And little by little, they gathered strength, were soon a majority… No one went to Oerlikon (replace with whatever American town or city you wish). And no one left.”

This is our State of the Union. The Fourth and Fifth Estates of that union, with few exceptions, have dissolved into propaganda attack dogs on the right (blaming all things left as unholy) and ideological referees on the left (blaming both sides for the obstructionist inaction of the right) for news reporting to our dumbed down population who prefers gladiator games over truth.

“… The Changeless invented their own language to make sense among themselves, and they preferred their own names, some in echoing evocations of places they had once been to, and some in the harsh sounds of the new way of speaking.”

And therein lies the rub. The popular quote: “We must be the change we want to see in the world” (generally attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, but without definitive, citable proof — 1although his grandson Aran Gandhi alleges to have heard him saying this from his mouth) goes to the heart of the matter for what’s the matter in our country. We are at another crossroads of an identity crisis like the manufactured teetotalers’ crises in Congress. After redistributing the wealth from the middle class to themselves for the last 30 years, the Changeless, with their own invented language and sense of themselves (personal reality) want no changes, no forward progression. The inferiority of the present, without the good old, antebellum days of slavery and mint julep is just too much for the one percent-ers to comprehend. They must take back their country to El Dorado, where white men ruled and their women and slaves knew their place.

Yes, Rand Paul you will find yourself in The Morphodite. Can’t wait to hear your next speech.

Carl   

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1 (Article, Keith Akers. “Be the Change” <http://www.compassionatespirit.com/Be-the-Change.htm>, citing Wikipedia (Wikipedia: Article, Michel W. Potts, in India. “Arun Gandhi Shares the Mahatma's  Message” – West [San Leandro, California] Vol. XXVII, No. 13, 1 February 2002) p. A34. Article, Carmella B'Hahn. "Be the change you wish to see: An interview with Arun Gandhi", Reclaiming Children and Youth [Bloomington] Vol.10, No. 1, Spring 2001 p. 6.).