Comrade Joseph Hussein Stalin famously quipped after too much Russian vodka one evening to a New York Times reporter, "Sure, everyone votes in Russia. But only I count the votes!
That reporter was my great uncle and I found his original notes on his time in the early days of the Russian republic fascinating. It was Uncle Rheemus Delano Maybolt, writing under the pen name, Nathaniel Whoops, his grandfather's name, who took the liberty to clean up Comrade Stalin's awkward attempt to be quotable, his mind addled by vodka came up with: "He who casts the vote decides nothing. He who counts the vote decides everything." The Russian language has been heavily influenced by vodka throughout the ages. It is rumored that Tolstoy original intent for "War and Peace" was a short, but 1323 cases of fine Russian vodka later and this is what you get. It is best read under the influence. A little publicized fact.
Uncle Whoops came to reporting naturally as his great grandfather also helped edit Karl Marx's famous treatise on Communism. It started out being one of those self-help guides for the common man which were so popular back in the 1840's, but Uncle Whoops got with Karl and Fred, early on and one thing lead to another.
Uncle Whoops even gives himself credit with titling the tome. Mr. Marx was in favor of using a less forceful title and had settled on: "A Communist Suggestion". Where Freddie and Uncle Whoops thought the title needed more force.
They settled on "The Communist Manifesto", and the rest is history, the battle lines were drawn between the people who believe man can own property, a clearly feudal belief, that he can use to enrich himself to the detriment of all others, and the people who believe all of mankind has a stake in mother earth and what it can provide to its children.
I guess what I am getting at here is that human beings have sought and fought for advantages through out all of time. Cain's killing of Abel set the action that all of mankind would follow. Greed and envy have changed history more than peace and love. The trenches of history are filled with the silenced victims of greed and envy. Hitler and his henchmen, Jos. Stalin and his, along with Mao, and let us not forget our own Andy Jackson and his assault on the Native American population, all have added victims to that deep trench. To these ruthless leaders, people are not the children of God, for they are godless and evil to a man.
People are often in the way of the greatest Utopian dreamers. How many times have we heard "this old world would be a better place if there weren't all these people?" Confession: I thought this every time I went to Disney World. Human nature you see.
During WWII the Polish ghetto was full of lice laden Jews. To Hitler, the best way to rid the Ghetto of lice was to kill the Jews. To Andrew Jackson, the native American population interfered with his idea of expansion, kill and move them out was his answer. Stalin slaughtered millions and ditto Mao.
Just maybe, maybe these fellows are right and there is no God. We are just a great big lonely quirky happen-chance of goo that pulled itself up out of the primordial soup cooking deep within the fiery earth and stood up and proclaimed to all that would listen. "I am gonna get me some of that!"
And here we are only a few million years into this beautiful world still hitting each other over
the head for personal gain, in spite of all the education, riches, and religion this old world can entertain
we are still just a bunch of hairless monkeys dressed up with deodorant and mouthwash and a functioning public water supply and adequate sewage treatment. Add hand washing and antibiotics into the mix and we have the numbers necessary and required for some real mischief.
America, and the American experiment of the past 200 plus years was just an experiment and we are watching what happens when greed and envy overtake a country that was founded on deeply held religious beliefs. The religious beliefs are rejected and the riches are scattered to the winds.
America is just one zoo for humans in a world filled with human plantations. Our national zoo keepers have decided that capitalism is no longer the best way to keep the inhabitants of our zoo happy and fed.
Can we trust these elites, the smart monkeys with the ivy league credentials to have the local monkey's best interest at heart? Sending trillions of bananas to Washington, DC every year to the Zoo Keeps, is not making much sense when those bananas could be doing more good at the state and local level.
King Obama has shown his propensity to cast bananas to green energy monkeys who are his banana bundlers in what looks to be a banana payola scheme. If our leaders are dishonest then the zoo is in danger.
Back to Stalin. I believe the monkeys voted in the past US election, but some monkeys votes counted more that the others.
Is this anyway to run a zoo? A monkey without arms is just a monkey. A monkey with arms is alarming.
Monkeys of the world, UNITE! Otherwise, somewhere out there, there is a trench with your name on it.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
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