House of Paine

b4 the storm was the strom

visited delong's streetwalk 
and there was some blither about
a book on how goldwater/reagan
were like a compacted
 bryan/roosevelt sequence

i won't bother to explain 
this now

but its important
conventionally it poses

 electoral success vs principle 

big change requires time in the wilderness
 gathering vision 
    and planning the new jeru-salem 

blah blah blah 



but u can read my comment 
its at right angles  
to all that jive 

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by neutering 'me too'
Dewey Rocky republicanism 
the goldy moment gave the great sociey/civil rights dems enough 
rope to hang themselves for several generations

hey losing the lock on both 
their 
white ethnic male blue collar
and their dixie red neck
bases
simply can't be over come by 
crawling up the social ladder 

but hell t'was a base that was slipping away anyhow 

thanks tothe dems doin what they had to do
to win em in the first place

but once the systemic up lift 
their era and the prior new deal era produced had done its work 
all the heavy lifting was over 

all 
the goldy moment and its destruction of the me tooer
corporate goo goo 
with their on the cheap version
of race and class harmonists 
accomplished 
was to bring the day of dem catastrophe 
forward in time a few election cycles 
and maybe not even that 
if you take out the nixon donut hole 

hey after civil rights 
and 
eating itself alive over the vietnam war 

t'was only a matter of time

a matter of a few wise ups and piss offs 
before an un new deal ideology 
a " well...
mr and mrs amerika 
lets tear up that social contract "
mission 
and it 
had to arise 
to tickle to yahoo majority 
right in its status bone 

and oh how nicely 
it 
covers a lovely 
top down re kindling
of the ancient klass struggle

and as roles renew roles reverse

as we heard 
trumpeted forth 
from the elephant's trunk 
all this reaganoid vodoo 
did guys like u brad build the new me too 
all of 
which just had to happen 
with or without 
that goldwater on rye 
we all choked on back in 64



ahh the stories we tell our selves 
to make sense of it all

even if the sense it makes
tastes 
as bitter
as floor wash