“FULL-BLOWN SOCIALISM”
by OPOVV, ©2020
(Mar. 5, 2020) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another fact-filled episode of ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the entertaining information show where you’re sure to hear it here so you don’t have to waste your time channel surfing to hear it anywhere else. Hello, I’m Roving, the host of this show where we’re broadcasting from – you guessed it – our favorite corner, across the street from the railroad station, under the awning, about to bother people on their way to the big city. Excuse me, got a minute? Roving here for ‘Pulse.’”
“Let’s see: I’m off to work and to get to work I have to catch the train and you’re between me and my ride and you ask me if I have the time?”
“That’s right. ‘Pulse,’ as you may know, is the ever-popular information show that’s the favorite of many of your neighbors. We’ve won all sorts of awards.”
“Did you ever win the ‘Most Annoying’ award?”
“Not yet. The question of the day is what’s bugging you the most these days?”
“Nothing ‘bugs me,’ as you say. I’ve read Professor Zorkophsky’s self-help book, ‘How to get Along by Pretending to get Along,’ and since then I’ve led a very serene and productive life.”
“But didn’t you express anger at me asking you to be interviewed?”
“I make exceptions.”
“Whenever it suits you, I’m sure. Okay, how about telling us your name, what do you do and what’s bugging you.”
“You bug me; my name is Bret; and I’m a playwright working on a political message on what happens when a country goes to full-blown Socialism.”
“What happens?”
“People die.”
“That’s it?”
“What more do you want? Do you want me to spell it out for you? Any dissenting voice is silenced, and I don’t mean in the movies, on television or in print; I mean just in your everyday conversation at the grocery store or the barbershop. They’ll find out and, to start, bust your door down in the dead of night, just like they did to Roger Stone. Later on they’ll dispense with the ‘dark of night’ and come anytime.”
“But don’t people already know the trappings of Socialism?”
“Not a clue, which is why the Democratic Party entertains so many delusional crazy people, people who believe in the hype of ‘free’ and ‘It’s not your fault if you’re not the richest person in the universe.’ But of course they don’t use words such as ‘lazy’ and phrases like ‘game-the-system.’”
“So what’s the title of your play?”
“Well, I haven’t decided, but I’m leaning to ‘Let’s Make Socialism Fun! A Play in Three Acts,’ but, as I said, I might come up with a better title; more catchy, if you get what I mean.”
“I think I do: you want the young Delusionals to see the play and learn the truth, is that it?”
“The money these days is the college circuit, not Broadway: the percentage of profit is quadruple.”
“No way. Well, I wish you great success. See you around. What do you say we take a commercial break?”
“I Love How You Love Me” (2:06)
“And we’re back with Anne Gale, who is a lawyer for the city. So, Anne Gale, what’s on your docket these days?”
“We have lots of city workers who have attacked Trump supporters; garbage employees not picking up trash from houses with Trump signs or bumper stickers; and teachers giving low grades to known Trumpsters.”
“My word, how do you defend the idiots?”
“And that’s my defense: they know not what they do because they’re idiots.”
“That’s it?”
“That’s all I got. You can’t fire them because the union and the city are as one; they wash each other’s backs and, yes, that’s as crooked as it’ll ever get. The union protects the city employees and the city protects the union, is how it works.”
“But, that’s…”
“Wrong? Yes, it’s a scam to protect worthless employees, which 90% of city employees are. It’s a form of welfare where they have to show up to collect the check.”
“So, Anne Gale, why do you do it?”
“To gain experience, like on-the-job training while getting paid. So I’ll spend as much time as I think I need and then I’ll go into private practice. Contract law interests me but the fun is as a defense lawyer, like Perry Mason.”
“Sounds like you got it mapped-out. This your train? See you around, then. And that’ll do it for us, too. And so, on behalf of the crew, I’ll be wishing you all a goodnight: Goodnight.
“Good show. Burger time: my treat.”
[At this time I’d like to give a shout-out to Steve Malzberg and to Jesse Lee Peterson, two who helped get Newsmax off the ground.]
“Baby It’s You” (2:38)