Monday, August 30, 2010
Power Brokers
-So it boils down to two?
-In our minds, yes, but the convincing of others must follow.
-Money sways powerfully.
-Doesn't it? Anyway, let’s decide A or B.
-No names?
-In case some wandering secretary with a boyfriend
in the Fourth Estate has rabbit ears.
-OK, case for A then?
-Speaks beautifully, in blinding generalities.
Patriot to his jockstrap! Fiercely independent!
-Meaning he'll do what he's told?
-Precisely.
-Rebel for our cause!
-B is more ideological.
-But it's our ideology.
-Well, that scares the decent majority, so he
has to soften up if we choose him.
-That's not hard. He's a politician.
-Plus he shares the same marvelous central quality with A!
-Doing what he's told! Well, then, the other factors
for both?
-None.
-Got a coin?
-So it boils down to two?
-In our minds, yes, but the convincing of others must follow.
-Money sways powerfully.
-Doesn't it? Anyway, let’s decide A or B.
-No names?
-In case some wandering secretary with a boyfriend
in the Fourth Estate has rabbit ears.
-OK, case for A then?
-Speaks beautifully, in blinding generalities.
Patriot to his jockstrap! Fiercely independent!
-Meaning he'll do what he's told?
-Precisely.
-Rebel for our cause!
-B is more ideological.
-But it's our ideology.
-Well, that scares the decent majority, so he
has to soften up if we choose him.
-That's not hard. He's a politician.
-Plus he shares the same marvelous central quality with A!
-Doing what he's told! Well, then, the other factors
for both?
-None.
-Got a coin?
Labels: party politics
