Dear George,
I glad to hear that you are keeping you spirits up as your numbers continue to tank. Continue to draw inspiration from Abraham Lincoln whose numbers also plummeted just prior to his reelection. Your situations are similar, except for a few minor differences. Lincoln’s war was a real war, while yours is an exercise in smoke and mirrors designed to scare the chickens into voting for the fox.
No matter how bad the polls become, you have one thing working for you: Your policies are grounded in words instead of reality, and the drones are suckers for words. Change the words and the ballgame changes even though the reality remains the same.
You see, to be raised Euromerican is to be raised as a technician. It’s an inclusive term that incorporates everyone from the front-end specialist at the local Buick dealer to the neurosurgeon. The mantras budding technicians grow up with are:
- Say what you mean!
- Get to the point!
- Don’t beat around the bush!
For the technician a word has but one meaning, thus excluding depth, ambiguity, shading, covert meaning, resonance, and above all, metaphor.
Americans believe that just because something can be articulated we can change it simply by changing a word or two. These attempts are usually disastrous as we are seeing in Iraq where we thought we could produce a democracy simply by attaching the word to Iraq.
But, and this is a big but, Big Guy, the public’s blind faith in the assumed truth of the Word will be your salvation. ‘Tis but a short step from the belief that only the Word can express truth to the belief that every word is true, especially in its printed or televised form. For example, just your saying, “Global War on Terrorism,” makes it true even though no such war exists. So when the midterms come up, simply have Karl come up with a new script and repeat the lie until it is true.
A word of advice, always capitalized the big concepts; it guarantees their self-destruction. The quest for Freedom ends in oppression; the quest for Prosperity ends in impoverishment; the quest for Truth ends in dogma; the quest for Art ends in over-priced kitsch.
Your greatest danger is from those who simply live free without crowing about it. They are dangerous because they are the ones who do not conform to the things of the World. This gives them clarity of vision to plumb the very depths of your madness. Fortunately, not many can stand the loneliness of freedom with a lower-case “f”.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
9:07:18 PM 
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