Egos working together

We all have one thing in common, we don’t agree on much. Let me tell you a humorous story and I will exaggerate some details to get the point across so please save your reply for 3 days until you have completely digested the epic quality of the work. Thanks.

The Tea Party Express Bus

A short story by Fredrick Lindner

9/16/2010

A short few months ago the Tea Party Express bus was traveling across the nation, making rapid work of the highway miles to reach the destination of Washington D.C. in efficient use of energy and time. The bus was full of energized and passionate people who eagerly looked to the road ahead and their final destination. Among the characters on the bus were deeply theological monotheists who wished to outlaw human behavior. There were some black helicopter speculators that want to abolish law enforcement. There were some lawyers with a view that all past congresses had it wrong and deemed by law that any bill written in the last 200 years will be removed from the courts. There were even some accountants who thought they could manage the government with an ease never attempted before. No individual character had a monopoly on bad ideas or good intentions. Needless to say the focus of the group shifted from beyond the dashboard of the bus to the characters sitting next to them. A fight broke out as the bus approached Denver Colorado and an emergency stop was conducted toward the side of the road. Out of the bus came spilling every character throwing punches, kicking wildly and pulling hair. Among the screams and obscenities were “you can’t win”, “I’m better than you”, “I think you stink”. The fight continued into the ditch and median. Eventually tired, bruised and with fat lips the characters from the bus began to look around. A chrome and blue streamline bus was observed passing the group and from it’s window is the smiling face of a democrat, waving with one hand and in the other a nice cup of warm chocolate.

-The moral of my story is that each of your ego’s needs to make a reality check. This is politics pure and simple and we have yet to learn the first rule of politics. We need to learn to work together or we can die alone, in the dark, with no one to turn to.

-As for the current fighting, I am over it and I suggest you each take a breath for 3 days, that’s all. Pick yourself up off of the ground and wipe that bloody nose. Hickenlooper is measuring the drapes and will shift his millions to the smaller races and sink our battleship at the State House elections. I am sure that you will also come to the realization that our target is not each other. Back or support whoever you want, I don’t care! IMHO the Looper is governor already. Try using your analytical mind for 3 days. Our arguments on the margins may matter to you while in the same not matter at all to another. What you may think as honor is simply a ploy of an ego. Think about your next 5 moves in chess and how each piece you wish to play will fall into your strategy over the next 10 years. In the races to come will we demand that every winning candidate be replaced because they do not meet up to our Paragon of ideas? Are we really in this fight to win? If so then why are we spending all of our time and money attacking one another as a strategy? What is our moral authority when the only way that we win a race is to lie, cheat, and steal an election.

Egos working together

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