Surly Slave Master

Well it looks like the gloves are coming off and I am hearing a lot of people say they are pissed. Now. Really pissed. Yeah. For instance, Roe v Wade got folks ( mostly gestators) really pissed. Really. Yes, capitalist "democracy" has been devolving into a dysfunctional, homicidal farce for some time now but hey, at least we still had some "rights". Right? The invasions and inequality and ecological destruction shit was bad but women could get abortions, the slave master at least was kind enough to let people experience a certain degree of autonomy over their body. More or less depending on your resources. And for a long time politicians and courts maintained the illusion of propriety and rational deliberation. It served everyones interests to let us feel like we had a government "of, for and by the people" with all the fancy constitutional decorum, the well-staged theatrical movements and drama. But maintaining the illusion has obviously become more trouble that it was worth and now we can just watch the sausage being made and if we don't like it, too fucking bad. My liberal friends are up in arms of course, ready to go out and turn that anger into action. To vote harder, knock on doors, sign petitions, long for the day Hillary or Mayor Pete can take over and steer the ship of state back to that comforting illusion of rationality and reason. Give us back our rights, please, Master, we'll promise to behave. To work harder. To keep buying. To shut up about fossil fuels. To send weapons wherever they are needed (schools, churches, Ukraine, etc..) Whatever it takes. Just as conservatives long for that mythical time when things made sense, liberals long for the time when black robes made jurors "supreme" and beyond politics.