Qui cum canibus concumbunt, cum pulicibus surgent.

They who lie down with dogs will rise up with fleas. (Roman proverb)

After exposure to the denizens of local politics, this proverb means much more to me.

I’ve been working as a campaign volunteer for a city council candidate and have been astounded at the level of buffoonery being displayed on the amateur hit-blogs (fleas, if you will)*. One blog accused me of “getting the cached (deleted) pages” removed from Google. Just that alone is laughable - anyone’s that tried to have something removed from Google knows exactly how difficult it is. What’s jaw-dropping is that these are supposedly pillars of the community, businesspeople with an assumed amount of edumakayshun. Obviously I assumed too much.

It’s not just sad, it’s a symptom of the ongoing malaise in America and the loss of critical thinking skills. Knuckledraggin nitwits get rich, dodge their debts, lie, cheat, steal, rape, kill, etc and working-class folks get labelled terrists. Hard to get really upset about it (kind of like watching the neighbor’s sick pet laying in the yard neglected in it’s own barf) since it’s so pathetic.

Actually I feel sad for people who have so much external wealth, but such internal poverty.

(* Longmont was once a rabidly Republican town, home to the openly-recognized Ku Klux Klan, but is now, decades later, shifting definitely towards the center and left. This has the established, monied interests in a major-league panty-twisting uproar. Mild-mannered moms and elderly businessmen have girded on their keyboards and football-season zeal to demonize anyone and everyone linked to the destruction of their happy grafting-grounds.)

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