Civil War 2010

The politics on 47th Street run right of center. Manny, my boss, is a radical. the 80 year-old believes in legalization of all drugs, withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, universal health care, and the re-education of right-wing extremists. being Jewish he also is a proponent of wiping every Arab off the face of the Earth. An old man is entitled to his morality contradictions. No one in the diamond exchange takes our opinions seriously, although the retired Bronx cop seconding as a security guard for the diamond exchange considers both of us commie bastards.

"If it were up to me, I'd shoot you." Andy is pissed off by he passage of the Obama Health Care Bill and parrots Fox News when he says like an altar boy molested by a priest, "They're ramming this down our throat."

"Free health care is a bad thing?"

"We'll end up like Canada or France."

"My friend had brain cancer in France." Randy passed through the operations with success. He filmed my story THE LAST QUALLUDES ON EARTH last summer. French socialized medicine saved his life. I told Andy about his struggle. "When he left the hospital the staff got hi a taxi."

'And what does that prove?" The ex-cop was boiling like a man on the verge of joining a lynch mob. "He was a commie like you."

"I'll tell you how I see the future. Free wine. Free health care. Free pussy too."

"And who's going pay for all that?"

"We're going to pay for that through conquest. Fuck democracy. Rob Iraq. Invade Saudi Arabia. Steal all their oil." This was Rome's strategy. It worked for 600 years and then I whispered, "Fuck Israel too."

It was a welfare state.

No one in the exchange wanted to hear this. They were angry about the new medical plan. None of them understood its offerings. Me too, except the government wanted a payment for my health care. I haven't been sick once in my life. I can faded into the fabric of chaos, however the irate right have declared war on the measure seeking to offer them better health. Bricks have smashed the windows of Democratic offices.

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." Barry Goldwater.

It almost seems as if America is on the verge of a civil war with the pat VP candidate for the GOP cross-hairing the opposition majority party as if they were moose in Alaska.

I've promised Andy a safe place to hide if it comes to bullets.

"As long as I get some of that free pussy I'm your man."

Viva la revolution.