I care about tacos, but I'm not a fucking moron.

Have you ever heard of the Mount Rushmore Tactic?

It’s when people propose some real outrageous insanity so that they can screw you in another way and you won’t say anything.

“If everyone in America doesn’t pay one thousand dollars we’re going to cover up Mount Rushmore and no one will ever see it again,” sneaky mount rushmore tactician.

“That’s outrageous, you can’t do that. That’s Un-American. We’re going to go out in the streets and protest this INSANITY. WE WON’T STAND FOR THIS!!!!!!” gullible American public.

“Oh well how about you all just pay ten dollar more tax, for me to have a pool,” sneaky mount rushmore tactician.

“Well ok, as long as we still get to see Mount Rushmore,” gullible American who only goes outside to get inside their car.

Lots of people fall for this. I’m not lots of people.

You know the whole taco truck tragedy, I’m so not buying that crap.

I think that the taco truck thing with the extreme “people are going to go to jail and we’re going to fine then 1,000 dollars” was simply a scare tactic so they can raise the tax on the taco truck operators a little and people will be ok with it.

Though this will probably pretty much really screw taco truck guy, but he won’t be able to complain, because at least he’s not going to have to go to jail.

It will be like, “Oh yeah the politicians compromised, so they are completely reasonable.”

No they aren’t.

When this happens it won’t be a compromise. It will be exactly what they wanted and all of your protest and complaints did nothing, but help them accomplish this.

Who wants to seem unreasonable?

Corporate America (and the politicians that bend over for them for cash and cushy jobs post working for the people) teach middle class and working class people that in order to be decent you have to agree to being screwed a little, because that’s called compromise.

Oddly the media is usually complicit in this utter bullshit, because the media can’t really buy this tactic?

Is the media stupid or just insincere?

Hey maybe some people in the media are shills from the office that propose these ludicrous proposals. You know like the paying to borrow a book thing? That has Mount Rushmore tactic smeared all over it.

“Ok, you go online and act REAL upset. Make some posts and some protests about how bad it will be for the taco truck operators to go to jail, then when we propose this other tax the people will be happy and think they did something. Maybe some blogger will blog about it, fingers-crossed? People love feeling useful,” sneaky politician bastard.

Back in the late 90s and early aughts I used to be a community organizer.

I then realized a community organizer was nothing but a fluffer for corporations. If you noticed in order to be a community organizer you have to be “sexy” to the neighborhood that you are prepping to get “violated”.

You know if it’s an Asian neighborhood you have to be Asian.
If it’s black you have to be black.
If it’s Latino you have to be Latino.
If it’s gay you have to be gay.

It’s not about helping, but about appealing to people’s base selves to get them to say yes to getting fucked.

“Oh look at her, she’s so sweet. She looks just like my granddaughter, what a good helper she is. I’m going to sign this proposal that will eventually bring over priced housing and commerce and get me pushed out the house I’ve rented for the past thirty years for $500 dollars a month, because owing to the rise in property values the owner wants $2,000 a month now and was nice enough to give me thirty days notice. What a great compromiser the owner is,” a person who has just experienced a community fluffer.

I know it seems so beautiful you’re working for a nonprofit, totally anti the man, but you then you realized you just prepped your neighborhood (or at least the neighborhood where everyone looks like you) for being gentrified.

But at least community organizers got paid to fluff, most bloggers don’t even get paid to fluff for politicians and corporations.

Am I conspiracy theorist?

No, I just don’t believe politicians and corporate types, because in general they tend to be duplicitous jerks that use people’s base fears to manipulate them into agreeing to being “reasonable”.

Mark my words the taco truck guy and some public arts entity is going to get the screwgy in the near future and we’ll all be ok with, because at least we can still see Mount Rushmore.

Browne Molyneux

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