The Politically Sniffing Wolf Returns to You All

Today I return to discussing politics. Have you nameless commentless Lobolians missed that esteemed subject? Putin called the United States a wolf the other day. In my world, that is a complement, there it is an insult. "Comrade Wolf" he said. Was that what they were called when he was growing up in the Soviet Union? Anyway, he felt that America shouldn't be using his domestic policy against him when deciding if he should join the world trade organization, as some Senators visiting Moscow apparently threatened to do. Now, if Putin were intelligent he would know that American Senators lie a lot. Quite likely they were lying then, because it is in their nature. Especially Republicans seemed to have formed a habit of lying like crazy to cover things up and dishing out empty threats. Now, maybe all powerful politicians do that. Even the John Adams presidency got the power bug, and they were smart enough to make the Sedition Act end before the other party, the Anti-Federalists of Jefferson, seized political power by the ballot. He did, and democracy survived yet another century. Now that was over two hundred years ago. Who has placed a permanent limit on the current threats, not just the Patriot Act, but the root cause of the fears which are leading this country into a deep pit of viciousness and dislike? The odd thing about this war is that it is so Orwellianly perfect from a power hungry person's point of view. How can one defeat their enemy, when their enemy is fear? That will ironically keep the people fearful forever, because very few things breed more fear than war. Read George Orwell's 1984, please. That will inform you far more eloquently than one lone wolf on a public computer.

Roman Wolf