I Know You Are But what Am I

I Know You Are But what Am I? It's a child's game. It is much like Tic-tac-toe in that the game is played to a draw when Player 1 and Payer 2 are equally matched. Only when one Player is more anal retentive does he "win" by default. This is why the better move is to not play.

There is a poem and song lyric titled "The Drunk Driver Always Has the Right of Way." Sometimes even when you are right you must yield and let the impaired one have his way. This principle also applies in the game of habitual lying. The master liar states his lie. Everyone knows he is lying. He knows he is lying but he doesn't care because the war of attrition is afoot. The people who hear the lies point them out and refute the message being put forth. The liar lies some more. The refutation continues. Eventually, the refutation efforts wane due to sheer exhaustion. Besides, the level of repetition of the lies leads some people to believe them. That phenomenon exacerbates the futility of trying to outmaneuver the liar. He has an unlimited supply of false and misleading statements to use.

The childhood game goes like this. "You are a crybaby." The response is "I know you are but what am I?" This exchange goes on until the Player 1 gives up because Player 2 will never acquiesce. His is a world where he is the king, the master, the mogul who cannot be "one-upped." Eventually, everyone will leave him alone and criticized him behind his back. He becomes like the grumpy old demented grandpa who cannot be reasoned with only accommodated. The cognitive deficit becomes so severe that eventually he must be moved to supervises housing where he can rant and fuss to his heart's content and the staff placates him with "there, there we mustn't get the other residents all riled up.

The problem comes when the impaired one is the head of the household. He still has control of the checkbook and the other finances. Wresting control from him involves a legal battle royale, especially when he still has supporting associates who have something to gain by his absurd behavior.  

The conflict may very well result in the fall of the house. Maddness is highly destructive to everyone who contacts it. It is exceptionally destructive when an entire nation is the household. Eventually the mad one dies or otherwise reaches a state where he cannot function any longer and he fades away leaving a trail of devastation in his wake.

For Sunday, June 28, 2015 the TOD is (drum roll) Jim Inhofe!

Friday, June 26, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a leading Senate conservative, today made the following statement about the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage.

“I am disappointed by today’s Supreme Court decision. My position on this issue is clear and has not changed. It is unfortunate that the Court took it upon itself to decide for the people what was being appropriately debated and decided in the states through the democratic process.”   Imhofe website.

For Sunday, June 28, 2015 the TOD is (drum roll) Jim Inhofe!
 

His comment that marriage rights are "appropriately debated and decided in the states through the democratic process" is a statement that only a Twit can understand. This is equivalent to a state legislature voting to decide that people of a national heritage, genetic background, or religious persuasion are property and can be bought, sold, and worked to death. It is the same as those representative bodies debating and voting to incarcerate a person for not swearing allegiance to the flag or for not believing in a god.

His belief that it is appropriate to allow common rights to people on one side of a street to be granted that is denied on the other side. Yes, there are places where streets form state boundaries. There are just some aspects of human existence that no matter how long the right has not been recognized or has been actively denied, it is inappropriate to continue even for a day to fail to recognize the right.

Let's look at a Constitution right that the Supreme Court ruled on that flies in the face of EVERY human being. Corporations are people in the sense that they have rights to free speech and religious faith that can inform who they do business with and what benefits they provide to their employees. I personally think this is a travesty of Justices but for now it is the law of the land. Supreme Court Justices are not immune from Twit-like decisions. One can only hope that a future Congress will act to undo that damage as well as other corporation-friendly rulings that injure humans.

You know, there are just some aspects of human society that can't be legislated at a geographical level. Unfortunately, the United Stated, no matter how much it wishes it to be true, cannot legislate beyond its own borders. However, within them they can be consistent.