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Sir;...The reason humor so often fails us is because there is nothing ultimately funny about the futility we experience at the hands of our government, which touches those in politics and out, and feeds only the vanity of our elected leaders...I think humor is essential...If you could turn the Joke around about the new wife being asked if it was her first time, and ask a politician: Have you ever been unduly influenced by money before; the answer could be the same...Why does every body always ask me that??? We do not have democracy, equality, or justice; so we must forever seek an advantage over those with money to have government that stand with us against the rich and the powerful...What makes the rich powerful but their control of the laws and government??? America loved Lincoln, and loves him still, in part because of his visual sense of humor... He was an average sized torso on extra long legs, and he had a grasp of the ludicrous, the small man in big shoes sort of thing...More importantly, he had an understanding before his time of how irrational people really are as Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Freud were later to recognize... Reason alone is not sufficent to make people good, or enough to change a person, or their mind...One must make people feel different to make them think differently, and nothing works so well, or so quickly in this regard as humor...Part of the problem with this country is that we are so much peopled by protestants who are simply humorless, and dour, and pessimistic... I stand with the few who look at all who are going to heaven because they tried; and I am surrounded by those who see us all going to hell because we were predestined for that fate...I used to work with a drunken little Sioux who would say: Efem if they can't take a joke... Sorry man; but no one has a sense of humor....Lay a hand full of thousands on a line, and say it is for the one who gets there first, and see how many smiles you see...The more the rich will break the law -and cross every moral injunction for a million, the more little Joe might cut your throat for a nickle...Bit by bit, the humor is being drained out of this place...We watch the Three Stooges at an advanced age, and see not humor, but three rich guys teaching the children of America to act like idiots...Is Adam Sandler different??? Are the two parties different??? The Romans divided everyone...No nation, nor geography was left intact out of the fear of any united peoples...Divide and Impera they said... For what are we being divided???Where is the humor in hate??? Where is the humor in envy, in jealousy, in fear, and loathing... Where is the fun in frustration??? Since unity, and consensus are not needed to hold office, or to conduct business, the opposite goals are sought, and achieved -of sowing division, and encouraging enmity...Look at how long the slave masters of the South held political power in this land by virtue of the representatives given to them by the constitution for a fraction of their slaves...As poor whites fled the South, and as immigration brought poor whites from Europe, and as whites in the North had children, the Masters could see their hold over their slaves, their wealth, and their political power slipping away; and the humor drained right out of them...With every addition to our country, with every legal and illegal immigrant we lose political power to the rich, and we sense it... We cannot protect ourselves from manipulation of our economy, high interest or rents... We cannot protect ourselves from pollution, from foreign wars and adventures, from imports, or low wages...Our representation does not remain constant, but is constantly diluted, and as it is, we lose our power, our rights, our money, and our humor...Let the politicians laugh, but the people are sweating Nitro like rotten TNT, and becoming dangerous, and volatile as the republican stooges run riot... Thanks...Sweeney