Our Humpty Dumpty Government

One of the reasons I titled some of my posts "Government in Wonderland" was this part of the Alice in Wonderland Story:

"There's glory for you!"

"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' "

"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,' " Alice objected.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

"The question is, " said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."

We live in a world where the government decrees that marriage does not have to be between a man and a woman, where the State of New Mexico fines a wedding photographer $6,000 for not taking a lesbian couple as a client, where an increase in government spending is called a cut, where a supposed 2 trillion dollar cut in spending yields $2 billion in cuts the first year, where a president can authorize torture, where a president can declare war in Libya without declaring war, and where an anti-war candidate becomes a war president. In such a world my advice to you is to stay as far away from Humpty Dumpty as you can.

Even as I type Humpty is teetering on the edge. He seems to enjoy it. Sooner or later Humpty will fall. Try not to be under him when he falls. For all the king's horses, and all the king's men, cannot put Humpty together again.