OVER RECENT MONTHS, CERTAIN RELIGIOUS FANATICS have been pushing the notion, reinforced by Isaiah 35:8, that Interstate 35 is somehow predestined as the Highway of Holiness thus prophesised.

Hence, dictating all manner of prayer drives and "Purity Sieges" aimed @ a general moral "reclamation" along its entire distance between Laredo, TX and Duluth, MN (including that section of the Kansas Turnpike between the Oklahoma line and Emporia), attracting the attention of The 700 Club and other conduits of pseudoreligious Zealotry and True Belief as are, perhaps, secretly funding the whole campaign.

Yet, Your Correspondent imagines the likelihood for this whole "revivalist" movement along the same I-35 corridor seen by the Greater Producerist Movement as the sinister NAFTA Superhighway-in-embryo perhaps backfiring upon those involved.

Especially when it happens that certain adult businesses as are targets of the occasional "Purity Siege" decide to turn the tables on such a campaign with claims of, among other likely such, Criminal Syndicalism, Conspiracy, Unlawful Trespass and Unlawful Interference in Interstate or Foreign Commerce--especially when exists the possibility of enhanced penalties for Racketeering or Syndicalism per RICO.

Not to mention the likelihood of certain prayer vigils perhaps being targeted by Divine Wrath.

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PRODUCERISM, A VARIANT OF CONSERVATIVE POPULISM, holds dear as its articles of faith:

• The working classes (in particular poor, undereducated and easily-influenced "white trash") as are responsible for the development of capitalism with American characteristics, and its antient and pecuilar role and place in American soverign identity, are entitled to "antient and pecuilar rights, privileges and powers" "as of right."
• However, their privileged and traditional status is under threat and attack,
  • on the one hand, by the forces of Wall Street, Jews and Freemasonry as dominate the business and financial communities; and
  • on the other hand, by "inferior peoples" such as immigrants, blacks, other National Minorities and "chronic and habitual" welfare cases "having reckless and utter disregard for industry, self-reliance and personal responsibility."
• Therefore, it is to be seen as one with both national as much as racial duty and honour to defend the free-market capitalist system, and its special role and place in American soverignty, against the threats being directed as above, from within as much as from without, and "by whatever means necessary."

Excuse me, but doesn't it seem as if producerism has that certain sense of doublethink inherent--as in seeking to defend capitalism (on the one hand) and yet (on the other) challenge the same capitalist system's role and place as a threat to morals, decency and common sense vis-a-vis the working classes responsible for the same?

And what sort of alternative capitalist model would producerists have in mind--a so-called "pure" capitalism dominated, for the most part, by weird and unwholesome elements, only making matters worse for the same working classes which producerist thought seeks to defend by its embracing laissez-faire thought?

En 'n Ander Ding:

Have the Lower Classes, perhaps, heard of cooperativism as a means to an end of their own empowerment and salvation from the chains of free-market capitalistic excesses?

And what stands in the way of their accepting such a model?

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WITH INDECISION 2008 CERTAIN TO BE ALL THE MORE CRITICAL to deciding the path which the United States will take in the 21st century--remaining the vanguard of liberty and democracy, or using such as patsies to cover for an emerging tendency towards Fascism--the account of Balaam's Donkey (see Numbers 22) may be worth recalling as inspiration for how to reclaim the nation and what it stands for.

(Basically put, Balaam, who was sent in by the Moabites to vex Israel, was riding on his faithful donkey in his mission when, on three occasions, the Angel of the L-rd spooked Balaam, each time prompting Balaam to beat upon the donkey. Only after the third such instance, as occured in a very narrow alley, the donkey turned the tables and rebuked Balaam to his face.)

Come to think of it, while Your Correspondent was having dinner the other day, he was thinking about whether Balaam's Donkey may have delivered that rebuke in a voice not unlike that of the Donkey character in the Shrek series--by way of G-d, of course, who, we are told, put words into the donkey's mouth to rebuke Balaam.

In any case, let's not forget Balaam's Donkey ahead of the elections this year.

Hopefully, reader, you will have figured out by now who, for the sake of analogy, was Balaam ... and who was Balaam's Donkey.

(BTW, did you know "shrek" is Yiddish for "monster"?)