Thursday, March 12, 2009

The single party country.

The country was a single party country. The acronym for the main and only party was IWTBR, but because there was only one party people were not aware of the name. It did not matter. Some erudite people knew the acronym and even the meaning but the rest never heard it. The leaders of the party were strong believers in Democracy. After all it was supposed to be a very democratic country. Perhaps the most democratic country. Also, all leaders were totally in agreement among themselves about the party's platform. The 600 plus top leaders knew and worked to push the party ideology.

The IWTBR was the acronym for "I want to be reelected". Everything everyone did was not for this or that need. It was only to feed their own needs of money and power by getting reelected. Everything else was secondary, so bribes were renamed "Campaign Funds" and PAC's ruled. There was a pretense that "tit for tat" was undesirable, but given the need to get reelected it was just a matter of being a little creative. Lobbyists wrote the laws and passed them to the staffs of the members of Congress. The actual Congress men and women and the Senators did not have the time nor the interest in reading the statutes they were passing.

Now the quiz: Can you recognize the Country?

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