FRATRICIDE
an irregular microzine
of immoderate opinion
by Redmon Barbry

 
Extra!
September 27, 1995
 


        Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
        ... Traditional platitude

        The re-entrance of Ross Perot, with all his sycophants and idolaters, into presidential politics signals another dark night for conservatives. The fact that Perot mouths platitudes that mimic those ideals means only that he intends to take votes away from the candidate most likely to implement them.
        The winner-take-all nature of the American system of elections dictates a political landscape dominated by two major parties. Of course, all minor parties aspire to become one of the two major parties, but a change in the identity of the major parties has taken place only once in our entire history. Failing that, a third party can only do injury to that party whose views are closest to its own, because it splits the adherents to those views. Last time, it gave us Bill Clinton for a president.
        Do the math, America.






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Note: Fratricide is a term that was used to describe the phenomenon of incoming nuclear weapons being destroyed by the fireball of other nuclear weapons already detonated at the same target, a notion that suggests a limit to the throwweight that can be applied to a hardened target in a single locale. Fratricide was used to justify the "clustering" strategy for deployment of the MX missile, an elegantly a posteriori argument in support of MAD (mutually assured destruction), the strength of which is unlikely to be appreciated by any survivors.

The purpose for the title to this microzine is not to summon any kind of cold war or nuclear war theme. Rather, Fratricide is a metaphor for (a) the bumbling of bureaucracies at cross purposes, (b) the general superiority of domestic political warfare over actual national interest, and (c) the frequent cutting off of one's nose to spite one's face that is a daily occurrence in the venue of local, U.S., Western, and global politics.

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