A warm place.

It will be a little difficult to write this story and remain politically and politely correct,  so if you are delicate stop reading right now.  An old story Kadizzle likes to tell because it explains a lot is a story about an old secretary of agriculture, Ear Butz.  Butz ended his career when he said “I’ll tell you what coloreds want. It’s three things: first, a tight pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit. That's all!”.

Now please understand, Kadizzle does not endorse in any manner shape or form what he said, but there is a lesson here.  In the region where Kadizzle lives all most people want is a flat screen TV, a new pickup truck, gas for the truck, and a fishing boat.  Butz said black people did not vote because they had what they wanted.  Sadly so many people on the fringe of the economy don't vote.  If they do it is because Republicans whip them into a frenzy about religion, or guns.  Your typical person sitting in a run down mobile home really doesn't care if they are warm and have good television reception.  If they can get cigarettes, drugs, or alcohol,  and have a gun to deer hunt and scare away ISIS, why give a damn about anything. 

So things are not going to change.  Things only change when people are uncomfortable.  That means being cold and hungry, or best of all both. During the depression people were cold and hungry.  Things changed.  People voted, they formed unions, and they rebelled against the greed that put them out in the cold.  Kadizzle can beat the drum, and rant and rave, but the reality is until people are cold and hungry nothing will change. 

Kadizzle is sitting in Arizona.  Arizona is full of people living on the verge of poverty. They live in homes that are surrounded  by trash, and slightly more than shacks, but they are warm.  Warm is number one.  Right where we sit just about everyone has a fishing boat, and guess what a large flat screen TV.   Kadizzle was in Cottonwood on black Friday and the flat screen TV's were actually being brought up front by the pallet load.  
If you are broke, or like Kadizzle in his camper the only television channels you can get come on something called Me TV.  So when we watch television our choices are reruns of MASH, Mayberry, or some other brain dead thing thirty years old.  Also there is one of those shopping channels that sells everything you really don't need, or ever will.   One more channel has the stupidest game shows along with poor people fighting about who got their daughter pregnant.

Pick up a magazine in the laundromat,  the restaurant,  or the barber shop.  There will not be an once of intellect in any of them.  These people take pride in their stupidity, and are very careful not to be exposed to anything that might wake up a brain cell.  All news is just rumors.  

Our economy has always relied on a good supply of stupid people.  Who will buy the Chia pets if we don't have stupid people?  Now you want to see a happy dolt go up to the market.  In will come a guy with camouflage, a gun strapped to his hip,  and he will buy forty dollars worth of lottery tickets, and an eight dollar pack of cigarettes.  If the dolt decides to vote he will vote for the guy who promises him he can keep his gun.   He will not notice the guy who promises him he can keep his gun is going to drive him into hopeless poverty by giving the country to the rich.  Up and down the street in slumville there are dozens of "Bible Churchs".   Each has some simple minded preacher trying to make it into the big time where he can rob people like Billy Grahm, or Pat Robertson.   That stump preacher can get people to vote by screaming about baby killers.  Of course the dolts will vote Republican.   Freedom is wonderful.  You are free to be as ignorant as you can and use your gun to shoot all the stop signs you want.  With Donald Trump as president everyone will be free to be as hateful, fearful, and stingy as they please.