Our perception of the insidious slide from freedom to tyranny powered by a democratic system which ignores constitutional limits can best be described as that of a slowly boiling frog. It is important for DC to chip away at our institutions rather than bring in the demolition team. Proud Americans, like a frog thrown into boiling water, would revolt if we saw politicians take all our freedoms at once…
So, it will be interesting to see how America reacts now that the temperature in our pot shot up from simmer to boil this week. I am not talking about the realization that our government has taken over the health care system with Obamacare, or that it controls our credit markets with Frank Dodd… I speak of the loss of our collective Twinkie.
Literally, Big Labor just took our Twinkies away from us. It is not surprising that socialists would target the Twinkie. To our secular society, Twinkies were the closest thing we had to the “opiate of the masses”. As a society that frowns on heroin usage, the opioid receptors of our brains depended on that creamy filling surrounded by moist cake and yellow #5 for a daily rush. In a society with BMI’s high enough to make walruses heading north green with envy, letting our Twinkie industry go down was a serious miscalculation. Where were you in this Chapter 11 Obama!!! My fellow Americans complain all the time about the not-so-mysterious rattling sound in their Chevy, but I have NEVER heard a disparaging word about the Twinkie…
There really isn’t a generation in my lifetime that hasn’t celebrated the Twinkie as an iconic symbol. Who doesn’t remember this scene from the 80′s:
Over 20 years later, Twinkies would serve as a motivating influence for life itself in a post-apocalyptic zombie world:
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to give the impression that Twinkies are perfect. If they were, people wouldn’t have to deep-fry them to get the full daily recommended allowance of calories in one cake:
Needless to say, Big Labor and the Democratic party should be expecting a ton of outrage from Americans. Granted, that could just be three people, but they will be really really angry…
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As a side note, 18,500 people lost their jobs in an economy that probably won’t be quick to pick up ex-Hostess factory workers…