What planet are they from?

[NoPasaran]

They’re already here. That’s the advertising slogan for the upcoming Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise remake of H.G. Welles’ classic tale, War of the Worlds. And that’s how it feels watching the Texas House of Representatives. They’re already here.

When Orson Wells narrated the story on national radio in 1938, many Americans believed his alarmed exclamations about attacking Martians were an authentic newsman’s reactions to a real invasion from outer space. Now “real” newsmen give us fake reactions to real invasions and we believe the fakery just the same. And while we are distracted, the real invaders, cannily dressed as undertakers, sneak into town and steal the future from us, the undertaken.

How else is one to look at the Republican-dominated House passing a tax bill that 1) raises taxes on 80 percent of the population; 2) doesn’t put a dime into public education, where everyone thinks the money should go; 3) gives huge tax breaks to companies that have been indicted for (or are under suspicion of) participating in a criminal campaign financing scheme to take over the world, I mean, the Texas House?

What planet are they from? It must be a very, very, tiny one, one where property is vastly more important than life, since they prefer property tax cuts to education funding. Or maybe its one they rule safely from a distance, say, from faraway, gated moons, where the natives can’t get at ‘em.

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