Reply #12: Hey General... About your responsibility

[Luminous Animal]

General,

It’s been a hard day’s night, this battle is lost, and the backlash has begun. Vae victis. The mob is jeering at King-Kong in chains following Caesar’s triumph. The few statements I read from you since we were defeated left me wondering. Those I didn’t read made me uneasy. I know you’ve got to keep a low profile, and that the winter might be long. But I’m worried. How shaken are you ? How dug in ? Up to your heels ? I feel I have to break my duty of reserve.

I hope you know you bear no responsibility in our army’s wreckage. The Emperor’s victory was begotten by the terrifying marriage of cynical smear tactics and plebeian stupidity, then born out of Doofus’s consistent silence about the patricians’ wheeling and dealing, his consistent failing to be either inspired or inspiring, and his consistent refusal to acknowledge a banner that was both. To say nothing of the Votergatum. Call yourself Cassandra.

No need to elaborate either on the way you served. You served. Heart, soul, blood, sweat and guts. At the front line. That’s more than what most of those who blame you can say. For lack of any proof whatsoever, we can schematically assume that F9/11 fired up our side, counter-fuelled the enemy and changed a few minds, most of them for the better. As for the Tour, it unmistakably caused a more significant turnout, and we’re not going to let anyone tell us that the majority of the slackers who saw you plebiscited the Emperor, are we ? So, at worst it was a draw, at best you got the 1 % to 2 % more Doofus voters you had planned to conquer. Mission accomplished.

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