"LET THEM EAT BRIOCHE" not said by Marie Antionette and translated to "cake". An importan lesson from history.

         Marie may not have said it, but I think she was on to something. Things were really, really bad in France from 1789 onward.

                 Une Petite Histoire

       The people of France were starving and obviously pissed off. They wanted emancipation for the individual, greater division of property, abolition of the privileges of noble birth (think 1 percenters)  and equality. And, they wanted it for all humanity. That's kind of funny when we think of France now.
    Currently, they seem to think they are better than everyone else and oops.  Another Digression. I shall heretofore use the initials AD* when I digress. If you've read my blogs, you know  how much I go off on tangents so when I do, from now on, you'll see them everywhere and I'll let you know with the initials AD.  oy. AD
 
     The events leading to the  French revolution included national fiscal troubles caused by inefficient tax systems and expenditure on numerous large wars.  Starting to sound familiar? no?

     The resistance was lead by the peasants, laborers, and the bourgeoisie (that's the middle class).
On July 14, 1789 the peasants as they say, stormed the Bastille where all the good weapons were kept and Viva La Revolution.

                What this has to do with cake

      The peasants were starving. They had no bread and I will assume, not much food either. However, I'm going to make a leap that since they worked the fields, built houses and ships,  that although  they were hungry, many were just physically fit enough to carry out a revolt. These revolting peasants won and at least for a time created a republic.
      I will not go AD on this and go into the details of said revolution and it's aftermath.

       The conditions that prevailed at that time sound amazingly similar to some of the conditions that we in the USA  are faced with. Unequal distribution of wealth, privileges for the un-named nobility (the aforementioned wealthy).  People who are slaves to their jobs or government checks.  And a tax system that is not collecting enough to pay the nations bills and debts.
        Personally, I find this revolting and imagine other people do as well. I try to imagine a revolution of some sort to fix the injustices. And here is where my imagination goes.

                                      PICTURE THIS IF YOU WILL

        Picture our "peasants" i.e.. unemployed, underemployed and underpaid and the disappearing middle class.  Then  picture what they look like. I don't mean to be offensive, but we do know that there is a lot of obesity in our nation.  Now,  try and imagine them getting up off their couches and taking up arms. Marching. Demonstrating. Fighting.
         Now see them running down the block, charging ahead with their guns. Unfortunately, most of them probably do have them.  Okay. How far did they get? I see  a wheezing, out of breath, dropping to the ground and groaning mass. For me, it was not a pretty picture.

        If our nation were  attacked by actual soldiers and not crazy terrorists, it won't matter how many guns we they have. Most of them couldn't outrun a stalled car. In previous wars, the men were ready to fight or at least close enough that we really needed time to manufacture the weapons.  Now we'd need a nine month boot camp to get our fighters into shape. And that may be optimistic.

                       BACK TO THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT ( I always get there)

      If the peasants had eaten brioche, that rich, luscious bread that is cake like, they too would have been obese and out of shape and unable to overthrow a table laden with goodies.
      
       My conspiracy theory.  Our government is behind this. Promoting obesity. Why is the cheapest food the most fattening?  They are also interfering with the education system so no one actually learns anything. Heaven forbid that they learn to think or reason.  The war on drugs is being fed with overproduction of narcotics approved by the FDA. Let's assume there's more.
        Most of the 1%ers don't know what's going on. They could care less because none of it effects them. The ones running the show are having a good laugh.
        When you have a nation of people who are addicted to food, drugs, sex, computers, phones, and video games, you don't have to worry about an uprising.
      
       After the French Revolution, Napoleon took over the country. That may not have worked out so well, at least not for him. We have a constitution, a vote and a government full of politicians.  I, frankly am sick of all this bullshit.

       Just in case the addiction epidemics and over all stupidity  aren't sufficient, they have now  polarized
us against one another. So, instead of fighting them, we are fighting each other. Joe Blow in one corner, Joe Shmo in the other. This is not an AD. This is where I was headed only I didn't know until I started writing.

         REMEMBER THE ALAMO!   REMEMBER THE MAINE!  DON'T GAIN THOSE 7 POUNDS OVER THE HOLIDAYS!