“What happens when an irresistible force encounters an immovable object?”

This question, which I seem to recall hearing way back in grade school, is fundamentally silly. In nature, there are no absolutes. So the simple answer is:  We discover that the force was not irresistible, or that the object was not immovable, or both.

Likewise in politics, there are no absolutes. A regime (object) can be formidable, as can an opposition (force) to that regime. The greater the forces when they clash, the more likely that the political landscape will be drastically and permanently transformed by the encounter.

Continued…

http://www.crisispapers.org/essays6p/object-force.htm

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...& then the good witch flew downtown
with a new broom and swept them
all clean...& an unsullied sun
rose up … on the horizon

& migratory birds whistled
…lively song in the trees
& th’ droplets & streams
&…Sir Mordred was slain.

Then it was harvest moon again
& we knew the blessing & the tune
of vast pickings and sundries of lore
…While remembering also the dusk,
Dossed down &, returns sooner than

~~ THE trigger finger,
.The…pistol…crack!
& the fallen down dead…
Terms of the fiscal attack.
&, whump, the dump iz began:
Casualties…of paper & pens

Wander with resumes & lower

Expectations of disposable income;

Ideas of a family like VHS to DVD

The B.O.D. circles, Algonquin, 

To issue out a stock command!
To visit the walls of civil separation
& escape into moot notions of work
Being done & tides aptly turning.

Oh…but, low & beholden, it’s

Just another gray day herein 

Never mind the meanings &
Don’t…lose your head.

Hold on, hold on, …
…& to hold on

Go th’ bled.

[JMHDitty]