Mussolini's Garden
With apologies to my favorite Beatle
Recently, in Peeking Around the Corner, Samantha Gluck told a tale of ‘a hand-wringing article claiming that people who grow (even just a little bit of) their own food demonize immigrants and have a hard anti-government mindset.’
At first, I thought that the screed described by Mrs. Gluck stemmed from nothing more than trauma suffered by its author at a petting zoo. Alas, upon further investigation, I discovered that the equation of alimentary self-reliance with reactionary politics was, as the kids say, ‘trending’ among journalists who list to port.
That discovery sparked the following bit of doggerel, which folks more musical than I may wish to sing to the tune of Octopus’s Garden.
Note: The penultimate line refers to the famous slogan of the Fascisti: ‘everything under the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State’ [‘tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato’]. For an example of the inclusion of this motto in a speech given by il Duce, see Benito Mussolini Discourse on the Third Anniversary of the March on Rome [Discorso per il terzo anniversario della marcia su Roma]
To Share or Subscribe:
