really true red, white, and blue bugs go. Indeed, they are a rare insectfewer than three million-but with these go a swarm of followers, those conventional types who are "good Americans" at least some of the time.
Their hive holds a myriad of assorted types characterized by many similarities: it is a social syndrome, a patchwork of personalities, of cherry-chested jokers and hairy-breasted brokers. Inside are pip-squeaking old maids who dance the grundy and cages full of unwashed Neanderthals who hide their skin in hide. But with the old pinch and squeeze act the copper gingergun boys steal the show (usually without a single blow).
Above all, flying high above their dread of communism, they have an intense fear of the queer and have sworn not to change. At the thought of it they whip into fiery tornadoes of poisonous hate generated it would seem by such overpowering desires to be gay that they overcompensate in the other direction.
Psychiatrists who probe them deeply tell us that the Dick Straightloves, the common type, love women because of a driving irresistible desire to overpower something weak (but is their libido really in that direction?). For we see that Cousin Leather Boy may throw his lavender leatherwear on a bed where he developes quite a strange love-and it is here that the big truth about Dick's true convictions emerges from its previous restrictions. Dick's love for woman is not love at all-not an emotional love-but a hate, a fear of the passive and "weak" elements in him. It is masculine power and strength that our boy cultivates, idolizes, and adores.
For a lover, Straightlove says he prefers God to Adolph (depth studies indicate the reverse). He manipulates the Bible to find himself winding us as his wrathful god's faithful asp. Our Richard clasps a false philosophy to his bosom and mouthes platitudes of
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brotherly love from a Bible which has Mein Kampf written on the reverse side. He is the idealized rigid, moral absolutist and disciplinarian. In his ranks were the hardheads, knockheads, and roundheads who purified 17th Century England of Sin and burnt witches at the stake. It was he who forced prohibition on the people while making bathtub gin. It is he who advocates purity (of both race and sex), freedom (to take it from us), and fraternity (to form nasty little groups). Dick loves giving mouth service to Democracy, but only as long as she plays along to his ad-
vantage.
Like the stinging social insects, the danger from our Straightloves lies in their instinctive ability to organize their small minority into an effective force for control of large majorities. It is then that they ramrod their perverted feelings down the throats of the many to annihilate the few. Although our authoritarians, our real authoritarians, comprise a scant two percent of the population, their influence is vast. One discovers they quite instinctively fly to commanding positions, but are rare bugs indeed the arts and sciences. among Judges and men of wisdom are seldom in their ranks.
Their nest is in the military-industrial complex, and like the ANTS (American Nazis for a Totalitarian State) and WASPS (White Anglo Saxons for a Protestant State) they thrive on conformity and organization. They coat their bodies in uniform drab tones and shun the glare of publicity. They number with them the generals, government administrators, and business executives, but it is mainly the police who cause so much of the trouble.
Not only are the police often of the authoritarian breed, but those who back them are likewise. Perhaps a different method of officer selection would change these hard facts. It is