“A tango is a sad thought that dances.”-Enrique Santos Discépolo, The main reason for the first wave of popularity of ArgentineTango, is a shortage of women. Immigrants were mostly men, and they immigrated for economic reasons. As a result, at the beginning of the 20th-century women were 100,000 less than men. So the only ways to get close to a woman for many immigrants were to visit a brothel or to dance with her. And being a good dancer increased a chance to dance with a partner. So no wonder that Tango is full of passion and sexual innuendo. Everybody knows that famous expression: “Tango is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.” Tango is the first European dance that allows improvisation. It is a well-known fact that before Tango all couple dances were based on sequences, so all dancers moved in the unison. The second wave of popularity started in 1912 in Paris and, surprisingly enough, the upper class in Argentina began to dance the Tango as it was prevalent in Europe. The inception of the Argentine Tango, was for mere mortal men to demonstrate a variety of their machismo, and desire to dominate via dance their female partner. It was for many a poor male a sign of power!
Vladimir Putin has decided that Donald Trump become his partner and has prevailed as the master dancer in the form of a Tango, similar to the Argentine, but with a more sophisticated movement designed to humiliate, intimidate, and demonstrate the weakness of a narcissistic personality, and the weakness of a political party, unable to convince the voters that their particular rhythm and rhyme is even danceable, let alone livable. How exciting, that Russia's ambassador to Sudan was found dead Wednesday, September 12, 2018, in Khartoum. The same time period that there has been plenty of discussion about Trump’s loyalists either flipping on Trump or remaining as subservient peons, hoping for a pardon from the premiere of the United States, Trump. Like the Tango, the machismo male makes a move directing his female partner to acquiesce and comply. This latest accidental death of a Putin Foe makes number seven, but the timing seems something more than a random headline to me. It seems Putin wants his dance partners to follow his lead or perhaps when it is time for the dip backward of the female partner she might just fall all the way back and break her neck.
All the while, like deceit, disgrace, crime, collusion, and corruption swirls around Trump, and after a well-viewed visit by Putin to North Korea, more promises are being made by Kim Jung-Un regarding some kind of peaceful solution to the Korea Conflict. Images of the two Koreas dance on the screens of TV’s providing some sort of credence to the half-assed attempt by Trump, most likely at Putin’s behest to be the peacemaker. Watch the dancers as they move around the floor, athletically and artistically, almost like they are floating on air…now pay close attention to all that might be happening in the very near future to dismay, more people to tell the truth, more Republicans to act more American, and don’t stop keeping your eyes off of the polling places, the roster of voters, and the kind of Tango, Putin has been dancing with Trump as his partner!
