You Won't Like the Future
As it stands now, the U.S. House of Representatives will fall to the Republicans this November. The Senate majority held by the Democrats will be eroded.
Far from moderating in the wake of the general election rout of 2008, the GOP has descended further to the right, embracing what appears to many progressives as a comical swirl of everything from transparently obvious, hokey hypocrites to mentally unstable, blubbering odd balls. These leaders of the so-called "Tea Party" movement will be anything but comical, though, when their social celebrity status becomes actual political power.
You won't like the future, I promise you that. The man elected President of the United States in 2008 has failed to lead, and quite specifically, he has failed to lead the citizenry away from the mesmerizing influence of moral decline sold like snake oil with words like "moderate" and "compromise," words almost willfully at contrast with equally voiced words like "change" and "hope."
Fearlessness was not in Mr. Obama's vocabulary. It never will be. But you knew that, didn't you? — you who have read my articles; you who earnestly decry commercialism cast to maximize consumer acceptance; you who were actually following the career and voting record of then-Senator Barack Obama; you who at least ought to know the difference between hypnotically howling speeches full of vagaries and the fiery political roar of a man who votes from a progressive conscience rather than a politically apparent expedience.
No, you won't like the future. It will be the place where zealots of extremism feed on the pastel passions of the lazy, who in their great numbers want nothing other than a way forward paved by paid shouters elevating unapologetically greed-driven celebrities promising rectitude with the phony wink of the hypocritical and the knowing smirk of the ignorant.
You won't like the future. It's the place where the weak believe in leaders who think nightfall is a place of compromise with the darkness. In their folly, such failed guardians of freedom are destroyed by the strong, those who either believe in embracing the darkness, as the American electorate will do in November of 2010, or believe in setting ablaze the night and battling through to the morning, as the Democrats refused to do after November of 2008.
No, you won't like the future.
But it will come, anyway.
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Wrote Weaseldog:
Posted on 09/13/10 at 13:33:59 •
Wrote Father Tyme:
Weaseldog,
Yeah, it's kinda like who would you rather have dinner with, Jeff Dahmer or Hannibal Lecter...and why does the staff have the night off?
Posted on 09/13/10 at 16:13:46 •
Wrote Peter of Lone Tree:
A commenter named "Ancona" phrased it this way at Kunstler's essay Scary People, Scary Times:
Jim,
I don't think this has anything to do with political parties any more. It used to.......but not now. The parties that would seek to take power all have the same agenda; stay in power forever. It isn't about repairing four decades of stupid mistakes. It's not about calling a stop to our endless illegal wars for resources. And, it's definitely not about the average American, that much is for certain.
All of the blather and bluster coming from all sides of this political miasma is essentially the same; keep the machine running on life support for just a little longer, so I can get my piece of the pie and retire with a ridiculous pension after just a few years in the halls of Congress.
These critters no more care about you and I than some random guy on a camel in the Middle East. It is solely about their own asses now, and the tax paying public be damned.
With trillions and trillions of dollars worth of debt, we are scheduled for some very ugly times in the near future, and nothing that Congress does will make a substantive difference.
The answer to our problems is austerity. Period. Until the powers that be realize this, we will remain on the path to self immolation.
I hope you folks are prepared.
Posted on 09/13/10 at 19:34:14 •
Wrote Father Tyme:
Collateral Damage! Just as long as we got the bad guy! Francois Arouet would be sooo proud, eh hosers?
Fresh, clean well-fitting underwear! It was an experience close to Nirvana after...well!
Motivational Poster? We need a Mount Rushmore of licentiousness just like that! I would even volunteer to do the sculpting! Brings back an old commercial: Lucky Strike...I'll leave it to those who remember.
"Eat Their Brains Before They Use 'Em" - There is going to be a lot of malnourished Tea Bigots if they rely on eating brains of today's Conservatives, Pseudo-Independents and O-pologists.
Posted on 09/17/10 at 05:55:28 •
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Chris Hedges has had similar thoughts lately...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/do_not_pity_the_democrats_20100913/
I've been in agreement with you on the Empty Suit for years now. I got much of the same kind of flack from liberals that strongly believed that I should support him, no matter how much proof I had, that he is a traitor to their cause.
I guess the liberal motto might be, "Promoting a smiling backstabbing enemy, is better than not promoting a smiling backstabbing enemy."