November midterms are now national. Local issues are wholly incidental. This comes predictably after the federal government has and is continuing to insert itself into virtually every aspect of our lives. Now, if this experiment had proved successful (anywhere in the world), nobody would much mind. But as it has clearly brought nothing but chaos and uncertainty, the feeling of immanent doom has become palpable.
The number one news item of recent decades should be: How has the major media in this country avoided warning us of the signs, focusing instead on Obama’s celebrity, Tiger Woods’ escapades and Gloria Allred’s gotcha games? At some point they should have awakened to the fact that their reporting is shunned by the public-at-large as is evidenced by tanking ratings and cliff-diving paid subscriptions.
The clue, perhaps, can be found in the answers to the question: Why have you chosen journalism as your career? The replies invariably revolve around a desire to change the world (ego). So, when Obama put it bluntly that he is out to change the nation, legions of young idealist reporters took the bait and ran with it. Now they are embarrassed (or should be), thinking that, by acknowledging their mistake, they have personally failed.
This may be so. Clearly our media in general has failed us. It may well be that we have already gone too far to turn things around. But it’s never too late for contrition. Let’s at the very least chronicle our demise honestly and point our wagging fingers in the appropriate direction.
How long will we maintain this charade - this now sad, half century old dictum - that says Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right? How long till we admit to the policy failures on the Left? How long will we try to force this square, overly-simplistic logic into a template that literally screams for redemption?
The truth be told, no one is immune from making mistakes. It’s the double-standard that hurts.
It’s not Obama’s fault. Obama is who he is. The media has left us to ignore who he is. They had let us to believe that he is just a man - an American, like the rest of us. We never suspected his radical bent.
Political gotcha no longer works. This has become a referendum on the Obama administration‘s handling of high office. It has exposed the corruption of the unions who - it has always been suspected - work hand in glove with corporate moneybags - both foreign and domestic. It has exposed academe, Hollywood, major media. It has exposed Islam. It has exposed science. It has exposed terror, racism, acts of God, food and the inevitability of certain death as blunt means of controlling one’s own people.
Make no mistake, it will not end well. The enemy is well entrenched. The least we can do is to not follow blindly. Make them pay for their sins; hold them to account for their arrogance. So, when the time comes to start over, we can do it right.
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It's much too late for crocodile tears because (sob) nobody told us, and we just didn't know. Sadly, it was Catholics who elected this president. There was no reason why any Catholic (or anyone else for that matter) should have been a victim of his con game. We didn't need the press to tell us who he was. He told us himself who he was from the beginning, but nobody was curious enough to pay close attention. E.g., every name on his Catholic advisory board was a dissenting Catholic. That should have been the first clue that he was no lover of the Church and should have been a warning to those Catholics that he was up to no good. Secondly, a quick Google search into his good friend and spiritual mentor, J. Wright and his Black Liberation Theology, would have told us most of the rest. (For one, Spengler's column in AsiaTimesonLine months before the election showed us what a distorted, corrupted version of Christianity he followed, and where it would lead.) Thirdly, the sickeningly narcissistic and immature attitude that gave rise to that long, melodramatic walk down the runway in Berlin (reminiscent of another long walk at Nuremberg in the 1930s) and the Greek columns in Denver should have set off alarm bells warning of a psyche unfit for the presidency, and, if we needed a fourth, his voting record in Illinois and in the Senate couldn’t have been clearer. What kind of person votes "present" when it is a matter of leaving a newborn in a closet to die because it so inconveniently survived an abortion.) So let's dry the crocodile tears, acknowledge our own lack of due diligence, and pay more attention next time, hoping to God that there is a next time. Maggie
ReplyDeleteYou're right, of course. The signs were there from the beginning. Spengler is a great mind. It was our media-hyped Bush hatred that blinded (most of) us. Just read somewhere that Soros is sitting this one out. He says even he can't stop the Republicans this time around. Shrug.
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