Apocalypse

What has become clear over the past year is that Barack Hussein Obama does not like America. That, more than anything, troubles Americans. Mistakes made due to inexperience, or even ineptitude, would have been easily excused by an inherently forgiving public. No one is under the illusion that POTUS is easy work. He would have been forgiven even a dalliance with interns had he shown even minimal respect for America and its hallowed institutions.

Instead he has consistently shown utter disregard for the documents of America’s founding and modeled himself after the commonest banana republic dictator as he continues to push for policies that go hard against the grain of American ideals and principles.

“Disappointment” is not the proper word for what America is feeling right now. “Scared” is far more appropriate. People are scared that he will actually succeed in bringing down the house. They have already begun to question his motives. His budget is just the latest example. It is clearly designed to destroy what’s left of the fiscal integrity of our nation.

Whereas Obama has been roundly applauded oversees, at home he has already overstayed his welcome. The people are desperate to elect a congress that will curb his appetites. …and no doubt they will. They hope it will not come too late. Even overseas they look at him with deepening suspicion. No one has the stomach to watch a nation commit suicide in public – especially if that nation has had the distinction of being the leader of the free world. Even our traditional adversaries are concerned as they are now suddenly and unexpectedly confronted by a reality that only their wildest rhetoric could have invented.

No, John! Disappointment can only be attributed to those few among us who have been advocating for America’s demise ever since the Berlin wall came down – those miserable, self-loathing, ivory–tower hypocrites who will never be happy until they see innocent blood flowing on America’s streets. For them America can never be forgiven for having had the audacity to reach for the sky. In this way, they approximate Iran’s mullahs, those there in power who would welcome a sanguine cleansing to usher in their global Caliphate. Our own 20 per centers want the same, except they call it ‘revolution’ (to usher in some implausible communist Utopia).

These are interesting times indeed: identical upheavals in different parts of the world – each one quite probable within most of our lifetimes. It’s a horse race now. Curiously, should one succeed, it is likely to forestall the other. Who will be the one to escape the apocalypse? Or will these actions coordinate for maximum effect? Stay tuned. The four horsemen are coming ‘round the last turn.

Holding Our Collective Breath

'Health care', as it's currently being discussed, spawns from the same template as 'global warming'. It is not about health, and even less about care. It is a proxy war waged by the Left to advance a political philosophy that is essentially alien to our traditions. It is designed to discredit the notion of representative government, eliminate the middle class, and destroy the dollar. In the chaos that ensues, people will be expected to submit to the dictates of any man who displays the trappings of being in charge, even if that man is shown to harbor a deep inclination to exact revenge for slights, real or imagined, toward the very people who will be asked to submit to his onerous demands.

This was not something that was generally envisaged during our last election cycle. Increasing constituencies, however, are slowly coming to this conclusion despite the major media’s reluctance to dig below the surface.

In any case, much of what can now be comfortably termed ‘the Left’s agenda’ is expected to be in place by the time the next election cycle begins. This explains the frantic rush to get all these benchmarks passed now. The re-election of Barack Hussein Obama will certify the Left’s dominance. It will be celebrated as yet another milestone in the Left’s long march to power, similar to the victory the Right claimed after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The difference between then and now is that ideology has now spilled beyond borders and blurred national boundaries.

Obviously there will be winners and losers. Pragmatists are already scrambling to position themselves on the winning side of history. Ideologues on both extremes are holding their breath. When all this is over, one of these will find themselves completely shut out of the political process for generations to come.