Bloodying the Sheep

Now that climate change has been certifiably demonstrated to have been a fraud, what else has been fraud? When we were said to have been on the brink of economic collapse? Y2K? Global swine and bird flu pandemic? Poverty? Racism? Terrorism? WMD? Health care crisis? No child left behind? Toyota? The Obama presidency?

Every one of these issues has been politicized. Each one has been orchestrated, promoted and exploited primarily by the Left: Democrats; Marxists; globalists. Each issue has been used as a vehicle to accelerate wealth re-distribution from the private to the public (non-productive) sector; promote panic, chaos; drive wedges; create political power bases based on threat and fear.

The American people will have to begin taking a closer look at every one of these issues (as well as emerging ones) and ask questions. Ordinarily, a free and impartial press would function as the instrument of such scrutiny. But the press itself has become an issue – a platform for the high rollers who have brought us… (well?) fraud.

In all this it’s trust that’s lacking. We can no longer believe what we are told. The propaganda we’re hearing clashes with what we see. We are told the government is broke. The IRS is charged with cracking down on tax cheats, closing loopholes; promoting fairness all around. Meanwhile half of those now in power have distinguished themselves by having broken tax laws. None have been prosecuted; none have gone to jail – as we would have.

There are two classes of privilege in this country: those in power of whom it is said they can do no wrong; and, we, who must negotiate as best we can under a maze of gibberish law and restriction that renders us permanently guilty no matter what we do or how we do it. Whereas they live in their insular Washington hell, we are the livestock out in the stall. Whenever the overbearing stress of ennui strikes them, they come out to the barn and bloody the sheep.

Not much in our news about Argentina these days. But it might do to check it out. It might well be a snapshot of where we’re headed. Cleo’s lessons of history ignored, condemns us to making the same mistakes over and over again.

The Hangover

>...is a consequence of the Bush administration's failure to confront Tehran and the United Nations Security Council.<

The ‘failure’ you refer to was quite a bit more pervasive than just that. For eight long years we allowed our Commander-in-Chief to be attacked, ridiculed, threatened, blocked, and disparaged. We allowed Democrats, the press, Hollywood and academe to spew vile accusations and stir up palpable hatred towards this man and his administration. Yes, the Bush administration was ineffective in many ways. I'm surprised it lasted two terms, punch drunk as it had become. I blame the American people (and Republicans in particular) for letting all this go on unabated for so long.

The orgy over now, we look around at the shambles it’s left us with - like the bachelor party boys in the current hit movie, 'The Hangover', awakening after a night of madcap carousing - remembering nothing. No, John, this was a collective failure on the part of all of us.

Every time one of us succumbed to the compulsion to inflate his own anemic ego by slamming our president and country over cocktails (or in front of our gracious hosts on foreign shores) we eroded our own position. Every time we let the insults pass without counseling restraint we helped to cripple our duly elected leadership. Every time we paid good money to attend Bruce Springsteen concerts, applauding baseless invective hurled at our president, we fed the fiction that would come to be known as ‘Bush Derangement Syndrome’.

Now that we’ve sobered up, we wonder what has happened to us. Well, let me tell you, we’ve blown it. We’ve blown the whole wad. And, what’s more, we can’t get back to how it was without a major effort that will likely deprive us of what little we have remaining. Frankly, John, pointing fingers now is just too pathetic for words.

I’m not saying we can’t criticize our president. But we must do it with some measure of respect for the office, all the while remembering that the man occupying it is of flesh and blood – like us. We turned Bush into a two dimensional video game caricature, a bean bag, a Mexican piñata. We’re on the verge of doing the same to Obama. Only, it seems to me, that Bush would have been more receptive to sober, constructive criticism – had we had any to give other than simply parroting, “Bush sucks!” over and over again. Now we see that Bush didn’t suck half as much as we do.