Posted by
A Right Brainer on Monday, November 03, 2008 7:31:44 PM
I find myself pondering the inexplicable. (forgive my typos as I'm not writing in Word and am jsut free forming).
Inexplicable #1: The Republic is on the verge of voting a radical into office (see all the crazy stuff out there about him suppresed by the media)
Why? How does this happen? Have we truly moved that far away from the foundations laid down by our founders? I suppose we have as attention spans have shortened, MTV and Vido games an 24/7 cable "news" have advanced our cosiety into the information age. I feel like my generation was the last genration taught freedom before the end.
I watch this guy, and listen to what he says, and it is nothing, inspiring but built on air and nothing more. I can't get over it. Why? Because I don't consider myself any smarter than the average person. If I can see it why can't others? Am I blind and delusional? Are they right? This guy is not evil incarnate and will be moderate and govern from the middle. Perhaps thats what we need right now, but I can't shake the feeling that he is everything he says he is in unguarded moments. Should I list them? Have we not seen them all already?
What does it say when real Americans sit around the kitchen table and disucuss the potential of armed rebellion? Have we all lost our minds, or are the dangers real and present? I want to believe that it is the drumming up of fervor to get out the vote, but I can't escape the man's own words. the radicalism in his tutors the insanity of his blatant disregard for the constitution. It all adds up. I feeel as though I am the guy in his basement writing about the reptilian alien Iluminatti taking over the world through globalism.
The barrage of media most of which is my own fault. Serves to make me seriously wonder about the possibility of the semi-silent take over of the USA by a radical. I fear for my family's future and honestly wonder what world my beautiful 6 mo old twins will grow up in.
But then that's feeling. Did you hear me? Feeling. Conservatives don't go off feeling, we go off facts, but facts often evoke emotional response, sometimes rational and other completely irrational. My mind struggles with my gut about the reality of the situation and the potential for harm and response.
Inexplicable # 2: I think there is something strange going on. I think there is an unreported undercurrent of discotent that does not lead me to the conclusions that some have reached. I take what I know of the electorate and examine it in objectivity.
We are deeply divided in this country, and most people would agree with me. But they stop and leave it at that. Some of us think there is a right and a left, or if we don't think that we suspect that it all boils down to that and I think thats false. There are so many variations of the "Right" some pulling in one direction, others pulling in another. But in the end each distinct group is made up of people with various agenda's myself included. The"Left" is no more solid in its coallitions, deeply fragmented and strugling for control. Somwhere inbetween are folks that just want lives to be better.
I have spoken to Republicans voting Democrat, third party, party line, and abstaining altogether. There is a similar wave of discontent on the "Left" Democrats voting, republican, third party, abstaining or party line. There is an electoral revolution at hand and it doesn't breakdown along party lines. I think it breaks down along the lines of (to coin a new phrase) "bi-partisan or multipartisan similarities of ideolgy" wherein voters of all brands are bucking the system. I suppose it would be too much to hope fore to think that all were in agreement on some specific issue that we could agree on, but I fail to see that coming to fruition. Rather I see this as more an affiliation of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".
As such this evolution of the electorate is mind boggling. First in its mind boggling capacity to obliterate the paradigm of conventional thinking regarding Polls, and electoral analysis. Consider if you will for me the following:
If Obama wins, he as seduced the far left, moderate dems, a handfull of Republicans, and who knows what else to vote for him. At the same time the conflux of conservativism has produced a very moderate candidate that is/was/may be struggling to retain his base, while losing off some hard liners to third party candidates. what does that mean in terms of how he governs, will he be beholden to the left, will he be fearful of the other half of the country that didn't vote for him?
If Mac wins he has done it by the oddest coaliton of electorate I have surely seen. Republican moderates, Blue dog democrats, disgruntled Hillary voters, conservatives and who knows what else.
What does that mean to how he will govern?
It is true no president pleases everyone. but how can these two please anyone?
Moreover, how can any of the "statistics" we are seeing ( huge leads, closing anything!) be reliable when there is absolutely no historical data of such a mixing of political groups? Further add to it race, intentional chaos, created by "Operation Chaos" and "Puma" voters. Numbers you see are just a break down of of party affiliation and this time that doesn't mean as much as it used to.
So a word of caution to my readers, believe nothing till its over, somwhere between reason and fear is reality.
There is a proposal circulating around that should Obama win all patriots should fly their flags at half mast or upside down or both. I will as a way of silent protest for the length of his administration. Perhaps it will serv, if others join in, that we will not go quietly into the dark night with him. and deter his abandonment of constitutional rule.
Should Mac win I intend to fly it high and proud for the length of his administration. as a reminder of how close we came.
I think I will even display and sticker in the window of my car that is displayed as outlined above. More people to see and maybe a few to ask why, if its upsid down.
To all patriots on this eve, I simply say this: When Bush won many on the liberal left said "He is not my President". While they may have felt and believed that, he was, in fact, Constituitonally elected, and his oath to uphold the Constitution was honored. If Obama is elected, he has no allegiance from me "he is not my President" not because I am a whining fanatic that didn't get his way, but because by his own admission he will forgoe his oath and fail to uphold the Constitution of this Republic.
Having said all this I offer a simple prayer:
"Not our will, but thine Lord"