Ending the Campaign On a POSITIVE Note

By Rick Marschall

The election is imminent. Voting has been endless, thanks to new and fuzzy rules encouraging people to make up their minds before all the arguments are advanced. The decision might not be official for some time to come, an endemic trend whether because of evenly divided electorates or frauds disputed by Byzantine logothetes. The choice will not be official until the Electoral College convenes more than 10 weeks distant, or (as has happened thrice in our history) the House of Representatives will decide. There will not be a new president until Jan 20, 2009.

To back up slightly, we should take note that the 2012 presidential campaign will commence precisely after the victory speech following the concession speech on Election Night. The Endless War has given way to the Endless Campaign.

The biggest hog at the trough, by the way, is not the politician nor the citizen nor the lobbyists not the consultant class… but the Mainstream Media. Television, particularly, has raked in more than a combined billion dollars, local and network sales; and – purely a coincidence, of course – the more confusion and controversy they sow, the more the elephants and donkeys bid for expensive ad slots. Among the winners and losers in bloody campaigns, the MSM never loses.

Yet, let us recall the quatrain of Omar Khayyam, the Persian tentmaker, from his beautiful and wise Rubaiyat: “All the saints and sages who discussed / Of the two worlds so learnedly are thrust / like foolish prophets forth; their words to scorn are scattered; / Their mouths are stopped with dust.”

            What controversies will remain of this campaign? What will be swept away like placards after a rally? What ideas will take seed and grow? E S Martin, the prescient editorialist for the old Life Magazine and Harper’s Weekly a century ago, used to cast the two parties of his day as the Celestials and the Carnals; this year one party fueled the Big Momentum by retaining its carnal essence and dressing up in the celestial. Will the victors and vanquished put aside their causes, lick their wounds, and forget the animosities of the previous 20 months?

            Not bloody likely.

            In the interest of a different perspective, I would like to end this chapter of American history to which we have all been players or spectators, on a POSITIVE note.

            I am POSITIVE, for instance, that if Obama is elected he will move in his first weeks if not days to end all restrictions on abortion. To codify a national invitation to government-paid abortion-on-demand. To put Roe vs Wade outside the reach of a Supreme Court reconsideration. To end parental notification.

            I am POSITIVE that an Obama administration will do everything in its power – which it can, by Executive Orders, even before the Barney Frank juggernaut in Congress has its own opportunity – to make acceptance of homosexuality the rule and code of the land. That doesn’t mean just cooing nicely when a man visits his “partner” in the hospital (the way it is sold to us), but, say, the Obama Justice Department outlawing churches, private companies, groups like the Boy Scouts, from stating the belief that homosexuality is a sin. Such will become a hate crime punishable by lost contracts, bureaucratic harassment, and jail time.

            I am POSITIVE that home schools and even charter schools will suffer persecution and intimidation under an Obama Education Department.

            I am POSITIVE that the United Nations will gain status like a co-equal part of the federal government; that the US will be committed to international treaties and organizations, our sovereignty surrendered, often without the formality of a leftist Congress having to go on record committing treason.

            I am POSITIVE that taxes will rise precipitously; that suddenly government, not individuals, will discover loopholes in order to go about its confiscation (or, as it will be called, “fairly spreading the wealth”). There will be pogroms, willingly abetted by the MSM and wealthy celebrities, to make wage earners feel guilty for not digging ever deeper.

            I am POSITIVE that Obama will not shy away from the words “socialist,” Communist,” and “Marxist.” He ended the campaign mocking McCain by wondering whether little Barry Obama was a Communist because he gave away half of his sandwich one day in the first grade (great laughter from robotized crowd). No, Obama: that would be called “sharing” or “charity” or “compassion,” all voluntary and therefore elevating. You can’t be this stupid, but we can explain: socialism, Communism, and Marxism is when YOU say the kid HAS to give up half of his sandwich, or else. No matter what it took to put it in his lunch box, or whether the fat, hungry kid actually deserves it or not. That’s not a laugh-line – that’s coercion. And it’s coming.

            I am POSITIVE – and am sorry to contradict Joe Biden, who sold his Senate Committee Chairman credentials for a mess of potage; imagine scaring people like that – but there will not be a “generated international crisis” in Obama’s first six months. Except that he sees an opportunity to generate one himself (say it’s so, Joe; I getcha now) in order to divert attention or falsely rouse the restive masses behind him. I am positive that no enemy is stupid enough to oblige Obama to actually have to summon a military response. Or feel the need to rattle the sabre louder to satisfy hawks at home. Putative enemies, even flea-infested terrorists, and even Obama himself (if not Biden) are smart enough to know that with a little patience the New Order in Washington will voluntarily surrender more than anything in reach of terrorist attacks or diplomatic crisis.

            I am POSITIVE that American Jews, most of whom saw a virtual Messiah in Obama, will be the first to have “buyer’s remorse” when Middle Eastern policy tilts away from Israel. I am positive that blacks will fare no better under Obama than they have under Democrat massas for two generations, because that party depends on a permanent state of the underclass’s grievance and dependency. The MSM will also find itself treated as the liberal nobility was after the French Revolution. You thought the press lost its head in 2008?

            I am POSITIVE that we are entering the Actuarial Age under Obama. That is, as “changing” governmental policies will make abortion easier; will move American closer to legal euthanasia as practiced in pockets of the US and elsewhere around the enlightened world; will encourage parents to murder babies, including those with Downs Syndrome or the newly born after botched abortions; will move to new ways of dealing with incurable diseases and disabilities. Chilling ways. New definitions of “compassion” (mercy killing) will supplant the old (love and acceptance). I call this the Actuarial Age because the merchants of death will sell all this Change to us because the food supply shrinks, resources are dwindling, and the planet is warming. See?       

I am POSITIVE that not one horror under the coming political dispensation will be undeserved. We are getting what we bargained for.

            Of these things I am POSITIVE. Can’t we all just get along?

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