Benjamin Franklin's scepticism when he said he'd given Americans
a republic, if they could keep it, has again proved to be well founded. I guess he understood the general populace's addiction to illusion and dislike of thinking for themselves and taking serious responsibility for their choices.
The truth about
President Obama, that he's a brilliant man who has turned the country around in
ways that no other leader in the world has been able to do for their country,
is available to everyone but too many have chosen to see an illusion created
by fools whose only talent is in conning the multitudes, the kind of fools who
distribute pamphlets telling people the election has been postponed or the
polling stations have been moved. Who organize robocalls to election
officials the night before voting telling them they're not qualified and
mustn't show up on election day. That's who will govern the US for the next two
years.
It doesn't say a thing about President
Obama or what he’s achieved in reality but it speaks volumes to a level of
mental degradation in the majority of those who chose to vote. Dumbed-down
doesn't even begin to describe it. Well, you can blind yourself to reality but
your blindness doesn't save you and everybody else from the consequences of
your choices.
Equality for women, rights for all
minorities, LGBT equality, decent working wages for all, health care for all,
affordable education, a soaring Dow Jones, a middle class and economy on the
path to recovery, policies protecting the environment and promoting clean
energy - kiss it all good-bye.
And welcome back increased racism,
paranoia, prejudice, poverty, promotion of environmental destruction, more
guns, a country split even more disastrously into first world and third world
with an ever widening gap between the two, increasingly disintegrated
infrastructure, wasted spending, international wars and more power to the
military industrial complex, banks doing what they want, an even more biased
justice system…
Welcome back to everything that set
America plummeting down on a course towards economic destruction and social
disintegration.
This brings to mind the words of a Faith
Hill song I’ve Got My Baby; “Those were dark days, dark days indeed.” Further
on, the words are “But everyone knows that that’s how it goes, it’s usually
bound to get better.” It will, eventually, but not for the next two years and
that’s a lot of time for the rot to set in again.
What a wasted opportunity. My heart goes
out to President Obama, the First Lady and their daughters. This must be unimaginably and
inexpressibly painful for them. Being ahead of your time brings grand respect after your job is done or you're dead but it doesn't bring much to you when you're alive.
