Able to Leap Tall Buildings in a Single Election.
The Giant: Barack Obama, President-Elect of the United States of America
The Weapon: Change – (a simple catch-word or something worse?)
The Trouble: Ultra-Liberal Political Leanings and the Power to Enforce Them.
The good news first: The United States of America has come a very long way in a very short time. The people have spoken and they have spoken clearly, “We Love Barack Obama.” Electing a black man for the highest office in the land seemed, to many people, to be only a dream. Well, dreams really do come true, and not only at Disney World. Barack has won the highest office in the land and I congratulate him, the entire African-American population, and all the many fine men and women who fought for civil rights in this country.
The bad news next: The United States of America has come a very long way in a very short time. While it is certainly a great thing to see an African-American individual get elected to the highest civil office in the free world, the rest of the long way America has come is largely, well, the wrong way. We have traversed every hill, we’ve tramped through every valley, we’ve swam the oceans and rode the winds, only to find that we had no idea where we were going. And we weren’t sure that, when we finally reached our destination, that we ever wanted to be there (or Here) to begin with. Plus, I forgot my jacket.
“Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” – GK Chesterton
We are without doubt a nation of progressives, but what are we progressing toward?
Obama has assured us that we need a change, but a change to what?
I heard pre-campaign whispers that Barack Obama was a socialist. Those whispers turned to screams during the campaigns and have now become a staple of conservative radio shows. I don’t know if Obama is a socialist or not. Frankly I don’t care. Whatever he is, he certainly isn’t a Catholic. Neither is Biden.
I’m enough of a democrat to always be swept up by the winds of change. I’m enough of a republican to fear things getting any worse than they are. But Obama seems to be a strict liberal, in the sad, modern sense of the term, and to him any change is a change for the better.
“The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” – GK Chesterton
I’m not going to jump on any political bandwagons, especially late in the game, because it is a perfect fact that the rich and powerful own the media and they determine what we see and hear on television and in the papers. I believe that Barack Obama cannot be as bad as many conservative media outlets make him out to be.
I believe that he is worse. He is a man. And men- when they desire power, when they desire to leave their mark- are capable of far greater evil than any media seer could envision. It is the chief fault of the proud and the powerful that they are not proud enough, or that they are proud of the wrong things. Misplaced pride is a beacon of evil that shines across human history. Hitler was proud of his heritage, but not his human heritage. He was proud to be a German but not proud enough to be a Man. The same could be said for Stalin, the Caesars, etc.
Man, when he is supremely proud of himself, is a ticking time-bomb. He will say and do anything for the simple and prideful privilege of being able to say that he did it. Of course Barack Obama doesn’t want to see an increase in abortions across our country, no half-sane person does. But if an increase in abortions can be attributed to him, well, that is a small price to pay to see his name in the history books. Even infamy is a goal of the proud.
Gay marriage is a lie and a superstition. There is simply no such thing. Marriage, by definition, involves two people of opposite sexes. They might as well call the union of a man and a man an “elephant,” or a “mountain,” or “The Louisiana Purchase”. Whatever they call it, short of calling it what it is, it is certainly not it’s name. This accident of words has caused many well-meaning people, including Obama, to equate the issue with civil rights.
That sex, hand holding in public, vows, dinner reservations, a male, and a female are seen together regularly and have been placed under the holy and terrible title of marriage is easily understandable. One may even call the thing marriage if you take out the dinners and the hand holding. In our society we like words that serve as utilities and words that are interchangable. Thus when someone, instead of taking out the dinner, removes the spouse and inserts a fellow woman or man they mistakenly believe that the same thing exists. But it does not. By removing the man or the woman they have removed the marriage. It is like removing the food from the plate and calling it dinner. Whatever it is called is exactly what it isn’t.
This sad fact is easily seen elsewhere in our modern world. What gets passed off as art is often completely unartistic. What some call poetry is often unmetered and unrhyming. What sells as music is really not. You see my point.
Civil rights were certainly rights, and definitively civil. That a black man or a woman has some say in an election, some seat on a bus, some chair in a lecture hall is common sense. The men who prevented this from happening were only as well-meaning as Mr. Obama. It is a sad fact that it took so much time and so much violence for common sense to prevail.
If the term “evolution” may be used, it was a slow and steady evolution of the social ideals of times past that eventually saw the fruition of these rights. It was the voices of men like Martin Luther King who guided the unravelling of the folds to their proper ends. But this is precisely where gay marriage goes off chart.
That black men should be granted the same respect as white men in the 1900’s was natural enough. That men should stop sleeping with women, having families and instead begin to sleep with each other and have civil unions is not natural at all. The evolutionary chain breaks between the two ideas.
Mr. Obama will probably never read this blog. But if he does I would only say that he is degrading and dragging through the mud the good names of heroes like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks when he compares them with the activists for gay rights. King and Parks fought for a cause; a natural, common sensical, and worthy cause. The modern activists are fighting against all causes. They would turn the entire world upside down in the name of “equal rights” when they do have equal rights but desire the unequivocal.
Obama has a lot to think about. I can only imagine that due to his mental exerssion he has somehow over-looked this accident of words known as “gay marriage”. (Which I now prefer to call “The Annexation of Puerto Rico” or “Going Green”.)
Moving on, finally, Obama seems to imagine a government larger even than this one; a government with it’s hands in all possible pots and it’s irons in all serviceable fires. The FBI may now seize our computers and tap our phone lines if they suspect us of terrorism. Soon they may be allowed to seize our children because we tell them that Catholicism is real and “Going Green” isn’t. A large government isn’t democratic, but to my mind our nation stopped being a democracy a long time before Obama was elected.
I don’t believe, like some of my fundamentalist Protestant friends, that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ. Rather, I believe he is the anti-Democrat, the anti-Liberal (in the truer sense of the term), and even the anti-Idealist. It will be sometime in the future- probably when Obama is mid-term and setting high in his perch above the free world- that he will realize, with a shock, exactly how much power he has. And it will be then that his pride will combine with his power into an unholy alliance against the common folk of this nation.
While the blissfully ignorant people of our land- people like me- are busy living our lives and paying our debts to capitalism Mr. Obama will be in Washington DC signing the laws that will kill whatever is Christian in our society. Not because he is anti-Christ, but because he is pro-Progressive; thus all change is a change for freedom to his mind. Even if he is changing the very things that make this democracy democratic. Even if he changes the very things that make this nation American.
No, I think Barack Obama is a good man. He is certainly a well-meaning man. He is a liberal and a democrat. I can say all of this because somehow all that was ever English about our “english” is now lost in the translating.
Indeed this nation was once liberal and even gay. If the symbol for time and recycling, in all it’s forms, is the serpent with it’s tail in it’s mouth- often called the “infinity” symbol- I believe it is very fitting to our present situation. Things that were once good, and liberal, and gay, and well-meaning once upon a time have been looping the loop of infinity. They were once used as the tools that “crushed the serpents head” and now they are only the filth that passes from his intestines.
