Musings Of An Indie WriterFriday, October 24, 2008
Straight Lines
The news is not comforting. We have massive voter registration fraud all over the country, all of it to the advantage of a single candidate. We have even more massive campaign contribution fraud, all of it going to the same single candidate. We have conclusive evidence that the aforementioned candidate is a race-hustling scoundrel. And of course, you're not allowed to criticize said candidate: regardless of the topic, it's racist to do so. The lot has your Curmudgeon in mind of a not-terribly-old song:
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
There's no cure, there's no answer
Everything gives you cancerDon't touch that dial
Don't try to smile
Just take this pill
It's in your fileDon't work hard
Don't play hard
Don't plan for the graveyard
Remember -Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
There's no cure, there's no answer
Everything gives you cancerDon't work by night
Don't sleep by day
You'll feel all right
But you will payNo caffeine
No protein
No booze or nicotine
Remember -[Joe Jackson, "Cancer"]
Given the sum of it, your Curmudgeon is all but overpowered by the urge to pick up his marbles and find another game. Trouble is, there aren't any other games.
Some moron at Slate recently tried to put over the canard that stolen elections are nothing to get exercised about, that they're as American as sushi, gelato, and tofutti. Hmph! If the theft of an election doesn't render it invalid -- if the insouciance of the gendarmes watching the thieves at work is of no consequence -- then why bother holding elections? Why not select our public officials in a less expensive and more entertaining fashion, perhaps a live-ammo edition of Survivor: Abandoned In Newark With A Loin Cloth And A Beretta, or even a simple steel cage death match? After that, at least we'd be assured that the loser wouldn't be filing a lawsuit any time soon.
But of course, the mere fact of a felonious election in progress doesn't matter, as long as the right person will come away with the booty. If the Republican candidate were to pull a tenth of the shenanigans the press is currently smiling at from the Democrat, Washington and the state capitals would be eyelash deep in lawyers. The actual balloting might never take place.
The frauds already in progress are sufficient to keep the election ten days hence well within the "margin of lawyer" (Mark Steyn). No matter who wins, there will be lawsuits at both the state and federal levels. There might even be a spate of criminal trials, though that's considerably less likely given the political distribution of the felons. If you've ever wondered why the Democrats are so passionate about keeping Republican and conservative jurists off the bench, wonder no longer.
Is your Curmudgeon telling you, in his charmingly oblique way, that you should worry? That these United States of America, the last approximation to freedom and justice observable anywhere on Earth, might soon devolve into just one more thugocracy? Gee, what was your first clue?
Yes. Unless America regains its senses in a significant degree, we're headed into the abyss. Its masters will call it "progressive." A more accurate term for it would be "social fascist." Property will become a conditional notion. Capitalism will acquire the topical adjective "crony." Freedom of expression will finally be quenched, either as a "hate crime" or on the grounds of "compelling government interest."
You might not think it possible. You might not think your neighbors would go along with it, and really, aren't one's neighbors the people who really matter? Think again.
Unless you live somewhere really, really special, you have to know one or more persons who will vote for Obama on November 4. That is, you have to know one or more persons whose ethical standards and character judgment are so poor that they'll use their franchise to affirm the elevation of a lying Chicago thug to the most powerful office on Earth.
Have you asked yourself how anyone could be that stupid? If so, congratulations: you're a conservative. The giveaway is that you didn't assume those folks are villains; conservatives are reluctant to pronounce that verdict while a shred of doubt remains.
You see, your Curmudgeon has been contemplating lines: lines that run straight from the Democrats' embrace of felonious campaigning to the behavior we can expect of them if they're granted, or succeed in stealing, federal hegemony.
No human action is divorced from all other things. Every human action expresses a conviction of some sort. The conviction expressed by the theft of an election -- electoral politics being the process that obviates violent revolution as the transition mechanism between governments -- is this one: The cause is superior to any and all ethical standards.
There's a logical straight line that runs from unquestioning devotion to a cause through the willingness to steal an election to the willingness to abrogate all guarantees of rights. That line has been sketched almost to its terminus by Barack Obama's predecessors; he and his supporters are trying to complete it. Rest assured: if he gains the White House, they most certainly will.
Cults of personality, such as the one upon which Obama has risen so far, are dangerous precisely because of the crowd's tendency to free the Maximum Leader and his lieutenants from all constraints. Few of the original constraints that were supposed to safeguard our constitutional republic remain unshredded. Even freedom of expression has taken some blows. But should Obama attain the Oval Office, you can kiss what we have left --including freedom of expression, which "liberals" once hailed as the guarantor of "democracy" -- goodbye. The man is simply uninterested in your rights; if you're not one of his supporters, you deserve to be silenced. You could even be stripped of your franchise, or have it rendered insignificant by the enfranchisement of millions of illegal...whoops, excuse your Curmudgeon, undocumented immigrants.
But what if Obama loses? Wouldn't that win us a reprieve, at least?
Not necessarily. For there's another logical straight line we can observe: the one that runs from "our side can do no wrong" to "if we're defeated, we'll have a perfect right to riot, to destroy the lives and properties of our 'oppressors,' and to make the country ungovernable." Indeed, there are no stops between the endpoints of that one.
Several of Obama's higher-profile backers have openly said that for him to be defeated could only be the result of foul play...or "racism." In our time, "racism" is one of the foulest imprecations a man can suffer. It's a justification for doing anything and everything to him, regardless of the evidence for or against it. Never mind that the word has been emptied of all objective meaning. Remember Judge Charles Pickering, and see if you can disagree.
Regardless of who wins, the election on November 4 has a staggering potential for tearing the country violently asunder. The lines make it too probable to contemplate.
Your Curmudgeon has decided not to stint on preparations. He's filled his pantry, doubled his gold reserves, and replenished his ammo stocks. How you choose to brace yourself is your own affair, and best kept to yourself. But whatever your priorities, your Curmudgeon would like to suggest at least one more item for your list:
Pray.
