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DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 11:27 AM Nov 2012

If Romney wins: a Eulogy for America I hope never to give.

Personally, I hope that next week, I will be reading this letter, and laughing as it was not needed. However, I write this in the hopes that someone who is "on the fence" will realize that while there are are times to ponder and vacillate, this is NOT one of them.

(skip ahead to next Tuesday)

So, Mitt won. Granted, there are still complaints that in Ohio and Florida, he stole the vote, but we all know Justice Scalia will have his gavel at the ready, just like he did last time. The MSm is doing their best to crown him, even those fine folks at MSNBC are chiming in. There is analysis, many saying Obama went too far right, but many more saying he went too far left, and of course, this proves that we really are a right-leaning nation. Blah Blah Blah..

Save you and I know that is BS. If anything, we wanted more left leaning, not the Svoet Union mind you, but more like FDR. Of course, FDR was attacked from both left and right, the right called him a traitor and actively planned coups, the far left called him a capitalist pig who was spoiling their plans for revolution. History repeated itself again, only this time, a media machine that would have made Stalin and Hitler jealous led the way. It's toxin seeped so deep into our bloodstream it dissolved the marrow of our bones. Even the internet was not safe, as both the paid operatives and the useful idiots gleefully seeded message boards with bait, meant to turn people who should have worked together into mortal enemies.

Of course, there was also the fact that America still refused to let go of her demons. Even some "liberal" types still felt Obama did not deserve to win, even a left winger like Ted Rall used the term "affirmative action" president. Many Americans of "European descent" saw in Obama a future where they were NOT the default leaders anymore, and it scared them. Of course, they feel for the bait they were fed, insisting that they were "not racist", while the sides of their mouth were dripping with said bait fromtheir mouths. America's evangelical bigots weighed in, holding their nose and voting "for the Mormon, not the Muslim." The Churches proved that not only is the separation of church and state a joke, but that they are a means of state repression, brainwashing and stealing in a way that, again, would have made Stalin and Hitler green with envy.

Of course, the far left did not help, nor did the center left. The far left still talked about how after the revolution would not happen until that hated middle class was starving, no more sodapop for those scum! They kept statting that a third party vote was not a throwaway vote, but then gew silent when you reminded them that the right wing was sending those third party types money, just like they did in 2000. The Center left Blue Dogs realized that they were expected to actually work, and not just use the right as the bad cop to their good cop. They gleefully slit Obama's achilles tendons, all the while invoking Bill Clinton. In 2010, people stayed home in the hopes the Blue Dogs would rot, and the Tea Party crawled right into the nest.

Of course, what everyone forgot was: this election really was America's last chance. Actually, 2004 was, but who cares about that War Veteran, Winter Solider liberal type John Kerry?, even Doonesbury said he looked like Herman Munster, and the Clintons let the swift boats fly because 2008 was their year. We still had a chance to undo much of the damage, but when Mitt won, the world realized that America was in the grip of demons it would not excorise, addictions it would not give up. Granted, the world was still enough of a basketcase that it would have allowed America to still be a leader, though not the leader. However, when Mitt won, the world realized that America was not going to rise, and that others would fill the void. Of course, Europe, for all it's peagantry, still remains a prime example of why a political union without a strong Federal Authority is useless; the diva states fight over who gets to be lead singer. Asia, well, one cannot help but admire the Chinese, but that does not hide the fact that their Great Wall of resurgence is built on slave labor, state repression, and a knack for corruption that they did not have to learn from anyone. Indeed, no one on any continent seemed ready to be a leader, but of course, now that America will not get it's fat ass of the Elvis Offical Toilet Bowl seat (tm) (Made in China), the world will know that the Yanks have to follow or get out of the way.

Note: I really hope to be reading this next week and laughing, but the only people that can make that happen are you. Please, let this letter fade like some Ghost of Christmas Future, fading in the light of day when Scrooge wakes up, and realizes he is still alive.
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