I am sure that readers
of this blog will be hoping for a heated, overwrought reaction from myself
about the re-election of Hif Majeftie, Mr. Obama. They will be hoping for a
ranting tantrum, full of “right-wing” bile and uxor. It is a disappointing
state of affairs, but I fully expected it. I am absolutely undeluded by the
right wing and their knee jerk mentality which so many celebrity cases have
tweeted, twattled, and twittered. For one thing the majority of their impressions
of Hif Majeftie are quite off base: that he is Kenyan, a Moslem, and a
Socialist, bringing like AntiChrist a slavery of financial austerity.
Certainly we are muddling along, but that is less his own will than it is the
unwillingness of industry to take risks in difficult times.
Wrong they are as to
his national origin (he is a native Hawai'ian) but resemblance to Hawai'ian
culture ends with him, there. A real akamai
Hawai'ian kamaaina might have offered the occasion for more public visits from
state residents, in the White House. A real Hawai'ian might have a much more
laid-back approach to policy- “Hey bra, what’s the prob?” The President’s
personality is more befitting his latter life in the cold, grey windy bitter
city of Chicago, where his politics actually took shape.
That he is a Moslem is
indeed another real misnomer. He has oft stated his Christian belief and
attends a Christian church, when he goes. He would do well to read Tolstoy (and
in that I mean, go deeper than War and
Peace, and delve into his philosophical essays)- and get an idea what true
Christian fellowship actually entails. It owes much less to Caesar than it does
God, and less to any one nation than it does a planetary community.
Finally, the idea he is
a Socialist is wrong as well. He is less a Socialist than he is a Federalist.
Federal authority has come under some strong constitutional scrutiny from folks
such as myself in recent years and months but Obama sees himself more as the
eye on the Pyramid than he does the shield on the Seal.
It was obvious from the
returns that third party candidates would not do well, seeing as “common
wisdom” has of late been bent into a “lesser of two evil choices” practice. If
all you saw was mainstream media in this election then this would be an easy
assumption, but a wrong one. At least 1.6 % of the electorate made clear this
year at least there is still truth in Lincoln’s dictum, “but you can’t fool all
the people all the time.”
As I made clear in my “No Means No” post, I myself
am a former supporter of Hif Majeftie, and folks who like to call themselves political
“boffins” would do well to ask people like myself “why did YOU not vote to
re-elect, if you had liked him to begin with.” Well, for one, I fell for the
con. He talked a good talk. He was NOT George Bush. And he made many promises,
which were, to me, a good sign for the positive direction he might take us. I
have reneged on this offer of trust, because, frankly, he has earned my distrust. He said he would
close Guantanamo- it still festers, like a scab on the Psyche and Goodwill of
Columbia. He kept in place a great many of his predecessor’s odious policies and
continues to to this day. He promised to lay off the medical marijuana
community and instead, sent his Atty.
General out to harass and incarcerate them. He sent his armed thug and goon squads into the Gibson guitar company, to harrass them over an endangered exotic hardwood import restriction which the Indian government themselves had waived, just because the president of Gibson contributed in a major way to his Republican opponent, before his first election. He –and this is the one thing which irked
me most- lied about his intention
on (not) signing NDAA 2012. When a man says he will not do something, and then he does,
what else can you call him but a
liar? When a man claims that some things are inimicable to our way of life, and
yet, goes along with political pressures to presume them, what can that make
him but a hypocrite?
Democrats, you elected
him. You have had four + years to live with him and his “endless, global war”. You own his illegal Drone War as much as you
own LBJ’s Vietnam and Harry Truman’s atomic bombs. (That your Party Chairwoman has
no inkling such a thing as his terrorist “Kill List” exists is either a marvel
of ignorance or a willful case of denial.) You own all his whining about "George did it first!" as well as his retaining all of George's war and police-state policies. For a candidate who claimed to
be our best hope for Peace, he has shown himself out as a man willing –
in a most Machiavellian fashion- to do whatever it takes to win, even if that
means the deaths of hundreds (or thousands) of innocent foreigners and even if that means that of US citizens. I am not
sure any longer what exactly he is
trying to win. This is one problem I have. If he intends to “rub out Al Qaeda”,
then the cause is hopeless- they recruit more with every death-by-drone of an
innocent bystander- someone’s
relative,brother, mother, sister, father. (“But what the hell, they aren’t
Americans, so, so what” -I hear the ignorant refrain.)
War is terror. I believe there is a Latin
saying “Dulce Bellum Inexperte”-
roughly, “war always seems best to those who know nothing of it.” Hif
Majeftie’s minions would like you to think, that because he has “read Saint
Augustine and Thomas Aquinas on the subject” that somehow he is a man acting from moral
principle. But the works of both of those men dealing with a most un-Christian
institution (war = state-sanctioned murder)
were written (and are quoted) more to excuse the Crusades and Inquisition than
they are valid philosophy for moral purists like myself. And I wonder, ‘has he read Macchiavelli?” because it really
seems sometimes (esp, whereas, the Chicago school of politics he represents)- his
speeches are full of the language of divisiveness. “ I will FIGHT; We will
STRUGGLE; We will DEFEAT”; ”Voting is REVENGE”- the venom and bellicosity in his
campaign rhetoric, I was struck by that. “That’s no laid back Honolulu kid
talking, there.” That is the same old asshole crap.
That the great majority
of the Democratic Left swallowed their castor oil by voting for him-“I don’t
like him, but Romney’s worse”- I think Romney was right to run against Obama’s
record. He blew a few things, sure, and maybe he was not up to snuff, or
miscalculated the blowback from his “47% are leeches” comments. The
Democrats campaigned more against the Boogieman of what Romney MIGHT have done,
than against taking umbrage at what Obama has already been doing, giving this
country even more of a black eye in the eyes of the world.
Apparently also too
few of them are aware of Project Censored’s “#1 uncovered story” about the rise
of a Police State in the United States of America. This has been a trend,
actually, since Bill Clinton was president, but Bush hit the accelerator, and
Obama has put pedal to the metal. Internet privacy, Right of Peaceable Assembly
to vocalize dissent, hi-tech “solutions” such as spy cameras and domestic
drones- these are symptoms of a Federalist mentality which sees a “terrorist”
under every bed and a “criminal” behind every joint.
But I also noted with
disgust the way some Democrats have reacted themselves, in their winning, as
well. If some people- like Ted Nugent, for one- show little grace or
sensibility in defeat, (the candidate possessed, admirably, a great deal more
than his supporters) some Democrats show themselves as to possess little
graciousness in victory, offering not a hand to grant the vanquished mercy, but
tossing in a few more kicks for good measure as well. This approach does not
bode well for America.
And then, there are the political hack “journalist” operatives, like Chris Matthews, who with great temerity call
third party voters “idiots”- I wonder just who‘s the real idiot- the man who saw
through both major party candidates, and gave his vote to someone he trusted
more, or the man who made of himself a "useful idiot" for the incumbent, and the
Party Platform At All Costs- a vote, not a face, a statistic and demographic,
not a person with intellect and judgement. Hail to the Idiocracy! Since
the passage of NDAA 2012, we are looking at, not a presidency any longer, but an unprecedented potential military dictatorship. If the US
Armed Forces now have a police role inside the USA it blows away 900 years of blood-won
Western legal tradition in which (since the Magna Charta) the sovereign (i.e; Executive) was
prevented from, and now has the right to: hold and detain anyone he suspects;
search and seize anyone’s anything on whatever whim he pleases, KILL whomever
he so chooses, anywhere on the face of our planetary home (the NSA will courteously
offer up the letters of attainder) and habeus corpus may be placed in
suspension in the matter of any
possible individual case or
national crisis situation, solely because- Hif Majeftie demands. And that is
why I will continue to – name him by this sobriquet. Now I return to cultivate
my garden, literature, music, friendships, and livelihood-and bid the world- do take a care
for each other.
