Pointless Pusillanimous Prognosticating

This is insane. Ever since the election's end, every talking head has been pontificating on the future actions of an Obama administration. Will he raise taxes? Will he bomb a few million more non-essential personnel in foreign countries? Will he do all the right things concerning our ailing economy? Which companies will he bail out? Who are those people he’s appointing to his cabinet? What are their histories? What can we expect from all of them?

Those of you who believe that our country has ANYTHING to do with a Constitutional Republic are just plain wrong. We live in a full-blown socialist democracy which is quickly on its way to a leader state. How else can you explain all eyes on the government for fear of what is coming next? It’s fear all the time. Fear of inflation, fear of economic morass, fear of losing even more of our rights, fear of a draft, fear of speaking freely, fear for our posterity’s sake… big heaping mounds of fear.

Does anyone have any idea of what it would be like to live under the constitution? Look at Article I; Section 3 where it states the following:

The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.

Try to envision an almost nonexistent congress. What would your day be like right now if congress only gathered once a year for the last two centuries? Just imagine. Now look at the power of the presidency:

The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States and of the militia of the several states, he shall have power to grant pardons except in cases of impeachment, he shall have power (with consent of the Senate) to make treaties, to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, he shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.

Whew! That’s, what, two week’s worth of work? What the hell would we need a White House for? Most rich people have big enough houses that they could receive ambassadors at their place for a few days. They’d barely have to reschedule their blackberries if elected president under a constitution.

But no. We have to be an empire filled with all of the trappings that come with it: grinding taxes, militarized police force, dead young soldiers, untold power in the hands of a few … the list is endless, bloody and unsustainable. The Spaniards, while basking in their run as imperial masters of the universe, had a phrase which can now be aptly used in our little corner of the world:

May God deny you peace, but grant you glory.

There is no peace, that’s for sure. Yet have we been granted glory? I guess if you watch all of the flash on the boob tube you might think so or if you’re at a football game and a few jets buzz the stadium. That sure seems glorious. But if you look at the nuts and bolts of the operation, there’s no glory. There’s death and destruction with an inevitable end looming somewhere off in the distance which we all get to speculate as to the time and manner of its coming. We should know better, but fear keeps us attached to the system for we do not truly understand freedom and it makes it akin to darkness in that regard. Belief in liberty is a faith that few can kindle in their hearts due to the trappings of a world that has nurtured its fears from the beginning.

So we give absolute power to the few. And they will use it on all of us in a strange little game of chance that’s sort of like whack-a-mole at the arcade. The blunt hammer will fall randomly and we’ll swear that the next group in some future administration will be the heralded few who can usher in utopia. Over and over, the definition of insanity is played out for the sake of the busybodies that would gladly grasp Tolkien’s One Ring and wield its force. But J.R.R. has the last (and correct) word on the ceaseless parade of bread and circuses:

"You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: an allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power."

Obama wants the ring. He's wanted it all his life. He'll wield it in a way that no one can foresee and he will leave his dreaded mark on the world like all the rest that have come before him. That's about all anyone can possibly know. What else is needed?