Election Reflection

[Lightning Rod]

The Poet's Eye has a tear in it this morning. Not because George W. Bush and his cadre of fanatics will have their way with this country for the next four years but because better than fifty percent of our countrymen have consented to it. And the Poet's Muscles feel like they are pumped up with old, cold motor oil. It's stupidity fatigue.

Sure, in certain ways, I'm glad Bush won. It makes it much easier for me, as a columnist, to have have such patent ignorance against which to rail. Plus I figure that it's only a matter of time before the misguided policies of this administration will come home to roost and I would rather see the chickens on G. Bush's front porch than on John Kerry's.

These are some of the things we can expect to see in the next four year:

1. The rape of our Social Security system.

2. The polarization of our country and the world on a religious basis. The Crusades were minor league compared to what we are about to see.

3. The further deterioration of our civil rights. Just wait for The Return of the Patriot Act. The special effects will be much better.

4. More imperial wars. Stay tuned for Iran, Venezuela and Sudan.

5. Further disparity in the distribution of wealth. Every gas pump will be a tax collector.

6. Consolidation of corporate power over our lives and bodies by the drug and oil and insurance companies.

7. An enhanced control over the American mind through media consolidation.

8. The Bush twins will start dating movie stars and/or Saudi princes.

9. The appointment of 2-4 Supreme Court justices who will all be Tom DeLay's brother-in-laws. Bye-bye to women's right to their own bodies. Gays--fergiddaboudit.

10. The installation of a New World Order that is more orderly than you might want it to be.

11. Karl Rove will go down in history along with Heinrich Himmler as being a consummate political genius.

The Poet's Eye sees that Osama bin Laden rests easier tonight because he knows that his job is secure and that his cause will draw more recruits.

But this election is over. Now we can watch Ab Builder ads on cable TV instead of SwiftLiars and MoveOnDotOrgasm spots, and news programs can get back to the usual business of wars and disasters. And scandals.

Second terms are where we usually get our best presidential scandals. I'm just waiting for the Twins to announce on Inside Edition that they sister-fucked Karl Rove on the desk in the Oval Office. Or maybe the President himself will get caught playing golf with a rich, gay abortion doctor or smoking a Cuban cigar laced with cocaine. These are the kinds of things that can take down a presidency. Especially one elected, according to all the pundits and the exit polls, on the basis of 'moral values.' That was what allowed Clinton to survive the Monica scandal--nobody suspected him of having moral values in the first place. As Jims Baker and Swaggart can testify, the hardest fall is from the pedestal of piety. George Bush haw mounted such a pedestal.

In politics, as in love, sometimes our strengths become our weaknesses. The very things which attract a constituency or a lover can be the things that ultimately repel them. Humility is one of the Christian values that the new Bush Administration would do well to embrace. And not just the appearance of Humility, but Humility itself.

The Poet's Eye sees that if there is one thing that is likely to bring this regime down, like most fascistic regimes in history, is arrogance and hubris.

[WIREMAN]

Lrod.....been waiting for yer next arcticle ....wish it was under better circumstances....I agree with yer take here on the boards yesterday about how we now have plenty of creative fodder and fuel to ignite our passions in words ...visuals...music....wow we definitely have something to react against ...........wired

[Lightning Rod]

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[mnaz]

Lightning Rod...

I can only hope that 9/11's political capital, which the neo-cons bank on to win support for their aggression, is dwindling as the difficult and costly Iraq war drags on.

And your last two paragraphs are dead-on.