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My wife subscribes to “Vanity Fair” (the magazine), and I have to assume it is for the fashion, because it certainly isn’t the articles.   Meanwhile, I was perusing the latest edition this morning and read a bit of an article about the “liberals” in Manhattan clinging to their “Yes We Can” and Obama buttons far after the election.  The article eluded to the feeling of glory of being a winner…. GET A SPORTS TEAM TO SUPPORT!!!

Folks:  politics is not a sport; us against them isn’t enough (although democracy as a philosophy would have us believe so); and OBAMA ain’t no Kobe Bryant.  I apologize for my roughness here, but, honestly, I look out on facebook and I’m amazed at the perspective people have.   They are setting themselves and (poor ol’) Obama up for failure.  Nothing is going to change!  The government will continue to usurp the powers we give them.  The FED will continue to “loan” money to the already overdrawn government.  The president’s job still isn’t to write law.   And, just because “your” guy won doesn’t give you the right to walk around gloating and celebrating.

Another blip I recently read held that the American public isn’t looking for a “king”.   Well, no.. not exactly.  They are actually looking for a savior, as evidenced by the unrealistic belief in Obama’s ability to miraculously “change” our situation.  As a result of this savior-worship, they are also looking for a martyr.  I say this because:  he can’t possibly deliver on half of what he’s promised; no one can.   He isn’t going to fix the environment.  He isn’t going to generate 3+ million “jobs”, and if he “creates” any, it will be through the pilfering of real jobs (people doing meaningful work) in favor of “busy work” government programs called jobs.

Politics and ideologies are not sporting events, the Oscars or a high-school contest for Prom King.  But, we have certainly treated them as such for the last thirty years.  We are no longer dealing with principles or ideology, but the corrupted mores of an overly taxed and decadent populace (notice I used populace and not society) who have been indoctrinated, rather than educated.  We are moving along the path of other great republics, and rapidly, and we have just elected our Julius Ceasar.  We loved Julius Ceasar for what he could deliver; and then we hated him when he did, right?

… not that I have an opinion….

-j