A Presidential Apocalypse by slaveofone
History is not a blind, arbitrary road. Its course is paved by years of previous paths laid down, as they were, by those that preceded them. Unfortunately, dead ends don’t usually cause new roads to be built. Rather, they cause an attempt to build bridges that extend the dead end beyond our perceivable present or result in a route that is entirely reactionary and only tries to veer around the obstacle. Both are inevitably detrimental. This is an apocalyptic
history of how we got to where we are today and where I believe we might end up. It is also a call on you to join me in correcting the errors of our past and present by building a new road to the future.
The end of a road we are experiencing now is the reign of fascism and socialism of the elite. It was fueled by a nation so scared of foreign monsters destroying our way of life that we wanted someone strong enough to stand up against it and secure us from real or possible enemies. Unfortunately, this fear, coupled with our own behemoth pride and arrogance, led us to raise up a monster in its place. We did not empower something to guard us against abuse and wrong—we raised up an abuser and committer of wrongs. We released a hand of violence to rain death upon those who could not possibly stand up to the onslaught, let alone bring us the degree of violence and misery we brought them. The world saw what we did in the name of goodness and called it what it was—a beast from the abyss. But we were so blind we could not see the truth.
In our lust to glorify our wondrous Beast, we surrendered our rights and liberties through all manner of legislation from eminent domain to wiretapping/email confiscation to the Patriot
Act. We allowed for the subjugation and imprisonment of the innocent without due process. We supported terror and torture. We gave our powers to the Beast and the Beast used it against us. It gave us the Housing Bubble. It turned a blind eye to credit regulations and oversight while pushing interest rates down, which allowed us to absorb more debt than we ever should or would have taken on. And it punished those who didn’t follow, rewarding them with dismal savings, high inflation, erosion of monetary value, and the inability to afford basic living conditions. Housing prices doubled, tripled, and false wealth was created through equity. Blinded by these riches, we could only see the gleaming splendor. We offered gold and silver to the way of our national god. But there comes a time when every bill is due.
The war wasn’t ending. The foreign nation we set out to rebuild and secure was neither. Our loved ones continued to sacrifice blood and flesh while our failure and arrogance multiplied enemies around us. The housing bubble popped. The horror of September 11 was now surpassed by the horror of the Beast’s response: spend more money. The millions who followed the Beast on its path of false abundance began free-falling to their doom. Financial systems began failing. The Beast shoveled money into the system while throwing down interest rates at unprecedented levels. The value of our money plummeted. We became economically inferior to our neighbors and they began owning us. The price of commodities like oil and food skyrocketed to make up for the deficit of the devalued dollar. The Beast left us staggering to give our bellies food, our cars gas, our banks savings, our bills payment, and to maintain a grip on our homes.
But then the rich and powerful collapsed from following the Beast. National banks, Wall Street, and multitudes of con-men who built up trillions in fraudulent practices began evaporating like mist. The rich and elite who fed the Beast cried out to it to save them, and it listened to them. The Beast sent out checks which it boasted would bring help, but they were written in the citizens’ names, without their consent, to plunge them further into subordination to the power of the Beast and the debt it had created to hang around their necks. The Image of the Beast, McCain, praised his master in his party nomination speech, calling him Savior and Messiah. Then we watched as fraudulent thieves went free with millions of dollars to reward them for their injustice. We watched as the meager funds the Beast had reduced us to were made to serve the rich and powerful through bailouts. Bear, Freddie, Fannie, and virtually the entire Great Wall of our street were confiscated. In a historically unheard of maneuver, the Beast took control of the core of our financial system and left the poor, weak, and struggling on the hook for the risks of the fraudulent elite. The socialism of the rich at the expense of the poor was complete. Justice was perverted in the sight of God.
All this has given rise to a feeling that it would be better to have socialism for the poor than for the rich. As November approaches, we can make a change. Most people have been driven either delusional or mad by the Beast. The rich and elite will sacrifice to the Image, since the Beast is their protector. And despite tyranny and moral/ethical outrages of the Beast, many Republicans will still worship its Image. But it is likely that our current situation will raise up the Obamanation of Desolation. Rather than freeing us from enslavement to the system and its debt, this will draw us further in. Our goods and rights will again be stolen to benefit the health and care of others. Perhaps we can learn from history and build a new road—a road that leads past these two ends to the prosperity of both the poor and rich, the protection of the weak and innocent, to a nation that seeks justice, that listens to the words of Yeshua to turn its enemies from wrath through love, peace, and self-sacrifice instead of violence and slaughter, to a nation that does not steal from one to give to another. This November, forsake the Image and Obamanation. Join me in building a new road.