"He will save us from all evil." A meditation on the primaries so far.

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He will save us. Obama will save us from McCain. No one but Obama can save us, and it doesn't matter if there are serious forces arrayed against Obama, because he has the (near) superhuman strength to save us from McCain.

This is undercurrent of assumptions that I hear in a lot of posts in this forum. No one here has said precisely these things, at least not to my knowledge, but these are the assumptions I hear:

Our enemy is John McCain.
Only Obama can beat John McCain.
Clinton must drop out now so that we can all concentrate on beating John McCain.
Because this battle, like all real battles, pits one man against another.
(It's just foolish to imagine we could win a battle with a woman as champion, just foolish.)

It is this set of assumptions that really unsettles me. That we are now engaged in a battle of one man against another man. And that our political souls depend on the victory of one man over another man.

If we have read much on this board over the last few years, we should understand that the forces arrayed against Obama, or any Democratic presidential candidate, are many, and powerful, and even if Obama is elected to the presidency, those forces are still powerful, and will continue to work to thwart any serious efforts to change the power structure in this country.

First, we have no reason to trust the safety and accuracy of the elections. No reason at all.

Second, we have every reason to distrust the information given us, and the opinions thrust upon us, by the MSM. We really have no way of knowing what happened in the 2000 election, or the 2002 or 2004 or 2006 elections. The votes are being counted in secret, after having been cast into a probably corrupt system that was bought and paid for with our tax dollars.

Third, we have in recent history, seen the murder of a Democratic, or populist, inspiring set of leaders: Their names are John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and possibly Mel Carnahan, Paul Wellstone, and John Lennon. Even more recently, we've seen the symbolic murder of another Democratic leader, William Clinton. He was never assassinated, but daily in the press he was ridiculed, falsely accused, and generally deprived of the authority presidents used to have in this country just because they'd been elected to the office. The forces that conducted all these real and symbolic assassinations are alive, well, and unwilling to give up their power.

It is the belief that electing one Democrat to the presidency will somehow save us that strikes me as dangerous in the extreme. We are living in a country where the press is so corrupt and many of our fellow citizens so ignorant that they can believe that Sen. Obama is Muslim, and that that's a bad thing. Both of those assertions are nonsense. Many people believe that Sen. Clinton used racism to advance her candidacy. That's nonsense too, but it is believed.

I think we have to confront our real enemies: they are often faceless, although most of the power structure of the Bush adminstration is certainly impeachable and prosecutable, and we know their names. The people behind this administration are the real enemy, and getting distracted by which of the Democratic candidates will be sent to the slaughterhouse next does nothing to defeat the real enemy. Forget John McCain--he's another volunteer puppet. Let's go after the people who really got us into this mess.

[thunder rising]

1. If you walk outside that building you find yourself on the edge of a carnival. A barker is yelling

Step right up folks. One thin dime. One tenth of a dollar.
Listen to the one man on this earth that proudly mangles the English language.
History is a specialty that's 25c more; however, if you buy now,
we'll throw in an embarrassment to his own country
and if your lucky a declaration war.
We guarantee at the very least an international scandal.
Going soon, never to be heard again.
Step right up.