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Originally Posted by alexamenos

thinking about protests and obamunism and health care 'reform' and such....

First, the whole thing is kinda whack. Remember the comment from a rove-esque bush staffer, something to the effect of "you guys live in the reality based community where you try understand reality as it is and react accordingly. we live in the faith based community where we imagine the world we'd like to construct and operate accordingly."??? That was the gist of it anyway....

Well...I think Obamanation has abandoned both the reality based and faith based communities for the fairy tale community, one where hoping for something combined with magic beans and fairy dust makes all of one's childish dreams come true. The fed gov is fighting two hot wars, running a world-wide empire, attempting to control the climate, doling trillions over to wall street, running budget deficits in the gazillions and printing money like it's made of....well....paper.

...and Obamanation is talking a nationalization of 15% of the economy? Biting off more than you can chew doesn't adequately capture the ambition here......it's like they're trying to fit 50 pounds of shite in a 5 pound bag. The whole shebang is just whack....

So, 2nd....I think a lot of the noisy protest is as much as about a government that has become or is fast becoming unhinged as it is any particular socialist scheme. The Obamunists are like a couple on the verge of bankruptcy, charging everything they can on their credit cards because they know they'll never repay the bills no matter how big the bills get. Folks are sensing this and getting real uneasy.

3rdly....shouting, screaming, taunting, scheming, metaphorically tarring and feathering the unhinged stewards of the federal government is an entirely sensible response. Debate is something you do with folks who are reasonable and at least somewhat connected to reality.

4th..i forgot what the 4th thing was....edit, now I remember. Statists in both parties seem almost constitutionally incapable of imagining that citizens are capable of independent action nor can they imagine any kind of organizational structure other than top-down, pyramid type hierarchy. This isn't a strictly right-left, dem versus rep thing happening here, the statists in control right now just can't imagine that anyone other than the socialist party of the right can mount such a coordinate opposition.

5th....yeah, there was a 5th thing but it kind of elludes me right now.....oh yeah, the obamucare shouters are, I think, as misguided as the tea-partiers. as one fellow put it, "keep government out of my medicare". I dont' think they recognize the depth of the problem, but they're starting to sense that something is arry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html

'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

That statement was one of the most honest in regards to politics I have ever read.

This, from Manly Palmer Hall in his Secret Teachings of All Ages, is one of my favorites:

The most dangerous form of black magic is the scientific perversion of occult power for the gratification of personal desire. Its less complex and more universal form is human selfishness, for selfishness is the fundamental cause of all worldly evil. A man will barter his eternal soul for temporal power, and down through the ages a mysterious process has been evolved which actually enables him to make this exchange. In its various branches the black art includes nearly all forms of ceremonial magic, necromancy, witchcraft, sorcery, and vampirism. Under the same general heading are also included mesmerism and hypnotism, except when used solely for medical purposes, and even then there is an element of risk for all concerned.

Though the demonism of the Middle Ages seems to have disappeared, there is abundant evidence that in many forms of modern thought--especially the so-called “prosperity” psychology, “willpower-building” metaphysics, and systems of “high-pressure” salesmanship--black magic has merely passed through a metamorphosis, and although its name be changed its nature remains the same.