Continued from Part 2
If simple mayors can simultaneously strip their indifferent constituents of freedom and make themselves rich, what is stopping members of Congress—who have multibillion dollar special interest groups throwing money and favors at them—from going down the same crooked route? In the last decade alone, over a dozen members of the U.S. Congress were caught in some sort of scandal that cost them their position and whose actions harmed people. This is only members of Congress, only those who got caught, not counting Legislative Branch employees, federal judges, Executive Branch officials, and administration officials. While many American elected officials work hard to both make life better for their constituents and preserve freedoms against legislation and government action that would strip freedoms, there are those who are in politics only for themselves. Several things motivate them, chiefly the money and perks coupled with the general indifference and willful ignorance of a population. Where are the watchdogs? Why are people not vigilant towards their elected officials? Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, and other national founders universally stressed that the preservation of liberty comes by dissent and a vigilant watchful eye. Yet nowadays, not only do public officials go corrupt and unnoticed by a population hypnotized by Party propaganda or some social network, but corrupt people run and get elected!
The author fears that this trend will continue in the 2012 Presidential election. The Democratic Party will be endorsing the incumbent President Obama, who has a strong likelihood of being reelected. Of the forty-four U.S. Presidents, only twelve have served a single term—thirty two served more than one. Furthermore, Obama has not completely alienated his supporters, and despite disillusionment over his continued waging of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, his supporters still cling to him because of the passage of the Health Care Reform Act. The Democratic Party is strong and united behind Barack Obama while the Republican Party is weak in its disunity. See the article “Why Barack Obama Will Be Reelected” for further and in-depth reasons for his coming reelection.
There is no one candidate that Republicans are rallying behind. The current popular front runner for the Republican nomination is Donald Trump. Upon first learning of his popularity with Republicans, the author thought it was literally a joke. Yet the frightening reality has set in that Republicans see him as the Messiah who will defeat the Muslim Stalin and restore Zion, bringing about the second coming of Ronald Reagan. This could remind many of how so many Americans overwhelmingly placed quasi-Messianic hopes on Obama in 2008. Try to recall the closing of the polls on November 4, 2008. Recall Oprah Winfrey and Jesse Jackson crying tears of joy, Chris Matthews rambling ecstatically, college students everywhere falling over weeping with happiness, Keith Olberman actually having something positive to say… The underlying motivation for such belief and emotion was pure utopian idealism from the American Left and much of the Center. They bought completely into his propaganda of hope and change. On the Right, Obama has been viewed as nothing but a Marxist-Leninist Al Qaeda-sympathizing non-citizen who is out to destroy America and the free world. They too have bought into partisan propaganda.
All over the political spectrum Americans are willfully chaining themselves to the cavern wall and choosing to believe that the shadows on the wall represent the real world. One of their fellow prisoners escaped and saw the real world, and returned to open their eyes to the truth—yet they don’t recognize his voice and they see only the shadows on the cavern wall. For some, the shadows are the hope and change, the low gas prices, the stable economy with a plethora of available jobs, and the immediate end of the Iraq War which were promised in 2008. For others, the shadows are whatever hateful propaganda Fox News has spouted—any network that endorses the idea of Donald Trump running for President is deceitful, dishonest, and a remorseless propaganda machine. To endorse a man who is an openly imperialist extortionist and one of the CEOs whose foolish too-big-to-fail policies brought about the financial recession to take the helm of the party of financial responsibility and the party that best represents the working class is the equivalent of chaining one’s self to the cave, chaining another person to the cave, and making that person join in watching the shadows. Again, for elaboration on Trump's poor qualifications, see the above-recommended article. Many Conservatives—especially ultraconservatives—love to laugh and point at the Leftists for their delusions while ignoring their own indoctrination as they lock-step march to the tune of the Party, hijacked by extremists, ultraconservatives, and ultranationalists. This is a classic example of the pot calling the kettle black—of the prisoner laughing at his cave-bound brother for being in bondage.
Continued in Part 4: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Herman Cain, and Ron Paul
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