A Pox On All Houses

Tear it all up and start all over again. Let the nukes fall where they may as long as the bombing takes place far from America's shores. Wall Street be damned. Brokerage houses, banks, and the established money market can all fail as long as the man on Main Street receives his just recompense. The icebergs can melt and the polar bears can drift off and drown as long as we can get oil for our gas guzzling SUV's. The abortionists, the college elite, and the gays better head for Canada because there is no place for them in this new USA.

These are the sentiments of a growing number of Americans fed up with the ways things are. Salaries are down, prices are up, paying the monthly mortgage is problematic, and the Islamic fascists are growing despite two wars in the Middle East. Maybe, just maybe, it is time for a new revolution where God and guns are given equal value, church attendance would become compulsory, and everyone would stop their education after the twelfth grade.

It is this anti-government, anti-science, anti-liberal, and anti-international opinion that John McCain is ultimately trying to tap into. He has decided to run not as a traditional Republican but as a loose cannon, anything goes, wild west independent. Wall Street is not working so why not fire the bums who caused all the problems. Those terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan need to be ultimately wiped out so why not embark on a one hundred year crusade. And to show up the elite Ivy snobs, why not install the woman from the last frontier to stick it to everyone.

If you look closely at this election it is not hard to see that McCain is running a radical, populist, almost revolutionary right wing campaign. He really is the change agent that will tear down the system that we have now. Of course what will replace it is another thing altogether. McCain increasingly desperate to win the presidency is cobbling together any and all wacko concepts that appeal to the fears that many are now feeling.

It is an interesting twist that ultimately the one who started out on a campaign for change is the true conservative. Obama almost definitely will tweak the military, economic, and governmental engines but embrace what is out there nonetheless. He will protect the minorities, the educational system, and the gay population from the unknowns that could easily boil up from the hate spewing McCain-Palin team.

Obama is the nuanced thinking man who will attempt to bring everyone together to preserve the American way of life that has been with us at least since the days of Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930's. McCain is the wild man who with the help of his Alaskan running mate will destroy the steps that have been taken towards cleaning up our environment, reaching cultural acceptance for our diverse population, and bringing an end to the unpopular Iraq war.

As the economic crisis continues the question will be how many are willing to chuck the institutions that have been leaned on for so many generations to bring such bounty to this country. Those who rail against the eastern establishment and the so called big government folks will hold much of this election in their hands.