I keep hearing about how everyone feels! The feel this, they feel that. Someone called into a radio show the other day and said they were walking on a college campus and he was accosted by college students telling him not to think, but to go with his feelings in this election! It occurs to me that I'm always told as someone having religion as an important aspect in my life, that I feel and don't think. So religion is faith, hope and not reason then what is this devotion to Obama? Hey me, don't think about it, just hope and feel. Today, I was listening to a sports talk show today based in SLC, the talk show host kept talking about how something big is on the horizon and everyone can feel it. This is a point that I might agree with him on, I can feel something in the air, but I would ask the question, is this event good or bad? I think in everyone's desire to hope really hard for change and not think about what kind of change, we just might get it. It occurs to me that economic times were hard, really hard in 1933 Germany. People hoped really hard for change then. They believed really hard that one man would change it all and deliver them from the oppressive times they lived in. They hoped for change so hard in 1917 Russia, because things were so bad. They put their trust in one man and his movement and tried really hard not to think about what he was saying about religion. Likewise, people don't seem to care about what Obama says about religion being the opium of the masses. They seem to only care about what he says in a scripted speech or how his charisma and personality seems to infuse them with a lot of hope. Today I heard him talking about how the constitution was a good guideline to get us here, but that we really didn't need it anymore. Wake up, America! Listen and stop feeling. I've heard many similar comments, like how the Warren Court was not too extreme and his regret is that it didn't get rid of some of those pesky constitutional rules about property. Listen people, wake up! Now we have a government that thinks they are smarter and so enlightened. Are they really smarter than the founding fathers who, ate, drank, and slept government and studied human nature? They devised the best system the world has ever seen for keeping us balanced squarely in people's law between tyranny and anarchy. Unfortunately, this cult of personality that prevails sanctimoniously asserts that they are so much more enlightened as if somehow human nature changes. I tell you, if I'm judging enlightened by the 'progressives' I work with, this is a truly frightening assertion. People who would be ok with the government stepping in and regulating how many children couples should have.
Nevertheless our modern progressives tell us that they are so much thoughtful and enlightened than our founders, yet they spend all their time playing XBox and watching MTV and Comedy Central, blissfully ignorant of governments of antiquity. They are so enlightened, that they have figured out a way to enhance their ability to feel, their senses have evolved along with their huge brains. So stop thinking America, stop believing in the Constitution and trust our enlighted elite. Stop thinking about constitutionality and government and the rule of law and just hand it over to our ultra-intelligent college students and professors (snicker). Back to my radio show host for a second. He said he wept when Obama won the election. So am I the only one creeped out by all the feeling the went into this election and the cult of personality?
I have never in my life seen such hero worship with a presidential candidate. When Obama won the election. People were literally running around jumping and cheering at my office in Lebanon, New Hampshire. They pretty much stopped working for the last 2 hours. They were singing "We are the Champions". I have felt excitement and disappointments before and after elections, but I have never had that reaction. It is like a religious experience for many people. Since when did we start worshipping our public servants! He is a politician for crying out loud!!!
Why do we need to exalt anyone? Let God do that. When the wanted to call Washington His Highness or His Excellancy or even King, he said NO, "Mr. President" to indicate he was just a citizen and no better or smarter than any of us. Boy things have changed this week! My brother said he heard on the radio a man who was asked "is Obama your Savior"? He wouldn't say no! He avoided the question.
Well, too late to stop and think whether our change is going to be good. All we can do now is hope.
OK forget this, My wife's water just broke!!
Here comes baby!
