Lashing Out Angrily, With Fantasy

THERE HA BEEN A LOT OF TALK among conservative Americans to the effect that Barack Hussein Obama is so corrupt, so devious and power hungry, that he hasn't the slightest intention of leaving office when his time comes to leave next January, and and since his scheduled leaving cannot come too soon for our right wing colleagues, they are much concerned about the prospect of a permanent Obama presidency. Although this sort of thinking usually originates with the same sort of people who believe that the Federal Reserve system is secretly controlled by a small elite group of European billionaire nobility, and that Hitler lived in South America until 1979, it is quite likely that all this is true. Obama was reportedly seen recently in the White House wearing a crown, sitting on a throne, wielding a scepter. The fact that he is Islamic gives him, in his twisted mind, the right to rule for the remainder of his life. I have a group of friends, left over from high school forty six years ago, who put forward the theory that Michelle Obama is a transgender, and that her children were adopted. They had pictures to prove it. I expect these half baked folk from the class of -73 to trot out photo shopped photos any day showing Hillary Clinton in her former life as a man. I cannot bring myself to even think that people like this actually believe nonsense like this, but the point is, they try to believe it, they want to, and so they pretend to. And all these far right loons who talk about Obama staying in office by declaring a constitutional crises and in his capacity as Commander In Chief ordering the military to support his ascent to a permanent presidency - they don't stop there, and just leave it at that. That's why I am seriously considering blowing off my fifty year high school reunion, even though the ones so far have been fun. People seem to be getting crazier.....and crazier. That, or angrier and angrier, more desperate to express hatred and frustration. John McCain, Senator of Arizona, is running in a primary election Tuesday, against a lady, Kelly Ward, who at one time was seriously into the paranormal community and accusing the United States government of spraying chemicals all over the countryside to somehow control or render infertile the American mainstream paranormal community, or something like that. Perhaps you've heard the "chem trail" people. In McCain's campaign, he is reminding voters of this, calling her "chem trail Kelly", trying to convince the good people of Arizona that his opponent is unstable, possessed of poor judgement, and should therefore not be elected. If John McCain is looking for wack jobs to go after, he needn't look any further than within the mainstream of his own off the wall republican party. With Hillary and Donald accusing each other of being temperamentally unfit for the job, it may be that we are entering an era of savage personal attacks based upon psychological warfare. We'd better be careful about this, if we know what's good for us, which invariably we don't. There is no end to which people can attack each other on the basis of the murky nature of the mind, deciding what is normal, and healthy, and what is not is precarious at best, impossible at worst. And besides, when it comes right down to it, we are all just a little bit off in the head, and none of us really has much right to talk about others, when we ourselves could use some improvement, in terms of basic mental stability. There is log, in each of our eyes, here in the United States of Alternative Reality.