With but a few weeks to go for the final vote to be cast and the verdict to be sealed and most polls suggesting that Americans are leaning towards an Obama presidency, one cannot but stop and wonder why, for the first time, the US is on the cusp of choosing the most socialist and communist administration in its history.
From another perspective, the recent economic crisis more than anything else, seems to have dwarfed this fact and turned the tide in Obama’s favor; for now. Once the dust settles down and Americans take the time to ponder over their choice, they will realize that by choosing Obama, they have indeed chosen more of the same vis-à-vis Jimmy Carter. And as time goes by, they will realize that more of the same a la George Bush (though, in my opinion, McCain is more liberal than George Bush) would have been way better for their day to day lives than more of the same a la Jimmy Carter. Of course, by then, it will be too late for them to reverse their choice, at least for another four years. Atleast they would have figured out that Obama might as well been referring to himself when he was suggesting 'more of the same' while on the stump.
The US would be in for much worse conditions with the Obama socialists taking control of the markets and maybe even the daily lives of regular citizens pretty much like what Chavez has been doing in Venezuela over the past few years. This might be the exact medicine that is needed by Americans to jolt them out of the make-believe world that they have been relentlessly prodded into both by a swooning media as well as the fluffy words of Obama that he will deliver them from all the difficulties that they have been facing with a worsening economy. So taken in are they that they don’t have the inclination to go over Obama’s ‘non-achievements’ over the past two decades. We need not dig deep to realize that Obama has mostly been more about sound words and speeches rather than sound judgment. It is no secret that he is the most liberal Senator in the current Congress. There is the prospect that Obama’s USA can, for the first time in history, be positioned as being more socialist than Putin’s Russia or Wen’s China. It looks like none of these arguments will matter for now as most of his supporters tend to paint such arguments as a racial slur rather than take them at face value.
Obama’s tax and wealth redistribution policies might work well in countries where people have been subjugated for generations together, but in a country like the USA where entrepreneurship is rampant, they are deemed to fail. But before they fail, it is going to look like they are succeeding which will prompt him to up the ante. When he does that, the economy is going to take a turn for the worse and Americans will begin to realize the foolhardiness of their decision of electing Obama - albeit a tad late. The souring economy will act as a medicine to rejuvenate regular Americans to wake up and take action at the next elections, but not before putting up with a lot of pain and hardship; a bitter dose of medicine that an Obama administration will force upon them.
It will be much more difficult to turn the country around after four years of a Jimmy Carter like economy, but if Americans could stomach the medicine doled out to them three decades ago and still bring into office a man who single handedly turned around the economy, they can sure do it again. But they will need to elect (pun intended) to take their medicine first.
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