Assasination by proxy

I've been off the boards, off television and radio since last night.
I don't know what all has been discussed and dissected to death
all night. But I feel like I was hit by a truck.

Not necessarily because of the much vaunted victory by the Republicans
and the Tea Baggers... but how they managed to roll over everyone
and everything in their path, and how the public swallowed the swill
they were selling.

This isn't just a political loss; what happened in this election
is assasination by proxy. The republican/tea party gang didn't
defeat their democratic opposition. They defeated President Obama;
not only were they intent on his defeat, but on his demolition.
The invectives that lead to this train wreck were the goal of his
humiliation at their hand. The bullies have succeeded in not only
getting their own way, they've lowered the standards of political
dialog, and they've raised the tolerance level of hatred.
They were following the directives that have been leveled at
the president since the day of the inauguration: we must get the black man.

They've declared him illegitimate, illegal, immoral, alien,
infidel and the spawn of Satan. They have screamed, sobbed,
marched, fingered, cursed, lied, conneived, used inflammatory
images, and broken every one of their precious ten commandments
to prove their righteous, smug, self-gratified points.
Everything the republican/tea party voices have said have
declared open war on the president. And no matter your personal
opinion of his skills, or lack of them, this is unacceptable
in a civilized nation.

Why didn't the president get angry? Why didn't he fight back?
Why didn't he answer the lies, point by point?
The president is skilled at keeping cool. If he were to raise
the temperature of his dialog, he'd be branded a hot headed radical.
If he answered the falsehoods point by point, he'd give them more
attention. As my mother used to say: when you wrestle with pigs,
you get filthy, and the pigs love it. But it seems as if presently
we're a nation of World Wide WRestling swine.

The fact that such incivility and falsehood have swayed so many
raises the curtain on the lack of insight and intelligence of the
masses. But the notion that violence is the way to get rid of
one who stand in the way is just the opening salvo of what is to come.

I fear for the president's life; I fear for his family. I fear for our
country, and for the future of our children.

I can't see light shining through the fog. I have no trust in any
of these so called 'victors.' Now they have to spin gold from the
straw they've been selling the American public. And it ain't gonna
be pretty.

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