The failure of hope

Millions of Americans voted for Barack Obama because he offered hope. It was also a way of showing the world that we're not racist after all, because, hey, we voted for a (somewhat) black guy who at least didn't sound like an end man.* But I digress.

Yes, nearly two years ago Americans voted for hope. Hope of what? Hope of...errr...something. Hope that maybe things would change. Change for what? Well...errr...something better.

When they (not I) voted for Barry it was because they thought he was a moderate, progressive, forward-looking centrist. What they got was a guy trying to right all that's wrong with America and the world...by hope. "Yes we can" should really have read, "Yes we can...I hope."

But, gentle reader, hope is not a plan.

Hope is fine for the rhetoric of the election campaign, but hope, as in religion, depends on there being an afterlife. The bad news is, we are experiencing the afterlife right now. And it turns out our hope was misplaced.

We are experiencing, right now, the failure of reality to match the rhetoric. So we are, to put it mildly, disappointed.

And we are angry. We feel that we've been conned, played for suckers yet again by the liberal humanist ideologues and the "useful idiots" of the mass media. When the masses are being duped effectively, they are seen as progressing towards civility. That's what the election of Obama was all about, dontcha know?

But now that the real desires of the people are being voiced, these pseudo-intellectual talking heads are starting to say the unwashed masses are being duped again, only this time by the reactionary, Republican, neanderthal, [That's enough insulting adjectives. Ed.] knuckle-draggers of the Tea Party.

Watching/reading/listening to the liberal talking heads go apoplectic as normal, hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding citizens take back control is so much fun. Let's keep it up! Keep making noise! Keep voting for the un-PC candidates!

Forget about hope. Support people who understand reality and have a plan for cleaning up the mess that the liberal establishment has created. Power to the people -- the real people!

* Footnote: If you're not old enough to know what an "end man" is, Google "minstrel show".