An Election Allegory - A Spiritual Event 2008
The great expression of hope, change and giddy love has passed. The media has now constructed a sedan chair for Obama and is carrying the Anointed One to the new Mecca, Washington D.C. On the four chair handles we have CBS, NBC, ABC and MSNBC. Marching in lockstep on each side of the Anointed One, waving palm fronds and with adoration pouring from their pores, are NPR, the New York Times, the LA Times and a swooning collection of left leaning newspapers. Following behind in raggedy procession are the poor, the underprivileged, the homeless, the lazy, the politically naïve, witless collegiate sophomores and those who still think that the Anointed One ran against George Bush.
On each side of this procession are stands supplying bottles of a new drink created by Moveon.org called “Feel Good Juice” (In tiny print on the label we spot “May cause serious hangover after election.”) and financed by George Soros. In the distance we see Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, clothed in gleaming white Roman togas, with outstretched arms welcoming the Anointed One to the new Oligarchy which will bring smothering happiness to all citizens, whether they like it or not. On all sides we hear a mystical, quasi-religious chant by enormous crowds of glazed eyed worshippers pointing toward the heavens. We look up and, behold, the clouds part. There, gazing down in a beatific vision, are the spiritual pillars of this amazing spectacle – The Reverend Wright, Bill Ayres, Louis Farrakhan, Rashid Khalidi and Tony Rezko (Rezko appears to be clothed in prison garb). Following behind in a gray, lifeless line and linked together by economic chains, are a once proud group of Producers – corporations, entrepreneurs, small businesses and investors. Some falter under the heavy economic chains. Falling behind, they are jabbed with electric Tax Prods wielded by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
We stand in awe of this procession and try to link it with some precedent, some historical event, some memory of things past. Nothing fits, certainly not in US history. But wait! What if the path these people are traveling is a yellow brick road? What if the termination is an audience with and the embrace of the Wizard of Oz? No, that’s too farfetched.