The One, The Most, The Price

“All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.”

What message would inspire the masses and move them in great numbers to be in the presence of the person delivering that message? Is it that they are running towards something or away from something? Questions continue to be asked about Barack Obama that are summarily dismissed by the throngs seeking to be a part of something which has yet to be defined.

When asked if they would associate with a person who was defined by the meager information we have on the man, without identifying him by name, most say they would not. There is passion here. There is hope. There is a longing for change. What there is not is a logical basis for expectations of the hope and change which feed that passion.

“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”

The numbers are splashed on the small screen and in the printed press. They are multiplied like a virus and spread at the speed of light over the World Wide Web. All say the same thing, that there is a massive and biased media voice shouting its support for Barack Obama. It unabashedly hides the faults of his campaign while untiringly seeking out and amplifying those of his opponent. This is being done in the clear light of day in some cases with pride and fanfare. As if to say, “Look how we can say these things without reproach.” They revel in their ability to appeal without substance and support through impropriety while they lust for their share of the tithes from the faithful.

“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.”

The words are designed to sooth, to inspire, and to motivate. There is no expectation of answers or reasons other than the answer of hope and the reason of change. This message, echoed with the complicity of a nurturing media voice is carried over and over again in a mantra for the masses.

“The art of leadership. . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”

In a country that prides itself on fairness and the virtues of individuality it is not enough to stand on the rhetoric and a preponderance of vocal support for a dream. It is necessary to craft a villain. Someone, to whom everything ill fated could be linked, must be made to blame for any and all that is wrong. With the help of the media and stirring sermons all that is needed is to juxtapose the theme of hope against the theme of evil. To rise up, all that was necessary was for Obama and his confederates to tie anyone he opposed to that evil. This is the only way to bring down a hero and denigrate all vestige of opposition.

“There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons . . . Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.”

And if the election is won, what will be the price? Who is the one that has been elected, what will be the basis of his thoughts, his direction, and his will? We won’t know until that time comes and that time will be too late for realization and retraction. Perhaps this is why we have been asked to look beyond the past associations, the output of his character and the manifestations of his philosophies. Yet even now there is one window to this man’s soul which is writ large in the machinations of his campaign, his focus on the fruit of our nation, its youth.

“When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”"

This is not new. It is not change. It has happened before and inevitably it has failed. But in that failure, it has scarred society and earth. Perhaps we have not learned. Perhaps we are doomed to repeat history until like the primordial urge to perpetuate the species we will be driven to reject an empty utopia.