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Gonna put the earlier excitement to the side for now. Plenty of other fireworks to prepare for!
The newscasters continue to call the election a non-event without saying as much, trying to keep some semblance of fairness, not wanting to call the obvious and potentially dissuade some voters. The candidates themselves are on late-night multi-state rallies, though I doubt they're actually campaigning for themselves at this point. More likely they're working to get support further down the local ballots for their parties.
Did you notice how nNeither candidate is speaking about GodlessGate? Sen. Lee simply ignores any who ask him anything related to it. And to Rep. Johnson's credit, he hasn't stooped to any cheesy, blatant symbolic attempts to quell voter fears. No family priest standing in the background during his stumping. No crucifix lapel pin. No little turns of phrase, like 'With God as my witness' or whatnot. He simply denies being an athiest, and moves on.
Of course, the news networks aren't letting go of it so easily. Tonight there's an hour-long special CNN's putting on about the subject. Hard-hitting looks at our nation and the role of religion within. Could America handle an athiest president? Not to be outdone, MSNBC is broadening the topic, asking the question of whether we could handle a religious-yet-non-Christian president.
Worthwhile discussions. Too bad they're going to be heavily sensationalized to the point of pointlessness.
What's of note this evening is coming from an unlikely source. Tell me you guys saw what happened on Fox News tonight. Please, please tell me you saw it.
So you know they're beside themselves trying to figure out who to support, a potential athiest or a progressive. Instead, seems they're focusing on Sen. Lee's past in an attempt to dredge up equally damaging connections. They keep coming back to this friend-of-a-friend type who alleges Lee apparently had connections to the Communist party. Claims of secret societies, powerful overseas friends, Illuminati references, and it keeps getting worse.
Yet Fox News really seems to think it's on to something because they brought this guy in for an interview. Guy (or maybe Lady) is hidden in darkness with their voice pitch-adjusted. Claims Lee is a part of an underground pro-Communism organization which has been working for decades to destabilize capitalist America's economy, which thus accounts for the current economic crisis.
I mean, that's ALMOST plausible. But it's at this point that the interviewed starts interrupting the interverers, voice raising higher and higher in pitch and speed as he/she tries to alert the public to the threat that is everywhere and is just hours away from having the ability to make their move and hide your children and the horsemen are saddling up and the Passion is starting...
At this point Fox cut away to a newscaster who apologized for the scene, but closed out with a somewhat loaded "and yet, who can really say?"
And yet indeed.
But...
You know what?
A part of me almost wishes the crazy guy were right.
What if we had a president who tried, from within, to break the wonderfully impressive bonds of checks and balances our Constitution puts on power? Don't get me wrong. I'm no anarchist and think it'd be a bad thing for all involved, but...
...but how would it go down? How COULD it go down? What changes would take place? How would we suffer, and yet could there actually be something good to come out once the dust settled?
Don't take me too seriously here. I guess I'm just bored and want a little drama. And if society as a whole is as bored as I am...how much resistance would actually be put up, you know?
An interesting but pointless line of thought. Tomorrow we celebrate the continuation of our Democratic process, and we shall continue this continuation for centuries to come, I do sincerely hope.
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