It was late; my eyes were bloody red tired; I needed some music to get me focused for one last paragraph. But the debul must be fuckin’ with me. Who else could slip Wayne Newton‘s “Dake Shaen” into my iTunes?!
Anyway. I put it in the trash, and played this.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQQpWmKoB4g[/youtube]
A little out of sync maybe. Maybe insipid to some. Lyrically, not all that inspiring, but yes, everybody is changing, like it or not. Change is the watchword of the universe, after all.
And I wondered; why can’t the electorate look like this? Why can’t earth-shaking, paradigm-shifting change occur this election?
What would it be like to live in a true blue liberal land?
Moral choices. The highest moral choice anyone can make is the choice of the highest possible value.
And that choice— regardless of wildly divergent intellectual or philosophical diversity— will always be to choose to do the will of God, consciously, or unconsciously. The problem is, of course, too many of us haven’t any clue what is of highest possible value. That’s why people watched “Dancing with the Stars” instead of the last presidential debate. That’s why people yell “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!” back at John McCain when he says, “Who is the real Barack Obama?” That’s why this world is so backward, barbaric, and beleaguered.
But still. What a thing it would be to watch a presidential election unfold a blue map like the one above; state by state, filling in a blue victory— not for “Democrats” over “Republicans,” but for hope, fairness, progress and cooperation— over hate, anger, fear, and class culture warfare. An unfurling of a blue field of fifty white stars unified and working together to form a cohesive nation of Americans, united for truth, justice and the American Way. . .
Oh; wait. . . I remember now. That’s just a tee vee dream. . . foisted on us by. . .
Superman.
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