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I’m thinking that I just might have to vote for Bush this time. Oh, you think I’m leading with that just in a cheap gimmick to get your attention, like using the word “sex”, or using a graphic with Paris Hilton and Michael Jackson doing “it”?
Nope. This is about Armageddon. That’s right, Armageddon. I think I have finally been won over by all that Biblical Revelation rot, all that nutcase Nostradamus nonsense, with a frosting of that Left Behind stuff that falls out of the behinds of bulls. I just might be ready to believe that what this corrupted country of mine (that probably won’t be able to manage avoiding another rigged election result) just might need what all those Jeremiahs are warning about – Armageddon. America just might need a damn good Amerigeddon .
Now as much as I like John Kerry, he doesn’t have the intent or the stuff to bring on a goodAmerigeddon . He wants to fix things. He wants a “fresh start.” But that’s going to be difficult. Bush would be handing him the biggest deficit in history, millions more in poverty, unemployment, and without health care than at the end of Mr. Bill’s tenure, a world that pretty much hates us, a quagmire in Iraq and a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan, in short, a huge mess. Can he dig us out of that mess in four, even eight years, with a Republican Congress obstructing every inch of the way? If he fails, the Right Wing will be right back in four or eight with tax cuts for the rich, gay bashing, putting women in legal burkas, and screwing up education, medical research, and the rest of their medieval agenda.
So maybe it’s a good idea to let Bush and his cronies have another four, to really take us all the way to the bottom of full out Texification . Sure, the Bush cabal will get rich and run off to their off-shore banks with as much as they can loot from the society, from Social Security, from their sweetheart deals with the Saudis, from their Halliburton no-bid contracts, from Iraq’a “reparations” paid in oil. They’ll be allright, but the country will be wrecked, really wrecked . That will be our Amerigeddon , and even Karl Rove won’t be able to spin the GOP out of that one. But that’s what American really needs – a purification – then it can rise like a phoenix into a bright new morning in America (haven’t I heard that somewhere before?).
It would be cleansing. Maybe there would be revolts, assassinations, chaos, riots, bombings, mayhem in the streets, you know, something like the “peace and freedom” Bush has brought to Iraq. No one should wish for these sorts of things to be visited on America, but those prophets of Armagedon seem to think the world and that includes America—needs or deserves something like that. If the Bible and the saved people of the Rapture think this way who am I to gainsay it. And who better to deliver us into Amerigeddon than George W.Bush.
Mind you, there are saner people than me, many of them Democrats, who think that another term of W might not, in the longer run and larger picture, be a “bad” thing. They believe in the cleansing of America, the Amerigeddon , too. And even some Republicans believe that another term of Bush will so sunder their party that it might take decades to come out from under its Faustian pact with the Religious Righteous. Then there could come the second coming of Mr. Bill (hey, knock it off , you Clinton bashers!).
Amerigeddon would be a heck of a price to pay for our country, and would be a heavy price to pay for me to check Bush/Cheney on my precious ballot. But maybe mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Amerigeddon , the great cleansing of our sick and divided nation.
It will be a close election, and Bush just might need my vote so he can take us to the Amerigeddon. Now wouldn’t that be something: Bush needing my vote. Wouldn’t it be something if he knew he needed my one vote to win? Wouldn’t it be great if he asked me to give him that vote? I’d have to think that one over; I really believe in Amerigeddon .
Well, if it comes down to my one vote, screw Amerigeddon. Bush can kiss my . . .
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©2004, James A. Clapp (UrbisMedia Ltd. Pub. 10.28.2004)