by Eric Peters EricPetersAutos.com Recently by Eric Peters: Don't Drink (or Eat) These….
What was it Bill Murrays character chanted in Meatballs? It just doesnt matter.
Or rather, it might but not for the obvious reasons.
Either way, the country will have an authoritarian corporatist warmonger who shits all over the Constitution for its jefe. The only question is whether the jefe will be a left-wing socialist authoritarian corporatist warmonger who shits all over the Constitution or a right-wing fascist-minded authoritarian corporatist warmonger who shits all over the Constitution.
In that sense, it just doesnt matter. We will have more wars, more rent-seeking by connected big business; more Officer 82nd Airborne, less Andy Griffith. More hassles less freedom. It just doesnt matter. The NFC that is, Republicans will cheer their team, regardless of its actual performance. Just as the AFC Democrats will cheer their team, irrespective of what it does. The same liberal Democrats who have been silent these past going on four years of Obama launching new wars, bombing fresh civilians, drawing up executive kill lists, renewing the Patriot act (and enacting the even more egregious National Defense Authorization Act) and pursuing the war on some drugs even more aggressively than the beady-eyed Chimp who preceded him will be just as silent for the next four years of similar and worse outrages so long as its their guy doing it.
Similarly, the same conservative Republicans who are crying about Obamas abuses will forget all about them the moment its their guy doing the abusing. Hell, they already have. Theyre urging people to vote for the author of Obamacare to replace the implementor of Obamacare! Anythings ok when its your guy doing it. This is the philosophy of Republicans and Democrats alike.
Everyone knows this.
But heres how the results of tomorrows (s)election may matter:
If the left-wing authoritarian wins, it may give anti-authoritarians a shot in the months and years to come. Because the left-wing authoritarian is an honest authoritarian. He says openly that the Great Collectives will as embodied by the Collectives Dear Leader is paramount. There is no I only we. And he will tell us at bayonet-point what it is that we shall have and do and not do. This will help to focus matters. It will be clear or at least, more clear which side of the line youre on. It is possible that a viable opposition might coalesce. Not necessarily a physical opposition not at first. But an intellectual opposition. Enough people may question and that could lead to action. If Dear Leader Obama is (s)elected for another term, at the end of that term if America still exists it will be easier to organize an effective because principled opposition. Because it will damn hard for the Republicans to bring forth another Obama Light such as Mittens Romney. And if they did, it might just be the straw that finally breaks the proverbial camels back and causes enough people to make a difference to give the old flusheroo to the GOP and turn to other venues, such as the Libertarian Party and (perhaps) non-jefes like Ron Paul and Gary Johnson.