Just after the 2012 election, Wally thought the petty
Republican behavior and hatefulness would just go away. What he’d forgotten was that the Senate
Minority Leader had announced to a group of his colleagues on the very night of
Obama’s First Inauguration, that their main goal should be to deny him a
second term.
“And it just gets worse from there,” Wally said in an email to
a fellow blogger. “It’s like reading a
Harry Potter novel where all kinds of voices and illusions are conjured up in
order to distract and confuse.”
Wally sensed that the chaos creating magicians were getting
too full of themselves and continued their dark magic, unaware of a new
kind of light shining upon them. It was
not that this new light was invisible to them, they just were too busy
looking backward to pay any kind of attention to what was right in front of
them.
But many spells worked and people seemed blind to them. The Benghazi and Immigration spells of
distraction, among other things, continues to piss on the president’s approval
rating, And even as thousands of desperate, unaccompanied children fleeing death and tyranny arrive hungry at our
boarders, Wally is amazed at how successfully the chaos magicians cast spells
of confusion amongst the people. And
many citizens gather to toss verbal rocks and abuse upon the children as they
arrive.
A lot of these spell casting politicians aren’t for real and
even Wally knows what they’re up to.
They run for office with no intention of ever wining. After
saying stupid things and appealing to our most base instincts, they lose
elections, but end up making hundreds of thousands of dollars giving speeches,
writing books and consulting for think tanks.
There’s money to be made if you’re on the “right” side of
the political divide. Republican
billionaires, like the Koch Brothers, are spending billions trying to tell us
that tax cuts for them are a good thing for the rest of us. They like to call themselves, “job creators,”
but Wally knows better.
And although Wally is not a religious kind of guy, he considers himself a
person of faith. And he has absolute faith
in the Basic Law of Karma: What goes
around, comes around. Wally also knows
that God don’t like ugly.
That is why, perhaps, he hasn’t give-up. But even with the chaos yelling and
screaming all around him, he knows that chaos cannot succeed. Chaos has a lot of red meat to toss to its minions,
but people like Weird Wally are also feeding off of that same red meat and
getting energized. Maybe enough of us
will get out and vote come November and we can keep some Republicans from
taking the Senate. If not, we’ll still
have a president who can frustrate and forestall their agenda for another two
years. And although Wally admires and
respects President Obama, he doesn’t want to be him.
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