Anybody Out There?

...I was going to try to make in through the series, The World Is Crazy: Now What?, straight through, but I must take time-out and address something, and it actually relates to the subject, the inexplicable nature of current events.

As written in another post, This Rocks, the world has fallen in love with a demagogue, a "Cult of Personality". Some of the population is uneducated and/or uniformed. While it is unfortunate, their excuse is ignorance, and they are being manipulated via vapid emotional propaganda.

Another group is the purely partisan group who supports a candidate the same way people support a sports team. They ask, "who is the player this year" so that they know for who to cheer. What, he played for the rival last year? Who cares! He's on our team know!!

After the end-of-summer political convention, these partisans embark on a 2+ month rally to defend their nominee at all costs. The first and foremost goal is party victory. Values, convictions, and policies be damned!! The must win.

There is a third group that I couldn't disagree with more ideologically speaking; however, of all the voters, they are the ones that make the most sense. Their actions balance their beliefs. These are the individuals who actually believe what Obama preaches. They want a more socialist country. They want wealth redistribution. They want more government intervention. They are ready and willing to surrender freedom in order to be "taken care of." Considering the entire electorate, it is these voters for which I can just turn the page and keep reading.

So far, I can stomach the first three groups, especially the latter. While the first two are lemmings leaping of the cliff, their actions have a palatable explanation. As with the third group, their support for the liberal, democrat candidate was expected. What would have me pulling my hair out, if I had any, is the final group who has snatched up all the remaining tickets to the political madhouse, a trip that ends in the destruction of all that made this country great. These are the educated and informed voters who are willfully choosing to vote against their values and beliefs.

It defies all logic. There are those who understand fundamental economic principles. They understand capitalism and the workings of a free market. They can articulate the catastrophic events that can take place when socialist principals are applied to a free market. They can forecast inflation; they can articulate the rise of opportunity costs; they can predict the mass exodus of American businesses packing up and moving overseas resulting in an epidemic unemployment.

Still, for who are they voting? Well, duh...for who do you think they are campaigning? The candidate who wants to do all the things that they know will destroy the greatest economy in the history of the world. Makes sense doesn't it? Jesus help me...

What has blown my mind is another subgroup of the final group, those who are self-professed conservative Christians and are dedicated to seeing Barack Obama as the next President. It is beyond any comprehension. It defies all elements of logic and sound argument. It is this subject that I will address in the next post. Please pray for me. I've never been to Mars before...