A Thousand Years of Darkness

Chuck Norris´ wife, Gina O´Kelley said these words on a nationwide TV-spot a few days ago. A thousand years of darkness are waiting for us if we dare to vote for Obama again. Of course, the natural and healthy impulse of anybody in their right mind would be to laugh about it. Mrs. Chuck has recently also told the world that Maria would have aborted little Jesus under Obama care, which really says more about Mrs.Norris´ opinion of Maria that about Obama care.
Still, it is not funny. This rise of religious madness is slowly but surely leading us back into the middle ages. These two christian maniacs aren´t just a couple of dingbats that happened to stumble across a TV Studio and then went on the air for our amusement. This was an expensive, professional piece of republican propaganda, and the fact that it makes intelligent people only laugh makes things even worse. This laughter allows us to forget that 60 % of all Americans believe in angels and that god hates homosexuals, sex before marriage and abortion. For these people this speech makes absolute sense and a lot more sense than all that mumbojumbo about unregulated financial markets. We´re worried about religious fanatics declaring Jihad on all infidels, but we only laugh at the religious madness going on in our own backyard. And I don´t think that  all those potsmoking doom-mongerers going on about the end of the Mayan Calendar are any better. For the last time, strap on your sandals and check the local library. The complete transcription of the calendar is located at the University of Dresden, and their top experts on the calendar will tell you that it doesn´t say End of the World on the last page but End of the Calender. In other words, you start back on page one. Or giant stone wheel one,  if you´re actually using the original gizmo. But I´m wandering off here.
So, to get back to the point, please don´t try to tell me that most people know better that to listen to Mrs.WalkerRanger. They don´t. If people did know better, we would not have a conservative Government in Germany and Mitt Romney wouldn´t stand a chance against Obama.
Germany was wrecked by 16 years of conservative dictatorship under Helmut Kohl. Still, after only two years of the new Government the majority in the 2nd House ( like the Senate) was already crumbling. Of course, at this point the new Government had only just begun to pick up the pieces, which naturally involved a lot of painful decisions. But people had already forgotten who had wrecked the country for 16 years. After 4 years they still managed a reelection, but were de facto unable to make any decisions without the opposition, which blocked all of their motions in the 2nd House. These days were are under the second reign of Our Good Lady Angela and facing a possible 3rd reign under her gracious wing.
America is facing the same situation these days. Even though the new Government began in the middle of a crisis left behind by the republicans, only 4 years later the republicans behave as if they had just come back from a four year vacation during which they had entrusted the Democrats with the wellbeing of the country, only to come back like outraged, dissappointed parents who find that their kids wrecked the house with excessive partying. And people believe this. It´s like that old australian popsong "Short memory must have a short memory". Not very witty, I know, but still quite fitting.
Some democrat, I think a member of congress recently said that he was sure that people would understand that we are in the middle of a financial crisis which is not the current governments fault. Well, I think it´s very optimistic of him to take that for granted. People understand that if they buy ten smoothies they will get a free smoothie. People understand that you better not mess with the big kahuna in the sky. And people understand the threat of a thousand years of darkness, especially if the warning comes from the King of KungFu and his beautyful wife Mrs.KungFu.
Please do not force me to quote Dylan Thomas again. Just read those words aloud to yourself every night before you go to sleep, please, promise me. There may not be much we can do, but we can at least try to stay aware of what is happening. And maybe even make a little noise before we lie down and sleep.

And please try not to laugh about religious fanatics threatening us with the end of the world.

Sol in Virgo, 69 days until Eshaton.
Kidding!!

Post scriptum :"It´s only funny until someone gets hurt and then it´s just hilarious" - Faith No More