The 2008 Presidental Election has become a modern day Theater Of The Absurd.
Presidental elections in America have been similar to the chariot races at Circus Maximus, a huge race track in Rome during the glory days of the Roman Empire.
Clearly, this was entertaining, mindless sport for the Romans—and similar to our previous Presidential election campaigns and current television shows.
However, the 2008 Presidential race has degenerated from a comic Circus Maximus spectacle to a dismal "Theater of The Absurd," a description of plays written by European existentialist writers in the 1940’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s and performed in theaters.
Existentialism is a despairing philosophy that life is absurd, illogical, and not worthwhile in an uncertain universe. What a drab mindset!
Today’s liberal antidote to voter dissatisfaction is reckless expansion of "womb to the tomb" federal government powers by liberals, placating voters with megadoses of wasteful government spending.
That’s simple vote buying—nothing else!
As Americans, we can’t afford to be gloomy existentialists and to be under the depressing dominion of liberals. Rather, we must be "Morning In America" optimists like President Reagan, who proclaimed us that America’s best years were ahead, not behind, us.
President Reagan also said that "government was the problem, not the solution."
These sayings by the Gipper are more true now than ever before.
I am a fiscal conservative registered to vote as a Libertarian. But I am not a social conservative.
There are six things to ponder to avoid being deceived during the 2008 Presidential election to vote for the wrong person:
- Most incumbents, challengers and voters don’t understand the U.S. Constitution. It states in the 10th Amendment that "powers not delegated to U.S. Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people."
Notice that power is owned by the people and delegated to the government.
Liberals, it’s not to role of government to hold power and delegate it sparingly to the people under the U.S. Constitution.
Most of today’s federal functions and federal laws are unconstitutional because of the 10th Amendment. Voters should demand that politicians abolish these functions or transfer them from Washington to the states, if they any have merit.
- America is not a Christian nation, contrary to the claim of social conservatives. But it is a nation of millions of Christians. Many of America’s founding fathers were Christians, but they did not want America to have an official state religion.
Their oppression by the Church of England had been more than enough. They fought and sacrificed personally for freedom of worship for all Americans.
It is disheartening, therefore, to see prominent, sincere, godly Christian ministers acting like allatoyahs, trying to run America as a Christian theocracy, telling politicians what to do.
- "Social conservatives" are incorrect in their "family values" stance on issues such as abortion, trying to outlaw it nationally. Under the U.S. Constitution, laws governing homicide and families are the responsibility of the states, not the federal government.
Clearly, abortion is murder. All states need to ban it and conform their state homicide laws accordingly.
A North Carolina case involving former NFL player Rae Curruth shows why. He engineered the killing of his pregnant girl friend.
There were four charges against him—conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, using an instrument to destroy an unborn child, and first degree murder. He was convicted on the first three.
Carruth used "an instrument to destroy an unborn child," a crime in North arolina, while North Carolina physicians using instruments to destroy unborn children are simply doing surgery, not committing any crime.
This makes no sense. It’s totally ridiculous.
Social conservatives should provide crisis pregnancy centers even more generous support and encourage timid, people-pleasing pastors preaching pablum to preach the Bible with greater boldness against abortion, using applicable Scriptures and newer scientific information proving that an unborn baby is real person, not just a viable fetus.
- Homosexuality has been around for most of human history and will not disappear. Rather than sneering at gay relationships, and bashing gays, why not permit gay partners to have a legal entity similar to a corporation, LLC or S-Corp to manage their assets and direct their partner’s emergency medical care, if needed?
While following the 2008 Presidential election, don’t focus on abortion, homosexuality, candidate slurs, simple slogans, character assassinations and negative advertising.
America’s most important problems in the 2008 Presidential election have to do with world trade and money.
The United States has:
$9.0 trillion as budget deficits.
$55 trillion in unfunded liabilities such as Social Security.
Record high corporate debt.
Record high consumer credit.
The Sub-Prime fiasco.
Record high and fast growing trade deficit.
The weakest dollar in 25 years vis-a-vis other currencies.
The next President has to solve the Iraq situation and make sure that there are no more ill-conceived solider of fortune adventures in third world nations costing thousands of solidiers and trillions of dollars.
He or she must clean up America’s financial mess. America has become a debtor nation and a financial basket case since 2001. The next President must be a strong and bold leader, manager and communicator who does what’s right, not what’s expedient and popular.
My favorite candidate now is "none of the above." Most likely, though, I will boil my choice down to Mitt Romney or Ron Paul. But that could change.
