What If History IS Repeating...?
Dec. 24th, 2010 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Not at all Christmaslike, but I have to get the thoughts in my head out there.
If Afganistan is playing out as a re-do of the Vietnam War, then...
2012 will play out like 1972.
Hear me out: Obama is now in the position Nixon was then. He inherited the war from his predecessor but arguably is doing a better job of waging it. Only the public doesn't see the victory, only the stalemates and futilities.
Meanwhile, the opposition party (we know who that is) is salivating at the possibility of defeating him, especially now that they're gaining seats in Congress. Ultimately they choose a candidate who they think has wide appeal, but when that November Tuesday rolls around, only the hard core of the party votes for that candidate, and the incumbent wins a vast majority...but a powerless one thanks to the hold the opposition has in Congress.
Now, I'm sure most everybody now would think it extremely unlikely that Obama would be capable of something on the level of Watergate just to hedge his risk in the 2012 elections. That may be true. But what about the people working in his White House and beyond? (How many people really thought--before the fact--that Nixon's Administration would stoop to domestic espionage against the opposition party? Somehow I think that number is lower than everybody who tells history seems to let on.)
Don't ask me whose side I'm on about this. I voted against Obama (for a third-party candidate) in 2008 because I knew there was no way in Hades he or any other man of African heritage would carry Tennessee. (I am not a racist; there are many racists here so I'm calling it as I see it!) But I have no love for the Republicans nor the Tea Party, and know they would hate me just as much.
When Obama was elected I was hoping he'd set the moral tone up a little higher and undo some of the evil that has happened in America these last few decades. But now I'm dreading the possibliity that there's evil even in his character, and again we have a choice coming with no right side.
If Afganistan is playing out as a re-do of the Vietnam War, then...
2012 will play out like 1972.
Hear me out: Obama is now in the position Nixon was then. He inherited the war from his predecessor but arguably is doing a better job of waging it. Only the public doesn't see the victory, only the stalemates and futilities.
Meanwhile, the opposition party (we know who that is) is salivating at the possibility of defeating him, especially now that they're gaining seats in Congress. Ultimately they choose a candidate who they think has wide appeal, but when that November Tuesday rolls around, only the hard core of the party votes for that candidate, and the incumbent wins a vast majority...but a powerless one thanks to the hold the opposition has in Congress.
Now, I'm sure most everybody now would think it extremely unlikely that Obama would be capable of something on the level of Watergate just to hedge his risk in the 2012 elections. That may be true. But what about the people working in his White House and beyond? (How many people really thought--before the fact--that Nixon's Administration would stoop to domestic espionage against the opposition party? Somehow I think that number is lower than everybody who tells history seems to let on.)
Don't ask me whose side I'm on about this. I voted against Obama (for a third-party candidate) in 2008 because I knew there was no way in Hades he or any other man of African heritage would carry Tennessee. (I am not a racist; there are many racists here so I'm calling it as I see it!) But I have no love for the Republicans nor the Tea Party, and know they would hate me just as much.
When Obama was elected I was hoping he'd set the moral tone up a little higher and undo some of the evil that has happened in America these last few decades. But now I'm dreading the possibliity that there's evil even in his character, and again we have a choice coming with no right side.