Oh! We're Just Ignorant!

Joe Biden (just knowing “Vice President” precedes that name takes me a minute to clear my head before getting on with my point – ok, ready) is making the election rounds, and is often being referred to as Obama’s traveling salesman.  I agree with this moniker, more specifically, a snake-oil salesman.  He pulls into every town unrolling his fraying “Hope & Change” banner over a ramshackle-wagon of talking points, then with great flair produces bottled promises brimming with shiny, glowing liquid that looks so “purty” it must be the real deal!

First he wants to assure us Obamacare is a boon.  Never you mind that no one really knows what’s in it, they will dole out that information like doggie treats to reward us for our unquestioning faith.  There is no need to worry simply because socialized healthcare has aided in crippling Europe, this time socialized healthcare will work.  They’ve given their word, and that should be enough. 

Secondly, THEY are the good guys—don’t, do not, listen to those conservative fanatics who believe in God and the Constitution.  Conservatives want guns and privacy because they’re hiding something, they must be.  Conservatives want small government, but then who would take care of you?  Thinking for yourself and personal responsibility are overrated; let the government tell you what you should believe in, like Global Warming (er, Global Climate Disruption since there has been no “Warming” since 1998, and many locations are facing their coldest season in years), and how much is too much earned so they can unburden your finances and redistribute the wealth.

Thirdly, he’s selling us on the idea that the stimulus is working.  Though we see no evidence, unemployment continues to rise along with foreclosures and the dollar continues to weaken, we shouldn’t doubt that all our ills are healing.  Biden assures us we don’t have to see to believe (hmmm, like God? No, of course not, how silly of me) because the innards of economics are THEIR specialty, and really “it’s just too hard too explain” (Biden interview aboard Air Force Two, 10/8/10).

I can’t even begin to explain the relief I feel, and the good night’s sleep I will get tonight.  For a while there, I thought we were facing the worst economic downward spiral since the depression, but good ol’ Joe has dazzled me with his bottles of fix-um-ups, and made me realize I and the majority of America, minus the handful of progressive elites in the sacred Obama circle, are wrong.  We are just too ignorant to grasp the grace that has been bestowed upon us as we descend into socialism and ever-growing government.

Thanks, Joe!