"I bankrupted 6,000 pensions to get this car! Winnnneeeerrr!"
There are all sorts of winners and losers in the world. But who are the winners in life, where it counts? Are heartless Wall Street traders driving their Aston Martins winners? Does getting elected to office make you a winner? Certainly being a person who always pays his bills is a winner! It all rests, I suppose, on one's definition of responsibility.
In the story of Lazarus and the rich man we see that winners in the world can be total losers in life. The rich man - the "job creator", the "bill payer", the "fiscally responsible" one - condemned the homeless bum Lazarus and thus gave himself license to look the other way. But when the rich man ended up in hell he begged to come back to undeceive those like him but it was too late. Loooooser!
So winning and losing really aren't so clear cut after all - not as simple labels anyway.
When someone uses the phrase "political junkie", I hear the phrase "religious fanatic" - and run the other way. In both cases it's someone who's basically lost interest in his life. "I speak of Important Issues! Of War and Peace, Geopolitical Strategy and Candidates' Policy!" Then like any asshole who's declared himself a saint, he goes home and beats his wife for any disagreement. Scary peeps, that.
"It's not me!"
Nope, you gotta stay committed to your life to contend for true winning. But we're all looking for the Big Excuse. "I can't show my true feelings because of [fill in the blank]." Not that there aren't fatal consequences to being honest, it's just that still does not provide for a choice. It sort of like saying you'll be shot for drinking water. It will be mankind's Final Step when we face this and the end of the Big Phony we all acknowledge but so desperately preserve.
And that explains how Obama won the first debate in actuality. He didn't want to be there. He didn't want to share a stage with a grinning idiot who couldn't find a clue with a guidebook. And no man alive wants to debate with a dedicated liar because there's simply no point to it. But because we are mostly idiots and are dumb enough to tune in to such a farce Obama had the Big Excuse of having to go through the motions. Obama's saving grace though was in letting his true feelings come through, in showing an honest response. Unfortunately, to a professional liar that's a Cardinal Sin in his twisted mind.
Politicians always think winning elections makes up for losing behavior.
For having defied the faithful, Obama was duly roasted. Instead pulling a William Shatner and calling out this baseless behavior - "Get a life!" - O-Man did what he always does: he caved. That garnered much applause from his betrayers and applause is a drug few politicians can resist. For them that defines right and wrong. "To thine own self be untrue." What a credo!
Prepping for that Vital Debate and Pony Show!
It's ingrained in our psyches that to be crucified is a sign of Christ-like behavior. Problem is, it doesn't count when you yourself drive in the nails! So out comes Obama's hammer, driving his efforts for the second debate right through his true feelings, killing them in spades. (Of course, "Thou shall not kill" stopped meaning anything to that man a long time ago.) Thus by choking, strangling and torturing himself O-Man lost the second debate in his heartbroken state. A real winner of the world!
That's what we all do, right? Die for the greater good. Preserve the Big Lie so no liar's feelings get hurt (especially if they vote!). What a sad, sad human comedy we are. At some point comes the choice between choosing pretense or our lives. It's not easy being honest. There are no safety nets and God shows no mercy either way. If you tell the truth and are crucified for it, no one will come from the sky to save you. You'll just die a miserable death. It's only us down here and we determine each other's fate. Remember that the next time you decide to be "kind" and coddle a liar or a lie.
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