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Like too few Americans who see through this man to his hollow core,
I put absolutely no faith in Bill Clinton and his cabal. I believe
that this is one of the most dangerous periods in our great nation's
history. Many Americans are, I think, in a state of denial
in regard to the problems and disturbing trends that loom like
giant blackened thunder clouds on our horizons. Clinton offers
comic and dramatic relief from thoughts of the future, even
reality, in much the same way that soap operas lull the millions
of women who watch them into a state of suspended belief. We've
been heading to this point for years. The TV generation has itself
spawned a TV generation. We have been prepared, like sheep for the slaughter,
for a Clinton, the ultimate confidence man. Many of us live in
a television world, somewhere between waking and sleeping where
intentions are tantamount to the act itself, where no problem can exist if
it can not be solved in an hour or less, where others do the living
and the dying, where distinctions between live action and past
action are as blurred as those between staged action and real-life,
and where we remain passive observers, always passive observers,
to the drama- with the quaint notion that somehow we are more important
for having watched than not, that, somehow, by watching we are "doing". Into this
quasi-dreamland, this mass hypnagogia, steps Bill Clinton, confidence man,
lullaby man, who will not disturb our half-sleep, our induced state of
denial. With the unctuous, glib phrases of the devil himself, this man will
smoothly talk his way into our half-conscious minds and have his way with us.
Bill Clinton is like a latter day Pied Piper. He comes to Hamelin and
promises to rid us of all disturbances that might rouse us from
our sleep of denial. We are lulled by the offer, squealing with delight,
as our ancestors might have when Dr. Feelgood's Medicine Show promised
them a new poultice or tonic guaranteed to cure what ailed them.
But this Piper, like the one of yore, exacts a heavy price. In the end
he steals off with our children, our free-will, and our freedom. |
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