HISTORY AND INSANITY

Historian Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) remarked that often, history seemed to be "just one damn thing after another."  Anyone who has studied the history of cultures and nations over the last few thousand years can easily get overwhelmed by the constantly recurring episodes of mindless insanity.

This is not metaphorical, nor hyperbolic.  I mean bouts of literal insanity, where entire cultures and nations actually go nuts.  It is not something rare.  Often, it seems the norm.

We need not recount this through the millennia, but just look at our recent past.  Western Civilization, the highest cultural achievement of humanity, gave birth to two horrifically murderous insanities, Nazism and Communism.  Western Civilization's greatest historical enemy, Islam, has become infected with the pathology of suicidal terrorism.

Two modern insanities have infected much of the entire world.  The world-wide ban on DDT is criminally insane, responsible for an on-going holocaust of malaria deaths – most of them children – of 88 million.  Over 2 million will die this year.  The Malaria Clock continues to tick.

The belief that human-produced carbon dioxide- a trace of a trace gas – causes global warming is simply nuts.  There is no evidence for it whatsoever. 

There is no experiment, there is no historical data, showing that an increase of carbon dioxide precedes an increase in warming.  It's always the other way around.  The only "evidence" is in GIGO (garbage in-garbage out) computer models which can't predict the weather next week.

We Americans like to believe that our country is immune to such historical insanities.  We were blessed at our founding with the greatest triumph of rationality the world has ever known.  The inertia of that moment, the echo of the principles of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution, have propelled us to being preeminent among all nations ever to exist on earth.

But we are not immune to insanity. Anyone old enough to have experienced the 1960s is well aware of this.  America yet to recover from the cultural and political destruction of the Sixties Radicals. 

And so we come to the insanity of Barack Hussein Obama. 

Let's dispense with all the blather and get to the bottom of it:  anyone with a 3-digit IQ (2 digits means mentally defective) and loves America who is even considering voting to place his country's national security and economy in this man's hands should be institutionalized.  He or she is clinically crazy and a public health hazard.

Again, this is no exaggeration.  This man's candidacy is insane, no ifs or buts.  So the only question right now is, is this a spasm of insanity from which a majority of American voters will recover in time, or not?

If the former, then all his incredible inadequacies, all the incredible associations with hate-America racists and terrorists, all the incredible vote fraud by the Communists of ACORN, on and on and on and endlessly on, will finally register with voters who will sweep him into the dustbin of history.

If the latter, then my greatest personal fear will come true.

What I fear most is that if Obama is elected, I will lose my patriotism for America.  He will not be my president, I will owe no loyalty to him nor his government.  I will move out of America, physically live elsewhere, where I will remain until my country regains its sanity.  I will not live in a land gone mad.

To The Point is, we say, "the oasis for rational conservatives."  But an oasis from what?  From insanity, cultural, political, social, and economic.  And what happens when the insanity becomes overwhelming?  The oasis must become an insurgency.

In response to my Albania in America last week, the TTP Forum's most profligate poster, Cephran, after imbibing a six-pack of Red Bull before noon, wrote: "Americans deserve the type of government and economy that mirrors them; honest, decent and hardworking."

Evidently, these Americans are now in the minority. 

Maybe not.  It's not over.  Maybe a miracle will occur tonight (10/15) and McCain will actually kick Obama's ass like he's supposed to.  Maybe the Nobama Hillary supporters at Hillbuzz are right when they say most national polls showing Obama far ahead are way overpolling Dems, and that "the internal numbers we see coming out of NC, VA, PA, OH, IN and FL show McCain wins in all of those states (there is no mathematical possibility for Obama to win without taking PA, OH, or FL)." (TTP hat tip to Forum poster "gitrdone57.")

But the very fact that Obama is the Dem candidate, that he might be elected is clear evidence of the capacity for American insanity.  

Should he win, we will be denounced as traitors and all the fascist potential of the Patriot Act will be used against us.  So be it.  To The Point will be a rebel insurgency that will not stop fighting for a rational and free America.

The damage this man will do if elected is vast.  Yet the wreckage will be cleared, and America will be sane once more.  How far off that day is will be up to us.