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In 1980, when I was in my second year of my first attempt at university education, I wondered if the six letters in each of our soon-to-be President’s names (Ronald Wilson Reagan) meant that HE was the Biblical Antichrist.
Arguably, I was correct. Ronald Wilson Reagan was the antichrist. No sooner did the man take office than tens of thousands of mentally and emotionally ill people were kicked to some of the meanest, coldest streets in the country. That, for me, was all the information I needed. I immediately increased the number of bowls per day I smoked, and the number of bottles of port I consumed.
Then this crack-head turned Commander-and-Thief was installed by a conservative Supreme Court under the most clandestine and inappropriate of circumstances. Having had the displeasure of living under the “rule” of the Bushmeister in Texas for most of his governorship, I can tell you I feared for my country at the deepest possible level of which I was capable.
My concerns have only grown deeper over the eight years that this incarnation of Dylan’s “Jokerman” has been given free rein to run roughshod over our country, over our lives and over our dignity.
John of Patmos penned the Apocalypse while he was in prison for opposing the rule of the Roman Empire – such as it had become. The “666,” according to many Biblical scholars simple spells the name of “Neron Caesar,” or, “Nero,” as he has lovingly come to be called. The guy who fiddled while Rome burned. Yeah, that guy.
After Clinton’s behavior, post-impeachment, began to annoy and alarm me, I slowly began to realize that there is no one antichrist. The Antichrist is a metaphor for the human ego at its infernal worst – a collection of appetites for which there can never be any satisfaction. Of course this meant that neither George W. Bush, nor the dark emperor, Dick Cheney, could be considered the biblical antichrist, either.
So the suggestion that Obama could be the antichrist is, of course, absurd. Then again, if you pluck three of the hairs from his head, they’d all three likely curl up to spell, “666,” without a lot of jerry-curl.
With all the evil things the white people of the United States of America have been guilty of during the past 100 years, I find it extremely racist that the one black man who has fought his way through the political fires of Chicago and Washington to become a viable Presidential candidate would be accused and a plethora of white folks overlooked.
Oh, that’s right. South Carolina has never quite gotten over the fact that those damn Yankees spoiled all of the sexual fun they were having with their colored help in the confines of their locked basements. Black people are pets in the minds of these morons, so the notion that a South Carolinian would demonize an educated black man is about as predictable as an Egyptian who views Jews as suspicious freaks of nature. And for the same reason: people don’t like it when their former slaves cease being deferential towards them. They like it even less when their sexual peccadilloes reach the cold light of day.
So the odds that Obama is the Biblical Antichrist are about as likely as a hard-core Dixiecrat achieving an emotional age older than five. Give it up, boys. You lost the goddamn war, threw a temper tantrum and have conspired to kill more than one US President as payment for your childish rage. Not to mention the fact that you’ve lynched or otherwise murdered thousands of innocent black people since your defeat at the hands of Lincoln – that over-educated geek from Illinois.
And there we have it – Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” exposed as the false empowerment of the emotionally retarded that it always was.
