Who would've thought when I was a kid that the POTUS, major US Government Agencies, the Democrat Party, major lobbying groups, and many well known scientists and other notorious luminaries would be actively working to turn my glorious country into a 12th century subsistence economy, sans military protection or any real or imagined borders whatsoever, a great wasteland devoid of all machines and internal combustion engines, where home chimneys are cold because burning wood is proscribed, a land where Robin Hood, William Wallace, and Saladin would all feel at home.
Sadly, the great dreams of our mighty Ozymandias, who purposefully designed the precipitous decline and fall of the world's once greatest and most prosperous and, most importantly, most generous nation of all time, will come to fruition if he is reelected to a second term. President Barack Obama, who in the end stands like that famous, tall wooden statue of World War I German hero Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg whose surface was turned to glinting metal. Into steel, mind you, courtesy of the nails purchased by wartime donors and then driven into that ponderous and lifeless wooden titan transmogrifying him from drab wood to gleaming steel.
The radical rough hewn wooden past of the somewhat shorter and weaker Sotero has been hammered, over time, by our left leaning and radical "journalists" in our leading rolling mills like the NY Times, first into Obama, and then into the polished gleaming steel of the now towering Ozymandias, by the application of one steel nail into the wooden giant in the form of a single hagiographic and notably mawkish fictional concoction passed off as journalistic history showing this mighty Ozymandias possessing the same stark ramrod straight Prussian totally detached fearlessness of the man that first wooden titan represents - Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, holder of the Pour Le Mérite with Oakleaves for utmost bravery. You know, having that same savoir-faire which enabled our Ozymandias to order the assassination of our chief foreign enemy from his BlackBerry during a round of golf, or so we are told when another silver spike was driven into that rough wooden likeness of a hero, covering yet another blemish with the round head of a twenty penny spike.
And the donors to this current Ozymandias have received in tenfold what they had hoped to receive. America will become a country too poor to even support the teeming millions from Mexico and points south. They will then become this century's boat people to South America, Canada, Asia, and even Cuba, while Americans will be too poor to leave.
And the dollar bill, like the Reichsmark of the 1920s before it, thanks to the years of qualitative easing, will be used to insulate homes, make Origami, used as kindling to start fires, as padding in threadbare jackets to keep warm, as warm ups for late night shows in Abu Dhabi, and to play endless games of liars poker while waiting in line for soup kitchens.
Yes, in 2008, Americans chose well and picked the engine of their own destruction. And in the mean time, few noticed the reluctance of Congress to stop this TV and print journalist constructed Ozymandias, with the gleaming silver disguising the rot within, the small Obama, then this smaller still, Barry Sotero and his plans for the utter destruction of the country he, and seemingly all of his close friends, seem to loathe.
John Burtis is a former Broome County, NY firefighter, a retired Santa Monica, CA, police officer. He obtained his BA in European History at Boston University and is fluent in German. He resides in NH with his wife, Betsy.
