The Soap Burns

We have been saying this for so long we're almost tired of saying it: This is the most healthy election in our lifetime. If for no other reason than it's the most truthful. The gloss is off the bathroom wall paint. In the past pretension held sway.

One night several years ago around two in the morning an ambulance rolled up to the Emergency Room with a pleasant 81 year old lady who called complaining of chest pain. The ambulance driver told the intern on duty she made him and his partner wait 20 minutes while she got dressed. She was wearing a new black dress, a price tag still dangling from one side, that ran from the neckline to her ankles, a pair of mid-calf black hose, gloves, a neatly placed hat and a pair of new black shoes. Her face was bright with heavy red lip stick and carefully spread make-up down to where her neck line fused with her dress. She was all dressed up to go to the hospital.

When the nurses stripped her down to start an IV and hook up an EKG, they discovered from the top of those calf-length stockings to the neckline of that dress she had layers of caked-on dirt.Thick, hardened caked-on dirt. One of the other interns, an Iowa farm boy growing up, joked there was enough dirt caked on her to grow at least a couple of acres of corn. She was admitted to CCU with an anterior MI and there was talk it took the staff two full days to scrub off all that dirt. That's precisely why this election is so healthy.

Until now candidates from both sides rolled up to these every-four-year-staged events dressed exactly like that little old lady. Stripped down to the essence, however, people now realize just how many layers of dirt the whole process tries to conceal. The pockmarks, the name calling, the lies and the subterfuge, even the not so subtle threats, they're all out there and it's making people uncomfortable. Truth has a funny way of doing that. It's like that line in an old country song, the girls all get prettier around closing time.

So one hardly needs an active imagination to grasp why the entrenched are so upset. The caked-on make up and dirt is being scrubbed off their world and the bristles of the brush are harsh and hard. And the soap, as it often does in fresh wounds, burns. The people are finally getting it. As one person succinctly noted: "We can actually be unified by a common RAGE at what is becoming more and more apparent. WE have a common enemy and that is those who are trying to manipulate us with this divisive bullshit....and then laughing at us over it."
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One needs to search through all the presidential campaigns in US history to try to find a campaign presenting this sort of rhetoric and these sorts of accusations. The Drudge Report has run articles suggesting that the current presidential campaign is making Americans anxious. This is because the current political environment is abnormal … and unusually truthful.

In the past, those involved in politics were careful to sustain a semblance of propriety in order to preserve the credibility of the process. Meanwhile, the people behind the concept called the United States have used military and economic power to destabilize the world in order to generate a new “order” and that program is proceeding apace.

We tend to believe it is purposeful. Candidates for high office are surely vetted and selected by those who hold the real power in US society.  Thus what’s going on today was likely anticipated, if not approved.

The media is playing its part in this larger unveiling, and this also informs us that the current chaotic truth-telling is deliberate.

The process of globalization must continue and the tearing down of what’s been built up throughout the West – including, science, art and technology – is taking place because it is the way free-market trends are counteracted.

Out of chaos … order. The idea now seems to be to tear down foundational elements of American society that have been painstakingly erected over the past century and more. The US as a society – and then as a culture – is to be destroyed to make way for something else.

thedailybell.com/news-analysis/campaign-blows-up-media-and-politics-as-us-society-disintegrates
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Yep, the soap burns.