- A critical mass is approaching in US politics; the Obama
campaign may soon become a tsunami that washes away Senator Hillary Clinton's
last-ditch sea walls of support in primary runs in Texas and Ohio. If she
loses or even wins these states by a close decision, she will not gain
enough pledged delegates to win the Democratic nomination without an ugly
fight at what could become the Demo-"cathartic" Convention in
Denver this coming August.
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- History's color is changing from mindful to emotive.
It happens every 36 years in what is called the day-night cycle of the
Cosmic Year. This is the time it takes the Vernal Equinox position of the
sun -- moving ever so slightly westward with every new year in regards
to how it is seen from earth moving against inertial space - to circle
all the 12 constellations of the tropical zodiac: approximately 25,765
years. A "day" on the Cosmic Calendar is a 36-year period of
history where decisions and actions are a little more mental in nuance
because like the sun soaked day it is a period of history in the yang.
It is masculine time. The last "day" began in the normal years
of 1972 -- 1973 and is ending in 2008. Now we are entering a 36-year period
of history where decisions and actions are subtly more emotionally driven
because like moonlit night, we enter a period of history in the yin. It
is a feminine time. Our emotions will be stronger. Leaders who skillfully
appeal to them will succeed more often than not to positions of power over
us from 2008 through 2044.
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- The pendulum of politics is swinging from yang to a yin
age. It would appear now to be postponing or indeed preventing Hillary
Clinton's destiny to become president of the United States. Though she
is a woman, and the coming feminine age will aid many more women coming
to power than ever before in history, she has chosen to speak in a voice
better suited to the Cosmic Day that had set. Her appeals to voters are
through reason, facts, and the detailing of substance. She does not emotionally
inspire. She has not yet found her voice, despite declaring so after her
surprise victory in the early New Hampshire primary back on 8 January 2008.
On the other hand, it would be fairer to say, the right voice is speaking
to the wrong emotive times. A candidate who is the more adroit demagogue
more easily manipulates the masses.
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- The word "demagogue" is defined in the American
Heritage Dictionary as "a leader who obtains power by means of impassioned
appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace."
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- What I am about to tell you requires in these emotionally
touchy times that I tread carefully with footfalls shaped in the right
words to keep advancing on the razors edge of reason. One verbal misstep
might see my point fall into the reader's hot stomach pit of emotionally
fanned fires.
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- We have two significant leaders, one thankfully extinguished
by history and one of audacious hope on the rise, both at the dawn of two
Cosmic Nights - the previous one starting in 1936 and the current one beginning
now in 2008. Both men share one skill. Otherwise, they are poles apart.
Both have that rare gift of demagoguery that literally could hypnotize
a nation to be inspired to surrender their reason to their collective emotions.
They were both men unsurpassed in their primal power of oratory. They both
knew that a nation could be won by the power of the eloquent spoken word.
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- They were men who when seen away from the political pulpit
could appear average, retiring, even bored and bland, yet place them before
the masses and you could see them become possessed by a deep inner force.
These two, who were not actually that physically attractive, when possessed
by this force had an almost psychosexual appeal. The bland became rock
star demigods. They became the mythic, glistening eyed, stentorian voiced
heralds of a nation's collective hopes and fears.
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- Standing erect, becoming bigger than they are, somehow
these messengers of change, these definers of a people's problems, needs,
had become redemptive revolution personified, proclaiming a new awakening
in Germany, a new era of change for America.
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- Then, as now, there were a few people, like myself for
instance, whose awareness of the workings of mass hypnotic suggestion made
them unable to lose their consciousness to join the cult of blind emotion
overtaking the chanting multitudes in a stadium rally enraptured by the
great orator. Those like myself back in 1936 or today in 2008 feel even
a bittersweet desire to join in, to plunge into the bright waters of politicized
passion. Let me be a part of the crowd that feels that wonderful and intoxicating
euphoria that only the act of surrendering your individual intelligence
can conjure. Ah that sweet voodoo urge to herd into that happiness of belonging
to a great movement. What a bewitching relief. I am no longer alone with
only my response-ability to think and question as companion. Love is blind
in its scream of Beatles bliss.
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- Too bad for me that awareness has worked under my skin
and become a watcher of the heart's happy hysterias. I am a desert island-like
individual in a sea of the mass hypnotized at these rallies. The captives
of emotion's captivation -- eyes gleaming in dumb adoration, surround me.
They are not hearing what I am hearing from the orator. They are "feeling"
the speech, just like people did back in mass rallies of that other master
demagogue of 1936. In both cases, these men said little to nothing of substance;
indeed, the relentless list of flowery promises gobbled up by the transfixed
crowds reached the level of the simplistic and even the idiotically absurd.
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- No matter!
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- Yes we can!
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- Hail Victory!
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- Barack Obama may be remembered as history's next great
demagogue. It remains to be seen if he can "lead" the United
States as its president and really fulfill his vast list of high pie-in-the
sky promises when the oratory love fest takes him into the paradise of
the irrational. Crowds can be manipulated easily - not so those holding
power whom you threaten with your emotionally charged calls to change.
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- Beyond the Obamagoguery, Barack's rather thin legislative
Senate record of little over four years length, if one would just examine
it in detail, favors corporations. Opensecrets.org has disclosed the tricky
ways business and industrial groups have gotten away contributing tens
of millions to the Obama campaign without technically being recorded as
lobbyists of corporations. Have the corporate suits found a new and better
mouthpiece?
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- Beware of the CEOligarchy in search of one. We have had
somehow survived eight years under their last one. Have the CEOs anticipated
the more emotive times leaning politics to the left, and found their new
herald? It must be remembered, despite the emotional temptations of our
new times to hope and forget, the last great Obamagogue of the previous
Cosmic Night, beginning in 1936, became Chancellor of Germany only after
the CEOs of his day chose him to be their spokesman in power. They did
not anticipate he would take that power away. Maybe today's Obamagogue
once he is in power will surprise everyone and effectively use his powers
of mass appeal to raise a rebellion of the American people against the
tyranny of special interests?
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- I certainly hope so.
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- Mine is an audacious dream of hope perfectly tailored
for these new times of Cosmic Night when reason and substance take a back
seat to irrational passion.
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