posted by Kyle on Oct 22
I don’t know how much presidential campaign garbage you see in the US these days, but here in Antigua every third person I meet tries to convince me to vote for Obama. Today I received an interesting curse from a vagrant: “You f***ing white monkey, go and vote for McCain!”
Americans and Antiguans alike believe Obama is going to be some brilliant savior. They see Bush as the devil (they’re not far off there), and think that their messiah will cleanse the world of all of this evil.
They don’t understand that Bush is just one man, and he’s made the same mistakes that just about every other president in US history has: he sees government as a solution to problems. So, he tries to use government to solve those problems. Surprise, surprise, it didn’t work, and had unintended consequences.
Now, Obama wants to take the reins of government and he wants to try to accomplish things. What he doesn’t realize is that you can’t accomplish things with government. Throughout history I can find no example of a government successfully attacking a single problem. It just doesn’t work.
So, Obama will try to institute new regulations on Wall Street. More American capital will flow overseas. He will try to raise taxes on the wealthy, and they’ll put their money in overseas banks. He’ll try to work out some deal with Iran, and nothing will change. He might try to wage a war or two (they all do that), and things will only get worse.
No matter what good Obama tries to do, he will fail. He will leave behind only tears and disaster. His followers may idolize him long after he has been disgraced, like conservatives idolized Ronald Regan, or they may abandon him in favor of a new messiah. Whatever the case, there is one thing that Obama will not do: leave us with a freer and more prosperous America than when he took office. He’ll try, he’ll fail, and we’ll suffer, because government can never solve America’s problems.
So, Obamaphiles, wear your t-shirts proudly, message all of your friends on facebook, put up signs all over America, and celebrate heartily on election night. You can hope for good things all day long; the only thing you’re going to get is disappointment.
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