This marks the seventh annual edition of "Do you want to see something really scary?" The recurring title of this post is, of course, a tribute to Twilight Zone--the movie. I did not see it--my mother was extremely strict and never allowed us to watch horror movies or even light comedy containing anything that smacked of the occult. But I remember my father coming back from a trip and telling us that he had been driving with his nephew on a dark, wood-lined road when his nephew told about the scene from Twilight Zone where a set of characters are in a car at night trying to scare each other. Finally, one of them says to the driver of the car, "Do you want to see something really scary?" When his friend agrees, he turns his face away, and when he turns back he has become a monster who kills the young man who is driving.
Over the past seven years that I have been writing this post, I have used it to highlight the scary problems in our political world. And every year there is more and more to fear. The real life events taking place in our country today are worse than any scary film plot ever hatched in the mind of any Hollywood producer.
Topping my scary list this year is the thought that Beto O'Rourke might actually become the next U.S. Senator from the State of Texas. I don't have to watch TV or Internet ads or look at the media to form my opinion of Beto--I am from El Paso and have interacted with the man personally. For more on that see last month's post giving some background on the guy. Fortunately, a new NYT poll released a few days ago shows an 8 point lead for Cruz and Beto's new television campaign wreaks of frantic desperation, so this might be just a bad dream rather than a living nightmare.
Next up is the prospect of Nancy (we have to pass Obamacare to find out what's in it) Pelosi returning to her former position as House Speaker. Since Pelosi refuses to give up her iron grip on power, she will certainly be returned to the post from which she can do the most possible damage to the country if Democrats retake the House next month. My own opinion is that every Republican Congressional candidate should suspend all regular campaign ads during Halloween week and just run pictures of Pelosi with the name of their opponent and the tagline, "A vote for __________ puts Nancy Pelosi two heartbeats away from the Presidency." I know that would motivate me.
Finally, one of the scariest events I have witnessed in recent history is the public flogging of Brett Kavanaugh by a group of leftists who tried to destroy his reputation without a shred of evidence. Fortunately, Kavanaugh's nomination was confirmed a few minutes ago by the Senate, and that puts this whole ugly mess to bed--for now. But the concept that any man can be accused of misconduct by any woman--with no corroboration or evidence--and that he is guilty unless he can prove that he is innocent shows a troubling change to who we are as a culture. We are no longer concerned with fairness or decency. We are no longer concerned with facts or evidence. We are concerned with getting our own way--and we don't care who we destroy in order to get our own way. We have been polarized for a long time in this country, but the extreme ugliness of the Kavanaugh confirmation and the mob mentality that attempted to bully Senators into voting against Kavanaugh is a scary indication of how completely we have lost our moral compass. Kavanaugh ordinarily would not have been my first choice--I would have preferred someone more conservative. I would have at least preferred a nominee who self-identifies as a conservative. However, considering what he has just endured, I am very happy to see him confirmed.
The vileness of this whole confirmation process has turned my stomach--from the women outside the Senate chanting "shame" to Jimmy Kimmel's debase and violent comments on late night television--liberals turned a Supreme Court confirmation into a smutty, disgusting smear job. The scariest part is that what happened to Kavanaugh could happen to anyone, any place, any time. In this new world without restraints, anyone can be accused of the most egregious offenses and destroyed with absolutely no evidence and no recourse after the "charges are proven baseless." And that, folks, is really, really scary.
Alexandra Swann's novel W: The Set, incorporates her novels The Planner and The Chosen which tell the story of an out-of-control, environmentally-driven federal government implementing Agenda 21 and NDAA. The set is available on Kindle. For more information, visit her website at http://www.frontier2000.net.
