Classical Values :: Clinging to valium (and V is for what?)

November 01, 2008

Clinging to valium (and V is for what?)

Feminist author and icon Erica Jong has stated that an Obama loss "Will Spark the Second American Civil War" and that "Blood Will Run in the Streets":

Basically, Jong says her fear that Obama might lose the election has developed into an "obsession. A paralyzing terror. An anxious fever that keeps you awake at night." She also says that her friends Jane Fonda and Naomi Wolf are extremely worried that Obama will be sabotaged by Republican dirty tricks, and that if an Obama loss indeed comes to pass, the result will be a second American Civil War.

Fitfully describing the back spasms she shares with Jane Fonda and her need for Valium (with a histrionic mention of the "Republican Mafia"), Jong elaborates on her paranoid theory:

"If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it's not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets."

"Bush has transformed America into a police state, from torture to the imprisonment of reporters, to the Patriot Act."

Obviously, tempers would be running hot if McCain were to win, but that's only because people (especially Obama supporters and BDS sufferers) have been conditioned to believe that it would be impossible. I doubt blood would run in the streets if McCain were to win, but people would do well to remember that even according to the polls so many people have been claiming were biased in Obama's favor, McCain has been ahead five times in the past, and if he happens to pull ahead on Election Day, that would not indicate a plot.

Again, depending on who you ask, just as Bush did not win in '04, McCain will not win in '08. Nor will Obama win in '08.

I predict lots of anger all around, and the usual spasms of high-volume, fever-pitch lunacy.

I guess I'll have to do without the valium.

In the event danger threatens, I have other things to cling to....

MORE: I'm wondering which side would be more likely to accept defeat graciously.

So what the heck, here's another poll.

And remember,

YOUR VOTE IS SECRET!

(Perhaps McCain ought to consider that as a campaign slogan.)

posted by Eric on 11.01.08 at 09:04 AM

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"And it's not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets."

Say what you will about the Bush years, but I'll miss this level of reasoned, considered, and measured political discourse.

These types are going to need lots of antacids when they actually start to swallow their own spit and bile for a change.

ThomasD · November 1, 2008 09:29 AM

Those who think the USA today is a police state have never lived in a police state as I did for a few years. (OK, not a police state but a military dictatorship--toMAYto, toMAHto.) More broadly, I have a list of countries I would recommend to any who think the USA is a terrible country. They can go live there for a while and make their own comparisons. They can even keep their American passports--I'm not vengeful--and come back and kiss the ground as I did.

notaclue · November 1, 2008 10:44 AM

I won't be voting.

But I would if it could really push these sensitive artistes to suicide or revolution or Canada.

Alas, they would merely check into "rehab". The bad news about rehab is that rehab ends.

At that point the rehabee has either recovered or not recovered. In either case they are again loose among the public.

I have a passing acquaintance with police states. The entire crazy right in the US could muster perhaps 75 people for actual insurrection. Fifty would show up drunk, the other 25 would be equally effective.

The left could summon 750 from a single college campus. Only those with fake ids would be drunk.

K · November 1, 2008 05:27 PM