After hearing one more statement or action taken by President Obama, do you feel helpless, unable to do anything about it? Your Congressman never responds and letters to the editor only allow you to get it off your chest. Helpless and hopeless, you feel locked out.
We’re at the intersection of Discouraged and Hopeless and all we can do is hang in there until 2016. (kitchentablenewsforkids.wordpress.com)
A friend recently sent me a copy of an analogy to this currently circulating on the Internet.
The writer* relates the harrowing 8-minute plunge of German Wings Flight 9525 in the French Alps, in which 150 innocent people met an immediate, unthinkable death.
The co-pilot Andreas Lubitz couldn’t be stopped because he had locked the pilot out of the cockpit. “It’s hard to imagine the growing feelings of fear and helplessness that the passengers felt as the unforgiving landscape rushed to meet them,“ the writer stated.
He wrote of the feeling in the pits of the stomach and hearing the shake and rattle of structures stressed beyond their limits. And it was only near the end of the 8-minute plunge that everyone finally understood what was really happening and began to scream.
While some may question the juxtaposition, the writer then transitioned to his analogy saying, “America is in very deep trouble and we feel the descent in the pits of our stomachs. We don’t know where we’re going anymore, but do know it isn’t good. And above all, we feel helpless because Barack Obama has locked us out.”
He reminds us how Obama locked the American people out of his decision to seize the national healthcare system; when we wanted action taken in the IRS when conservative groups were targeted; and when he decided to circumvent immigration laws and provide benefits to those who broke our laws.
He locked out those who advised against premature troop withdrawals and the intelligence experts who warned of the growing ISIS threat. And he locked out anyone disagreeing with the release of five Taliban terrorists for one U. S. deserter.
Most recently Obama has sought to lock out Congress from the negotiations with Iran on the issue of nuclear weapon production.
The writer of the analogy wrote that “there was probably some nervous laughter, confusion and a bit of comforting chatter with seatmates” before anxiety metastasized into terror and everyone finally understood what was happening. “Only near the end did they begin to scream.”
“Like those passengers,” the writer explains, “a growing number of Americans feel a helpless dread as they come to the inescapable conclusion that our nation’s decline is an act of choice rather than chance. The choice of one man who is in full control of our 8-year plunge. I wonder when America will begin to scream?”
Kramerontheright believes our only hope is to elect a conservative Republican to the presidency in 2016, and hope that in the meantime the Republican Congress will continue to tighten the screws on the executive branch.
* Because I was unable to confirm the identity of the author of the analogy, I have chosen not to publish the name on the piece.
