That’s right. The linchpin of anti-Obama rhetoric is a popular novel about rapture and tribulation. Let us raise a hymn:
Beloved brethren and sistren, I posted this here one year ago today:
Without delving into an argument I’ve been having for decades, this is an example of how the very globalization wrought in the name of American values can wreak changes that frighten people who hold those same values. We have changed the world, and now we will either change with it or be changed by it.
The wacky right doesn’t get this. Republicans don’t get it either. Nor do they understand just how fundamentally they have changed the country’s course away from their ideology. And it will only get worse, because Obama ‘gets it’ in a way that no previous president has. These discussions about internationalism will grow more common in the next three years. On top of global currency, add a global energy grid and even global government. As we approach 2012, the Last Stand of the Culture Warriors will raise the stakes amid an atmosphere of Mayan calendar nonsense and End-Times paranoia. For a preview of Republican strategy, watch Glenn Beck.
Via Huffington Post this morning:
Glenn Beck: I’m not standing out on the street corner with signs or anything, but there are plenty of reasons to be concerned. There are wars going on in Iraq, Afghanistan; there’s the war on terror; genocide in Africa — and more people have been killed in warfare in this century than at any other time in history. Wars are a big sign to look for, plus there is a major shift towards one-world government.
America’s blatant move towards socialism has caught the eye of the world, especially those who love the idea of a one-world government. They think this could be their opportunity to achieve their goal, and they are attempting to cash in on socialism’s current favorable public view.
The sad part is they are succeeding. The world views the European Union as a wild success and other leaders want to emulate the EU. Why do you think that Obama had such huge crowds in Germany? Because he thinks like they do.
Newsmax lists one sign of the coming apocalypse:
Globalism
Satan shall “deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth,” and shall “gather them together” to encircle and attack Israel.
– Rev. 20: 7-9 The expansion of the European Union; NAFTA and global economics; a U.S. economy flirting with socialism and the election of an internationalist president in Obama. (Emphasis mine)
And why not? He’s obviously in cahoots to cut the US nuclear arsenal in half with Russia’s. Even though 1500 nuclear weapons are more than enough to end civilization as we know it, this deal somehow makes the world more dangerous.
Meanwhile, the president obviously means Israel harm because he isn’t budging on his demand Israel stop building in East Jerusalem. Throw in some birther nonsense and you have the outline of another “authority” quoted in the article: Tim LaHaye.
It strikes me that we need a new “end times” theology; Glenn Beck has been left behind. Right wing lunatics of every kind have been left behind. If we’re ever to install a future worth having, the apocalypse-mongers have to be marginalized.
Hold out a hand. If they choose to stay in the past of their imagination, let them. And whenever this meme comes up, we must all hammer it down with prejudice: “I HAVE SEEN THAT MOVIE.”
