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The Horrible Truth About Mitt Zombie

 
Hollow men have no 'conversions' of the heart
From the Underground, Jan 18, 2007

 The danger in stubbornly trying to "see the good" in people who live double lives is that some things can't be averaged out. Many of those in Massachusetts who denounce Romney as a man utterly lacking any principles voted for him in 2002 and trusted his rhetoric as more or less honest and heartfelt.

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Once you realize that he has simply fabricated his entire political and religious persona, you are on a road to grasping that he is as perfect a specimen of the political demagogue as American history has ever produced, not excepting even Bill Clinton.

A deluge of mere facts drives one to a disturbing conclusion: under the appealing and meticulously groomed outer packaging, is a soul-less creature. Some pundits have sensed something of this fact and referred to him as a "robot." In this metaphor, instead of a soul there's an almost perfectly designed computer algorithm, a program created by a cosmic marketing strategist that is designed to draw those looking for a rich, handsome, well-spoken, charismatic, Ivy League, "conservative" superman to lead us across the Red Sea.  But it is actually worse than that. Robots are not thought of as having ruthless ambition, and actual malice and indignation toward those who point to the devastation behind them. Mitt Romney is a soulless zombie. He is, in T. S. Elliot's words, a Hollow Man. Unlikely as it would seem

With Massachusetts liberals drooling on his shoulders, Romney makes Ted Kennedy's wildest dreams come true: big government health care, taxpayer-funded abortion on demand. "Pro-life" mercenaries proudly declare the Zombie sucessfully "converted." "He's one of us."

for a Mormon, Republican businessman, Mitt Romney is a charming, flattering, reassuring but deadly gift from a mortal enemy, a hollow Trojan horse concealing a dangerous cargo from something, somewhere in the cosmos.

As a self-styled "constitutionalist," he has been and remains, unless disarmed, the perfect weapon  against constitutions. He has successfully imposed more overtly and more radically anti-constitutional rules of government than any Democrat or Republican in Massachusetts history -- yet remains able to pose as a principled constitutionalist. Upon such Orwellian ironies and colossal contradictions are established populist dictatorships, especially in the age of mass media -- Lenin's, Hitler's, Mao's -- but also Napoleon's, and further back, Julius Caesar's.

Mitt Romney is the perfect opiate for lazy-minded, hyper-loyalist "conservatives" who somewhere deep down secretly prefer an easy surrender as a new Iron Curtain is falling over Western Civilization, a curtain heralded by many of the faux-conservative legal and political "elites" and punditocracy as a bold and imaginative decorating choice for the new millennium.

The creeping tyranny of "post-modern," post-rational, post-Judeo-Christian, post-morality, post-family, post-innocence, post-childhood, is being welcomed by those who have claimed the carcass of Reagan and turned it into a commercial franchise for their own prestige and enrichment.

But this post-modern, content-free "conservatism" is not only quietly anti-theistic but also therefore broadly misanthropic, or anti-humanity, anti-mankind. C. S. Lewis described it's faux-intellectual foundation in his short, timeless non-fiction work The Abolition of Man, and imagined it in his fiction as a spiritual darkness that had fallen over an "Oxbridge" university in That Hideous Strength.

But then the poets, thinkers and prophets who warned Christians and "conservatives" of the hideous strength that now claims the corpse of Reaganism have also been turned into a money-making canon of conservative writing by the very people who are stripping all the meaning out of "conservatism" and out of the person of Jesus Christ.

Conservatism, of course, cannot defend itself.

Christ, however will not be commercialized. He will answer the money changers in His time and in His own way.

It will not be pretty. Of that we may be sure.

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