It was you.
You did terrible things.
Some kind of sorcery; a dimly-lit chamber, a figure shrouded in black, and a bargain; whatever it was, to our lasting horror your efforts were a success. A thing of our darkest and most desperate nightmares was released.
I suppose this is the way of it when the powerful see that their grip on power is threatened. You were afraid. So you followed an age-old path which powerful people have long followed, often to their destruction and disgrace. You attempted an asset which you could not control.
Fools, all these things do is consume. They don't take orders; not for long. They don't give orders; not without any goal beyond their immediate and uninterrupted satisfaction. To them all the world is a banquet, their banquet, and upon it they will heedlessly and gleefully glut themselves. And they are utterly ruthless in ensuring that continues.
I've witnessed this one at its work. I've witnessed it feeding.
On my right-winger co-worker's radio tuned into Limbaugh/Hannity.
On that same guy's face when I told him a couple weeks back that I'm voting straight-ticket Dem after work today, and in all his pouting about it.
On virtually any right-wing media outlet.
On virtually any Fox News media outlet, and in their false claim at being "fair and balanced" when they are really just another right-wing media outlet.
Fouling comment threads and mailboxes at all levels of our haphazard communicatosphere.
Marching with the Klan.
Yelling "get a job."
In the words writ upon the Republican party platform.
In the words writ upon Citizens United, and in the sound of Roberts' gavel approving it as the law of the land.
In almost all of the rhetoric I've heard all season in ads which are "approved by [insert conservative]" and/or are "funded by [insert GOP bankroll]".
In the dangerous strain of anti-scientific thought which the GOP is actively husbanding.
On a 7-man committee deciding how much sovereignty a woman will have over her own body.
On each of the Republican Primary debate stages.
Shadowing every mile of the Romney/Ryan campaign trail.
On my grandpa's face when I told him I blog at DailyKos.
In the sound of his fist hitting the family table, after someone dared to betray a tendency to lean left.
In his feelings of alienation and hostility towards his own offspring, people who love him very much, merely because of political differences and the way he's been told to feel about such differences.
Truly, the extent to which you Republicans have allowed this thing to accumulate and fortify its power is an abomination. And I fear for our country.
Yet in the long view there is for all of us a silver lining, and a way for you to atone. Today.
All that power will be no help to your little hellspawn, and it will most certainly lose it. They don't hold on to anything for long; the urge to rend and destroy becomes too great, and they tear down their own castle. Always. This one's fall has already begun, and the disaster of that fall will only increase.
Thankfully we have an advantage over you on that front, Republicans.
Against that sort of upheaval I and mine are quite well protected.
That's not the case with you and yours, I'm afraid, and some of you know it.
From the "smarter" contingents of your party I can hear some of your terror-filled whispering: What have we done? What if this ravenous thing eats our promised mountain of gold? What will we do? Well, my dear novice demonologists, your best solution is really simple. Stop exuding such pitiless greed. Stop worshipping your hoards in your unholy church of Ayn. That'd end the damned thing right there. Stop it dead.
Of course, that's probably too much to ask. Unfortunately, pitifully, many of you can't help yourselves. For many of you being greedy is like being awake.
Luckily you Republicans have another option, and while I am wary of unguarded advice, especially from me to you; frankly it pains me to have your side of the aisle in such a ravaged condition. It sets a bad precedent. Something must be done, and it's in your interest, and the interests of the country, to do it.
Your other option is this: This demon needs to breathe, but it doesn't breathe oxygen. It breathes hate, fear and lies. And it exhales nothing but ignorance. Clear out the reeking cloud of these things which you have allowed to gather around yourselves and it will die. Don't clear your air and as it falls this thing will certainly consume you and your Grand Ol' Party, and possibly the rest of us too.
That is our advantage: Our air, Democratic air, while it can still be rather murky; is far clearer than yours. FAR clearer, the difference is like Los Angeles to Nome, and the word is spreading.
How could it not? The Stench is all but unbearable.
Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Americans; this thing has the current Republican party completely in its thrall. There is no surer way of clearing the air in this country and hastening its downfall, on this the most important election day of our lives, than to vote straight-ticket Democrat, and to help and encourage your neighbors to do the same.
If you need some help with that, or with finding your polling place, or with any other help getting out the vote in your community, you can follow these:
Obama for America
Moveon.org
Actblue
GOTV!