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Winds of political change now sweep across the globe in the fashion of El Nino altering course. A cycle is ending. It began in America in 1980, when winds from the right brought Ronald Reagan to Washington to complement Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain and Pope John Paul II in the final assault on the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union, which collapsed from their cooperative pressure and from its own weight, ushering in a ‘new world order’. The storm of change continued and grew most furious in America in 1994, when a Republican wave swept Democrats from Congress, giving the Grand Old Party control of the House chamber for the first time in over 40 years. The new leaders arrived principled and dedicated to fulfilling a ‘contract with America,’ and, for a few robust years, appeared committed to that pledge. The crescendo in this rightward movement came in 2000, when the Grand Old Party claimed the Presidency, while holding both the Senate and the House. The grip tightened in 2002 and 2004, though cracks in the foundation were evident. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Tony Blair succeeded the ‘Iron Lady’ as British PM, bringing a Clintonesque charisma to the Office at 10 Downing Street in London, but without the Slickster’s slime. The magnificent John Paul was in physical decline, heart-stricken as the Catholic Church reeled from the scandal of 60’s generation pedophiles in the American priesthood. The dissolution of the U.S.S.R. led to upheaval in the Baltics, Eastern Europe, and central Asia, as a new Russia sought to accelerate its democratic evolution without spinning completely out of control. China was rising in the Far East and patiently preparing itself for world hegemony as it allowed America to waste its power and resources in material self-indulgence, confident that America would implode from toxic and self-destructive political divisiveness. As the Soviet menace ended, a new and more insidious version of the ‘empire of evil’ was gathering strength covertly throughout the Arc of Islam, centered within Mesopotamia, the world’s most ancient cauldron of conflict. It would be there that Pax Americana would reach its high tide, and from that place be wrenched, not by external force, but by internal turmoil. In these final days of the American Age, the divided house of Korea again challenges the delicate stability of the Far East. Ancient Persia rises, again, in pursuit of regional domination. The Holy Land is threatened by terrorists on all sides. None other but America seeks to pacify these danger zones. All others pursue self-interest and advantage. But the leadership in Washington is exhausted. Tony Blair is retiring. John Paul II is dead. The crowd that captured Congress in ’94 is now fattened and focused on protecting their incumbency, oblivious to the promises of earlier years. So it is with democracies, if they endure. Now comes a wind of change unlike any seen since Adolph Hitler rose in Germany. This blast will sweep from the scene the power elite. It will be a winnowing whirlwind. Those swept from office in America, though deserving of replacement, are most likely to be replaced by more wretched connivers who will withdraw America from the world, buying momentary gain, but the growing forces of danger in the world will not return to pacific pursuits. They will gain the dreaded weapons of mass destruction, so disbelieved by deluded Democrats now in dangerous denial, and they will visit those weapons on America and the decadent cities of old Europe. The winds may arrive in America on November 7.
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