Proof at Last!

Proof at last, Time Travel is real!

        Ever since my childhood years, I've been fascinated by the idea of  time travel, and have read any number of books, all classified as science fiction, on the subject. Favorites include the H.G. Wells classic, "The Time Machine,"  "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", and more modern efforts such as Asimov's "The End of Eternity."  All these were entertaining, but  related to clearly fictional events and modalities.

        I would admit that my current research on the subject is based on circumstantial data and the result rather than the method. My conviction that time travel has occurred  least twice  in this century is based  on the impeccable observations of two great Americans who obviously travelled into the future, observed the current GOP candidate debates and press statements, and returned to their own eras and wrote down their observations. I offer the following paragraphs in evidence:

        My first examples come from the writings of American humorist Will Rogers, whose travel through the temporal wormhole  left him with several cogent observations which must have been inspired by current events:   "A fool and his money are soon elected."  Obviously an analysis of the Trump campaign, although one hopes he hasn't predicted the actual result.   

        Additional evidence points to his observation of candidate Ben Carson's  epic journey of foot in mouth events: " There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."      Even if Carson hasn't actually performed said micturition  yet, he falls into the last category!

        Listening to the militaristic ravings of Trump, Cruz and others clearly shows that Rogers was observing their behavior when he opined, " Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week." I would add that referring to Trump, Cruz and diplomacy in the same sentence is a stretch. In like manner, watching the Huckabee, Santorum, Rubio and Cruz efforts to "out religion" each other, was clearly the inspiration for, "Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs."

        Finally as proof , consider this as both a reflection from almost 90 years ago and a projection of the probable 2016 GOP love in. "The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking."

        Ok, ok, not convinced? No less observer of the human condition than H.L Mencken, has obviously also made the trip and returned to his time to write about it. Need proof? Ok, here goes:

        Consider any of the current clown car full of GOP candidates. Who else could this Mencken quote relate to so perfectly? " The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

        The same cadre of alarmists , touting the "war on Christianity," while really pandering to the mass of single (and wrong)  issue morons must have been the inspiration for, " We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart!"

        The GOP carping re: intellect vs. patriotism has surely led to this, " The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression." A Cruz or Huckabee  in office would fir that descriptor to a tee.

Finally, two generalities which are so apt today that they must have been based on actual observation:  Re: Trump  adherents - "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."  And in general and in summary, "A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in." to this point this is the perfect description to the GOP travelling menagerie and freak show.