Who's the Antichrist?

My Jews-for-Jesus friend maintains that Obama is the Antichrist. Does he mean because he is: "the final Head of the last great Empire before the establishment of the millennial kingdom of our Lord?" [Bible Believers Antichrist]

No, he means, he's "truly so arrogant that he reminds me of Hitler Mussulini(sic) and Castro as a true Demagogue."

I shouldn't be surprised: a super-articulate black man might be perceived as "arrogant." In the debates, Obama, tried to make sense of the complicated world we live in. In the last debate, Romney blithered and was ignorant of basic geography. Syria does not have a common border with Iran, and both have their own access to strategic Seas: Syria, the eastern Mediterranean, Iran, the Persian Gulf, one of the world's most strategic straits, as well as the Gulf of Oman, opening out into the Arabian Sea! But Romney accused Iran of taking sides in Syria to gain "its pathway to the sea." Why didn’t the media jump all over this gaffe?

Romney also remade his Middle Eastern foreign policy on the spot--his etch-a-sketch--so that Obama couldn't attack him; suddenly, they were almost exactly the same: on Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Syria, and hardly a whimper about Libya and Egypt, either. He was "Moderate Mitt."

Obama did elide, and inflate, but he wasn't lying: he was explaining--to his own advantage--what he'd already done, and why it was working.

Neither dealt with important issues like climate change, or the European financial crisis and Romney was caught out in his ignorance of the Navy--and the rest of the Defense complex, despite campaigning on a huge increase in Defense spending. Where's the media to jump all over him on that?

Fox News said the debate was a tie!

Obama knew what he was talking about, at least, but if Romney isn't the AntiChrist; he's the False Prophet.

Does that make Obama the Antichrist, with his right to blow up or assassinate anyone he deems a threat to the United States? At least it isn't just a personal threat to Obama, or the wealthy, or Democrats, but it's still wrong.

If, then, Obama is the Antichrist, then we must have entered into the end times! But remember: Revelations was written in the late first century, not by John, the Apostle, and evidently the writer saw end-times coming, but in his own era.

Evangelists revel in Revelations, yet so far the end times haven't manifested throughout the ages. Yet so many, in this era, anticipate that they will; they look forward to it.

Romney's election might not be the end of the "last great empire," but he could push it there more rapidly. Obama might delay it, at least--or, if pushed adequately, embark on a less destructive path.

Conspiracy

I never used to believe in conspiracy theories as a way to explain our world: the Bilderbergs, or Illuminati, the Communists, or aliens, Satan or the Anti-Christ. When I muttered darkly about climate destruction, a health foods store proprietor told me about contrails: "They're destroying the atmosphere, so we'll all have to buy their food."

"Who?"

"The Government."

That was a new one. Or maybe not so new; I saw it mentioned online the next day, and remembered that the health store lady had whispered "contrails" years before.

But what is happening in Congress, in election campaigns, in dismissals of bank fraud charges, in watered down or canceled regulations, in timorous actions by Obama and his administration--and other governments even more so, well, it does look more and more like a grand, if informal, conspiracy by a small group of people to grasp firm control. Rising inequality, the international power of corporations and Billionaires International--the richest man in the world is Mexican, though more billionaires hail from the US than anywhere else--does begin to look like a kind of conspiracy.

It's backed by billions of dollars (to protect trillions); it's international in scope: the US, Canada, most European nations excepting Greece, seem to have been taken over by this global elite, as have the white nations down-under. Russia, China, Korea, Japan, India and maybe Brazil are joining up, as well.

But it isn't a tight conspiracy, maintained by communication and central control; that's why it's so successful. This amorphous elite has socked away anywhere from $30 to $60 plus trillions, according to estimates by various sources, hidden in ways that are difficult for governments to trace--or certainly to tax. That's at least several times the GDP of the largest economy in the world: the United States.

Where is this money?

It's parked in low-wage countries outside of US, or other nations' control, largely in banking havens, where no one asks questions. Mitt's overseas accounts are emblematic.

Mitt isn't anywhere near the wealthiest, nor most powerful of this elite, but he represents their most overt attempt at gaining control. It isn't as if Obama has stood resolutely in the way: he's not one of them, but people around him, like Tim Geithner, probably are.

It's possible that many of this elite would rather the GOP and Romney didn't make their project quite so obvious, but Citizens United has so stacked the deck in their favor that it's difficult to stop.

Think of all the services, education, training, infrastructure and jobs that could be bought by the US portion of that $60+ trillion--without raising taxes on anyone else! Occupy made a valid point.

Even if Romney loses, we are on the cusp of the takeover by a global elite even more dominant than Roman Senators in Fifth Century Rome. Who knows how long it could last--until a popular explosion/revolution, or a global environmental disaster.