We all know that if we don’t raise the debt ceiling, it’ll be the end of the world, the apocalypse, the end times, right? We know this because President Obama loves to demagogue this issue, and most every issue, actually. (I think it should be spelled “Demagog”, however, because it would be perfect for Mr. Obama, since it would be a compound word fusing both “Dem”, for Democrat, and “Agog”, for how he must think we all feel about listening to him demagogue things, because he keeps doing it all the time!) Then we've got an army of pundits out on the news to beat us over the head with all of his propaganda. And then there's another army of pundits spinning furiously in the other direction.
But it just struck me how true this panicked prediction must be, since the word “Demagog” goes so well with Gog & Magog, the biblical baddies of the apocalyptic “end times”! And since all the pundits are running around screaming with their hair on fire (metaphorically for now; but soon, perhaps…) about how it’s the end of the world if we don’t raise the debt ceiling, perhaps what we’ve got here is a Gog, Magog, Demagog scenario, where Gog is the House of Representatives, Magog is the Senate, and Demagog (of course) is President Obama. (Or maybe Gog & Magog are the Democrats and the Republicans, and Demagog is what they do. Because they all do it, really. The President just gets a lot more news coverage when he does it, so it seems like he does it more. But a cursory glance at CSPAN or CSPAN2 will show you he's hardly the only one.)
Hey, it rhymes, so what other proof do you need? Between the three of them, they really are putting the country through the ringer, and possibly to ruin, so I think it’s an apt metaphor. Don’t you? Because, you know, in the “final battle”, Gog & Magog (and Demagog) are defeated, so that must be referring to the next election, where they’re all defeated for putting us all through this fiasco (hopefully).
