Gagablog 44 for Obama 44: Election Day, The Future Begins, World Peace

My Gagablog has been suspended as I awaited a resolution to the conflict in Syria which tragically still continues. I can't explain exactly how I expected the magic to work, except that I did because for me Gaga reveals a Divine Liberation that is destined to free the whole world. I was hoping that drawing attention to that magical connection would cause something miraculous to happen to end the violence in Syria - to end conflict everywhere eventually - but first in the places where it is most atrocious.
Gaga has been busy all these last months, relentlessly touring the whole world, and she has been doing a lot. She continues to work her magic in her performance and in her interactions with her little monsters and social movements she creates and inspires, including the launching of the Born This Way Foundation. Her show and message has caused controversy in a few countries where she has been accused of spreading homosexuality, highlighting those cultures' homophobia and bringing out voices of little monsters within them to speak up. Most recently she has put out pictures of herself smoking joints and tweeted about a new song she is writing about cannabis - to me this fulfils something I have been prophecying about, that after using her powers to help liberate gay people from oppression she will help liberate potsmokers, too. Americans who enjoy the herb are subject to a lot of persecution and risk imprisonment under the old laws we have, but we are changing these.
The reason I am writing the Gagablog again is because I know something more needs to be done, there is still a crisis in Syria almost 2 years later and the Syrian government has killed tens of thousands of people. There has also been a sort of crisis in America in the last few months as, against all decency and common sense, Mitt Romney has appeared to have a chance to win or more likely steal the 2012 election. I don't even want to imagine how horrible that would be, though we got a taste of it from the scare of thinking he would win and we would lose many protections, services and rights. The right-wing social agenda is so scary and evil that we have not even discussed their foreign policy, but it is no coincidence that when America elects Republicans we go to war and the rhetoric from Romney and McCain and other right-wingers shows that we would go to war in Syria if we elected him. More accurately, we would go to war with Iran and Russia IN Syria - at least that is where it would start, but electring Romney is a vote for World War 3.
A vote for Obama is a vote for World Peace, and world peace will win. Yes, I have the Vegas oddmakers and some prominent statistician/journalist, Mr. Silver, backing me up with a 90% odds that Obama will win, but of course the media is portraying it as "too close to call" and "razor tight" (to Colbert's delight) and it scares me that they can even report this because if we believe it is that close we won't question the results if the Republicans steal it. But the reason I am saying today that Obama will win - and hopefully we will know for sure tonight - is that he has to win, humanity must continue. And I believe the stakes are that high. Of course the stakes in Syria are high as well, as more and more innocent people are killed everyday. I don't know if Gaga has made any statement about Syria, I just Googled "gaga syria" and the closest thing I saw was my own gagablog and a video on youtube asking Gaga to sing for the Syrian revolution - so the connection is there in the world, I am not the only one hoping for her liberating magic to help them.
And she is helping them, indirectly but significantly. Because unfortunately one reason America has not been able to play a major role in ending the violence in Syria is because of the Presidential election and the fear that actions Obama could take could be used against him in the campaign. It is too bad that we can't just act for the greatest good and knowing that America would be on the sidelines until the election was one reason I was hoping for a miracle. I did not expect a statement from Gaga to coincide with that miracle, though that would make my ideas about magic more obvious, but I was actually expecting the miracle that saves Syria to coincide with something I wrote here, unread by all but a very few with little or no political influence - but the magical effect of having written down the expectation for a miracle - and it being the right thing to happen -has been my "plan" all along. All it has to do with Gaga, besides her being a greater symbol for liberation, is that she inspires me to try this kind of magic.
But I have been regretting not doing "my part", writing my magically-intentioned blog, while we basically waited for the election to be over. Now it almost is over and when Obama is re-elected so much energy that has been caught up in the campaign will be freed to do other things, and people who have been focused on trying to keep America moving forward will be able to help Syria and other countries more as well, both because they have the time and the flexibility to act without unjust scrutiny. As long as Romney does not win, looking back this election will give us fascinating insight into the nature of greed and lies and old power structures and salesmanship that Romney exemplifies. The only benefit of the right-wing that has distilled so much that is wrong in our culture is that it makes it easier to see how people can be duped and what kind of character flaws they want to promote and exploit, such as avarice mislabeled as "self-reliance." Of course the most flagrant example of how they oppose democracy itself is not merely their uncaring obstruction of Obama for the last four years but their obstructions to voting through passing laws that suppress voting to intimidating people to reducing early voting so that lines take hours to wait to vote, up to 7 hours in Florida. They simply can't claim to even believe in democracy if they elect these officials and lawmakers and promote this mentality that only their kind should be allowed to vote.
It is the same philosophy that Assad and the evil Syrian regime have, that only certain people should be able to make decisions for everyone else. It is the reason the Syrian people are fighting for democracy and the reason we should support them - but not jump to the violent solutions presented by right-wingers. There are more creative ways to influence history and Obama will be able to utilize them in his second term, for peace in Syria and all over the world. We are interconnected in so many ways and we all need each other. My ideas of magic are based on mystical connections but these apply to other connections as well and there is so much we don't understand that we can be fantastically surprised by what is possible if we try.
As I started writing this, hoping to push some magical button to end the crisis in Syria, re-elect Obama and legalize weed here in Colorado, and knowing there is a magical connection to all of these things and also to Gaga, I was pleased by links from a little monster in India about Gaga's statements and interviews urging us to vote for Obama, since I missed them when they came out, but was even more pleased by the progression of the news. As I started composing this in my head tonight (yes, they do sometimes have forethought!) the news was about a suicide bomber in Syria who killed 50 Syrian troops, the deadliest attack so far on Assad's forces. A victory of sorts for the rebels but not exactly what I call "good news", since I am a pacifist and mourn all loss of life. But the next story was of the council of rebels expanding to include more groups and having organizational meetings. This is democracy and the reason democracy is something we have to fight for, even revolt for, because the people who want to hold power exclusively, the people corrupted by power, will always have some form of force on their side. But the people, the truth, the Future, is where the true power is. As I wrote that sentence "Just Dance" just ended on the radio..... and as I went to start typing this gagablog there was breaking news: 7 generals defected from Syria into Turkey. That is the kind of news I'm excited to hear, as a pacifist, because that is the best way to end conflict, for the people in the worng to give it up. And it is the kind of news I am overjoyed to hear as a Gagaist witch, because it shows this magic is working. Maybe it is slow movement sometimes, or too subtle to notice, but it is always magical movement toward freedom when we honor and follow Gaga and the truth, love and freedom she shows.

I'm encouraged, magically, and know that we will re-elect Obama today with a large margin to give confidence and momentum to the agenda of peace, alternative fuels, honoring diversity and civil rights, and supporting democracy - both around the world and in here America where it is under attack. We are doing what is right, everything that is right, and it is all coming together. And we are doing in in many ways and can always add more. We all have so much magical potential, but we also need to vote. If we can stay true to our dreams and make them real in our actions, we will earn the Future that Gaga has shown us and Obama will help us reach. The difference between the Future and the past? Everyone will be included and cared for. I don't know why that idea is so scary to so many Americans, but we will start living together and enjoy it and be an exemplary part of a community of nations instead of a bully in the world and to our own people. Gaga has been working on it from that angle all along, because all evil is essentially bullying, from Assad's airstrikes on his own people to the Republican governor closing polls to keep people from voting. But the will of the people is true, it is built on our hopes and therefor is the Future calling to us, and we have the real power on our side despite the wordly powers for evil stacked against us - and we have the Champions of Obama and Gaga on our side. As the Indian little monster told me, we have the gay vote on our side so we can't lose - it's time for the Future! Obama-Biden 2012, Germanotta-Clinton 2016!!!