The voting has started for real. That Obama is the favourite and Mitt Romney remains an outside chance is a catastrophe for America whether Romney wins or not. The country’s voting population is now inhabited by those who believe the world owes them a living and that someone else having more than they do is in itself a wrong that needs to be righted.

The confluence of the medicants, the envious and the social sciences know-nothings has proven a formidable combination. So far as those who vote for a living are concerned one can understand why they are voting as they do. There are more than ever as their numbers have been propogated by leftist parties everywhere with the specific aim of building near-majority voting blocks. And this they have done. Whether it brings ruin to the country is merely a detail and as ruin is so slow, the present political class will be gone and done before things really do fall about their heads. That was the view of the Roosevelt generation as it had been for those who took their lead from Lyndon Johnson. But now, with the $16 trillion debt and another trillion added each year, this may be the generation that finally does have to pay the price. Greece is more than a metaphor. It is an example of what really can happen when public spending moves beyond control.

The resentful and the envious are the cohort who have been instructed to vote for revenge. This was a market tested word that makes little impact on people who are generally satisfied with their lives. But for those who are worm eaten with envy, they understand their instructions very well indeed. They will be there in their numbers with no greater aim in mind than to bring down to their level those whom they resent and envy for their success and joy of life.

And then, finally, the social sciences know nothings. It is a term I have put together for want of something better. They too love power but have no way to gain it other than through the words they use. They produce little and their value added is minimal in comparison with the serious producers of the world. They have read the literature of the left, they have thought their shallow thoughts, and they are irritated that the riches of the world have gone to people who never graduated from universities and who might be unable to string five sentences together in a single paragraph. These are your academics and media types who, in their own way, may be the most envious and resentful of the lot.

And it has been clear from the start that the media types have understood exactly how bad Obama has been because they have known with precision exactly what parts of what Obama has done or said that have required their cover. Obama has had to lie over Benghazi and so they have covered for him to the maximum extent they can. Obama tells producers “you didn’t build that” and the media runs dead with the quote so that it never really becomes as significant as it ought to be. They know exactly how dreadful Obama has been, and cannot even manufacture a greater good that their lies and distortions have protected the community from having to do without should Obama lose this election in spite of everything they have done.

We shall see how things go today. I of course hope Romney becomes president but the frightening part is just how flimsy any majority he creates really is. He is strangely the only person in the entire United States who I think could have run Obama such a close race. He is untouchable so far as his personal life is concerned. The politics of personal destruction, a specialty of the left, were utterly wasted on Romney. Not for failing to try, but there was nothing that really worked.

Beyond his personal virtues, Romney has exactly the expertise required to repair the American economy. What he learned at Bain was how to rescue enterprises which were on the point of failure. If ever the United States was in need of such a person to take control of its government, this is the time.

Romney moreover has a history of working with others to achieve common objectives. His term as governor of Massachusetts was exemplary. Obama is a divider and a hater. Romney is someone who can bring people together and has shown personal qualities of leadership in every part of past life.

But we are in dangerous times. Obama and Gillard are two of a kind. Empty of ability, proven failures at everything they have tried to achieve, but nevertheless able to command majorities in the legislative systems of our two nations. But the American election is the one that will matter most and whose outcome will resonate far into the future in ways that are incalculable. Re-electing Obama would endanger our way of life and may even make it unsustainable. Electing Mitt Romney gives us at least the possibility of putting us back on a more stable path. We shall soon enough know who is to be the president through until January 2017.