It’s All Over. Not.
First, some wisdom from Deadwood, via the wonderful Jonah Goldberg at NRO:
I think it was Orson Welles who said, “If you want to tell a story with a happy ending, it all depends on where you stop.” To put it another way: every story is a tragedy, if you tell it to the end.
As with lives, so with republics. Freedom is a living thing. It dies. Conservatives are like doctors. They can only win for the moment, the day, the year, the election cycle. And no matter the victory, time only goes one way. The republic grows older every day, the people travel further from their founding values and nothing lasts forever.
There are many responses to that situation. Only one of them is wise: good cheer and defiance. Keep laughing; fight back; fear nothing. Mortality makes time too precious for despondency and death makes a fool of fear. There’s nothing to worry about: disaster is certain. And nothing can be that serious since, whatever it is, it’s guaranteed to end.
Since Tuesday, I have heard enough conservatives saying, “It’s over! We’re through!” in serious, important-sounding voices to last me the next four years. I don’t care how important you make it sound, it’s whining; any child can do it. I’ll let you know when it’s over by putting you in the ground and throwing six feet of dirt onto your face. Until you get that secret signal, really, pull yourself together.
I just joined the Libertarian (sp?) Party 10 minutes ago.
Read the same article but what happens if people won’t listen?
Russia (barely) survived the Soviets. We can survive these clowns. Just grin and bear it.
I don’t know what the fuzz is all about. The GOP did a so-so job at retaking the White House and lost. Among my circle of friends I kept on saying (and I offended a few) that four more years are perhaps what the country needs to wake up to the fact that the Left never delivers. So TAKE IT LIKE A MAN and bear this four years (or less). When retards come complaining that their tummy aches make sure to ask them where it hurts and hit them there. Then tell them to abstain from voting for life if they don’t want more punishment! Ha! Just kidding. They will all stand in unemployment and soup kitchen lines until they drop dead. No need to hurt them.
Well, Mr. Klaven, there is a new social model. You need to talk to your friend Bill Whittle. The only way to fight Leviathan is with a dispersed, decentralized and localized populace. And I’m going to promote it until Mr. Whittle’s idea finally catches on.
I recall that after the 1964 Presidential election pasting of conservative Barry Goldwater, both the Republican party and conservatism were declared dead. And yet, four years later Republicans owned the White House. The trouncing of ultra liberal George McGovern in 1972 left the Democratic party in shambles, but four years later the voters championed the liberal peanut farmer from Georgia. The democrats won in 2008 and 2012 by running against the 8 years of George Bush. I expect the Republicans will win in 2016 and 2020 running against the 8 years of President Obama.
The ONLY hope for non-Democrats is a huge defection on the part of Whites who vote Democrat. NINETY PERCENT of Republican votes come from WHITES! Like it or not, deny it or not, the GOP is the feckless Party of White America…the only Race That Dare Not Speak Its Name.
The other races (Black, Hispanic, Asian) are 70 to 90+ percent on the Obama plantation. Racial solidarity trumps all. The disproportionately influential tribes (Jews, gays, Wymyn) are their fellows. The ONLY big group that regularly splits is Whites, who constitution over 70% of actual voters.
Whites elected this Obamascenity again. If we acted like the other races and tribes, he’d have fallen in a landslide.
And please don’t try to get me to think that a party which was unable to gain any traction with Asians –the most successful and culturally conservative group in America– could appeal to the deeply collectivist/victimist Hispanics. Asians apparently see themselves as People of Color before all else.
Your optimism is charming, Mr Klavan, but unless Whites wake up, “more punishment” is all we have to look forward to.