There would be just enough truth in the charge for a demagogue to portray the shambles as the fault of those who took sub-prime mortgages they knowingly couldn’t afford and the bankers who greedily lent them the money. In other words, minorities and Jews. This could become very ugly, very quickly.
This has been a point that I have raised repeatedly over the past few years: namely, that the Left’s utterly inflexible clinging to ideological dogma is steering Western Civ towards such a disaster that they are unintentionally working to bring about exactly what they fear most…a resurgence of the Far Right.
Barring a complete societal collapse – I’m talking 40% unemployment, mass starvation, etc. – the chance of all-out, armed revolution are slim at best. Western nations – and their people – are simply too pampered. The real danger lies in the political sphere…in the BNP in Britain…in the Front National in France. And if events continue along this path, what shape will it take here in the US?
Over the past two election cycles, the American people have been grossly misled by an ideologically corrupted news media – actually, they’ve been corrupt since at least the 60s, but never to this extent. But as the recent economic turmoil is so clearly demonstrating, there are immutable laws to existence…and no amount of spinning, lying, or double-talk can change them.
The Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda will fail. Why? Because it’s based in Leftist ideology, which always fails eventually. And once this failure becomes painfully evident, as it is bound to over the next few years, the American people are going to completely lose faith in the legacy news media. They will begin to actively look for real information. When that happens, we win.
There is an old Chinese proverb that perfectly illustrates the fickleness of fate. Don’t lose faith, friends: Obama just may be a blessing in disguise…the final straw that breaks the Left’s back.
But a warning: we must always bear in mind that ideology is the problem, not people. We must never – in partisan furor – lose sight of the fact that we are talking about living, breathing human beings. For while the Far Left (i.e. the Idealists) is certainly dangerous, so is the Far Right (i.e. the Moralists).
“All the major troubles we have had in the last half century have been caused by people who have let politics become mania.”– Robert Conquest
A lot of posters here would do well to contemplate this warning from one of the West’s most noted conservative historians…especially those who are sounding just a bit too excited in their talk about “scaffolds” and “wild, city thugs”.
