Ahhh, the Gorgon’s chirality…
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, but in general leftist, internationalist dogma rings flatter and flatter. I remember when I first moved to Boston many years ago actual socialism was prominent in the city in many venues (socialist worker newspapers, lots of union organizing, bumper stickers, etc.) but it seemed to dissipate as time went on. I think what actually happened was the purveyors were dying off and also being priced out with the disappearance of rent controls all over the city. Eventually I got married and moved out to the suburbs near Worcester and found the same old lame drivel being pushed out here, where its adherents could afford to fester. It’ll take a few generations for it to die off, thankfully a lot of them don’t reproduce. It’s not even mundane anymore. The left is dead in every sense except for its intrinsic will to power.
It’s still prevalent abroad for the same reasons its prevalent in urban America: its institutionalized. Poor dumb bastards are too smart to know any better.
As this sick, perverted generation of the last “vanguard” dies out, I hope for a recolonization of the urban parts of the west (probably starting in the US which is as always ahead of the curve) by the fresh, fecund, freedom-lovers of the flyover country.
God Bless America. In God We Trust. This urge is being manifested right now in this election. Obama didn’t realize his “vanguard” was up against a more powerful force: a vibrant culture with deep-rooted conservative values underlies everything in America despite the coastal outliers. It’s as true as ever that America is built on God, Guns and Guts.
McCain reflects our martial spirit manifested in one of the oldest and most powerful forces for good on the planet (the U.S. Armed Forces.) Palin represents our more sublime culture of life and family, and family has a forceful dynamic of its own: hunter, provider, nurturer, defender, teacher. You’ll never hear of an archetype based on a community organizer or a bloviator, unless its a play on contempt for the weak-minded and weak-willed.
Obama thought he could purvey himself as an archetype of a Savior. The Messiah is such a unique archetype that no imitation is possible: it diminishes the imitator and accrues glory to the one and only manifestation of the archetype.
There’s a long tradition in US politics of the Ancient Warrior (Washington ala Cincinattus, Jackson, Grant, Eisenhower) and the Happy Warrior (Roosevelt, Reagan and Goldwater) McCain’s genius was to combine them versus Obama’s unworkable Redeemer paired with an improbable Happy Bloviator.
As always, those seeking evidence of a Divine Providence need only look at the history of the United States, playing out before us even now.
