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November 18, 2008 - 11:32 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Captain Ramen
2008-11-19 13:24:29

What are the odds that we can save the United States? Is it even 50/50?

Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. – I Kings 19:18

I’d say it’s much lower than that. Let’s face it, it is human nature to trade liberty for security. Being American doesn’t immunize us from this basic fact.

What we have now is a false messiah who effectively communicates a perverse form (modern) of liberal ideas. What we need is a prophet / guru like Reagan who can effectively communicate conservative (classical liberal) ideas. But the thing is we already got a Reagan and we blew it.

One of the things that irritates me about the conservative movement is that we’re all sitting on our asses waiting for the next Reagan to show up. The first christians thought Jesus would come back in their lifetimes. 2000 years later we’re still waiting. Do we even deserve another one?

Obama will probably be a one term president. He is not the problem, he is the symptom.

The system is broken – kind of like a 2 year old Windows installation. At first it runs great, but after 60+ application installations the registry fills up with crap, you probably have some spyware in there, and your drive is 80% fragmented. Best thing to do in that situation is reformat + reinstall.

2/3rds of the states can propse new constitutional amedments. Instead of waiting for Gipper 2.0, we should be focused on getting conservatives (not republicans) elected to the state legislatures.