Republicans find themselves in a demographic Catch-22. They will have to move aggressively to capture more of the growing Hispanic vote, and Hispanic cultural values align well with those of the GOP. But Republicans tend to downplay those issues in order to woo moderates. Any attempt to secure the border is cast as racist, driving some Hispanic voters away and making moderate voters wince. But the porous border threatens the rule of law and threatens to demographically render the GOP a minority party forever, or at least until the Democrat coalition splits, if that happens. In a contest between a serious issue (security) and a mostly rhetorical issue in modern America (racism), guess which one gets more media attention, and tends to move more voters?
Unless the looming sequestration defense cuts are prevented, our national defense will shrink to pre-World War One levels, while threats from Islamic terrorism, Iran, Russia, China, North Korea and elsewhere are likely to grow. Obama’s own defense secretary warned about these cuts, but Obama ignored him and then lied about it during one of the debates. Obama has proven that he will never level with the American people about the threats we face.
But the evidence says that enough Americans care little enough for our national defense to render it an irrelevant issue. It just doesn’t matter. Neither do economic and individual liberty.
Our economy will remain shackled by unpopular ObamaCare (since America rejected the candidate who promised to repeal it) and the regulatory overload that Obama intends to impose. Millions of American workers may be forced into unions via card check, which Obama reportedly intends to impose with or without Congress. Increased union power will lead to less agile and competitive American companies, and will price more American workers competing with overseas workers out of jobs. If you liked the last four years, you will love the next four.
Unless we curtail entitlement spending, we are headed for bankruptcy. Obama promised to reform entitlements four years ago, and spent four years demagoguing against every attempt to get to any reforms. Then, he was re-elected.
Here, I may read more into the re-election of Obama than is warranted, but here goes. The situation we find ourselves in has come about because we have become a soft and superficial people. We have spurned our traditional beliefs in favor of fads. We know more about the Kardashians than the Constitution. We have become more a nation of takers than makers, and ever more a nation of broken families that looks at government as daddy rather than as a necessary evil. The fact is, stable husbands and wives and churchgoers voted for Romney, while singles voted for Obama. But a narrow majority of America’s Catholics voted with Obama as well despite his direct and public attack on their church. A heavy majority of the Jewish vote went for Obama, again, despite his hostility toward Israel. Decadence is good for Democrats, and the evidence that Obama’s victories provide is that we are decadent. We have no god, yet Obama is somehow its prophet.
Because of the way he backed into his second term, Barack Obama has no coattails, and he has no mandate. He chose not to run on a serious agenda and he ran a small ball campaign that painted Romney as a felon and murderer when Romney is as clean as they come in politics. He painted the man who saved the Olympics as a villain. Is it the economy, stupid? No, it’s a ground game and Big Bird and lady parts.
Obama has every reason to move to the center to make his second term successful, but he will not. His lack of a mandate will not stop him from pushing hard for his agenda, either with Congress or more likely around it. The Senate in Democratic control will block any efforts to stop him, if it can. The courts haven’t proven to be much of an impediment, and Obama now gets to appoint more judges who agree with him. We will keep funding the government on continuing resolutions. The states may be compelled to go along with his agenda or they may be bribed with their own money. Obama’s second term could be a time for governors to reassert state authority in a big way (while getting trashed by the left, for protecting the people of their states). ObamaCare is permanent and a threat to our health care system, the war on coal will be pushed toward its conclusion, and this president’s drive to disarm the United States while vastly expanding the entitlement state will proceed apace. Obama’s re-election is a catastrophe for those who want a strong and liberty-based America rooted in traditional values and our Constitutional order.
The three-way split inside the Beltway is a opportunity for Obama to behave as a regulatory tyrant, and that is what he will probably do. The divided nation suits a divisive president.
That pretty much sums it up. The experiment is over.
Yes, it’s over, and it’s well documented in Mark Steyn’s book “AFTER AMERICA: Get Ready for Armageddon”.
Dick Morris predicted it in his book of the same name as your article: “CATASTROPHE”.
Long gone Galt myself.
Predictions
Gas $7 per gallon
Milage tax
War in Middle east, Israel will be forced to nuke Iran – US will not help
Muslim Bro Hood moves in next to Obama
Hyper inflation
USG steals our 401 K to pay the Poor to sit home
Class war & the conservatives will have the guns
“…the conservatives will have the guns.”
Been to a shooting range lately? I live in the exurbs of DC, & from what I observed the ‘bro’s’ got a lot more firepower than ‘conservatives’. Big, expensive firepower.
I was in a Sporting Goods store just last week. While shopping I overheard a person that will soon qualify for ‘reparations’ tell the salesman, “unemployed” for his occupation for his AR-15 purchase.
Yes, we are subsidizing even their firearms.
Precisely. And Obama will now become the transformational president he promised. All he had to do was destroy the America we all grew up and loved. And it was so easy.
While I agree that the country faces serious, serious problems, you’ll pardon me while I spend the rest of the night laughing my ass off about much you idiots misread the electorate.
How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for ya now, doncha know?
Get back to us in June, whydoncha? Let us know how much you like it then.
Will do! I’m predicting I’ll like it just fine.
Dow down 357 points, Anon, nice work.
And guess what, buddy, your boy and his party own it, OWN it all — 100%.
(Hmmmm, “your boy”….. that actually sounds a bit racist. I might have to re-state that…. but I won’t, since the Democratic party is racialist to the core, and THAT is why they won last night, it is nice to know that we are THROUGH giving a tin shiite about supposed “racist” BS. Whole new world, well done.)
D’oh. Considering the prize,why did you bother ? All you have done is demonstrate that corruption won,not the nation or it’s people.Nothing to hope for,and unless you are deaf dumb and blind,any change to come should scare the hell out of you.
Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights.Carry.
The serious and more serious problems were the ones that were in Obama’s hands for four years and he has dutifully ignored nad expanded to follow his ideology. LOL do you really truly believe he is going to address spending and debt when he has made it clear he wants 20 trillion in debt and continue spending $40 billion a mnth on the big 5 banks on wall street?
Snookie Propaganda and four years of paid-for campigning got you what you wanted so you will get four more years of Snookie propaganda, no action and continued failed policies. The only benefit is dems will bear this one and excuses no longer wash especially when dems want a fiscal cliff and collapse to “make reps look bad”. How’s that for Dem party self absorption? We will sit back and watch the crumble.
“In the face of these problems, the American people chose to throw almost none of the bums who got us here out. * * * It’s as if the American people are so confused and troubled they decided not to decide anything.”
Anytime elections of Republicans depends on their educating the voters to dire policy failures, like the economy and the entitlements disaster, or American foreign and defense policy in retreat world-wide, we lose, period. It’s obvious to me that Republicans failed to educate the voters, never mind get elected. Obviously the voters don’t know which way to do.
I’m pretty glum about the party future. When we run moderates, the voters can’t tell them from the Democrats; when we run movement conservatives, they turn out like Akin and Mourdock and scare the crap out of voters.
Where do we go from those choices?
If we continue with the anti-gay and anti-abortion stance we will not win anything. Government should be about economics, maintaining the rule of law, and foreign affairs, that is Caesar’s realm. Imposing religious values on others will always be a losing proposition.
Really?
But demanding that the government recognize sexual perversion and subsidize the murder of the unborn ISN’T legislating morality?
Is your moral compass so skewed that you cannot see where that is shoving something down religious peoples’ throats
I think the moderation and outreach approach’s results speak for themselves.
2010 was a great victory for the GOP, and there wasn’t a whole lot of “moderate outreach” going on there…it was “beat the bastards!”
…and we did/
So money is more important than human life. Religious freedom is meaningless?
Gotcha. Rather have the Democrats.
While I don’t entirely disagree, that logic would extend easily to drugs, to prostitution, to euthanasia, many other acts we deem crimes due to moral and religious considerations. One must draw the line somewhere. Discouraging third trimester abortions does not seem to me to be entirely unreasonable, especially today when a 22-weeker may survive a premature birth. Rather, it seems to em that the ardent feminists and those who want to make hay from their demands, have been the extremists here. They will simply brook no restraints on abortions, any time, anywhere. And somebody else has to pay for it.
Opposing same sex marriage is not the same as demonizing homosexuals; that is the emotional language of the left. If you oppose any one of my wants you are a racist, hateful being. It is far from clear to me that the frustration of the wants a of a tiny minority, which are unprecedented in our society, by the way, should swing an entire presidential election. There is something extremely superficial about the voters who cast a presidential ballot on that kind of issue.
Barack Hussein Obama is a traitor who has committed treason. In addition to his other “high crimes and misdemeanors”, the Benghazi accomplice to murder and coverup are grounds enough for impeachment.
Yes, but he gives food stamps, cell phones and contraceptives.
That’s the prelude to the rude awakening coming Jan. 1st.
Amen to that!
It is not as if there isn’t enough evidence to get him, and his surrogates, indicted. The only question is – how much pressure will be on Congress, to actually do so?
Even if he wasn’t re-elected, he still should have faced charges. So, it is not a question of sour grapes, it is a question of justice.
Simple as that.
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/11/07/spotlight-on-huma-abedin-islamist-infiltration-in-washington-arabmuslim-world-turning-up-the-heat-via-bengazigate-addendum-to-hillary-takes-the-fall-but-there-is-a-silver-lining-sp/
Keeping it front and center, others should too.
Who in this country would start the impeachment process?? In 4 yrs not one politician has stood up against him, congress prefers vacations, boehner just wipes his tears, and americans have become so dumbed-down that they have no idea of the corruption going on till it hits them square in the face.
Do y9u really doubt that if such an effort should be mounted, those making it would be demonized to a degree that we have not yet seen? As regularly as it happens, still no one likes to be called a racist. My guess would be that if members of the House were to make such an attempt, the press and the Democrats would so turn the tables that by the end of the term they would all be in jeopardy of their seats.
Do you remember the charade that was the Clinton impeachment trial? Clinton had been caught red-handed lying under oath to a grand jury, yet the Democrats announced before the impeachment was referred to the Senate that they would never vote to convict and they suffered no harm from essentially refusing to perform their constitutional duty to try Clinton. Now put the gloss of race on that and see what you come up with.
Cloward-Pivin.
Amen. Advent of a national base income. We have 50%+1 who think the job of the government is to give them “stuff” – social security, medicare, medicaid, unemployment, food stamps, contraceptives, cell phones, student loans, money, money, money. No let up, since we can borrow it indefinitely as long as the Bernank prints it and the scared money from the rest of the world flees here. Time to buy guns and gold.
Sorry, not exactly. There is a good part of relatively well-to-do who wants him for their mushed ideological reasons. And this will not change until they will get a 2X4 over the head economically. Given his proclivities it will come rather soon.
A continuing mystery to me.
I feel like the terrorists won.
But I’m sure I’ll feel even worse as time goes by.
They did; they’re in the MSM. Why don’t Democrats get asked about abortion for sex selection?
P.S. How come no one remarked on all of the free advertiseing on Obama from the Federa lgovernment – “check out the new health care law”.
When will Fact Checks include MSN and other ‘news’ outlets?
Republicans would do well to study the history of the leftist parties in the UK (Labour) and Canada (Liberals AND New Democrats). By playing as gentlemen and ladies in the last few election cycles, they have made the same mistakes as the Brit. Tories (Thatcher excepted) and Canadian “Progressive Conservatives” of the 1960′s to 1990′s. Even the name tells you how ill thought out were the campaigns and policies.
Leftist parties will buy the vote of the poor with the promises of the welfare state, lie to the middle classes while stealing them blind and frustrate the opportunity of the entrepreneurial class to keep the wealth earned and derived from their talents.
Frankly, I am advising my step-kids (one of whom hopefully will graduate in engineering in 2017) to work in the government sector. And I am organizing my business affairs to employ as few people as possible (minimize risk) while maximizing the use of computers and new electronic technologies.
So much for “job creation”. Frankly, why bother?
Yes, we need to direct our children’s career towards government, especially since most jobs created will come almost entirely from the government. MSM.gov will also own the airways as well which includes huff-a-puff. Fox, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, PJ Media and the likes, will be just a memory of the good ole days. We can look forward to more education indoctrination of our children, and limited health care. Sad day.
Tall men in tall ships
three times three
what brought they from the Foundered Lands
Across the Flowing Sea?
Seven Ships and Seven Stars
and one White Tree
But where now shall they land?
Until tonight, I never understood Paris Hilton or Snooki et al. Now I do.
That’s the spirit!
Obama undoubtedly had a good ground game, but what should be acknowledged is that he was a personally popular candidate. Kinda like what Arnold was in California. Or George Bush for that matter, at least in 2004. Neither of them should have been reelected on their merits. In fact, Schwerzenneger crashed and burned in his special election.
That’s the thing to remember. Voters may like the candidate, but not necessarily his individual policies. Obama knows this too, because he mostly stayed out of the way in the midterm elections and the WI recall election.
No matter what happens, Obama is lame duck in 2 years at the latest. Obama’s midas touch is more or less limited to the presidential race. We’ll win our share of elections in the next four years and start sizing up contenders for 2016 as soon as tomorrow. The Libya fiasco, Sandy, Obamacare will all still be there.
I have officially lost faith in the integrity of the American people.
Put quite plainly, We’re screwed.
I’m afraid for my children. They may never know how great this nation once was.
The people are stupid and by giving Obama another 4 years we will all burn.
I felt the same when Hollande was elected here in France, and I was considering fleeing to the States. Maybe shall I move to New Zealand instead.
My opinion is that Tocqueville was wrong to see the mother-like welfare state as the ultimate stage of Democracy, because it will necessarily collapse under its own weight, making way for tyranny. Democracy requires an educated and spread middle class, and leftists do destroy it, and the possibility of it. Remains tyranny.
Mark Steyn is right. The Anglosphere is dying due to American cultural collapse.
Asia owns the next century or more.
You’ll do well to check out Latin America for the long interregnum.
ThornlessPath.com
New Zealand is really far away, try Montenegro , small, charming , mediterranean, progressing slowly, not going into EU.
“Perhaps all Republicans should just switch parties at once, confuse the world and render the media toothless for a while.”
The smartest thing I have read all night. If there were no GOP for him to blame, what would Obama do?
The best present he got was the GOP winning in 2010. That was like a gift from the Tea Party. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was one election were the Dems decided not to cheat. I believe they wanted a GOP house win. Since then, their strategy has been to blame all Obama’s failures on the “obstructionist” GOP. And it worked like a charm. That was the favorite talking point of every lefty I’ve met in the past two years.
The GOP are done. Stick a fork in them. Fairly or not, they are the whipping boy for the Dems, the media, and apparently the majority of this country. Their brand is forever tarnished. I don’t think they can ever win another Presidential again.
If there is only Dems they can only blame themselves. It looks like that is what it will take to get rid of them. They have to implode. It is not a course I would have wanted to take, but it looks like it is inevitable, whether I like it or not.
I won’t ever vote for the Dems, but at this point I don’t see myself voting for the GOP either. Perhaps it is third party for me from now on. Or just give up voting altogether until the Dems destroy themselves.
BTW; the reason I don’t see myself voting for the GOP in the future is because it is a wasted vote. I live in MA; they never win here. And it seems like they can’t win on the national level anymore either. They can’t beat the Dem’s big city machines. Why should I continue to back a losing party? Maybe the Libertarians can become a serious national party. Like I said, I think the GOP is done.
Yes! Trash the candy @ss no guts country clubbers Republican Party.
And anyone over 30, go Galt now if you want to have a future.
Move to a swing state. Then your vote can count.
Agreed. The GOP is finished as a political party. It will cease to exist within a few years. Many who felt obligated to work through the GOP as an expedient now have no reason to do so. I think you will see conservatives abandoning the GOP in droves, as the finger pointing between the moderate establishment and the conservative base commences.
In retrospect that has been one of the biggest, yet overlooked aspects of “fundamental transformation”: the GOP’s failure to ever mount a counterargument of any consistency. For decades, the occasional GOP victory only meant a brief respite where the leftward drift of the country was halted. They never pushed back, or even tried for that matter. So many times they would tell us that this or that issue wasn’t “the hill to die on”. Well, now we have died and don’t even have one single hill to show for it.
The Republican Party has been such a dismal failure that any contest with the Democrats almost invariably feels like we are that team that exists only to be the Harlem Globetrotters’ nominal opponent.
In the next four years, Obama will have the opportunity to replace at least 2 Supreme Court Justices. At which point, the USA’s turn to the dark side will be complete. MA, you’re quite correct, the Republican Party is now history. There are now only two political choices going forward for the producers in this land, either a political party of capitulation or a political party of secession.
The Democrats of old were the party of slavery. They saw nothing wrong with the creation of wealth on the backs of those bound by law to serve them. The modern liberal Democrat party is still the party of economic slavery, living off the wealth of the producers who are bound to them via the tax laws and business regulations of all kinds.
The USA, as it is, is now beyond saving. Ayn Rand was incredibly prescient when she wrote Atlas Shrugged. But she got one thing tragically wrong. In her fictional world, there was a place for the producers to flee to, Galt’s Gulch. We don’t have that. What the USA needs now is a group of states to come together and become that safe-haven where hard-working and entrepreneurial people can go.
And just think, our only defense now is stonewalling and obstructionism.
All tax is theft; otherwise it would be called a voluntary contribution, or a gift.
$16 trillion in debt and $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities was a bi-partisan effort.
Going for the middle between (R) and (D). What middle?
Re “If there is only Dems they can only blame themselves. ”
Why do you think such strange thoughts? Once upon a time there were few countries with a single party and those parties never blame them self. My wild guess would be they will always find someone to blame. And there are always Jews present somewhere around …
President Barack Obama.
He will lead from behind our nation into a Great Depression as the debt bomb falls and blows the United States over the fiscal cliff into the abyss. It is that simple. He will tax the rich and find to his surprise there is not enough money. Business models all over the country have changed. Job security is gone as well as benefits. The middle class will continue to shrink.
Job creators and producers will go Galt.
They will quit or halt production. The President really believes that economic recovery is just moments away. That America will bounce back and manufacturing will explode. It won’t happen now and he will tighten the grip of regulations upon the American people. Obamacare will see to that.
We are truly in desperate times as New York City suffers. The American people have spoken. Entitlements, free phones, and government programs are the demand. OWS will be emboldened. The divide of American politics will increase with Republicans decreasing in influence. It is already bad, it will now get worse.
Who is John Galt?
Me. I quit.
I quit too. If Americans are truly too stupid to understand that a Communist Islamist who despises them is running the country I don’t need to participate in the idiocy. Let the idiots who can’t do anything try to run the country themselves. I’m getting out.
The job creators that are large enough and nibble enough will go offshore. The rest will simply cease to hire and many will fire those working for them now.
Last night’s outcome was simply catastrophic. We will now go off the financial cliff, with a Marxist at the helm. And he will, make no mistake, put the hammer down.
Greece is the word. Prior to their current predicament large number of Greeks worked for cash under the table. We may very well see that occurring here to play the system. With no declared employee your employer can hire as many people as he needs and avoid all the regulations and taxes required by the feds. The employee can declare $0 income and get all the bennies provided by the state.
Good times are ahead for us all.
He doesn’t believe his policies will allow the economy to recover, that wasn’t his goal. His goal is to give the other, poor nations everything he thinks the U.S. and the west has taken from them. To do that, he has to bury the U.S. To do that, he has to sink our economy, and he will do that.
I’m trying to find something to say that isn’t an elegy or post-mortem.
The MSM polls – were accurate after all. The ghastly picture they drew was only true. They picked 1,000 people at random as best they could, and if that turned up 60% Democrats will guess what, so did the election.
I mourn the nation I knew, and I have no idea what comes next, only that it’s careening down-hill at insane speed. Please pass me the tequila.
“Decadence is good for Democrats, and the evidence that Obama’s victories provide is that we are decadent. We have no god, yet Obama is somehow its prophet.”
Bryan, you have summarized the state of the union.
Thank you for your rousing obituary! Some years back Thomas Woods published “Who Killed the Constitution?” in which he maintained that the Constituion in its Founder sense is dead and gone. A residue skeleton remains (but so did one remain when Octavius became Augustus and buried the Roman REPUBLIC), but lies in a coffin and, updating Woods, Obama is the “obaminally august” lid. As a young lady in the 1920′s my mother carried around two books, the Bible and Hendrick’s (?) “The Bulwark of the Republic” (= the Constitution). Obama has defeated the seriously believing groups, including the might of the Catholicism as an institution, let alone the the scattered about Evangelical churhes. Alas, the Jewish opposition seems to have been weak, i.e., long ago subservient to Obama (“eingeschaltet” for those of you who know something about the history of Germany after 1933 as that nationalSOCIALIST estabished executive orders everywhere). Obama too rules by “executive order” if the Congress (already having stepped beyond the limits of the Founder’s Constitution) does not concurr. The “bulwark” has become a pliable “living constitution”, i.e., a skeleton without life. Woods was and still is correct, the Constitution is dead!!! I morn!
But, unlike my fellow morners in the USA, I live in Germany–the least oppressive of the welfare-states, i.e., for awhile. Germany like all EU lands is not reproducing itself (i.e., 1.34 children per woman when 2.1 is needed for reproduction) and fated to disappear. By 2100, if demographics continue, there will be ca. 46% of Germanic DNA bearers less. But, before then I will be literally dead. So, if it is feasible I will surrender my American citizenship and become a blah national of another nation, so to speak, a return to my grandfather’s local. I do not care what happens to Germany in the long run whereas I loved the deceased US of A and wished its continuation. I would feel saddened to live in America as it is obama-ized. So, my fellow Americans of Consitutional persuasion, I wish you well. Every party has its end. But who would have guessed that the end is called “Obama”.
*Cough* Racist. *Cough*
Seriously, what do the rest of the (non-far right) Germans think about your “Germanic DNA” bullshit?
Signed,
Someone who actually knows something about genetics.
Genetics have nothing to do with it, but common sense does. I know Germany well. Speak the language. The plain truth is that even your leftwing German prefers to live in areas with few foreigners. Leftwing “multiculti” politicians find ways to send their children to school elsewhere, even as they make excuses for the high rates of social decay in these areas.
It is evident that whatever made Germany successful does not exist in the non-European countries where most migrants originate. Nothing to do with race, but a real problem if these people make up a majority. Figures can be so politically incorrect, just like your exploding debt. Better not to deal with it, right?
“Anon”, you need a throat lozenge?
“A heavy majority of the Jewish vote went for Obama, again, despite his hostility toward Israel.”
When I read this, the image flashed in my mind of Charlton Heston’s Moses slamming the tablets into the midst of the hedonistic Israelites, saying, “Those who will not live by the Law, shall die by the Law”.
Poor Jerusalem. Will they never learn?
Jerusalem knows, American Jews don’t. If the election were held in Israel, Mitt Romney would have gotten 85% of the vote
BHOzo would have gotten elected the 1st time in Israel too (the race/ethnic card sadly works in Israel too) but his government coalition would not have lasted very long after they figured out the real 0bama. I’d give him 18 months, tops.
The sad voters of this country will soon find out what they have done but it is too late. The layoffs will begin, part-time, not full time employment. Those voters who work in coal, gas will be the first to go. Cars manufacturing will soon follow. One thing after another and the takers will find themselves with no one to take from. I know I will just retire and put no more working dollars into this system. no incentive to make money anymore. Will just live on what I have.
The layoffs in the defense industry are just beginning.
In the final analysis, the Propaganda and Lies Ministry did their job.
They stole an election for a Marxist and they stole liberty from a land based upon it.
We are in for a terrible storm, I’m afraid. We, dear countrymen, had a country to save. We did not.
We had an overthrow to stave off, we did not.
Weep not for me, but for your children. Tonight, you are ruled. And tomorrow, all our rules are out the window. All is not well, that ends Orwellian.
Don’t blame the propaganda ministry. Put the blame where it belongs: the VOTERS. In the end the choice was ours. There are plenty of sources of information other than the networks. The people made their choice. Coal miners, factory workers and teachers and seniors and many others chose big government. Someday they will discover life without big government because eventually there will be no more money left to extract from working Americans. Obama supporters made their bed. It’s time to let them lie in it.
You can’t ignore the media’s role in it. Most people don’t have the time to read online for hours a day. They rely on the journos for information because that is their job. The journos forgot their vocation and believe their job is politics, but though most people feel there’s something fishy and don’y trust the media (according to polls), it seems only a few realize the extent to which they’ve been lied to for decades. Cfbleachers is right to reiterate his point at every opportunity since one can’t overstate the role of the media both in the short and the long term.
“Obama supporters made their bed. It’s time to let them lie in it.”
If only it were just them who have to lie in it…
Decades of kids being taught by union teachers and the propaganda of a Noprth Korean-style media have paid off in spades, along with the acceptance of the dregs of Mexico as immigrants for several decades.
I’d be happy to accept the “dregs” of Mexico, if we could keep them off of the dependency of the State. There was a time when immigrants, no matter how lowly, were the strength of the country.
Nowadays, though, there are billboards in Spanish, advertising food stamps. It seems that the government philosophy is “get them while they’re poor, and keep them poor!”
Crow about your bread and circuses all you want; you know what comes after.
Secession!
Treason.
Only if you lose. Ask a Brit sometime what they think of Geo Washington.
But they did lose. And they will lose again if they date try. No one killed more American soldiers and incurred more damage to the US economy than the Southern “patriots”.
Who’re you talking about? What does it have to do with this thread?
They can’t help it. Its who they are. A mess of emotion and prejudices that only sees instinctively. Objectivity is not gone since it never was innate. The nation has finally lost to those who will never understand the constitution, individual liberty and responsibility based on the rules of The Enlightenment. There were only so many people ever capable of getting it. Now the last country able to obtain it is lost to the once minority who never could, augmented by immigration of those who may never be able to grasp it either–and who certainly don’t now.
Every state that joins the Union retains its rights to leave again if the Federal government violates the covenant. Every state retains its fundamental sovereignty. Secession is not treason.
Be warned though. It is essential to Obama’s ultimate goal of destroying America to dissolve the union, which is why he has devoted so much time suing the states on one pretext or another, and pitting us against each other. We must be careful not to play into his hands.
Hey goober, do you also hurl accusations of treason against people who flee to the suburbs from the cities? I thought “nuance” was the specialty of you Lefties, but evidently you’ve missed out on the fact that overt secession isn’t even going to be necessary. There is already a de facto balkanization occurring throughout this country. It is fracturing along any number of different lines — political, geographic, ethnic. It’s the inevitable result of forcing people with very different ambitions, dreams, and expectations under a single government with a one size fits all doctrine. But you liberals brought this onto us all by replacing the American melting pot model with the salad bowl model of so-called multiculturalism.
So take a look at what went down in places like Yugoslavia. People like you will probably be among the first ones having their gourds popped.
That’s a funny comment, coming from a fascist pig.
These are the people who rule now.
As Reagan would have said ‘There you go again’ Apache you throw out the word ‘Fascist’ without any understanding of who and what the Fascists where. They were LEFT WINGERS originating in Italy with an INCOMPETENT Dictator Mussolini at their head (shades of the USURPER) closely allied to Germany’s “National SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party” (AKA NAZIS) . They come from the LEFT which gave us the three biggest MASS MURDERERS of the 20th Century Mao, Stalin and Hitler and from which we now have Obamunism.
The real problem is that he DOES have a mandate. We can try to deny all we want, what happened is a clear rejection of conservatism by the American people. That is exactly what they told us: they don’t what what we are offering.
There is, literally, nothing left we can do. It is over. Our Constitutional Republic is dead, and within 50 years, there will be no more USA.
An hysterical post, but at least intellectually honest.
The American people really don’t want what you crazies (and by that, I’m referring quite specifically to the racist, xenophobic scum who post on these boards — seriously, concern about the debt or the welfare state is one thing; concern about racial defilement is something else entirely) are pedaling.
And there it is right there. Does it matter to you that I am half of a mixed marriage? Of course not. I’m hardly human to you.
Now, you’ve touched upon the key issue: To ideologues, no matter their stripes, anyone who is other is defined as ‘not human’. Not us. Other.
When we stopped treating other people as if they were human, we abandoned freedom and liberty.
Romney and Ryan were all about debt and a sustainable eonomy. That was your chance to do something abou it. You missed it because you hate us too much.
It is you guys who have to fantasize about lady parts and racism to stay motivated. And voting for “revenge”. You are deeply irrational, and we will bear the consequences together, but only you will deserve it.
That’s a funny comment, considering you are a racist xenophobe and a fascist pig.
Anon is deliriously happy, happy, that this country faces “cough” serious, serious “cough” problems.
What can we learn from this phenomenon, other than that Anon likes the use of DoublePlusGood lingo? Well, for one, we learn that the prospect of the dead American carcass brings out the hyena within him.
You can’t know. You think of it now as if conditions are going to remain more or less the same, as if your reality will remain stable, but it won’t. The Left is wrong, their policies won’t work in the long run – on the economy, security, energy and mass immigration. When reality will become volatile politics will become fickle. In Israel it was the the War Process (AKA “Peace Process”) that caused that volatility. It started from, er, hope and change and ended up exploding in our faces. Many political parties have come and gone during this period. At one point Likud fell to 5% of the vote. Political analysts wrote its obituaries. The next election it became the ruling party and Labor crashed. Political analysts wrote the Labor’s obituaries, but according to polls Labor might double its votes in the coming election (though it won’t be enough for them to win). Unfortunately, at some point the US will pay a price for the nation’s bad judgement and misguided policies. Then politics might become unpredictable.
IMPEACH OBAMA & BIDEN
Don’t bother. The Senate will never convict. Not only because it is controlled by the Democrats, but because both Obama and Biden are “members of the club”.
Important safety tip; in future, do not vote for a Senator- any Senator- as a Presidential candidate, unless you are comfortable with having a POTUS who can do whatever he damn well pleases, and to Hell with the Constitution, the law, and even common sense.
The Old Boy Network always protects its own.
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Such morosity is understandable the night after a defeat. But, let’s not go off the deep end. The popular vote was almost perfectly, evenly split. In very real terms, the failure to improve on his original margin of victory was a significant repudiation of Obama. I can’t think of any other incumbent who won reelection by such a razor-thin margin.
And, from here on out, he owns the economy – no more blaming BOOOSH – and it’s going to get a lot worse, and very soon. Obama will find himself hemmed in tightly, and Democrat legislators will be running for cover.
In any case, it’s not the death of America, just a speed bump. We survived FDR, and a lost decade of moribund growth, and the phoenix rose from the ashes grander than ever before. Granted, it took a major worldwide conflagration to break the stranglehold and, reading the portents, that sort of thing may well be in the cards again. But, this too shall pass. Buck up, keep your eyes open and your rhetorical knives sharp. We’ll get through this.
There is no surviving $20 trillion debt.
Bart, I am so tired. I have spent four years, since election night in 2008, haunting these forums, feeling that eternal vigilance was my only defense against his agenda. I don’t know if my efforts to communicate my insights and feelings have had any impact; I only know that I felt I had to try, that silence in the face of his perfidy was his greatest ally.
I’ve never been in the military, but I feel as if I’ve been in a pitched battle for the last four years. I want not to have to fear every moment of every day what my government is going to do next to rob me of my freedoms, or to destroy or loot more of what I have worked a lifetime to achieve, or to confiscate on a whim any new enterprise I might start, for any reason or for no reason at all.
I’m exhausted, and I thought Romney meant that I would be able to breathe again; that I could feel relatively secure in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. At the risk of minimizing what our valiant military endures on deployment, I feel like my tour has just been extended and I am being sent into a mine field under heavy fire.
Think how those guys in the 1930′s felt as FDR wrapped the public around his little finger, pursuing a relentlessly radical agenda, while the Great Depression dragged on, and on, and on. You’d think some of them would have looked around and said, “you know, this Depression sure has been going on a long time.”
Remember Stein’s Law: Something which cannot go on forever, won’t. We just have to be prepared to pick up the pieces when the time comes. Take a rest, and step back from the battle a while. Attend to yourself and your family. And, make yourself ready to rejoin the fray when the time is ripe.
You’re a good man, Bart.
Hopefully, it won’t take a world war and tens of millions dead in order for it to correct this time.
Bart, you are correct, smallest margin of victory for an incumbent in 60+ years. The turnout was also very low if the numbers on Drudge at 7am Wednesday are right. Heck, McCain rec’d more votes than Romney did. Looks like a huge number of Americans have dropped out of the electoral process.
Or, had their votes misread. Only 700,000 would need to have been switched or nullified.
You are forgetting that someone with Obama’s background should have never been taken seriously under any circumstances at any time. He was and should have remained a marginal candidate, something along the lines of the flat earth society’s candidate for President.
Odd thing, we are all criticizing a man who is more or less a spectator, winging his way through a situation while refusing to admit that he is lying to himself more than anyone else. I heard about countries with dysfunctional leaders but I never thought it could happen here, twice with the same man.
What do you mean, no more blaming Bush. He will continue to blame Bush, the republicans and the tea party and conservatives and he will get away with it because the media will also blame all those groups and say that there is nothing obama can do. It takes an actual media to report what is actually happening. We don’t have that. The press, education, hollywood gauntlet that a republican has to get through to win has just been proven to be undefeatable. There is now no way a republican can win the presidency in this country. He will still blame Bush, and no one will say nay to it.
Don’t be ridiculous. Of course they will continue to blame Bush. The entire geenration of kids growing up from 2004 onwards have been taught nothing but “Blame Bush”. Letting go of that sort of idea is not part of their experience and will become a permanent part of their mental landscape.
No, we as individual humans will not. The Soviet Union collapsed due to its monstrous ideology within 70+ years. This is about 3 generations. Since the US has a much, much better economic base it will limp longer. So I almost sure I will not survive till than and so do you unless you will somehow manage to live quite a looong life.
Plain and simple, tonight we became Britain. 230 years for nothing.
I am wondering what happens now? We will very soon be over the fiscal cliff, is there any stopping that? Can the can be kicked down the road a little longer? I am thinking time (and money) is fast running out, $500 a barrel oil anyone?
Calm down. Life goes on. Stop living in the bubble.
“What does this say about a majority of Americans?”
1. Ignorance won; it’s as easy as breathing; critical thinking takes time and effort and doesn’t always reinforce comfortable beliefs. The left’s schools and media discourage it for that reason. The economic illiteracy alone in America, with fiscal catastrophe looming, should be a national embarrassment.
2. Takers won—for now, until the private sector host flees or expires.
America lost.
Lexington and Concord are your answers, I’m afraid. I welcome alternatives, but in the end see nothing but that working. 50.1 percent (or less) will not enslave the other half to their will in all things whatsoever–while not obeying laws themselves.
It will take years to build the case for taking a stand. But I see nothing else working. We must begin now.
Fight. Do not yield. This will not become Britain 1945 on my watch.
There are millions of us waiting. Tens and millions. We need organization.
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Of course many there are feds, so keep it legal.
But they can’t make it attractive enough to be useful to them and also useless to us.
Lots of careful thinking among the dreck.
It’s mourning in Amerika. I was so wrong about this election, and I have had every presidential election right since 1980 when I first voted.
We can’t kill the Leviathan but we can starve it. It’s time to go Galt and stop feeding the Beast the fruits of our labors. The makers should take the next four years and relax. No new factories, why bother? No new stores, why bother? No new employees, why bother? Just find your own Galt Gulch and enjoy four years of quality family time.
” I live in Germany–the least oppressive of the welfare-states, i.e., for awhile.”
Just ask the Jews of Cologne what they think about the circumcision ban .
Enough with the pity party.
True, we lost this battle, but there are many more that we must face. We must not surrender, we must not falter, we must keep fighting.
I, for one, love this great country called the United States of America far too much to sulk like a capricious child.
Time to regroup to fight another day.
Friends, embrace your family, knowing that G-d is forever.
Amen to this. Time for everyone to “Pray as if it depends on God, act as it depends on you.” Lick your wounds and get back to work!
I have been trumpeting for months on here to prepare for a collapse. Romney would have just extended it’s ETA. GOP is nearly as guilty on our nation’s decline. 60 years since we’ve had a GOP pres balance a budget. Nixon took us off the gold standard, etc… Those are just financial issues, symptoms of moral decline.
You have to be prepared for our fall so you can come out the other side strong and ready to rebuild our Republic.
America rest in peace. 1776 – 2012.
Think I’ll get some buddies together and start a new business- stripping abandoned homes of their copper pipes and wire. Every thing is legal right? Borders, no biggie. Government teats for all? COOL! International mayhem and US reps dead? Just speed bumps on our descent on the highway to hell. Who’s to care about a little copper wire? Once there’s no electric to pass through them no one will even miss em. What’s that? You’re my neighbor? You were.
Sorry, I just got a bad feeling about all this. Hunkering. Praying. For what……. dunno… someone somewhere had a dream.
The America I grew up in died tonite.
Between the deliberate lack of immigration reform/action, the monstruous increase in entitlements to maximize the number of potential voters on the dole, and a cynical (but apparently correct) belief that the American public could be distracted by histrionics because they were no longer a serious, practical, responsible and thoughtful people but a silly, vain and corrupted mob, the left won.
Just look at Massachusetts. There was NO REASON for Elizabeth Warren to get more than 10 or 15 votes. But this hypocritical deceiver, completely unqualified professionally or ethically for public office, WON ANYWAY.
At both the state and federal level, America is utterly, irrecoverably bankrupt. Yet confronted with financial ruin, those who were getting ‘gimmedats’ chose to be oblivious. When given the opportunity to show the same sense and fortitude that their parents, grandparents and greatgrandparents did, a slim majority instead decided to vote like…………Greece.
Or Spain.
Or Italy.
The Left will now believe they have UNSTOPPABLE power. They do, when you think about it. The media BELONGS TO THEM. Thus, no crime they commit, no abuse, no evil that they do will be of any consequence. Through replacement of soon to retire judges, the Supreme Court will become a think tank of Socialist Law, reshaping America at will and treating the constitution like a ‘living document.’
Will we see higher taxes? Yes. Much higher. Will that hurt the economy, and enslave the producers even more to the bought and paid for portion of the voting public on the dole, on behalf of their democrat masters? Yup.
And what of freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press? The left will now seek to impose the Fairness doctrine, so that websites like this one will be forced to dilute their message or be driven off the net. The Catholic Church will be forced to do much more than just pay for and support abortions and give out contraceptives. And there will be NO hesitation to savage, ridicule, ostracize and persecute those who publish any material or issue any statement which is not in line with the government’s agenda – after all, to disagree with the federal government will now officially become an antisocial, greedy, RACIST act.
The Left will now entrench itself in Washington the way it has in Chicago for the last 50 years.
And how will this be perceived overseas?
Simple. Only the most deliberately deluded cannot see that the leadership of China and Russia don’t just dislike Obama – they hold him in utter contempt. Japan, Germany, France, India, South Korea – they all see the same incompetence and weakness. American patents and trademarks will become irrelevant and indefensible. A crippled military will be unable to defend the increasing amount of energy America will have to import because of an ideological taboo on developing vast oil, coal and gas resources domestically. We will be viewed and treated as impotent and worthy of only slight regard. All the consequences to us – economically and politically – will be disastruous.
It’s time to get ready for the aftermath. See to your loved ones. Hell is coming towards this country on a swift horse. After this conflagration passes, there won’t be an America left that any of us will recognize.
Sadly, the America I grew up and loved is finished. It has just committed suicide.
The America of Hoppy, Gene and Roy. The America of Ike and Ronnie. The America
where the best part of a ball game is that silly old song they always play before
the game. The America where the future always – always! – looked better and
brighter than the past. That America died November 6, 2012. By its own hand!
But, at least I got to have it for 69 years. At least I got to know what the
American Dream was, and actually get my hands on it and hold onto it for most of
my life. Those days are gone, forever, and will never come this way again.
I feel sad, and sorry, for the younger ones coming up today. They will never
have the chance to have even an inkling of what I’m talking about. Without even
realizing it yet (but believe me, it will start sinking in sooner than they can
even imagine), they have become the author of their own decline and misery.
That Shining City on the Hill which was once America has just become Detroit.
Goodbye, America the Beautiful…
Jim Whittaker
Hemet, CA
Storm comin’
A majority of Americans voted to make us the largest new state in Europe. That probably looks good to them–Europeans get lots of free stuff, long vacations and short work weeks. Alas, Europe can only be Europe so long as the US is what it was. Once we can no longer defend them from themselves and others, Europe will come out of their 65 year slumber into a new, scary world. Ironically, a conservative US was the best thing that could happen to a liberal Europe. It will be very interesting to see how the equation works now. Good luck to all.
Keep Calm.
I’ll however offer some views/predictions based on what happened in third world countries before you, and therefore are indicators of what could happen to America.
1.- Welfare State collapses? Maybe, but in a very very long term, Before they can open their eyes and see the system is broken, there will hundreds, thousands of scapegoats to blame: Congress for instance, therefore, prepare for the tyrant backlash against Congress next time round. It took like 70 years for the URSS to collapse, not 4 more years, yet, after that, people still don’t see it as the cause or part of the cause of collapse. Those were 70 years of scapegoating too.
2. Will Atlas Shrug? Yes, Atlas (the creative and economy movers and shakers) will shrug, but at very slowly rate. They shrugged in Venezuela, the economy went down quickly, yet the tyrant is still there. Where Atlas will go? Well, they used to flee to the United States.
3. Thinking about emigration? Don’t fool your self. The rest of the world is WORSE than America. They were opening cheering and cheerleading Obama all the time with their broken healthcare and higher taxation and regulation. The fight will have to be in America, there is no other place to go. You will continue to receive immigration because America is the free-est place on the Earth, as much as it’s depressing for you right now, it’s the paradise for people longing to be free…
4. Other ways to solve this mess? Yes, but it won’t be pretty. We need a new War of Independence (Secession, Revolution, whatever), the place that can lead re this is Texas. But it will have to PRINCIPLED from the beginning. It shouldn’t be a “revolution” because the economy is on a ditch, or because we want to abort -or not abort, the whole day. A new Constitution summing up what we know and trimming what we know is not good should be elaborated.
5. We have to be vocal. We need to protest all the way, voice our opposition and rally the people, they will see our commitment to principles, and will see the economic mess and will come. We are not good at “marching through institutions”. We are good at revolutions tho.
6. The Army. In the worst case, the Army will try to defend the system (look at Syria, they split ranks with the regime ONLY when regime is totally crumbling), so even when they can be sympathetic to “Freedom”, don’t expect them to join a revolution. This can change, however, if it’s made clear your revolution is in favor of the current Constitution. A “back to the basics” movement.
7. We accepted bad premises: that we are a democracy. We are not… or never intended to be. Once you accept that false premise, you accepted to play their game, and their game is rigged. This time round, they were openly stealing in front of your eyes (black panthers, posters in polling places, and G’d knows what else is still covered). All the while the POTUS is ruling by executive edicts (and the Congress not doing his long overdue job of opposition/impeachments etc).
8. Brightest minds in the world were still acting the fool, from the Gop leaders to Netanyahu; thinking this was a civilized thing. The ones that knew how deep in problems we are, were labeled crazy nuts and treated as enemies (from Ayn Rand to Ron Paul) and they are still unliked by tons of right wing pundits (living under the democracy premises about voting and popularity, etc).
9. I want to put emphasis on: don’t count on collapse. Not going to happen. Immigration of people still looking for freedom, hard working and productive, won’t let it happen quick enough. Those minds should be welcome anyway.
I agree with you,but we need to change ,change our timid politics; let’s begin to use civil disobedience and disruptive,demonstrations, create a permanent corps of agitators,and work toward dividing the existing country into red(producing) and blue (welfare dependent) nations. One thing we could do easily, is to organize a massive and destructive “occupy the media in NY” demostration as part of a campaign to accelerate their declibne, and remove them as a factor from future elections.
Bills have already been entertained in Congress to subsidize the MSM. So their decline will be a long slow affair. Especially since “if it bleeds it leads” continues to be their reporting model. Lots of bleeding comin.
Can’t disagree with your analysis.
I do think, there is a possibility (though unlikely) the welfare state could collapse somewhat quickly.
Obama, his party, and his constituents are complete fools. There’s not enough superlatives to describe their idiocy. They will be completely blindsided by even a minor crisis. They only know one solution – throw (printed) money at it. How much more abuse can our currency take?
The welfare state has BEEN collapsing for quite a while now. The engineered stock market euphoria of the 90′s and the engineered housing euphoria of the 00′s simply masked it.
Will economic CPR work again? Will the monetary defibrilator paddles re-animate the weath transfer mechanism we call an ecomony? It shouldn’t work, but we apparently have enough economic intertia keep things moving.
Sooner or later, we’ll run out of other people’s money.
This is for the gloom & doom crowd who believe that Obama will now succeed in destroying America as we know it: our country survived the terrible devastation of the Civil War, the anarchy and domestic terrorism of the 1960′s, 9-11, more lousy presidents than good ones, and several depressions and economic collapses. And we always came back stronger that before. Obama will do some damage, we all know that. But he can’t crush the American spirit no matter how hard he tries. We are unique in world history. And we are far from powerless.
I think we have a good reason to be concerned: Alex de Toqueville stated that our system will last, so long as the people don’t learn they could vote themselves money from others. This election may be proof that we’re there.
But then again, we were wrong about the mood of the American people. Perhaps we’re wrong about why they have voted for Obama….
I’d be pessimistic about this, but that would never work. Seriously, I’d hoped for better, but am not surprised by Obama winning, by Chris Murphy becoming my new Senator, or Elizabeth Esty my Rsepresentative.
Despite voting Republican (in the hopelessly blue state of Connecticut), maybe this is partly the fault of people like me, who always show up at the voting booth, but don’t do much away from it. I despise politics, but am going to have to find some way of being an activist anyway. Certainly there is going to have to be some pushback against the current and coming excesses from the left.
” but am going to have to find some way of being an activist anyway.”
There you have it. Time/Talent/Treasure for the cause! Too many people sitting on the sidelines right now.
Like most on the right, I misread America.
No, we underestimated Amerika. Most voters understand that things have to change… Americans say “we need to make serious cuts”, Amerikans say “those rich people need to work harder”.
It’s as the politicians always say, the way out is a “shared sacrifice”, we sacrifice and they’ll take a larger share.
We all know what “ground game” in a democracy means, don’t we? Do we really want to be that Party?
Depends. As my uncle who was a tank commander in Patton’s Third Army once said, “Shooting a man in the back is supposed to be something you just don’t do- but backshooting a Tiger tank is just common sense, because you don’t want to be in front of the damn thing.”
There are no Marquis of Queensbury rules in the real world. And a short 75 always loses in a head-to-head fight with a long 88.
If you want to win, get a 90. And hit him where he isn’t looking.
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Prop 30 passed in California. Absurd.
An electorate of economic illiterates,cretinous females,and immigrant welfare dependency wannabes,aided by pathetic and timid Republican campaign , just decided to enter the ranks of thirld world nations.Welcome to Greece,cretins,and prepare for the Weimar Republic!
The repeal of the 22nd Amendment, limiting the president to 2 terms will commence in 3-2-1…. And the Obama caliphate will live in perpetuity. Welcome to the United States of Sharia.
It won’t happen on Obama’s watch. The hurdles are too high. The states that voted for Obama aren’t sufficient for ratification, assuming the darn thing even got through Congress. Unless the GOP goes the way of the Whigs, they can block it in both chambers.
MCBUSH AND MITT BUSH
There’s nothing mysterious about the outcome of this election. Obama’s message “I suck, but the other guy’s worse” won out. Obama convinced the electorate, with help from MSM and Bill Clinton (author of the housing crash), that electing Mitt Romney would reverse what pitiful gains were made (real or not) in fixing the economy, and bring us back to September 2008. In 2008 Obama defeated McBush. In 2012 he defeated Mitt Bush.
The last sentence got it right: we are now being ruled by the sub-par in the name of the subpar.
A Fox business commentator said that Republican Senators and Congressmen will now have to cooperate with O . But if any of them do they would be cutting their political throats, and the same could be said for the ones in the pink states. Everyone knows that the entire O thing has been about getting a VAT; about the dems getting the money they need to reshape the economy to their political benefit and also destroy the Republican Party as a viable opposition. Regardless of the form this reaper takes any Congressional Republican that cooperates with O is not long for this political world.
If you truly blue your liberty then stop focusing all your energies on federal elections and refocus them on electing strong 10th Amendment conservatives to ll your state offices. It’s time for the states to seize back the powers the federal government has steadily usurped since the Wilson era.
Do you really want to be rid of Obamacare? Then work to nullify it. It’s unconstitutional regardless of the SCOTUS ruling and states have the right to determine constitutionality since they are the ones that created the federl government. The states never agreed to become subservient to the federal government.
Check out the tenthamendmentcenter.com blog for more info.
What it tells us is that the takers are out-breeding the makers. The gimmee culture has reached the tipping point. It’s all downhill from hear. My advice, practice your Greek.
I firmly disagree we are being out-bred. This is only anecdotal, but many of my colleagues at work are even considering a 2nd child.
That was my take-away too: moochers, Muslims and Mexicans.
The most troubling thing to me is that we’re no longer living under the rule of law. The president violates the Constitution by legislating through executive orders and agency regulations, even when Congress has specifically rejected what he’s enforcing; and conversely, he and his agencies specifically REFUSE to enforce the legally passed laws that he doesn’t like. Meanwhile, we just had an election full of documented illegalities — NAACP bullying voters at the polling places; NBP ditto; campaign materials hung all over polling places; noncitizens driven to the polls, registered to vote on the spot, and told which candidates to vote for (we had busloads of these in Central Ohio); etc., etc. — and people who reported the illegalities and/or tried to stop them were told to “stand down” or were actually kicked off the premises. DOJ, as usual, did nothing. Nor did government agencies do anything to round up the tweeters who were calling for riots and assassinations. Need I add that no one in the Obama campaign went on record as disavowing these incitements to violence? — even while HIllary and the rest of them are agitating for the criminalization of anything that rioting Muslims might blame their rioting on? And then there’s ICE, which has refused to cooperate with state authorities who’ve rounded up illegal aliens. And so on. And so forth. There is no rule of law.
I used to teach English Renaissance drama. Over and over, the tragedies ask: “What do you do when the law is the criminal or ineffectual against the criminals? What do you do when the people who are supposed to protect you are the ones who have the contract out on you? What do you do when the people who taught you your ethical code are acting as though you’re a fool for still believing in it and a public menace for trying to uphold it? What do you do?” The answers vary, but one thing remains clear: When the upholder of the ethical code resorts to physical vengeance, he quickly becomes the thing he’s fighting and must die at the end of the play. Sometimes he remains incorrupt but must die in order to maintain his integrity and restore order. But by the end of the period, more and more the answer seems to be: “There is no way to fight the corruption without becoming corrupt. The only answer is to retreat from the court and try to build an ethical life in your own community.” Sometimes even that gets called into question. But by the time we reach this degree of cynicism, it’s 1642, the English Civil War has begun, and all the theaters are closed. End of Renaissance drama. I hope what we’re experiencing won’t be the end of the American Experiment.
I thought there was a slight possibility that we hadn’t reached the tipping point yet. Last night proved conclusively that I was wrong. The public is perfectly satisfied with trillion dollar deficits, record high unemployment, raising taxes on most Americans and living on the dole. There may be no going back. Obama will likely get two Supreme Court appointments and then it is over: Game, set and match to the progressive/socialists. In the end, the calamity will be over when the only thing the progressives can’t control tanks – the economy.
The exit polls said volumes about the collective retardation of the voting public when 51% still blame GWB for the economy. There is no cure for stupid.
At least here in Colorado, pot is now legal so we can all be loaded when the fiscal bus goes over the cliff. Full speed ahead and pass the bong.
I met this morning here in N.C. one of the types who cost us the election; an otherwise reasonably intelligent, industrious middle-aged man who declared that he believes Obama has “some good ideas”, and that Romney’s plan to create jobs wasn’t really a plan at all, just an empty claim.
The American character has been driven out of the population by the Leftist education system, mass media mouthpieces, and all the money behind them. It is both our greatest strength and weakness, our American exceptionalism, and it would appear that we are now outnumbered in that regard. The scale is tipped, and we are headed for almost certain disaster.
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.” Lincoln
Think on this. Obama won by the barest of margins. Maybe only by 2 million votes overall. He has no mandate for anything but the status quo which is what the very slim majority voted for.
Lots of us were right when we predicted that the public is now so debased and demoralized that it would accept anyone who promised them the slightest hope of keeping their handouts. In fact that is the highest aspiration they have,keeping their food stamps, jobless benefits and free contraceptives and some kind of minimal healthcare.
In the long run when the economy really tanks in 2013 or 2014 Obama will be tarred with it like Bush still is to this very day. In the meantime people better start thinking about what they will do to survive in a year or so. As for me, the libertarian party is starting to look better and better.
There are so many people who cast their ballot for Obama, who are intelligent and not dependent on government handouts. Why??
The fact is that they are not very intelligent and they have their whole lives tied up in big government. They voted their interests.
Maybe because they have been taught that it’s virtuous to sacrifice to the less well off. In the end, morality often beats facts. The solution is to reject this false morality and the false alternative between altruism and a dog eat dog world.
United States of American 1776-2008 RIP
R.I.P.
The progressives will now tighten their grip around the throats of Americans as they bring the baby boomers into the fold through Social Security and socialized medicine. Once they are all in their pocket, you will see the republican majority in the house rapidly disappear. There is no turning back now.
I am personally disappointed with the voters of America. However, given the last 60 years of indocrination in the educational system and the constant encouragement of “free money” for not working, i.e., the welfare/charity system, I am not surprised.
However, as an evangelical Christian (one who believes that God is the founder and sustainer of everything), it is clear that obama is our “justice”. We had God’s Hand over us in mercy for almost 200 years and we spit at Him. Now we are being judged. The sowing and reaping principle is and always has been true.
We are now in the hands of an evil man-king who is being used to bring about justice. I pray that this will convince many hearts to turn and seek the Lord.
In 2008 I could not believe that my fellow citizens could elect an unvetted, inexperienced man such as obama to the Presidency. I could not believe that this country had been so dumbed down. Then, after some thought, I gave many obama voters the benefit of the doubt. They were lied to by a sycophantic obama media, the Republicans’ had certainly earned the wrath of the voters, there was the allure of electing the first black President, and McCain was one of the worst candidates/campaigners I had seen in my life. Then came the 2010 midterms. I thought that the people had realized how badly they had been duped, and that there was still hope for us. So it was with trepidation and hope that I awaited the results of yesterday’s vote. Unfortunately, this election showed me that my initial opinion of half the electorate was correct. It is beyond my comprehension how such a poorly performing, anti-American, hateful, damaged person who could not tell the truth if his life depended on it could be re-elected in America. My conclusion is that this is no longer America. The ignorant, the stupid, the parasitic, the victims, and the useful idiots have taken over. I have lost all confidence and respect for half of the people who live in this country, and who do not realize how fortunate they were…the operative word is “were”, because the gravy train is officially over, people. With the current administration in power and an un-American Democrat Senate, we are truly over as a democratic republic. obama has behaved as an unconstitutional tyrant. He has taken actions that are certainly outside the scope of his Constitutional authority. Yet, with few exceptions, we do not have a Congress that is willing to stand up to him. Thanks to a complicit, leftist news media and to a large segment of our population who deserve to exist in a second (or third) rate country, we are doomed, barring some type of miracle. There no longer appears to be a remedy at the ballot box, or in our other elected branches of government. Our country has been given away by those undeserving of its greatness, and the rest of us have to live with the consequences as well. I am truly saddened for my children and grandchildren.
I concur verbatim
There is only one thing left to those of us who continue to believe in the laws of the USA. Simply. Pay no taxes. Ignore any edict that has been inflicted on any individual or business since Obama was first elected. And assume until proven otherwise, that he is not a citizen and therefore not POTUS. In particular, ignore any obamacare tax or directive. Go to your doctor, pay cash. Take care of each other, educate your children at home. Grow all that you can in any soil that’s clean. Drive an old car. Learn how to fix it. God will help. Eat less and pray a lot.
Republicans have finally paid a political price for their cynical, treasonous, scorched-earth strategy to oppose any and all attempts by Obama and the Democrats to get this country back on track. They held the economy of the country hostage so that they could create a failed presidency to run against. They created this unprecedented gridlock and then – and I’m not making this up – claimed that only a Republican – Rawmoney – would be able to work with them to break this gridlock.
Rawmoney’s argument that he would be “bi-partisan” was perhaps the most insulting of all his many incredible and unbelievable claims. He wanted us to believe that the unprecedented obstructionism of Obama’s agenda by the Republicans with the express purpose of creating a failed presidency was Obama’s fault and that we needed to not only ignore the treasonous betrayal of America’s interests for the pursuit of political power by the Republicans but now we should have rewarded this extortion and voted for him.
How much longer now will the Republicans continue to put their selfish desire for power over the good of the country?
Project much, do we?
The Stupid is Strong with This One!
You do realize that Obama got what he wanted to save the country–his Stimulus–and he even promised about 5.6% unemployment in less than two years, and that it would be a point or so above that, if we didn’t get the Stimulus? Instead, we have approximately 8% unemployment–and that’s just those who are still looking for work!
But if Republicans are paying the price for this, they are paying for it in an awfully weird way: they were given the House. Normally, when a President wins a given Election, and gets the popular vote, he pulls enough members of the House to get a majority….
Oh, and I forgot: Obama had both the House and a near filibuster-proof Senate in the first two years of office…yet he’s trying to blame everything on obstructionist Republicans….
Still trying to find some kind of hope for America’s future after that devastating blow last night.
How did we overwhelmingly take the House in 2010? Because Obama pushed OCare down our throats and the Stimulus. Perhaps we can take the Senate in 2014 weakening BO even more.
The worst parts of OCare kicks in in 2014 and who knows what will happen to the economy after he raises taxes.
But it seems unlikely that a Republican president can ever win since Democrats have made sure more and more people will be dependent on the gravy train.
I believe that Obama will accomplish too much in even two short years.
I don’t know when the collapse will come but we are speeding towards it. If you have the means I suggest going galt and finding a nice safe country to watch it happen.
If not then God, Guns, Food, and if you can Gold. You have some time to prepare but I don’t really think you have much time left because Barry is now running with no brakes and will simply do what he want’s regardless of the opposition, I suspect some kind of national emergency ploy where he will simply take control.
Sounds nutty I admit, but I think that will be there play as they get more desperate as things start to shake apart.
Re. “I suspect some kind of national emergency ploy where he will simply take control.”
Why? He already has all control he wants. And if/when he will want more, Boner will gladly oblige.
Yet more proof that the two parties extremes continue to divide and destroy this country! Forty plus years of the Democrats Socialist Progressives and now a ressurgence of the GOP’s Religious Right now branded as “Conservatives”. So long as the two parties extremes caucuses gain and hold control of the parties, America loses!
Bathhouse Barry’s reelection reminds me of the shock I felt on the day the O.J. verdict was read aloud.
WTF?????
That is a very good analogy IMHO. Just as there was something wrong with the OJ jury there is something very wrong with the American electorate. My guess is that too many made an emotional investment in Obama, so much it would cost them their self-esteem if they were to admit to a mistake. Also how many are familiar with what he did in Honduras, or the Czech Republic or the SOFA in Iraq and how many care?
I may think more clearly at a later date but right now this seems like we have lost the Republic. Too many people are voting to give themselves somebody else’s money. That is democracy run amok not Republican processes at work.
Our candidate was a largely liberal Govenor from Mass. not a clear thinking Conservative in the mantle of Reagan. Romney’s history on the 2nd amendment, abortion, taxation, HEALTH CARE, and moderate politicalism have allot more in common with Clinton-Reid-Pelosi than the electorate at large. Romney wasn’t a bad candidate he was a hideous, terrible, stinker of a nominee who couldn’t beat John McCain let alone the combined efforts of the Amerikan leftist media machine and a street organizer in Chief. Always remember, if you run a liberal against a liberal, the “liberal” always wins.
Check Six, Rocky
the opinions in this article is the very reason you guys lost. You just don’t get it do you? Your party is hostile towards blacks, latinos, women, students, gays, middle class, and the poor. There is no way to win a national election with that type of nonsense. Go ahead, double down, keep up the shenanigans, keep up the hatred, you’ll never find the white house again.
Yes Jack you won the white house
A few years from now when things are worse I am sure you will still be blaming the other side for the failures of your leaders.
I on the other hand will have prospered yet again, it’s what I do best.
So laugh it up while you can because I suspect your joy will be rather short lived and though I will feel remorse for my fellow Americans who are suffering I will feel none for you.
We’re not hostile to any of those you named. You believe that we are and your media depicts us as such. You’re liars and you own whatever befalls the nation in the next few years. Calling us names won’t save you.
It does not matter that he is wrong. Jack has a point. Many people I talk to have that perception and elections are won and lost on belief, not fact. Republican party is going to have to work hard to change that. Blaming the media is not going to add up to electoral points.
To win elections Republicans need to bring in more groups going to the Democrats. The alienation of Hispanics by the GOP in particular is inexcusable malpractice and piss poor leadership.
So what is your answer? Demoncrat lite? We DO NOT need to pander to hispanics or blacks. If they are stupid enough, which it clearly seems they are, to believe progressive whites like them and will care for them, then they deserve to be modern-day slaves to the progs.
Do you suggest we get hispanics by telling them that open borders is okay; that giving illegals FREE health care and welfare as well as tuition will help; that promising them they can have dual citizenships or face it be citizens of Mexico and still live here off Americans is okay???
BS. We lost because on 35% of registered GOPers voted. And of the total populace of the US-legal citizens-still under 50% participated in the election. There are enough white Americans 78% to get to vote for the GOP even if we only get 50-60% of that demographic. Mitt only lost by 5million votes..
THese next four years will see more white Americans move over to our party. Once white girls find they have no jobs due to the economy or affirmative action they will move from demons to our side. Push for higher taxes on everyone making over $200k except those who employee less than 100 employees. Tax union dues and political groups, 527s and foundations. Starve the left of money.
But our first job is to collectively bankrupt the MSM via boycotting of their supporters and advertisers. Next band together like-minded state governors and states into one voting block. Nullify government mandates and uphold the 10th Amendment. Build local, state and regional cadres of citizens who will act as the vanguard to push progs into blue states beginning with state governments, schools and leftists groups. And much more.
Evil AND stupid, is no way to go through life, Jack.
Galt all the way
Offshore the jobs over the next few months to where I will be moving, then move when complete, it’s a lovely place but I will be heart sick for my home, but it can’t be helped.
In my mind America is over, it’s been coming for awhile and if you still think it’s reversible then by all means fight on but I personally think that is delusion.
I for one am selling what I can’t take with me while it’s still worth something, and I can easily run my company in a country that will actually appreciate me for the jobs I create.
God bless everyone and good luck
I’d stand back from the exit doors now, I see a trot becoming a stampede, with this guy’s idea of “fairness” coming down like a sledge hammer on any business that can prosper some place else. And that’s on top of the jobs Obamacare will kill.
1776-2012
Today Abraham Lincoln rolls over in his grave. You CAN fool all of the people ALL of the time. And this crew will continue to lie, cheat, and steal from us dupes and pay off their patrons and cronies. We have nationalized the Chicago Way. And we continue to pay a steep and tragic price for tolerating the miseducation of our children.
Best of luck to thinking conservatives who want to change their party for the better over the next four years. The Republican philosophy has broad appeal; speaking as a young voter, I have nothing but distaste for Obama’s defense of entitlement expansion at the expense of my generation and tax hikes on the wealthy but nothing on the so-called middle class. In any other election I would have voted republican, but unfortunately this party is completely beholden to the interests of the tea-party fringe, people who have no interest in substantive reform and cannot comprehend the politics of compromise.
I pray that the Republican party I would vote for (the republican party that acknowledges the dangers global warming presents to the economy, the republican party that understands preserving medicare for the elderly means screwing over the young, the republican party that understands that respect for civil liberties means ending the senseless war on drugs and gay marriage) presents a competent nominee in four years, instead of the usual parade of horrors in the form of Michele Bachmann and her ilk. God bless
Yes, we are so hostile to women, Latinos and blacks…all of whom were featured prominently at our convention telling their stories of achievement from hard work and hope.
It’s the people who believe the myths and lies about conservatives who will pay a heavy price in the years to come as they are bled dry by the thieves and parasites they have elected. Maybe eventually they will wake up…or maybe not. After all, the country tolerated a decade of economic failure and excuses from a guy they elected 4 times…and FDR is still revered by liberals today for all his failure.
As for leaving…where can we go? We were the last best hope. But we have become a country of takers, not makers; people who think the way to get ahead is to take for free what someone else earned.
That’s another myth — that the tea party is a group of fringe and unhinged fanatics. Funny…that’s sort of the way I think of Elizabeth Warren and her hatchet job on the truth!
I’m 47 and only married three years ago. My wife is from the Philippines.
1. I told her last night, “For the first time in my adult life I am glad that I don’t have children. It saddens me to think of the total mess that is going to fall on the heads of the next generation.
Of course here is an exchange between two of my students this morning the speaks volumes. One was crowing about the lesbian this that got elected somewhere and the gay that that got elected somewhere…. and her companion meekly said, “I’m all for social justice but the economy is still terrible.” Yes, and its going to get a lot worse for my seniors.
2. For the first time in my life I have contemplated retiring outside of the United States. A place where they speak English, love Americans and the dollar goes very far (well for now at least) and I can get a tooth filled for about twenty bucks, because they DON’T have universal health insurance. (Duh!) The Philippines is looking mighty good right now.
Yep join the exodus, in Asian countries like Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia Sri Lanka and the Philippines you will find thousands of expats like myself who had to get away from European Socialism and its destruction of the Nation State. No doubt another few years of Obamunism will see a similar exodus from the USA’s decline into a debt ridden Socialist state. The problem for Europe just like it will be for the USA is that the expats who leave are the ones with initiative, drive and resources which will all be denied to the USA.
Today, many people who love Liberty and Freedom are justifiably upset and depressed. While there are lights of liberty (the legalization of marijuana in two states and the passing of gay marriage in three states), most of the news for freedom is bad. That being said, there is a school of thought that believes things have to go totally wrong for things to go right. Or to put another way, the cur
rent system is so badly broken that it will have to be destroyed before it can be rebuilt And therefore, this reminder from the last couple of lines of the greatest tribute to liberty and freedom ever written:
“They could not see the world beyond the mountains, there was only a void of darkness and rock, but the darkness was hiding the ruins of a continent: the roofless homes, the rusting tractors, the light-less streets, the abandoned rail. But far in the distance, on the edge of the earth, a small flame was waving in the wind, the defiantly stubborn flame of Wyatt’s Torch, twisting, being torn and regaining its hold, not be uprooted or extinguished. It seemed to calling and waiting for the words John Galt was now to pronounce.
“The road is cleared, said Galt. “We are going back to the world.”
He raised his hand and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the dollar.
–Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Massive fraud. Some day, when it’s much too late, the truth will come out.
I doubt it.
The catastrophe exactly.Ayn Rand have predicted it and we see it`s coming in EU too.It`s the wellfare state which oppress free capitalism.The masses will not oppose it without a devastating collapse.May be the Cold war preserved America for a time. The World already see the horrors of Obama policies and international instabilities will grow as the extremists perceive Obama`s signals.
There are two big trends we cannot fight… the lure of the free stuff and the media that controls the message. As a result of the election, the Repubs will go to the left and campaigning will be about what party will give a better cell phone plan. The grand American experiment is done and continuing the fight will make no difference in the outcome.
In the previous 6 presidential elections, the president with the best economic numbers won handily. In the three presidential elections in which the incumbent lost, the average GDP grew by only 1.9% in the two years before the election and the incumbent lost by 6% on an average. In the three where the incumbent president won, the GD grew by 4.5% and the incumbent won by 14%. The fact that President Obama didn’t lose significantly in this poor economy indicates that the core Democratic support is even greater than the vote would suggest.
Lets not kid ourselves. The American republic, as it was meant to be, is gone. It will never come back through the ballot box. The choice is either to accept it or separate. By force, if need be.
Weird. Have you all forgotten the disaster that was George W Bush? Now that guy lied about WMD in Iraq, and his associates lied about Al Qaida training in Iraq, just so they could have an unnecessary war. But did the left say “lets impeach him”? No. He did so much more damage to the US, just when the US needed a proper leader, and they got GWB.
So how you guys can complain about Obama is beyond me. If the Republicans could come up with a good leader, you’d have a chance. But that would mean someone prepared to stare down the loony right – and just in case you don’t realise, that is you guys.
Your memory is laughably poor. Not only did the Left call for the impeachment of Bush, he was Hitler Incarnate, among other things!
As for the lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction, I’m convinced that Bush believed the intelligence he had. If he were deliberately lying, how hard would it have been to plant weapons in Iraq to find? (And I, for one, still wonder: just what *did* Hussaine do with all those weapons that he was documented to have, from the first war?)
Keep calm.
Keep calm, because, in a crisis, panic can kill you.
Think, act (in that order), and look for the way out.
In the last few days before the election, a great many Conservative commentators predicted a Romney victory despite the pretty clear evidence from the polls that he was going to lose. Talking up your guy just before a vote is not very strange behavior, but indifference to reality does seem to be a feature of your side’s overall modus operandi. I sometimes think that we you have against the moderates and democrats is that we believe in one world government, where one world = reality, i.e. that the facts, whether we like ‘em are not are the facts and should count.
You do know that Obama is a quite a conservative Democrat, don’t you? Heck, Angela Merkel and the U.K. prime minister Cameron are considerably to his left. I appreciate that you have a very ideological version of economics in which only a free-market utopia counts as a rational system, but yours is the radical vision relative to the political history of the last 80 years in America.
I’m not ragging on you, and I’ve been on the losing side of too many elections to get off on rubbing it in. It’s just when I read all this stuff about a Marxist/Muslim/Fascist Obama, I am genuinely puzzled at the air of unreality about your language. What’s next? Are you going to accuse the president of being a lesbian?
When you see the polls inch from Dem +8 all the way to Dem +12 the day before the election, and Obama *still* has only 49% in the poll, I think it’s fair to question the validity of the polls.
When you see Obama bitter and angry, and his audiences dwindling…while Romney is upbeat, and his audiences are packed…it’s fair to conclude that energy is high among the Republicans, and that Democrats are depressed.
Indeed, Obama got several million *less* Democrats voting for him this time, than he did in 2008. Thus, I’m left wondering: what happened to the excited Republican base? Why didn’t they get out and vote? Yet they came out in enough force, to ensure that the House remained Republican.
Everything about this round of elections is just bizarre.
And no, Obama is NOT a conservative Democrat: he was among the most liberal in the Senate, when he served there. He hasn’t demonstrated any willingness to moderate, nor has he demonstrated any respect for the free markets that have made this country great.
You say that it’s “rational” to have parts of various societies socialized. I look upon the parts of the world that are socialized–including some major institutions here in the United States–and I am not convinced. When you have a socialized system, you depend on bureaucrats to know everything about it, who then make the best decisions they can, assuming that their motives are always pure. When you compare that to the millions of people in the “trenches”, making decisions based on the information they, and only they, can collect, there’s no way that a team of bureaucrats can match that reservoir of knowledge. Thus, bureaucratic systems are always doomed to be less efficient, and more harmful, than free market systems.
As far as “rational” economic theories go, you have a huge advantage on me since you simply know that a purely free market solution solves all problems. Ideologies may be wrong, but you’ve got to admit they save a huge amount of time and don’t take up much space in your head. Once you start looking at empirical evidence, things get more complicated. Bloody obvious example: you simply know that a free-market health care system has got to be better than a public or semi-public one because bureaucrats! Thing is, though, the experience of every industrialized nation over the last century has demonstrated quite the opposite. The other countries have a wide range of systems from the UK’s socialized medicine to various single-payer insurance schemes, but they all have one thing in common: they are all obviously better than ours. It turns out that private bureaucrats are just as bureaucratic as public ones. If you really believe in creative destruction, you should acknowledge that nothing is asking for creative destruction more than our private health insurance companies. Won’t matter. You’ve got the TRUTH, presumably derived from some boiled down summary of Road to Serfdom you read someplace, and facts just can’t compete with that.
Very droll. One of the few things we know from Obama’s past is that he taught the Alinsky method. And you claim he’s to the right of Merkel et al.?
I can’t but agree. Shared on Hype and Fail on Facebook–come visit us, and watch as we point out the FAIL every day.
There’s going to be LOTS of FAIL coming out of Obama II…at least until everything collapses!
“We are a scattering of enclaves, barely on speaking terms, swaggering and vibrant Texas suspiciously eying bankrupt but arrogant California, rural and traditional Oklahoma having nothing in common with corrupt and secular Illinois”
A rather poor entry into a supposed effort to pull us back together, by obviously demonizing those parts of the country which went for Obama.
Yes, it is obvious why Romney lost. It is also obvious that many people on this forum simply do not understand nor can accept the logic behind those reason, and why he was rejected.
Rather than trying to understand those who voted against Romney, you vilify them. You now retreat into the language of alienation and sedition. You need to change your approach, you need to better define *and* articulate both your goals, and your solutions to problems. You further need to demonstrate their rationality with reliable, rigorous and supportable logic. (If those goals and solutions do not stand up to tests of logic and fact, you need to re-think them!)
Romney and the Republican party failed to do this, on all counts.
This immature, insensible, chestpounding “going Galt” and “end of the Republic as we Know It” rubbish needs to stop, and be replaced with actual thinking.
Enough with the self-indulgent tantrums, please, they only create more echos.
Why? What’s wrong with calling out California for what it is, a bankrupt state that’s hemorrhaging businesses like mad, because of their high taxes and excessive regulations?
As for “going Galt”: that’s a direct result of being overburdened by regulation and taxes. Eventually, even the best of us get worn down, and we just quietly cut down our hours, and perhaps retire early if we can…or, if we’re younger, we make plans on keeping our incomes “under the radar”. The funny thing is, there are a lot of people–some of them may even be Progressives–who are doing this, without even having heard the term “going Galt”! It’s simply a natural response to being worn out.
But I do agree that we need to articulate our goals, and strategize how to achieve them. When things come to a head–we can only go for so long with $1Trillion/year deficits, before we run into trouble–my hope is that more people will be willing to do the math, and cut back on things. I just wish it didn’t have to come to this…and I fear that there might be just enough people who will say, “We didn’t have *enough* government intervention!” that preserving liberty will be impossible.
I do hope Obama goes to the centre like the article hopes. Another four years of his right-wing policies will be pain.
How does it feel to wake up in a European Socialist Benefit Junkie Democracy America one on its way to becoming Greece and a then Third World cesspit.
So just how did the USURPER manage to get re-elected. Well just sit down and just think about it a little. There are 13% of the population who voted for him because he looked the same as them I refer of course to BLACKS of whom 96% RACISTLY voted for him and that same 96% support him still and continued to do so . Its what RACISTS do. Then there are the 20-30% of Americans who are dyed in the wool brainwashed left wing Islamophile PC, MC moonbats. Who also are incapable of change or logic or common sense.
So you see the USURPER was SURE of between 33-43% moronic and RACIST support no matter what he did. Add to that the ‘Entitlement Junkies’ and the ‘misguided Hispanics’ and the single women who vote with their vaginas and on whom the Regime spent the majority of their re-election propaganda dollars and not forgetting the congenitally MORONIC and its no wonder he won. The wonder is, with the huge rise in all those demographics, how come he did not win bigger.
A fond Farewell to the Vanished World of Wonder Bread, Sealtest Ice Cream, Aunt Jemima’s Pancake Mix, Borden’s Milk, the Sears Roebuck and Co. Catalog, and All That
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Election Day, 2012, will enter the history books as a seminal date in our History. For on that date, a fundamental transformation of the American character took place, a change long since in the making, with the resounding and embarrassing thrashing of the Republican party (the party of the old guard) by the party of the future.
I remember looking at Romney during the long campaign and I kept asking myself: Who is he representing? Who is he talking to? I could never figure that answer out.
Romney and Cia. went down in ignominious defeat precisely because he was representing an America that no longer exists – even in the Midwest. (After all – and just as an example- our first “openly gay” senator just elected to Congress is from Wisconsin – as “heartland” a state as you can find. Not only that, she’s a woman to boot. (Talk about a double whammy).
But it was more than that. I remember those scallywag Republican leaders plainly stating things like “Our main job is to deny Obama a second term” and “We will not cooperate with them at all” and so on. They should have been forced to resign if that was their attitude. People like me clearly remember all that and vowed not to forget it and let no one else forget it either.
The 30s, 40s and 50s are over. They simply are. It’s a new ball game with different players. The sea change that has taken place is now a permanent part of the American panorama. Those who refuse to admit it and to adjust to it are simply living in the past and becoming more irrelevant and inconsequential as time goes on.
The 30s, 40s and 50s are over — Yes, you’re right! Now let’s take a look at the decades of educational decline since then. Let’s take a look at organized labors corruption and its spiraling inflationary effects since then. Let’s take a look at the churches failings and the declining morality since then. Let’s take a look at how the constitution has been challenged since then. Let’s take a look at how the social family and community unit was replaced with individualism since then. Let’s look at how society has become a transient society since then. Let’s look at how private sector industry and business has become corrupted since then. Let’s look at how government has grown so much and become so much more corrupted since then. Let’s look at how foreign nation building has become central and so costly to the nation since then. Let’s look at the horrible increase by millions upon millions of folks who have become dependent upon government financial support since then. Let’s look at how the nations economy has become consolidated and centralized since then. Let’s look at how much personal debt has been accumulated since then. Let’s look at the value of the dollar since then. The list goes on and on and one is hard pressed to find more than a small handful of things that can be place in the positive advanced column.
We are a very new nation in the world so we have tons of history from which to compare our journey to. Since the “30s, 40s, and 50s” we have chosen a path from history that has time and again proven to be a failure.
its no mystery why romney-ryan were rejected by the american people at the polls on tuesday.
REPUBS CHOSE TO RUN A VERY WEAK CANDIDATE. pure and simple this is why they lost.
it wasn’t bad polling, it wasn’t hurricane sandy, it wasn’t chris christie, etc.
WEAK CANDIDATE + BAD IDEAS = LOSS AT THE POLLS.
1. the repub candidate has no central core values. romney flipflopped 180 degrees on the same issue on the same day, many times! no mind of his own, lacking strength of character. a president has to lead, romney is a follower in this arena of life, an easily managed puppet.
2. secret contempt for 1/2 of the america electorate. the 47% remark was a self inflicted mortal blow. not much else to say on that, we all heard it and know it reflects his true views.
3. open contempt for the three most powerful voting lobbies, young voters, latinos and women. voter suppression in repub governed states hardened the resolve of many to vote.
its no mystery why romney-ryan were rejected by the american people at the polls on tuesday.
REPUBS CHOSE TO RUN A VERY WEAK CANDIDATE. pure and simple this is why they lost.
it wasn’t bad polling, it wasn’t hurricane sandy, it wasn’t chris christie, etc.
WEAK CANDIDATE + BAD IDEAS = LOSS AT THE POLLS.
1. the repub candidate has no central core values. romney flipflopped 180 degrees on the same issue on the same day, many times! no mind of his own, lacking strength of character. a president has to lead, romney is a follower in this arena of life, an easily managed puppet.
2. secret contempt for 1/2 of the america electorate. the 47% remark was a self inflicted mortal blow. not much else to say on that, we all heard it and know it reflects his true views.
3. open contempt for the three most powerful voting lobbies, young voters, latinos and women. voter suppression in repub governed states hardened the resolve of many to vote. we’re making it hard for you to vote, self deportation and love your rapist’s baby are not messages that resonate with these groups, in fact they offend.
As an Australian watching the whole sorry soap opera can I just wanted to let some of you Republicans know that the majority of Australians are relieved that Obama won (while not seeing any real difference between either candidate in terms of foreign policy).
While the fact is that US elections are becoming less important as far as Australia is concerned (what has just happened in China with their leadership change over is much more important to Australia than whoever wins the US election) it is important for your country that you have a decent opposition to the Democrats – it’s no good for any country to have one party (right or left) with a lock on power. Unfortunately that is what looks like happening – the Republican vote has been slipping for years and will continue to do so unless you change direction.
You will never win another election if you keep pandering to your minority constituency (Southern whites) while pissing on blacks, Hispanics and above all women – it’s a simple as that. Clapping harder and clutching your copies of Atlas Shrugs ever more closely to your chests will not win you votes. America is obviously a majority centre-left country but there will always be room for a party focussing on fiscal conservatism – but not one focussing on demonising the views of what has become a clear majority around abortion, religion and homosexuality. America is obviously changing and if you don’t change as well then you’ll become an irrelevance – the perennial minority party like the crazy uncle muttering to himself at Christmas dinner.
This was not written to be obnoxious nor do I expect a response – but I did want to make a respectful submission based on what myself (and let’s face it – most of the major media in Australia) sees as the challenge facing the US Republicans. I’m a social democrat (left) voter in Australia – my own Labor Party in Australia is going through the same sort of soul-searching now after ditching its core values.
You just need to understand that you can’t be Canute and hold back the tide of demographic and social change – you’ll just get washed away. Ditch the social conservative crazies that are pulling you down and return to Rockefeller Republicanism and it will be better for your country – above all you’ll actually pose an electoral challenge to the Deomocrats.
God’s in His Heaven, alls right with the world.
The God’s in His Heaven part is still good.
The all’s right with the world part is going to need some more work.
I think we as a Nation should become the the Divided Nation. Democrats to the East and Republicans (conservatives) to the right (weather being the preference here). Then let’s see who survives.
I’ve busted my butt for over 20 yrs to get where I am – and yes Mr. Obama I did it ON MY OWN. Why should I have to pay yet more to those who have no work ethic at all?
We are losing America – we MUST fix this madness!!
One thing that we should keep in mind is that when there is no effective opposition the dominat party breakes up and a new opposition forms. This has happened twice before and IF the GOP is dead it will happen again. The big tent is NOT sustainable with out opposition. The Progs WILL turn on each other.
You’re an alum of the University of California at San Diego? Figures. Anyway, keep being abusive and I’ll ban you. You guys won. Show some class for once and just leave people alone.