The Way We Are, No. 7
What if the U.S. Defense Department actually devoted itself to the defense of the U.S.?
Paul Craig Roberts laments that Obama is morphing into Dick Cheney. There is nothing unusual about this. The federal apparatus is far too massive to be changed by a mere President. After all, Ronald Reagan morphed into Lyndon Johnson, big spender and social liberal.
Certain truths don't seem to penetrate the heads of American conservatives no matter how often proved:
—The Republican Party is not and never has been a conservative party.
—The neoconservatives could not have taken over the Republican Party if it had not already been an intellectually and morally empty vehicle.
—The neoconservatives rose to power in the land not under George W. Bush but under the sainted Ronald Reagan.
Of course, there are other truths that can't penetrate the general public:
—The purpose of Political Correctness is to punish people for speaking the truth. Our rulers have no particular interest in suppressing lies.
—The Political Correctness that now pervasively dominates American life purely and simply without any question has the same source and inspiration as Soviet thought control. It would have been nearly unthinkable in America only a few years ago.
—The vaunted intellectual and moral stature of General Colin Powell was never anything more than a publicity mirage.
—There is no such thing as an "American Muslim."
I am sure I have had one answered prayer in my life. My children did not grow up to be Republicans.
How utterly cut off Americans are from their own history: There is a widespread belief that Abe Lincoln would be happy with the election of Obama.
Our politicians are clowns, but not nearly as funny as the circus kind.
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"How utterly cut off Americans are from their own history: There is a widespread belief that Abe Lincoln would be happy with the election of Obama."
I have acquaintances who believe the election of Obama ranks in significance in our history with our winning independence from Britain and the Civil War: the first black president is, in their opinion, nigh unto a sign from God that America is truly the blessed land of Manifest Destiny. I don't even bother discussing it with them because I know I'll be treated, if they are in a polite mood, as if I completely lack any political savvy; if they are in a puritanical mood, I'll be derided and chided for my lack of sensitivity and respect for the greatness of the American political process, which, in this case, I'm sure they would emphasize, really did work.
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They might respond that way, assuming they could get over or even process the fact that you're not an Obama supporter. This has become such the default assumption in my area that there is hardly even an occasion for criticising anything regarding the current, cyclical regime. It is sickening how critical thinking is equated with multiculturalism, but once multiculturalism has been arrived at, critical thinking curiously seems to stop. Perhaps the thinking that got us here wasn't so critical in the first place.
Abe probably would have liked Obama. After all both were/are despotic tyrants posing as presidents.
I recently was told personally by Moderate Republican hack, Fox News political pundit Rich Galen that I was racist for the following comment. "The party of Lincoln is in the White House. Obama is carrying the Lincoln agenda to new heights. However, Lincoln would not approve of a half black man in the White House.
The perveyors of Polictical Correctness are the Khmer Rouge minus the killing fields.
Naturally. Lincoln was against the "amalgamation" of the races.
If Obama had been elected while Lincoln was still alive, Lincoln himself would have moved to Liberia.
Dr. Wilson
After suppressing my Libertarian views for many years I finally threw the GOP yoke off. I will acknowledge some mistakes and misguided policies of the Reagan Presidency. But I cannot completely throw him overboard. I finacially benefitted from the 1981 Economic Recovery Act and the prosperity of the 1980's, and will admitt I generally liked him as a President. Considering what came before and after him. I don't think you should minimize the back room undermining of his Administration by James Baker, George H.Bush and their moderate Republican cronies in Congress.
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If Republicans didn't exist, Democrats would have to invent them.