Obama’s Victory
The conventional wisdom is simple: when there is an uninspiring incumbent and a lackluster challenger, the people will opt for the incumbent.
The formula is unsatisfactory in this case, however.
Obama was not just any incumbent. He is the embodiment of an anti-America–culturally, spiritually and morally—that is hell-bent on destroying the surviving vestiges of real America.
Romney was not just any challenger. He was a pastiche, an oddly vacuous character whose tenuous appeal to the minds of the regular people was offset by their hearts’ awareness that he was not one of them. It was an awful choice to make: voting for him, or voting for a harmless loser, or not voting at all.
Romney lost because the real America did not trust him to stand up to anti-America. The Republic lost for the same reason the Roman Republic lost the Civil War: it did not have a true champion in the ring.
The scene is deceptively déjà-vu. Some perennial optimists I know have tried to explain Obama’s victory in 2008 as the result of a combination of unique factors, including an unelectable GOP candidate and an equally understandable GWB fatigue.
This time the verdict needs to be harsher. Just over one-half of the voters chose the man who has shown his true colors over the past four years. It is a sure sign of a terminally diseased polity.
The results are depressingly predictable. Barack Hussein Obama’s forthcoming mass amnesty of some tens of millions of unassimilable, semi-literate Third-Worlders will guarantee further watering down of the real America he hates with a passion. And yes, GOP “strategists” duly will start pandering to them.
The Supreme Court will get some Wise Latina-lookalikes to replace Scalia and Kennedy, and support Obama’s agenda on abortion, affirmative action, employee and property rights, homosexual “marriage,” federal campaign-finance reform law, union contributions, voting identification laws, Obamacare…
GOP strategists will quickly learn to live with all that, too, thus ensuring that every new stage of our accelerating collapse is treated as the new center ground. Dissenters will be unwelcome: questioning GOP’s acceptance of “Gay Marriage” and the Dream Amnesty four years hence will be as heretical as questioning our self-defeating global hegemony is today. The focus in 2016 will be on the deficit—likely to exceed the science-fictional twenty thousand billion dollars by that time—and on Obama’s failure to reassert America’s global power with sufficient gusto.
The Stupid Party is evil, in consequences if not intent. The Evil Party is doing its thing, as always. And the world is going to the dogs, it seems.
Nil desperandum, however. The tempo of history is accelerating. The overall equation has too many variables for the would-be controllers of our destiny to be certain that the job is done. They will be swept away swiftly once the usurial hocus-pocus collapses, which it will.
My native country has survived half a millennium of Ottoman misrule, half a century of communism and two decades of Western sadism. My adopted country—which I love with a passion—will raise again from her current decrepitude, too. Because there are a hundred million real Americans who are determined not to go gentle into that good night. Because there is God.
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Thanks, Mr. Cornell, for the words from the Collect, especially the second petition, "May they who rely solely on the hope of Your heavenly grace be always defended by Your protection." It speaks to me because I have much need of His grace, as do all who are dear to me, as do all.
Mr. Reavis, I have NEVER urged any young person to get into party politics or to go to Washington. Quite the contrary. I have counseled many young people against suc h a course. I am not sure why you think I have been guilty of that. I called misleading the young a sin, not you.
Mr Olson's oblique criticism of my remarks merits attention. Since no man here is oversensitive or craven, I think we should offer our fellow controversialists the proper dignity of a man by addressing them under their name. Mealy-mouthed indirect attempts at refuting another commenter's remarks are not worthy of the men who are to be found on this forum.
I'm very gratified Mr Olson honoured me by using the word hyperbolist. Wheeling out the heavy pieces of his verbal artillery is a sign of respecting your opponent in controversy. It may be too much to connect Mr Olson and his vocabulary to study of Robert Boyle's classic Considerations on the Style of Holy Scripture, the only work of literary criticism I remember in the English language where hyperbolist is used (it's great word).
Well, I fancy you're right Mr Olson that my words were too violent, but investigation of Congressman Ryan's loathsome record of servility and anti-industrial Randian fanaticism in the House is grim reading. Peruse the items on the list, most shockingly the obsequious submission to the criminal Bush's Iraq and "War on Terror" agenda, Ryan's subsequent impenitence at voting for "military action" (war in plain Saxon) and this little gem: voting in August 2001 to "end economic protectionism" regarding dairy compacts. Now I have no doubt that dairy farmers collude, drive up prices needlessly and receive too much in subsidies from the state, however this sort of thinking is indecent, bordering on the treasonous and puts one off from drinking milk to imagine a future where white watery liquid drawn from Bolivian alpacas or Brazilian giant swamp rodents is consumed our boys and girls.
Romney is part Rockefeller opportunist and part Neocon. This story is illustrative proof for why he befittingly gave so many right-wingers in America and out an horrific thrill of doom.
Respecting the term "anti-American" I cannot answer for the extravagance or laxity of its use and definition by GOP moron such as fatty Limbaugh or the ignoramus Hannity. But I will ask you to remember the coherent and explicit qualification I wrote after using anti-American describing the criteria I believe the gravity of the charge justifies and why is it therefore applicable to Barry and the hapless Willard.
Mr Moses,
Don't trouble yourself about our difference; it was a bagatelle. I wrote in haste and you understandably took ill my depreciation of the hurt having Barry re-elected must cause to native patriots who are dismayed by the hostility, malevolence against the American remnant, and alienness of the man. Unlike Mr Olson I do put my hope in princes as I'm a political beast, yet it is my conviction, and I know it is also the judgment of many here and for many years, that our breed of democratic liberal politician - irrespective of party designations like Democrat or Labor or the Official Monster Raving Loony Party - are born crooked and not right in the head.
Mr Cornell,
Well sir, you are young, married and with a family so Barry's re-election will mean worse things for you and your family. I understand that and I repeat it was not my intent to wave away the distress of apprehension or insult which Barry's confirmed elevation to a second term would cause. It's frightening, humiliating and as you say the likelihood of his naming a communist creature to the Supreme Court is the blackest (no pun meant) threat of all. I remain persuaded that religious consolation and the joys of common life in our human environment (whether town, farm, suburb) are the only comfort we can rationally expect. If men as yourself, of pride, constancy and virtue (virtue implies strength as much as rightness of act) stay on the path our ancestors have beaten for us to follow, then some good may survive the fall of civilisation which is surely not more than a half century distant. But so much has been lost already, so much forgotten of our past (once the link between grandsire and progeny is not perpetuated, the inter-generational chains break) that the cultural remainder will be paltry and tenuous.
On a lighter note, let's look back at some golden moments from my favourite comedian of the last decade:
"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Niger in Africa."
LOL. That man was hilarious. George Carlin was right: no one is as funny as a Bush!
"have NEVER urged any young person to get into party politics or to go to Washington. Quite the contrary. I have counseled many young people against such a course."
Dr. Wilson,
Thank you. I was certainly suspicious of Clyde Wilson the ecouraging youth activist. Should never have embraced the alleged falsehood knowing you as I do and offer my sincere and deep apology. I am disgusted with myself for not knowing what Jefferson Davis knew when he wrote to his beloved wife in prison --- "they do not need much material to spin their webs and so there will be certain subjects we cannot discuss. " God Bless you.
Mr. Arnold,
"....small-minded and collectivist white Americans of the northern-central and far north-eastern states permitted their petty concerns over jobs,...." my a$$. They are simply a bunch of cowards. I've voted, when a vote in Illinois counted, against my economic interests several times. It's time for the rest to suck it up. These people disgust me and I will not forgive. Your list of dire consequences that supposedly would have resulted from a Romney presidency in no way excuses white voters for voting Obama or staying home, not in the states where they could have made a difference, anyway. Half a percent more whites could have won Florida, less than one and a half percent for Ohio. Inexcusable.
What you call the Republicans' "proposed liquidation of social security" is a Democrat canard, something that will never happen no matter who gets in. Cutting services for working whites (I didn't know there were any set aside for whites) will, if anything, accelerate under Obama, and the door to immigrants is not going to shut either. The vote had little or nothing to do with ending wars, which are always paid for off-budget, unaffected by the demands of fiscal responsibility or the lack thereof, and which are as beloved of Democrats as Republicans, if not more so.
Rather than scoff, from your safe distance, at a "trailer park bigot repertoire", understand this: race consciousness and preference for our fellow whites must become a way of life for American whites now.
"....small-minded and collectivist white Americans of the northern-central and far north-eastern states permitted their petty concerns over jobs,...." my a$$. They are simply a bunch of cowards. I've voted, when a vote in Illinois counted, against my economic interests several times. It's time for the rest to suck it up.
That cowardly played a role is undoubtable, but "bunch of cowards" just strikes me as rather overly sweeping. I would wager, Mr. Jacobi, that on the intellectual plan you are at least a mite more sophisticated/literate than the median white working class American. Most people can only see the here and the now and themselves. That is how it has always been and how it always will be, and it is one of the strongest cases against universal suffrage, or even simply universal male suffrage. (Of course, such arguments have to be counterbalanced by the reality of industrial technocracy and mass-scale economic activity, which make for the possibility of oligarchical conformity and corruption on a larger scale than ever before in history. There may well simply not exist an adequate system to postulate for checking and balancing such a beast. But that's a digression for another day.)
I have in mind a non-Freudian sociopsychoanalysis of the people who voted for Obama and for the manner in which Obama incarnates the country which elected him, twice, but it's not quite complete. To the interested: stay tuned...