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.
Entries(RSS)
Dr. Trifkovic,
Thank you for your last two paragraphs. As a Virginian, I am not proud of my state. The temptation to despair is greater than I like to acknowledge. The temptation to anger and hatred is almost more than can be borne. The temptation to try to flee (to where I have no idea) is renewed. But, God help me, when this all falls apart I pray we can all go back to being human beings living real lives again.
Mr. Cornell,
One hopes in the nooks and crannies, in the enclaves, in the redoubts and in the strongholds of what is left of the South, including what is left thereof in Virginia, that we will come to realize that the Republican Party, always our enemy, posing as our disingenuous friend, must now abandon its pretenses of Nixon's "Southern strategy" and embrace the anti-Western, anti-Christian and anti-Southern demographic reality which the Republicans have always fostered for their own nefarious purposes while alleging the contrary. The "solid South," noting the Red States, save Virginia and Florida which appear to be lost, at least northern Virginia, can no longer produce a victory for a political party, not even for the one which "drove Ol' Dixie down." The Republicans can no longer use us. Hopefully, this realization will set in; and we will break the thrall in which we have been held. What might thereafter come is difficult to see; but the first step to not going gently into the night, as Dr. Trifkovic has written, is to be sobered by reality. Let us pray for the sobering reality to set in; then we'll see.
"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."
Somewhat true, Dr. Trifkovic. For I wonder how many other Americans see the anti-America you and I and most of the followers of this site descry. There is much explanation and persuasion to be done.
Mr. Peters--You could not be more correct: "the Republican Party, always our enemy".
Very good point about the political center shifting to the Left. The creepy GOP always moves or reacts by moving with it. When the GOP repositions itself in the coming year, the yankee republicans (who run the party) will realize that it is time to jettison the rhetoric about abortion, gay rights, 2nd Amendment and 10th amendment fetishes. Instead it will embrace 'reproduction rights', gay everything, diversity and the rest of the nonsense emanating from the new political center which its statisticians will declare 'necessary for the party's survival. As recent polls have indicated, the hundred million remaining right thinking Americans are shrinking and not increasing. Besides being swamped with illegal immigration from the South and additional hundreds of thousands of 'needed' technical immigrants every year from India and other sweltering countries, our own people have been contracepting themselves into a minority position decade by decade. The average white couple having 1.5 kids is a recipe for continued political atrophy when the average illegal couple is quadrupling that number at a minimum by age 30. However, one element which will not change for the GOP is the neoconservative warmongers. I believe that Romney's alliance with these Trotskyites cost him the election - who wanted to vote for someone who openly declared Russia the #1 enemy (and he doesn't drink????) and couldn't wait to unleash the dogs of war on Iran and let American boys do the dirty work for Netanyahu. There were many mothers and fathers voting in this election with draft eligible sons and 11 years of war is enough. Yes, the GOP is the stupid party. It is difficult to relate to the American people from the 44th floor on the Avenue of the Americas.
The Stupid Party might as well be redubbed the Ancephalous Party. Stupidity implies that there is in fact a functioning brain, just not a particularly powerful one. The GOP seems to lack a cortex altogether. I'm thinking of the argument I heard three days ago deploring the "division of the GOP" on the amnesty issue (read: decrying opponents of the subsummation of the U.S. into Latin America) for driving Hispanics into the arms of the Democratic Party. The nonsensicality of such sentiment is obvious:
1. If the support of "Hispanics" is needed to save America, why bother?
2. If the GOP can only hold power by pandering to the Third World, why NOT vote Democrat?
As for the wake-up call to the Heartland, the issue is not so much whether the GOP is or is not "truly right-wing" or "perpetually anti-Southern" but the tendency among a number of American Christians - especially those of a Calvinistic bent - to confuse political action with pious deeds. If the loss of Romney - in itself a tragic event from my limited perspective - suffices to remind us not to put our trust in princes, to put a knife in our throat rather than accept their bread of deceit, it is not in vain. The real battle always has taken place and always will take place within the human heart.
I fear the hundred million real Americans may over-estimate the remnant that survives. Flourishing of minorities and decades of evil "education" and entertainment have had their natural consequences. And there has always even in good times been a powerful American tendency towards conformity and painting pretty pictures.
I must say that the tears of the likes of Donald Trump have been delicious to behold.
Seeing him cringe and whine and complain his way through about how he is not happy about the elections is a joy to behold. After his failed campaign and failed Birther mission, he just couldn't keep a low profile and is still trying to double down on his losses.
One amusing web site, Mitt Romney Central, really captures the nonsense being said by Romney supporters in the aftermath of the elections. "Electoral fraud!" "Let's go to Washington and kill Obama!"
The aftermath has brought a lot of entertainment on the internet.
Prateek,
Your comments above reminded me of the following little verse entitled, Epitaph on the Politician Himself.
''The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.''
"He that is most enamoured of some set machinery for the government of men, and who regards the sacramental function of an hereditary monarch (as in olden times), the organic character of a native oligarchy (as in contemporary America), the mechanical arrangement of election by majorities, or even in a crisis the intense conviction and therefore the intense activity and conclusive power of great crowds as salutary to the State, will invariably, if any one of these engines fail him in the achievement of what he desires for his country, fall back upon the doctrine of an ultimately sovereign community.[Pg 15] He will complain that though an election has defeated his ideal, yet true national tradition and true national sentiment were upon his side. If he defends the action of a native oligarchy against the leaders of the populace, he does so by an explanation (more or less explicit) that the oligarchy is more truly national, that is more truly communal, than the engineered expression of opinion of which the demagogues (as he will call them) have been the mouthpieces."
One thing cannot be denied: The GOP had everything their way in this last election except the result. A rotten economy, a rotten opponent, unlimited access to campaign funds from anyone and anywhere, a right flank they denounced and a left flank no gentleman could accept. And still lost. The smart money ( those who gave money to both sides) have now concluded the "other side" cheated and told lies. They are of course correct.
The utter cluelessness of what remains of my countrymen - admittedly, I fear Dr. Wilson is correct about that 100 million - fills me with dread for the future. While I know God is in ultimate control, the consequences of our folly are thus all the more assured. My only hope is that the coming collapse (aka rendevous with Reality) will finally awaken enough of us to defend and rebuild what remains.
This just in, from an ex-CIA academic:
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Steven Meyer"
To: "'Undisclosed-recipients:'"
Subject: RE: Obama's Victory, by S. Trifkovic (Chronicles)
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 11:43:34 -0500
Normally, I read Trifkovic’s screeds with a detached amusement. But, this one calls for a strong condemnation. Seldom have I read something so racist and blatantly hateful. This is too much even from Trifkovic’s poisoned pen. It makes no difference whether one supported Romney or Obama--this kind of argument depicts a palpable ignorance of history and politics and is unquestionably immoral. Steven Meyer
"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..."
As of yesterday that has become the official mantra of FOX News.
I would add, in keeping with the optimistic understanding of the unbowed Serbian nation, that HUNGARY has -far and away- the finest Constitution in Europe and probably in the world.
Turks,Bela Kun and Stalin couldn't stop the Magyars and neither will "Ms" Rodham Clinton
Alternatively look what has happened to Virginia.The once proud home of Jefferson and Lee has chosen to go with the man known to many as the "Keynesian Kenyan"
It all depends, of course, on what you mean by the term "Virginian".
If you look at the county-by-county map, you'll see that Fairfax, Arlington, and the other parts of Northern Virginia are one color, and pretty much the rest of the commonwealth is another. My proposal is that the governor graciously donate that land to be incorporated into the District of Columbia as, in reality, that's all it really is now - an extension of D.C. The Yankees took the traitors in West Virginia for their own; they can have the ones in Northern Virginia, too.
Of course, in another 20 years, Prince William, Stafford, King George, and Spotsylvania will also be subsummed into D.C.
Heck. Eventually I think D.C. will grow to encompass the entire Eastern Seaboard.
It's like watching "The Blob" in slow motion.
Well, Dr. Trifkovic, you know you've written a profoundly insightful piece when the people who are uncomfortable with it can only resort to the usual litany of PC complaints - "racist," "hateful" and the like. It's far easier to do that than to attempt any intelligent refutation of any of the points you've made.
I certainly appreciate your closing comments; many of us need the inspiring words in these dismal days.
Vince: Virginia is gone. In North Carolina, which not long ago elected and reelected Jesse Helms, Romney's margin was less than 1 per cent. Immigrants from Mexico and Asia, and even more from the NE U.S.
Heck. Eventually I think D.C. will grow to encompass the entire Eastern Seaboard.
The trouble with your growth projections is that they assume the perpetuity of an economy that can feed an ever-expanding bureaucratic lobbying megalopolis. That is not likely to be the case, thank God: in the impending economic implosion we shall see quite plainly that there is no great loss without some small gain.
I fail to see how your article is racist and hateful, Dr. Trifkovic. But then again, I'm not a thin-skinned academic.
@Svar: More to the point, unlike some "thin-skinned academics" who shall remain nameless in this post, you do not have an axe to grind.
Dr. T., I googled some of the information you just provided... quite revealing. Since this is the first time I've heard of the person in question I'll leave it to you to elaborate if you like.
@ MOSES Nicholas
Indeed, I do not. Even though I am a child of post-65 immigrants, I can still see that mass immigration is harmful to a country's well-being.
I care deeply about the Roman Catholic faith and the culture that springs forth from it. It pains me that all these factors are all coming together to slowly rid the U.S. of it's Christian character. Like what Dr. Trifkovic says, we still have God.
Dr. Wilson,
I know that you're right. But it's still hard for me. Being a military brat that himself served in the Navy for a short while, I've never lived in one house longer than 3 years. Now that I've finally made my home (I've made it to my fourth year in the same house!), and started to learn about and invest myself in the beautiful land around me and the history behind me, I face the prospect of the moonlight turning to butter in my hands. I'd already resigned all hope for the country I grew up a patriot of, since it doesn't actually exist. I had fallen back to my state, and now that ground is taken from underneath me. I don't know where else to go. Or what to do for my children
I feel like a man whose enchanting new bride dies on the honeymoon. I know the reality. I just don't want to face it.
The cautionary tale of a man who builds his castle on sand.
Nicholas,
I sure hope you're right. Sooner, I pray, than later.
I thought the part of NoVa next to DC was populated more by migrants to the state than by those with Virginian heritage? Perhaps my impressions were wrong.
This week, I have been thinking about relocating from my state (on the left coast) to a place where decent people who care about maintaining a traditional American identity live, and seeking refuge among them. Any recommendations?
@Ted Chan: ouch. I don't know. I'm a big fan of Florida and of eastern Texas, but either I've spent condiderable time there before or my mother's family lives there and I can see how one would get fed up with the tourist scene or the excess migrants if one did not have a prefigured life waiting there. I also like upstate New York, but the fiscal regime there is usually enough to scare off anyone who doesn't have a specific reason to be in the state. The mantra seems to be, "if it ain't broke, tax it until it is."
Regrettably, these days, the pattern - and this pattern is not at all limited to the U.S. - seems to be thus : if one has either a plentiful supply and/or inflow of cash or an ample amount of reliable relations in the general vicinity of the concentrated population centers (California, Florida, Texas, New York/Mid-Atlantic, Illinois, come to mind, but perhaps also the St. Louis/Kansas City/New Orleans zones), one can move to such areas and use one's money and/or connections to partake in the wheat among the chaff (logically, the larger the sample the greater numerical number of good you're likely to glean).
Short of that, the landscape is increasingly uninhabitable for families. Either the cost of living in the city is too high to have a palpable existence and not be exposed constantly to trash culture, or elsewhere, feelings of isolation and loneliness may make one wonder whether the kids will grow up feeling they had anything resembling a "normal" childhood, if that even still exists.
If I had to move, I think I'd list the concrete activities/things I like/need most (things such as decent Catholic school, good musical and cinematic outlets, pretty landscapes and architecture, hunting grounds, easy acces to major arterial transportational infrastructure) and look for a place where I could get most of them. Chances are other people who share your values might have plunked down nearby. But looking for a "traditionalist refuge" in the abstract is a futile exercise (voice of experience, regrettably).
Dr. T, the fellow you quote does not have a single fact or argument, just abuse. However, his type exists in great numbers. "Democracy" requires tolerant debate among different viewpoints. With these people such is impossible.
Mr. Moses, you are right about the collapse of the economy's ability to sustain theDC-beast. However, remember that that beast has unlimited power to take whatever wealth still exists no matter what hardship it might inflict on the rest of us.
Dr. Wilson, Google the name in question, I do pray you. I think you will agree that few things are funnier or more ridiculous than an academic with an axe to grind.
As for D.C., the operative modifying phrase in your quote I shall set in bold:
Mr. Moses, you are right about the collapse of the economy's ability to sustain theDC-beast. However, remember that that beast has unlimited power to take whatever wealth still exists no matter what hardship it might inflict on the rest of us.
As we have discussed before, much of that wealth is effervescent or fake. At some point it is questionable whether the wealth they CAN take will actually be useful.
That will be the moment to strike.
Meanwhile, my fellow Christians, keep a prayerful watch, and radiate kindness and all other fruits of inner beauty, salt and light, to even the most irritatingly obnoxious postmodern loudmouths among our neighbors. The more victories we score in the battle for the hearts, the better our odds in the military battle.
Dr. Wilson,
I agree about the numbers, 100 million seems too high, given alien immigration - legal and illegal, the influx of internal immigrants holding to and living out the ideologies of Modernity, the "success" of the nationalized New England education system imposed on all of us, and the leveling effects of corporatism and consumerism on our people. The remnant is hopefully more than the Still Small Voice revealed to his fearful prophet Elijah, but it is likely much less than 100 million.
Dr. Wilson,
We Southerners know that the beast, even after he has plundered and burned, will through monetary policy and its attendant corruption continue to drain the last drop of wealth out of a people. The beast is a heartless vampire. There is little wonder that folks as so "taken" by vampires in "literature" and in entertainment. It reveals the real beast which they serve, the beast of which the Hobbesian state is a mere shadow.
Mr. Nicholas,
Although I would like to experience a "victory," particularly for my grandchildren and those who will come after them, I am reminded that our duty is to remain faithful until the fruits of the victory which our Lord has already won make themselves manifest. Because of His victory, won before the foundation of the world, our faith breeds hope, and that hope gives us the capacity to love even when little or few are lovely or loveable.
Mr. Steven Meyer's short post is very sad. It reflects the ignorance, willful or otherwise, of the vast majority of Americans. It reflects the very reason there cannot be a restoration of ordered liberty, respect for private property, and respect for the principles of the Constitution. When rational, evidence-based, honest argument concerning the state of the nation is characterized as "racist and blantantly hateful," as it has been now for several decades, and particularly in the last four or five years, there is no hope of ever overcoming the ignorance. Mr. Meyer's post is not only sad, it is frightening in its Orwellian essence. Black is white. 2+2=5. The sky is not blue, but red. I think maybe the U.S. once was "the last, best hope," but no more. There is no such thing. It is over, and Evil has triumphed (it had done so well before THIS election). All that is left is for the death spiral to play out.
Yep, the war against Reality continues apace. Thing is, Reality keeps winning. The chorus from the song by Hamilton Camp, popularized by Gordon Lightfoot , continues to echo in my mind: "O God, the pride of man, broken in the dust again!"
We never seem to learn! Kyrie eleison! Christe eleison!
Vince--NoVa was not the only part of Virginia that favored the Extreme Statists, or E-S (i.e., the Democrats; the Republicans are more properly labeled as Standard Statists, or S-S). As should have been obvious well before Tuesday, the urban areas would favor the E-S in huge numbers. See, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/obama-virginia-2012-urban_n_2093546.html. Mr. Trifkovic has is so right, and has, like CHRONICLES generally, for so long. Peter Brimelow told us a long time ago what was going to happen, and sure enough, it did. See, http://www.vdare.com/articles/vdare-alien-nation-round-2. For speaking honestly and rationally, using sound research methods, Mr. Brimelow has been labeled the same as Mr. Trifkovic. See, http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39894_CPAC_Panel_Will_Feature_White_Nationalist_Leader_Brimelow and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSvrs2WBNws. It is the present and future. We have to live with it for go somewhere else.
Srdja Trifkovic,
Of course you know these type of complaints were leveled against Pat Buchanan since at least 1992 and mostly from within his own GOP party and its neo-conservative wing. Remember when Bill Kristol once quipped he would vote for Al Gore before Pat Buchanan because Pat was an isolationist, a xenophobe, a homophobe, protectionist, etc... ??? .
We keep performing scientific experiments and then ignoring the results. If you want to expand freedoms, in our time, talk about same sex marriage, beastiality, more late term abortions, more access to sterility --- especially in those hateful and oppressive environments of Catholic Hospitals --- more medical marijuana in the school vending machines, let everyone come in, hang out, get a job, say what they want, do what they want -- except for Trofkovic, Wilson, Fleming, Buchanan and those other hateful types who want to drag America down.
The necons are not responsible for the treachery of the Republican party. The treachery of the Republican party is responsible for the neocons. Until this is grasped by enough people, resistance is useless.
Dr. Wilson,
I never said the neo-cons were responsible for the treachery of ..... the GOP" I insinuated they partcipated in calumny and character assasination against a long term republican defender who I admire named Pat Buchanan. Nor have I ever said political resistance at this later hour is helpful. In fact, so long as folks liek yourself keep misleading youngsters with political and social solutions ( creating a race of winners as you would have it) to deeper and more serious problems, it is indeed useless and I have said so several times.
Few, I'd wager, are as scandalised as I am that Virginia failed to vote for the party of Lincoln. If even the Old Dominion won't connive at the insincerity and hollow, pretended opposition of the GOP then we may conclude that traditional America is dead. It's over.
What renders this latest presidential loss the more wounding is the calibre of the two Republican candidates involved.
Governor Romney, a scrupulous teetotaller and cheerfully unquestioning loyal partisan during the gross misrule of George W. Bush, was clearly a man of sterling qualifications in the virtues of patriot courage and independence of mind. Congressman Ryan equally was eminent in his articulate and well-reasoned disapproval of government dependence, and proved the earnestness of his conviction by volunteering to work for a salary in the government the very moment he left university, selflessly forgoing a lucrative private career.
The pitch of our lamentation, whether American or foreign well-wisher, deepens when we reflect on the immense chasm of space separating the proposals of Mr Romney and the wicked Barry. Governor Romney, ever the champion of the public interest and the herald of prudent, propitious remedies, sought the favour of the electorate with a simple message which I summarise in the subjoined dot-points.
1. Cut taxes for Wall Street pooh-bahs
2. Cut services for the greedy and undeserving white working class
[3. Rubber-stamp for every Taiwanese or Bangladeshi science, technology, mathematics or engineering graduate to reside and work in America...oh and a furtive amnesty promised for Mexican and Dominican trespassers too]
The failure of policies of such irreproachable soundness and moderation to win the public confidence is more than discouraging. It's devastating that the small-minded and collectivist white Americans of the northern-central and far north-eastern states permitted their petty concerns over jobs, wars and the Republican candidate's profitable associations with the business of stock-exchange schemes ('financial management') and deliberate industrial sabotage ("outsourcing') to keep them from voting; or, if vote they did, to return to office a man who has done little to mend the Bush administration's enormities.
What evil spirit of treason, or mere folly, inspired elderly whites in Pennsylvania or Wisconsin to think that accepting Congressman Ryan's proposed liquidation of social security and medicinal allowances in order to fund an American ground invasion of Iran was a bad idea, I cannot say. Regardless, it was sheer madness on their part to obstruct the chance for another episode in America's sixty year series of happy land wars in Asia.
Last, most depressing of all was the identification of so many, not just in Mr Piatak's radiantly white Ohio, with the Democratic Party. Base ingratitude from the public in not rewarding Mr Bush and his party for their colossal increases in American national indebtedness and the cataclysmic war in Iraq.
Bush, a ridiculous and stammering galoot, whose misgovernment consisted of almost fantastically inept and destructive measures (fantastic because one simply couldn't believe it possible) may have been the worst leader of any Western country in eighty years, but he had a pale complexion, and the special tag 'R' after his name, meaning all white-skinned lemmings were obliged to do and say nice things about him. It's what Mr Frum would call 'patriotism'.
Frankly if a venture capitalist with a political record as a competent placeman can't win election not long after a Wall Street crash, exposure of massive financial fraud and GOP-dominated government collusion therewith, it gives a sad commentary on the gullibility of the American voters.
Mr. Arnold, thank you for that fine forensic analysis. The day that a 35 percent Asiatic Australia votes the son of Confucian immigrants as its prime minister, I will not be so unkind as to gleefully take shots at the opponent's shortcomings.
If I've cut anyone to the quick with my statement then I unhesitatingly withdraw it to the extent of the offence.
And yet, from benevolent motives, I can't help observe the needless sorrow the election has generated in these quarters.
Romney would not have changed the debt (other than stopping payments to ethnic gangsters and the more obvious forms of crony favouritism), he would have likely renewed and aggravated Zionist-imperial wars, Federal interference with State and local governments (he was lying during the campaign, as all GOPers do), prostitution of the marriage state, immigration, and middle-class taxes (he may have given you back enough to buy a burger and fries once a week).
Constitutionalism and conservatism, I should like to think, build their foundation on principles. Supporting the Republican Party, not as a tactical manoeuvre (believing they will retard the worst Marxist excesses) or out of nostalgia, but in the belief that they will do something to restore patriotic and solvent government is a form of the unreal.
Further, despite the shortsightedness and rank odour attendant upon casting one's suffrage for Barry, Chronicles adherents, reactionaries and the honest, politically ignorant Joe Citizens in Middle America who voted for the incumbent, all realise there was a seemingly rational basis for such a choice. "We want a WASP not Kenyan socialist." George Bush and Dick Cheney, by any fair assessment, ruined the GOP's reputation for WASP competence. Their government was appallingly bloody, lawless, wasteful and mendacious. 2001-2009 was a parade of phenomenal stupidity. Clinton and now Barry proved they at least can abstain from wrecking the country (in a conspicuous way at least).
George Bush brought the country to its knees.
(A "deep" analysis, which as a reactionary I subscribe to, would note that the foundations of America's downfall were dug many years ago; moreover the democracy carousel is a childish diversion almost as entertaining as pro sports on T.V.).
The candidates this year were vile criminals.
"What about Romney and Ryan?"
Yes, I said vile criminals (who do you think i was referring to?). Don't be fooled by the Sean "High School Diploma Only" Hannity and trailer park bigot repertoire that Romney was a pallid avenger for white Americans, or that such racial retribution by use of government is excusable.
"The day that a 35 percent Asiatic Australia votes the son of Confucian immigrants as its prime ministers..."
Mongols (the race I suppose you intend by writing Asiatics) are, notwithstanding an identical anatomy, not inclined to support one another unless herded, and goaded, by venomous, focused and well-funded white politicians and media. Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc I can't tell the difference but they can and detest each other as savages and monkeys. If a Confucian Chinaman becomes Prime Minister it will be because Australian and Jewish culture-makers, and the overwhelmingly white parliamentary party memberships who choose the leader, wanted it so. Blaming these usually courteous, dutiful and intelligent peoples for our own administrative incompetence and cultural perversion is not reasonable.
It would be well for us to remember that Barry's mother is a white woman of old, colonial pedigree. He is not entirely a stranger (as Chinese in your example would be).
Barry is anti-American. Romney is barely less anti-American (when one rightly understands America's potentiality, position and interests drawn therefrom, in the world. Romney would have harmed, or let continue the harming of, America's actual interests).
If you don't want my consolation then very good, I won't bother you to give it, but for those still invested in the democracy game there is still 2016 and a strong chance of a gloriously white-skinned and Elephant badge festooned gladiator winning that contest. White GOPers and conservatives stayed home, and many voted for the incumbent out of suspicion for his opponent, uncertainty or the pressure of circumstances. Take heart.
I openly hate Australia's established right-of-centre party, and would joyfully kill them if I could. Voters vote for conservatives in the belief that they conserve existing and cherished institutions, laws and values. If the conservatives' "shortcomings" are voiding their essential characteristic of conserving, then why peddle delusions about the utility of voting for them.
Mr. Reavis, Whoa! You somehow mistook my comment on neocons as a rebuff for you which was not remotely intended. And then you accuse me of sins I have never committed, such as misleading young people, a heinous offense of which I do not believe I am guilty. What?
Mr. Arnold, I am perhaps a bit sensitive, and I hope you'll not take offense at my rather off-put sounding response. After all, the driving force behind your sentiment is a pretty good reflection of what my godmother told me just after the election: that if the defeat of the GOP, which saddened her and her husband, saves us from complacency it might not be in vain after all.
And yes, you are correct about Barry's mother, and I would go one further and suggest that she personifies in more than one way an America that has forgotten who and what it is, and that Barry is a personification of America simultaneously becoming the world and losing itself to the world. (Indeed, any neocon ought to be pleased, but that is a digression.)
What is depressing is that while much of what was wrong with Romney reflected what is wrong with America at large, at least he was still and still acted recognizably "American" in the sense that do many of us grew up with, for better or for worse. It is the reminder that America now not only has problems: it is ceasing to exist. A needed reminder, I suppose, but the message is one I cannot accept without at least a modicum of sadness.
And thank you for your insight into the Australiam process, and rest assured that I do not "blame" post-1965 immigrants, but regardless of how industrious they are they have by and large been a tool in the hands of our enemies working to destroy us, and as strangers it is likely that many of them will continue to be so until the job is finished. They are the victims of this madness almost as much as we are. (Not that that changes my political conclusions regarding the subject of migration.)
Mr. Arnold,
I wouldn't disagree with your assessment of the Republican party or Romney & Ryan. However, I would say that the disheartening part is not so much that people didn't vote for those goofs but that so many actually did vote for Barry.
Also, I would say that many of the folks who voted for Romney didn't vote because they believed he would do much good or that he in any way shape or form would advance the issues dear to their hearts (like support for Pro-Life, traditional marriage, rejecting amnesty . . .etc.) I would venture to say that the vast majority of votes Romney received were from people who cannot stand and wholeheartedly oppose the psychopathic snob that he ran against. While Romney likely would have caused great problems of his own, that the current incumbent is going to push, as hard as possible, for the destruction of the Christian Faith and American Heritage is not speculation but fact based on history and experience. That Romney likely would name a poor candidate to the Supreme Court goes up against the knowledge that Obama, without hesitation, will absolutely name a horrible candidate to the Supreme Court. That Romney might or might not have repealed Obamacare or at least granted additional religious exemptions gives way to the fact that Obama will use it to, as far as possible, crush Christians and enlarge the government.
I'm not defending Romney or the GOP or any such thing. Such trying to offer the idea that many folks supported or voted for Romney out of a sense of self-defense. Who would you rather have attacking you? The guy with a knife or the guy with a machine gun? People voting for Romney were voting for the knife.
Mr. Reavis,
Although I have never desired to engage in internet discussion (until now), I fear your accusation regarding Clyde Wilson and the indoctrination of young people to be grossly incorrect. Parting shots should rather be aimed toward the countless careerist university sycophants, leaders of what Chesterton I believe aptly called the modern heathenry.
I would also challenge you to provide clarity as to what you mean regarding "political and social solutions."
By the way, I happen to be one of those youngsters who enjoys Clyde Wilson's writings. Misled? I doubt it. I never look to other people to tell me what to think.
I've followed this train of commentary with interest, but I am also alarmed by it. Such hyperbole as calling one ticket of candidates "vile criminals" and the head of another "anti-Christian" and "anti-American" indicates to me that the hyperbolists still place too much trust in princes--not that I would not hail a serious, actionable case being made for the criminality of Romney and Ryan, in particular.
I would just add with the benefit of hindsight, that the business of commoners is business. It is neither the preservation of a civilization, nor even of their own State. They do not know any better, in Fact can't be any better, because it's who they are. They always require and if lucky receive a dedicated aristocracy to guide them. Frankly speaking even a decadent aristocracy (if not particularly cruel) is better than none, because at least the necessary order remains apparent. So "we the people" really lost in my opinion at the nation's inception when we dropped the Articles, which at least represented keeping things right-sized (and on a human, or, more human scale). Instead, for the Hobbesian really, federal constitution, and thus inhuman empire, and inevitably its growing centralization of power domestically. That seems to me, to be the fact (with hindsight). Oh it could have worked out...for whatever the reason. Reminds me of the last line in the Hemingway novel 'The Sun Also Rises' i.e., "Isn't it pretty to think so."
Keep fighting, Dr. Trifkovic! And please write more books like Sword of the Prophet.
I do think you are too optimistic, however. America could have been saved by Reagan in 1981, maybe even by the Gingrich Congress in 1995 (maybe). But Real (white/Christian/Anglo-Saxon) America is no longer recoverable, at least if its dwindling membership continues to be dispersed throughout the whole 50 states.
Nations can only survive as demographic majorities in sovereign territories (the Jews are the one exception proving the rule). Cultural traditions can barely be transmitted to across ethnicities; they cannot be so transmitted to alien races.
The Occident is white. It will only be preserved by whites living in sovereign white-majority polities. The battle to save the West has now definitively (and finally) 'come home'. Europe is our home. Europe is where the West will live or die. The future for white America is either extinction, or else preservation through a transitional Middle American Nationalism (as Dr. Francis advocated) whose final goal is radical federalist decentralization, or else - better - outright racial secession and sovereignty.
Although I consider myself a Christian conservative, at least in the abstract, the whole Christianist agenda must be abandoned, as surely as the neocon globalist one. I oppose abortion "rights" because my Catholic Church tells me to do so - but why really should I care about it? I have nothing to do with this vile practice; it is not my sin. On the other hand, Democrat socialism and anti-capitalist policies are ruining my economic future, while immigration treason is turning me (and my children!) into oppressed minorities of the future.
The authentic American Right must focus all its energies on three areas: 1) ending all nonwhite immigration (which basically means immigration 'tout court'); 2) advocating strong public order and crime control policies (including gun rights preservation); and 3) protecting private property, capitalism (though not "free trade" per se), and limited, Constitutional government. This is the very most we can hope for.
Conservatives should abandon foreign policy worries, improving public "education", and the whole wasteful social agenda (who cares about "sodomite 'marriage'", anyway?). Our political capital is ever dwindling, in tandem with our numbers.
Immigration - Crime - Capitalism ----> these are all we will be able to worry about going forward.
Dr. Wilson,
Don't recall ever referring to you as sinful or sinner. I used the word misleading. One thing about post christian culture is no matter how hard men and women may try, it is really quite difficult for them to sin. I rarely use the word but I always enjoy your posts. You have taught me a lot over the years and I am very grateful andhave much more to learn. The GOP is especially wicked but so is politics in general. The last thing we need today is more graduates from Thomas Aquinas College ( or University of South Carolina ) to move to the beltway and write correspondence for Congressmen, Senators and Presidents. Thinking they are really doing something for their country. ( as you have mentioned before, once the Catholic nuns turned political, the next step was death) The active life is for raising families, handing on the faith of our fathers and saving ones soul. Libertarians are quacks, crackpots and nutcases without a life or a God.
Mr. Olson,
Having grown up and been immersed in this Age of Hyperbole and Sarcasm, I know I am guilty of using both far more often than I should. Even reading and knowing history doesn't always seem to be a cure against it as my impulses easily o'erleap my intellect when the cause hits anywhere near my heart.
In reparation I offer the words from today's Collect at Mass - appropriate for this thread I think.
O Lord, watch over Your household with constant loving care. May they who rely solely on the hope of Your heavenly grace be always defended by Your protection.
Obama is far worse than anti-American. We have not had a pro-American president since at the latest Hoover, if not Teddy Roosevelt. Perhaps professor Wilson would call James Buchanan the last in that line.
What we have with Ovomit is a vector for anti-white, anti-Christian and anti-male forces which takes the irrelevance of the American nation as a given, and seeks destruction at a far deeper level. They will not be satisfied till all whites are as indoctrinated as Vermonters, till we all look like Hawaiians, swish like San Franciscans, economize like Las Veganites, and worship like Israelites (or just worship Israel). Watch for Michelle/Emanuel in '16 against some brown neocon like Jindal or another brain-dead like Cain.