It's All Over. Not.( Hey! That's Meant Specifically for You Down Trodden Conservatives.All of You!)

PJ Lifestyle ^ | November 9. 2012 | Andrew Klavan

[lbryce]

I think it was Orson Welles who said, “If you want to tell a story with a happy ending, it all depends on where you stop.” To put it another way: every story is a tragedy, if you tell it to the end.

As with lives, so with republics. Freedom is a living thing. It dies. Conservatives are like doctors. They can only win for the moment, the day, the year, the election cycle. And no matter the victory, time only goes one way. The republic grows older every day, the people travel further from their founding values and nothing lasts forever.

There are many responses to that situation. Only one of them is wise: good cheer and defiance. Keep laughing; fight back; fear nothing. Mortality makes time too precious for despondency and death makes a fool of fear. There’s nothing to worry about: disaster is certain. And nothing can be that serious since, whatever it is, it’s guaranteed to end.

Since Tuesday, I have heard enough conservatives saying, “It’s over! We’re through!” in serious, important-sounding voices to last me the next four years. I don’t care how important you make it sound, it’s whining; any child can do it. I’ll let you know when it’s over by putting you in the ground and throwing six feet of dirt onto your face. Until you get that secret signal, really, pull yourself together.

[trebb]

well I guess you get what you are worth take your condescending attitude somewhere else

Kind of ironic - you tell a guy to stop taking drugs, make a flippant remark about taking the Lord's name in vain, respond with a "shut up", and then claim that someone else is "condescending". Must be nice to live in a world where your bathroom mirror keeps telling you that you're the brightest and most righteous of them all. I'll shut up now - you convinced me of the futility of differing with your erudite opinions and intellectual essays.

[driftdiver]

You’re a troll

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Best piece of analysis on the aftermath of the election that I’ve yet read. All of your points are right in target. There are opportunities for conservatives to make inroads into these communities that are becoming the foundation of the Democrat Party’s long dreamed of permanent majority coalition. Look at it this way: does anyone really think that in political environments where the Democratic Party has near total control — such as any blue state large city — there isn’t political fighting at least as intense as what occurs at the national level? Of course there are still major political battles, but they are within the Democratic coalition. Of the GOP were to enter the field, they could become partisan. Help some black parents win a charter from their local bureaucrats to open a school, or Latino business owners to resist a new regulation that threatens their survival. Do that and you begin to find allies and build trust, so that when a big election comes, you have some people that you can call on to stand upmfor you.

[Mr. Silverback]

Bump!