Popcorn for everybody, make yourselves comfortable, show starts soon. At this point I'm rooting for the hole ...
Posted on 11/20/2012 7:51:45 AM PST by Kaslin
"Barack Obama won because he recognized a new America." Or maybe an America more fluid, more insubstantial than post-election wisdom is ready to grant. You can't always tell about "new" -- a truth the human race rarely acknowledges.
We'll see whether James Carville's and Stan Greenberg's words from a Democracy Corps survey stand up better than the consensus of November 1965, following the Lyndon Johnson-led slaughter of almost every Republican downwind from Barry Goldwater. Johnson, father of the Great Society, was all but run out of Washington on a rail after mucking up the Vietnam War.
Meanwhile, as everyone these days seems to know, the unstoppable alliance of unmarried women, young people, Hispanics and Blacks is set to remake America: the minute Americans agree on what a remade America ought to look like.
"There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip" is the indicated adage for now, notwithstanding that polls such as Carville's and Greenberg's seem to confirm the birth of a new alliance committed to wealth redistribution and big government.
The so-called "Rising American Electorate" appears to hanker for, among other things, larger investments in education, "protection" of Social Security and Medicare and fairness for women. Thomas B. Edsall, in the New York Times, calls attention to a Pew Research Center poll showing rising support for socialism as the remedy for capitalism.
Yes, yes, fine. Let's see how it all works out. To put it another way: Let's see what works out in practice and not just post-campaign rhetoric. The instant temptation, from the conservative side, is to go all weepy at such news. I would counsel resistance to such temptation: this, for a couple of reasons.
--The alliance of "Rising American Electorate" members is not necessarily based on congruence of interests. The young may be the shakiest element of the alliance for economic reasons. When you're earning $20,000 a year -- or living at home -- it may seem well to call for expropriation of the bloated plutocrats. The genius of America, nonetheless, has always been the elevation of the low-income earner to the higher tax brackets. To redistribute widely would be to overthrow the American premise of entitlement to the fruits of one's work and enterprise. Are we there yet? I see no persuasive evidence.
--Then what's all these nonsense about hiring another 100,000 teachers? Meaning, another 100,000 members of the teachers unions, whose troops have carried American public schools to such celestial heights? "Protect" Social Security and Medicare? Without affecting economies as to cost and eligibility? That should do a lot of good. And without -- gulp! -- burdening taxpayers with slimmer means than the two left-wing Georges -- Soros and Clooney?
Shall we try socialism? What a great idea -- Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela as our models and pole stars! Ought to be an effective formula for weight loss.
A continuing problem with left-wingery -- a problem not grasped by some of the analysts -- is that it doesn't work. Socialists, as Maggie Thatcher astutely observed, always run out of other people's money. They can't replace it of course with their own. Socialism isn't about creating wealth; it's about grabbing someone else's.
Republicans need to cheer up. It always hurts to lose a vital election: for instance, the one immediately past. And yet to victors sometimes belongs something more depressing than spoils; namely, the obligation to make good on lame, idiotic promises. Might we hold the national obituaries pending proof that the 2012 outcome was the will of the gods?
In the short run, what about a little indignant and forceful resistance, according to the American tradition, as exemplified 70 years ago by "Uncle Joe" Stilwell while the Allies reeled from a near knock-out by the Japanese? "I claim we got a hell of a beating," Joe told the press. "We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it." And you know what? We did just that.
I am cheered up! Iam going to run for Congress.
Here is my 5 point of my agenda:
1. An Abortion Tax credit ATC- pays $500 for every abortion
a (refundable credit) You must list the name of the unborn child on the tax form.
2.A tax deduction for the costs of rubbers, condoms, morning after pills..Just save your receipts and add them up and deduct them!
3. We need to start studying the temperature changes at the center of the earth. The earth’s core is most likely cooling so we need to get started NOW with programs and policy to address it.
4. Hispanic Family Tax credit- HFTC- if you take in a Hispanic family (Provide half the upkeep for)that has any illegal extended family member then we pay $2,500 to every member of that extended family.
5. Justin Beiber Crotch grabbing credit- JBCGTC- If the young voters will simply count the number of times Justin Beiber grabs his crotch during his appearances and then write that on their tax form, we’ll give them a $500 refundable credit.
I believe all of these will get me elected because they will all help with the targeted groups of voters that we need to reach.
I cheer up everytime that I think of how dedicated that I am to remaining free.
LLS
Get yourself set up such that when all the support systems come to a horrible screeching halt, you still can live without going to the gov’t with your hand out.
If there are enough of us, and we hole up for a while, the rest will work itself out.
Forgot your /sarcasm tag there, bud... heh
Democrats and leftists eat their own.
Points one and two will be a negative for you,
because they require a modicum of effort on the part of the “gimmes”.
Popcorn for everybody, make yourselves comfortable, show starts soon. At this point I'm rooting for the hole ...
I thought he was going to go in a different direction: that things will get so bad in the next two years that we will sweep the senate and the house in 2014, and win the oval office back in 2016. That’s my prediction...
I am actually very cheerful!!!!
now, instead of listening to those that say WE are robbing our children and grandchildren of their future, I can tell them they are trying to rob us of what we spent a lifetime earning and paying in to....
Now, all I have to worry about is protecting what is mine, and let the rest of the chips fall where they may...
sense of purpose is a very relaxing thing..
let them eat cake
Well in 2-3 years when we are in the middle of economic collapse and CW11 the EBT cards won’t be working and this whole idea of spreading the wealth around may seem less desireable.
“there seems to be a push to start hating Christmas”
I, for one, certainly do not hate Christmas per se, but I do hate what it has become.
“there seems to be a push to start hating Christmas”
I, for one, certainly do not hate Christmas per se, but I do hate what it has become.
I have yet to have a liberal take me up on this challenge -
“if you want to spread my wealth around, why don’t you walk over here and take it out of my wallet.”
Not in Texas. ;-)
I'm not convinced this unstoppable "Axis of Moochers" is really some grand movement that will remake America or will instead dissolve into it's individual parts as soon as Obama's presidency ends. Remember they didn't come out for the democrats in 2010 when Obama wasn't on the ballot. It will be interesting to see what happens in 2014 and 2016. Will the blacks and Hispanics really come out and support a lily white Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or Andrew Cuomo like they supported Obama? Will the youth support someone who isn't perceived as being as "cool" as Obama? Will the women come out if it's another man at the top of the ticket?
The real moochers are the public employee unions. If we fail to rein in the public employee unions, we will have a one party system, with the GOP in a permanent minority status.
It seems to me now that they do this with GREAT PRIDE. Proud that the voters are this stupid, proud to display to all of us just what defeats us every election.
As if to say, "What you going to do about it?", with a big smug HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I would go with foolish instead of stupid. Many book-smart people seem to be lacking in common sense. (Not all, so please don't flame me if you're well educated. Being on FR means you absolutely have more common sense than most!)
The media is openly corrupt. They don’t even pretend to be unbiased.Those two things will allow an attempt at socialism, and an acceptance of failure.
I blame the MSM for the election because they could have stopped the marxist/socialist machine but didn’t. If there is anything in the future we can do to bring down the MSM and make them accountable should be done. I just don’t know how to do it. They seem to be above the law and to big to fail.
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