"I'll TELL you what's fair, and what's not!"
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.
thanks
Not to be a wet blanket, but we got run out of education, the media, the right to associate, heterosexual pride and advancement through merit about 40 years ago. Several generations have been Marxified, homosexualized, debauched, oligarched and dumbed down. Now, entrepreneurialsim, direct access to an American-born doctor, American history, the truth, the Church and capitalism are The Enemy.
We even have to push "2" for English.
And we can just ''retake it" in 2016? Lots of luck with that.
you are correct. The left is utterly evil, but not stupid. They know exactly what they are doing.
They will "manage" the transition to a Socialist H*ll. They many even allow some future tax cuts to help boost the economy to provide more time for third world garbage to sneak in.
Without a doubt the left hates Capitalism, hates the U.S. Constitution and hates Conservatives. They know the end game is a dictatorship and they can't wait to wield that power.
I too fear it may take a decade or two for the velvet glove to be removed. In the meanwhile, they will consolidate their stranglehold on education, the arts and the MSM.
At this moment I cannot see a viable way back to Liberty and free market-capitalism.
More and more it seems collapse is the only option, with the hope that enough patriots ascend and brutally roll back the vicious, evil, soulless left. Dark days lie ahead.
My own county (Westmoreland, Pennsylvania) has proved this is the case. Democrats held a 3-2 edge in voter registration until just one cycle ago.
Our county was so Democrat that Walter Mondale carried it in the 1984 Reagan 49 state landslide. Democrats held every row office and the only Republican in a county wide office was the minority commissioner since our commission is set up by law to require a minority member on our three man commission.
People who regularly voted Republican still registered Democrat so their registration didn't get accidentally lost or their property tax unfairly assessed.
That all changed in 2011 when the GOP swept every row office. Now, the jackass party holds a mere 4-3 edge in registration and even local Democrat office seekers have to make some token denunciations of Obama to even have a shot here. We are working on damaging the brand so badly they will become more vocal in their denunciations.
I have friends in parts of Idaho where the jackass brand is so badly damaged that they don't even bother running candidates. It is between the GOP, Libertarian and Constitution parties.
In 1775, Edmund Burke, in a famous address to the House of Commons, disagreed with you.
"In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."
We would be a free people if we were as "ignorant" today as we were then.
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This current regime will be the most hated administration in 100 years by the end of 2013.
Makes sense.
All across the country there are unknown thousands of Obama Phone Women who get multiple votes. I will not be wasting time voting against the likes of that anymore. I’m done with the whole election process.
Little Timmy Geitner wants the debt limit to be INFINITY.
Says it all.
I say we double or triple down on socialism to the point of anarchy.
“Universal sufferage is NOT a good idea.”
Agree. Especially in the new world where the word ‘Fair’ is more valued than being ‘Free.’
I know when I am Free.
No one can decide on what is Fair.
The socialists refuse to define it because they love its elusiveness.
"I'll TELL you what's fair, and what's not!"
“Impeachment is impossible without the press..”
Absolutely right on. I’ve said the same in some of my posts.
Impeach the Marxist? The media won’t even report on Benghazi.
The only way to impeach the Marxist is if the Koch brothers buy The New York Times and Murdoch buys the Washington Post.
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