With respect to the article, I find it unnecessary as anything other
than an encouragement to conservatives to vote. As a group, we always
show up at the polls in much higher proportions than Democrats. People
who don’t like to work, don’t like to vote. Rainy days ALWAYS favor
Republicans. Regrettably, weather is good around here.
More generally, I have come recently around to the gradual
realization that what we are seeing this year is very literally the
flowering of 30 years of silent work by the radicals of the 60’s.
What is the point of Political Correctness? Generating consistent
and reflexive responses to any number of questions. What is the value
of that? Pavlovian voting. Obama is black. Surely he deserves our
vote, and anyone who claims otherwise is racist.
For that reason, anyone who is concerned that he seems to have had
warm relations with a man–Bill Ayers–who plotted to overthrow our
government, implement concentration camps, and murder in cold blood 25
million Americans, is a racist.
It is racist to point out that he sat in the front rows of a racist church for 20 years.
It is racist to point out that one of the primary formative
influences in his life–Frank Davis–was a Communist and admitted child
molester.
It is racist to point out that his entire campaign is nothing other
than the principles of Saul “The Red” Alinsky’s book “Rules for
Radicals” writ large. I’ve read the book. This is absolutely by the
book. Alinsky was a Marxist.
It is racist to point out that raising taxes by the amount he wants
to is going to be economically damaging in the extreme. This is
absolutely the wrong time to attack the rich.
And what is the point of moral relativism? It is to prevent
rational, principle based discussions. We cannot claim moral
superiority to ANY nation in the world. Our values are not worth
defending. We should, in fact, apologize to the world for EVER acting
as if any of our ideas of liberty or human rights were in any way
superior to the tribal autocracies and empires that otherwise describe
the entire history of the human race, outside of White Male Europe.
The end goal of the left–that of creating a nation of zombies who
NEED to be led, who DEMAND to be led–has been realized. When nothing
is right or wrong, when the code of conduct is based solely on a
conformist desire not to give offense, someone has to provide the
synchronizing signals. That man is Obama. As a literal
African-American, who has lived overseas as a Muslim, he embodies
diversity, and will thus be a fitting focus of a cult of personality.
My only hope is that our democracy survives four years, so we can
ride him out on a pole, following he inevitable debacle his ill-founded
ideological dogmatism will foster.
For those who assume our democracy is perennial, and uncorruptiblel, I
would encourage you first to read some history–say of the rise of any
totalitarian regime in Europe–then read “Deep Survival”, by Lawrence
Gonzalez. He points out that most great failures begin with the idea
that patterns remain constant, and that what has always been, need
always be.