It seems to me that many conservatives are happy about the Tea Party wins. They should be, but they need to have this image in their mind: our foe is tough, experienced, well financed, and THEY HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO.
Leftists–the people we really oppose–have been tricking moderates and ordinary, well meaning people into voting their agenda since at least Johnson, and I would argue we need to send it at least to FDR.
They own our universities. They own our high schools. They do not own our churches, business leadership (with the exception of some very large, very powerful corporations, mostly on the left coast), and ordinary adult citizenry.
What we have to do is look at this–for this season–as a two stage conflict. Let us imagine ourselves as Greek Warriors, who have just thrown back our enemy. We have them on their heels. Yet, they are going to counterattack, and we need to meet them with everything we have. It is not enough just to “not get complacent”. It is not enough to coast. We need to go balls out and get as much mileage from this historical opportunity as we can, and then KEEP GOING.
Whether we pick up a bunch of seats in Congress or not in November, we still have to deal with a populace that by and large has been brainwashed its entire life, that thinks that if something is desirable, you can just charge it to your credit card, as if the bill will never come due. They want to act as if nice people always finish first just because they are nice. They don’t want to think about their childrens future, or their grandchildrens future. The baby boomers, arguably, are the most selfish generation in American history, and quite possibly in human history. They are pathological narcissists, utterly unwilling to admit that the world does not revolve around them, and their pet illusions of how the world is.
Yet, in some ten years, the interest on the national debt will exceed the Defense Department budget. In some 15 years, we will be paying the equivalent of the national GDP just to fund Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, in their current forms.
Is it intelligent to wait until problems have ripened into catastrophes to deal with them? Obama has already cut Medicare. But he increased taxes elsewhere, not least in the hidden form of increasing the costs of insurance companies, such that they have to pass them along, or go bankrupt. If anyone is unclear with respect to the plan, he does in fact want them to go bankrupt, so we can adopt a plan in which we lose virtually all the choice we currently have, penalize doctors for going into the field, lose a high percentage of our specialists, bring innovation to a halt, and shrink the amount of healthcare available, which would include hospitals, doctors offices, and all forms of medical testing.
We get a worse outcome, and we pay more for it. This is pretty close to a definition of stupidity.
Yet, what we have to realize–and this is the core point of this post–is that leftists ARE NOT INTERESTED IN OUTCOMES. They don’t CARE if they help the world. They don’t CARE if they make things worse. It all has to do with the maintenance of a personal meaning system, of a reason to believe, of a reason to live. Their political creed is a religion.
In actual religion, faith is necessary because we can’t perceive God directly. In their creed, faith is necessary because everything they touch turns–visibly–to shit, yet they keep doing it.
They NEED their religion. They will fight hard for it. We need to fight harder back. We have the high ground–we are defending the defensible–but countless battles that were “won” have been lost in the end.
Push with facts. Push with reason. We can’t let up until the collective enchantment that has fallen over so many lands lifts.