Point of No Return (Mark Steyn)

NRO ^ | Oct. 25, 2008 | Mark Steyn

[Mad_as_heck]

The resulting revolution. We don’t need to accept the rat domination. It can be overthrown

We need to stop mincing words and start fighting for what we know is right with every bit of strength and cunning at our disposal. If conservatives were as ruthless and determined to save the country as the enemy is to destroy it we'd have the left on its knees.

We've allowed ourselves the luxury of playing nice nice for far too long. Gentlemanly and lady like conduct is something we can no longer afford.

[montag813]

If Obama wins, what country in the world is the most like America, to which folks can move to experience economic and political freedom that we would lose?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[Mad_as_heck]

I agree. like Frederick Douglass said: "God plus one makes a majority." I believe that right makes might- we need to fight harder and smarter not despair.

I think the world has been in a profound spiritual and intellectual crisis since the catastrophe of WWI. The left does not have the answers to the problems that civilization is facing. They are delusional but too many of us are wimps.

The world needs the philosophy that we call "conservatism" more than ever. Maybe we need to pump it up to the next level. Maybe we need a true "conservatism 2.0" to meet the renewed challenge of collectivism but I know that the battle will never be lost till we give up.

[Chances Are]

Quintessential Steyn.

The thing about this election is, it's the result of 50+ years of the educational establishment's efforts at molding the New Soviet Man, and it looks like it's having a measure of success. Indeed, the educational establishment has been working for this very moment for decades.

I've long felt we have been dying as a nation, and it looks like now the final knell will be rung. Rather than a bang, it looks like we may go out with a whimper.

Probably before the scheduled 2010 mid-term elections, we'll see a civil war of sorts, and if that fails, we'll then see the fulfillment of Ayres’ dream of killing of 25 million American capitalists in the ensuing Obama pogrom.

Brace yourselves....

CA....

[Rummyfan]

To govern is to choose. And sometimes the choices are tough ones. When has Barack Obama chosen to take a stand? When he got along to get along with the Chicago machine? When he sat for 20 years in the pews of an ugly neo-segregationist race-baiting grievance-monger? When he voted to deny the surviving “fetuses” of botched abortions medical treatment? When in his short time in national politics he racked up the most liberal – ie, the most doctrinaire, the most orthodox, the most reflex — voting record in the Senate? Or when, on those many occasions the questions got complex and required a choice, he dodged it and voted merely “present”?

I still can't believe this nothing has gotten to where he is.

If a majority of Americans want that, we holdouts must respect their choice. But, if you don’t want it, vote accordingly.

I also cannot believe that the majority of American voters want Our Republic to go this way. We will have the answer in ten days.....

[RichInOC]

We’re setting sail
To the place on the map
From which no one has ever returned
Drawn by the promise of the joker and the fool
By the light of the campaign signs that burn
Drawn by the promise of the women and the lace
And the gold and the cotton and pearls
It’s the place where they keep all the darkness you need
You sail away from the light of the world
On this trip, baby

You will pay tomorrow
You gonna pay tomorrow
You will pay tomorrow

Save me
Save me from tomorrow
I don’t want to sail in this ship of fools
Save me
Save me from tomorrow
I don’t want to sail in this ship of fools

I want to run and hide
Right now...

Avarice and greed
Are gonna drive you over the endless sea
They will leave you drifting in the shallows
Or drowning in the oceans of history
Traveling the world
You’re in search of no good
But I’m sure you’ll build your Sodom
Like you knew you would
Using all the good people
For your galley slaves
As your little boat struggles
Through the warning waves

But you don’t pay
You will pay tomorrow
You gonna pay tomorrow
You gonna pay tomorrow

Save me
Save me from tomorrow
I don’t want to sail in this ship of fools
Save me
Save me from tomorrow
I don’t want to sail in this ship of fools

I want to run and hide
Right now...

Where’s it coming from?
Where’s it going to?
It’s just a ship of fools...

Here we go...
All aboard...

—Karl Wallinger (World Party)

(well, he actually wrote “crosses” instead of “campaign signs”, but other than that...)

[wardaddy]

Spot on assessment:

McCain vs Obama is not the choice many of us would have liked in an ideal world. But then it’s not an “ideal world”, and the belief that it can be made so is one of the things that separates those who think Obama will “heal the planet” and those of us who support McCain faute de mieux.

I agree with Thomas Sowell that an Obama-Pelosi supermajority will mark what he calls “a point of no return”. It would not be, as some naysayers scoff, “Jimmy Carter’s second term”, but something far more transformative. The new president would front the fourth great wave of liberal annexation — the first being FDR’s New Deal, the second LBJ’s Great Society, and the third the incremental but remorseless cultural advance when Reagan conservatives began winning victories at the ballot box and liberals turned their attention to the other levers of the society, from grade school up.

The terrorist educator William Ayers, Obama’s patron in Chicago, is an exemplar of the last model: forty years ago, he was in favor of blowing up public buildings; then he figured out it was easier to get inside and undermine them from within.

[wardaddy]

he leaves out the insidious disease which even includes some FReepers ....white guilt which is the tipping point here

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“The five-pointed red star....”

Remarkable. And alarming.

[wubjo]

Socialism cannot succeed without capital and our goal should be to cut off the oxygen.

The Amera-Euro socialist wussies in a strangle-hold. Excellent!
Gasp!
Done!

[dr_lew]

Yeah, when he said, “...those of us who support McCain faute de mieux.” I assumed this meant “McCain on toast.”

[wubjo]

The poorer we get the more the unwashed will demand the government give them more. It ends with chaos.

Then let's certainly not put-off the inevitable, shall we!

[RedMonqey]

jackv

I find it humourous of your efforts to post Obamas “red star” in his compaign propanganda means he’s secretly a communist at heart.

Humourous, not at you but because if all his votes, all his promises, his associates and supporters and hints of “sharing the wealth” comments don’t already speak volumes about WHO he is.

But thinking by pointing out he has a red star in his leaflets is the secret to collapsing his media driven empire has borders on tinfoil city.

Face it. The media isn’t doing it’s job and anybody undecided at this late date about what Obama stands for never will.

And posting here is speaking to the choir...

[RedMonqey]

“...and the rising sun, which is the symbol of China.”

Mmmmm. The Rising Sun is a symbol of Imperial Japan.

[Mr. Blonde]

Of course the irony is it is going to elect a half-white person with no ancestral ties to slavery on his African side.

[keats5]

You’re right.

My bad.

[VR-21]

I have to admit to you that I had to look that one up; “For lack of anything better.” Steyn certainly can convey exasperation. What this looming disaster must seem like to him after his recent adventure with Canada’s HRC.

[Junior_G]

If a majority of Americans want that, we holdouts must respect their choice. But, if you don’t want it, vote accordingly.

The majority of Americans don't want it. Certainly there is a large share of the population that openly desires this lurch towards a socialist nanny-state, but they are not a majority. Unfortunately, their numbers are bolstered by the dim-witted votes of those who are enthralled by Obama's cool charisma yet have no understanding of what his election portends.

[Junior_G]

he leaves out the insidious disease which even includes some FReepers ....white guilt which is the tipping point here

Everything I've heard from my hopelessly liberal friends convinces me that you're right. The mental disease of political correctness—specifically white guilt—is the primary force thrusting Obama into the White House. Countless millions are willing to vote for him primarily because of his race, as if electing a half-black man to the Presidency will mean that slavery never happened.