Where We Go From Here

I have never been so unhappy to be right. I've long said that Barack Obama would win re-election, and two weeks ago I stated as much in print. In making this prediction, I was almost alone among traditionalist pundits, with some, such as Dick Morris (Mr. Batting Zero), actually forecasting a Mitt Romney landslide. And, no, I'm not pointing this out to numb despair with some perverse kind of gloating, like a man consumed in flames looking to suck on an ice cube. It's because of why I knew that Romney would lose: America is lost. And there is something to be found, but not unless good people understand what truly lies ahead.

America is heading toward a dark winter. Of course, I can't give you a Mayan-like prediction of a precise time of reckoning; details are always sketchy, which is why I wasn't entirely right on the micro of the election. But this is much like how it's difficult to predict the weather for two Wednesdays from now, but easy to forecast cold in February. And of our civilization's overall weather pattern, there is no doubt. Now let's discuss what prevents conservatives from seeing the clouds on the horizon.

(snip)...And just as I knew Obama would win last night, I'm quite sure of something else.

(Don't click that mouse and grab the hemlock, because there is hope. I'll get to that later.)

"My feeling, however, is that perhaps this will show the GOP that they can't win by trying to be Dem lites and that maybe this will push some of our better conservative thinkers and activists to really get out there and fight to win the hearts and minds again, so to speak."

So a "hard conservative", a real choice,would do better? Where? What state would a more conservative candidate have won that Mitt lost? Not Washington State, we just legalized dope and 'gay marraige'. I agree with the author. The nation has changed and it's not going back.

In 2009 when they first started pushing fubocare, people expressed their frustrations at the town halls and told their congressmen we do not want this. Large rallies were held to get the message across – leave us alone.

They didn’t listen.

In early 2010, a republican was elected to Ted Kennedy’s seat, to stop fubocare and the encroachment on our rights.

That didn’t work.

In the 2010 midterm elections, republicans were elected to stop further erosion of our freedoms, good people like Allen West were sent in, worthless people like Alan Grayson were removed.

That was supposed to stop the bleeding until we could get to 2012.

The 2012 primaries provided us with less than stellar candidates, at a time when we needed a strong candidate more than ever. We ended up with one that most of us would not chose, but we accepted it and got behind him. The crowds grew, he looked stronger and Obama looked weaker, and it looked like it might work. The hope being he would stabilize the patient until we could eventually bring in a specialist.

Instead, not only did we lose our opportunity that we were told to take (how many times have we been told to take the fight to the ballot box) but we have lost a good person like Allen West, a tolerable moderate Scott Brown was replaced by a socialist liar and Alan Grayson with his special brand of crazy is back.

So what next? I’m personally sick of the “work to get good people elected” mantra. We have done that for the last 4 years and here we are. Nowhere. I believe that we are no longer united as a people. The line in the sand was drawn last night. There are those who want to be provided for, and those who will get stuck with doing the providing. We are two separate peoples and I believe that at this point the only solution is secession. I do not see how as a nation we return to who we were. There are too many who want dependency to ever be willing to stand on their own and provide for themselves. There are too many who truly do not care about our history, who we are as a people, or what it really means to be an American. That ideal died last night.

I think the GOP in a year from now will move decidedly left itself. Just like in all tyrannies and as in the USSR people will go along to get along. The left and their supporters will become more crass and abusive and many on the right will become silent as they go into survival mode.
Succession is a pipe dream. I’m in Texas and I don’t sense any ability to do that.
People will now be marked as friends or enemies of the regime. Already people would turn their backs to me and or walk away when I inform them that I don’t subscribe to some liberal tenant of faith. In the near future this hostility will turn to ridicule and abuse and the end of civility.
NWO here we come.

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