Posted on 11/07/2012 4:44:09 PM PST by neverdem
Many of us are numb today. Numb with the implications of what happened last night. Numb with dread.
Endless days and countless lines of print will be expended in the post mortem of the election, from a conservative perspective. Romney's failures and shortcomings will be examined with electron microscopes. Why didn't he do this? Shouldn't he have done that? "For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these..."
But these things don't really amount to much. Because the real reason for our election results were neatly summarized by Bill O'Reilly at about 7:00 last night, as the faint shape of events to come began to emerge.
"The people want stuff -- they like politicians to tell them they can have stuff."
And that about sizes it up. The majority of the electorate, even many who voted for Romney, will base their vote on protecting or acquiring "stuff" -- goods or perquisites to which they feel entitled by virtue of rights or precedent. The feckless "Obamaphone" enthusiasts and the otherwise responsible, kindly grandmother make common cause in "revenge" voting when they sense or are told their stuff is threatened.
That's why politicians rarely stray from veiled inferences or broad outlines, and why any hint of specificity can expect to be the target of fearmongering. The modern social contract is one of positive rather than negative rights, about actively offering stuff rather than creating the conditions (by suppression of external threats) under which stuff can be obtained.
The deals that have already been made regarding "stuff" are being fulfilled with fictional money, based on a global confidence game in which countries supply fake money to each other in a circular dance that dares not reach a finale, yet is beginning to do so at the frayed edges of...
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They couldn’t and wouldn’t dig the fence post holes.
They would sit and whine until they starved to death.
This is coming.
There will be those of us who have food production systems in place, and there will be those who demand we give them food. Ain’t happening. I’ll hide what I need and destroy the rest before I give it to someone that refuses to work for their own sustenance.
One world governemnt, New world order, Agenda 21.
That's what just got voted in.
“goods or perquisites to which they feel entitled by virtue of rights or precedent”
And which I have deprived myself from having in order to subsidize them getting.
Examples:
*I don’t have a cell phone.
*I don’t shop at Macy’s or Kohl’s (or even Walmart) for clothes. I shop at Salvation Army for the clothing and furniture I need.
*I’ve been eating beans and rice (economical home-cooked meals) long before Dave was encouraging it. Only rarely eat out.
*Haven’t had a vacation in over a decade and will continue to stick close to home.
I pay my own bills and always have — housing, food, medical, etc. What I don’t need, I do without.
In other words, I live a responsible life and am a burden to no one.
I believe a huge majority of those who voted for obama have jobs. They’re going to be surprised when they find out that taxing the “wealthy” isn’t go to pay for the “stuff” for the people who don’t work and they’ll have to make up the difference.
I spoke with a small pizza shop owner. He said from now on out when I buy groceries, it’s for the store. All my mileage is for delivering pizzas. I’ll owe zero taxes at the end of the year. I have a feeling a lot of small operators are going to be doing that.
If Boner had the gonads to put obama in the wheelchair with granny and push him off the cliff by allowing sequestration to go through, we’d be “Galt” a lot faster. Then we could start over.
I see two distinct groups of people that we have to contend with: useful idiots and their ruthless deceivers. The former can be won over if and only if they suffer the harmful effects of socialism badly enough and are presented with a plausible alternative. We can directly affect that by accelerating the slowdown of money through the economy.
The second group is much smaller but they have money, fame, and influence. My honest, unvarnished assessment? It’s going to take applying the same sort of totalitarian devices against them that they seek to use to further their own power goals. I think it’s going to take KGB-grade tactics, ruthlessness, and brutality, because I don’t think those people understand anything else.
We need to hit the "reset" button hard and fast.
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