Posted on 07/02/2015 10:31:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- If you dutifully read the weekend newspapers and watched the Sunday morning gasbags on television, I suspect you departed the chaos with a terrible headache. Possibly you departed for the bar.
Typical of the news stories was one The Washington Post headlined: "GOP Struggles For Footing As Cultural Ground Shifts Leftward." Who was doing the shifting? Well, a couple of delusional Supreme Court justices supported by a homicidal maniac seated in someone's backyard flying the Confederate flag over his puny shoulder and a narcissistic self-promoter who recently changed his/her name to Caitlyn. Such are the dynamic forces driving history in America today -- at least in the eyes of the Hollywood-New York-Washington axis.
Actually, there is a more subtle, albeit more significant, transformation stealing across America, and it has been at work since 2010. It is the consequence of what our Founding Fathers embedded in our Constitution more than 200 years ago. It is federalism, working through the democratic process, and it cannot be stopped by a politicized court, a crazed gunman or a narcissist.
After the wave of elections of 2010 and 2014, 24 states opted for Republican government, lock, stock and barrel. In those states, the governorship and the legislatures are all Republican -- conservative Republican. As for the Democrats, they claimed only seven states lock, stock and barrel, and that is down from 13 states in 2014. As it stands now, the Republicans control 24 states lock, stock and barrel, in addition to numerous state legislatures and governorships. At the federal level, they hold both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Is there a trend here? I think there is.
What is more, a dozen or so Republicans are vying for the 2016 presidential nomination. In the Democratic Party, one 67-year-old grandmother supposedly has the Democratic nomination sewn up, though her closest competitor, a 73-year-old socialist, is gaining on her. Will this Republican trend sweep a Republican into the White House? I think it will.
Let us return to what our mainstream news sources this weekend called a national leftward "shift." It was begun by an Olympian who won his gold medal almost 40 years ago. He calls himself a Republican and now claims to be a woman. This spells electoral trouble for the Republicans? And the "shift" continued with the aforementioned homicidal maniac killing nine African-Americans in South Carolina while they were at prayer. In so doing, he brought such discredit to the Confederate battle flag that Republicans, starting with South Carolina's governor, demanded the flag be retired. This spells more trouble for Republicans? I think not.
Finally, what about last week's Supreme Court decisions that the media adduced as part of the nation's seismic shift to the left? Two conservatives on the Supreme Court refused to return some shoddily written legislation to Capitol Hill for a rewrite in one decision. In the other decision, one conservative justice played sociologist and claimed to spot a trend that allowed him to lead the court in preempting the democratic process throughout the states. Frankly, two wobbly conservatives on the court do not make a national shift to the left, but let my liberal friends believe that it exists. Let them rave on about same-sex marriage, about the Confederate battle flag that almost no one wants hanging from a statehouse, and about Obamacare, which is increasingly unpopular and catastrophically expensive and will bankrupt America.
I return to the real electoral shifts that have been creeping across America. They stem from big government, which an increasing number of Americans believe mucks everything up. They involve personal freedom, which more and more Americans are fearful of losing. They conduce to government spending, which a growing majority of Americans throughout the states recognize as unsustainable. Throughout the country, at the state level, there is a growing awareness that the Hollywood-New York-Washington axis is washed up.
This next election, a presidential election, will turn on serious issues rather than sad issues: the reach of government, the cost of government, and foreign policy. On these matters, Democrats increasingly say all the wrong things.
I think Emmett is being overly optimistic. The people who voted the ‘pubs into office in 2014 aren’t going to be happy that those same pubs crapped all over them and frittered away a mandate.
Electing Republicans to state and local government, and even to the Congress, has been shown to be no match for the leftist hammerlock on the media, academia, and the federal courts.
The high court eroded states rights by legalizing
- dictatorial socialism of individual health, and
- mockery of a religious sacrament...
...and the author minimizes this, by explaining that
we might elect more of the kind of people that
will pretend that they want to stop the move to
the left, but have no intention of actually doing so.
Way overly optimistic.
I think the GOPe has pissed everything away by not only ignoring the massive mandate it was given, but by going even further and openly siding with Obie on everything for 9 months.
Short of a demonstration of massive civil disobedience in the near future, we have lost the culture war. Partly by complacency and partly by relying on the repeated elections of corrupt ersatz Republicans to protect our rights.
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln . . .
Put down the beer, turn off the football, put the bong back in the closet, erase your drug dealers number from your Ipod, and erase all the porn on your computer....
AND
Call me for the revolution.. (if you still care)..
“two wobbly conservatives “
That’s sheer idiocy.
Roberts is a moderate and Kennedy is a liberal. Four others are unclassifiable: they do what makes them feel good.
I was reading about Medicare this morning and one of the comments on the article said more millions of dollars were taken out of Medicare to pay for the displaced workers amendment of the trade bill. The republican fools have stepped into another trap, they will be savaged over this in the coming election, bet on it. Notice they didn’t celebrate with Obama on the signing, pathetic idiots.
I’d love to agree, but what happened in the gay marriage decision is very properly alarming: a matter residing in the states was relabeled and taken over by the federal government despite the strictures of the 10th Amendment. A power never enumerated was assumed. That’s a problem. If anything may be a tax, might not anything be a civil right?
ping
The SC declared America is no longer a constitutional republic.
“What Was So Dreadful About Last Week?”
The Supreme Court made our whole system of government illegitimate by overruling the states and the people by the same sort of flimflam they did in the Roe case- manufacturing a ‘right’ to same sex marriage that doesn’t really exist. To top that off, by turning the Constitution into so much taffy they left the door open to religious persecution, because the 1st Amendment will mean only what a group of five illiterate lawyers says it means.
That would be bad enough, for starters.
I think you’re right. Still, it’s nice to be thought of as having a functioning brain, for once.
At the federal level? Run for the tall grass.
Hey, I’m done with them. You keep voting for the GOP establishment, see how that’s worked out for us. The chamber of commerce republicans are never going to work in in the country’s best interest.
I get the reaction about “representative government being dead” from fellow conservatives. But this is not new. I figured out in high school over 30 years ago when I studied Supreme Court decisions that the Justices will must make up sh*t out of thin air to justify their preferred policies. The same-sex marriage decision is only another example of how the bullsh*t you can sell five Ivy League lawyers matters more than facts, tradition, common sense, the will of the voters, and even written statute (Obamacare)...
We could end up having over 40 states with Republican Governments and the Federal could be Democrat. Recipe for a Civil War....
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