Posted on 01/09/2017 4:47:47 AM PST by Kaslin
The swift currents of liberal promises empty always into the great desert of their futility. Someday, historians will dig into the ruins of the Obama administration and they will find in that moldering heap a record of political actions far removed from America's founding principles of government. They will walk among disasters. They will gaze upon the rubble of old propaganda mills and theaters of intolerance from a time of willful ignorance and civil strife; and they will try to understand our madness. They will wonder that democracy could have survived the vast entitlement plantations built by the Democratic Party for a thousand years of statist rule. And they will further discover in the dust and fallen shapes of the era’s progressive leadership a distinct layer of radioactive contempt for the American people -- all that remained of President Barack Obama's legacy of political failures.
History is not an active force directing humanity towards a state of perfection, but often an account of the vanity of those who believe that it is. And in writing the story of our unhappy times, the scribes will not be kind to Barack Obama. It cannot profit to wait upon the opinions of generations yet unborn, but it suffices for the moment to know that America's long liberal winter of darkness and decline -- the debilitating effects of social justice programming, its mythology, its political correctness, its necessary coercion, dishonesty, and error -- at last has ended.
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Bkmk
This article is beautifully written.
“This article is beautifully written.” — agreed.
“the debilitating effects of social justice programming, its mythology, its political correctness, its necessary coercion, dishonesty, and error — at last has ended.”
Unfortunately, the “end” is only temporary. Like the 17 year locusts, they will return with the aid of a new generation of “progressives” (or whatever name they decide to use for their revival) taught by the corrupt “education” system that has been built in the last 100 years.
Witness Ronald Reagan. He was elected only after the destruction wrought by the insipid Jimmah Carter. And while his effect on the country was great and he steered the ship towards the “bright shining city on the hill”, it only took George H. W. Bush 4 years to idle the engines of that ship. The result was the election of Bill Clinton, George Junior and BHO.
In spite of a short period of light when Newt Gingrich lead a revolt by a Republican congress during the Clinton debacle, there was a steady progress(?) to where we are today.
While I would hope that President Trump can lead us to the strength that we once had, I fear that the “progressives” with the aid of numerous RINO’s (I repeat myself) will continue the drumbeat against any change and will bide their time until such time that they can again control our fate.
Remember the mantra of the socialists: “Two steps forward, one step back”.
Your post contains wisdom!
‘...could have survived the vast entitlement plantations built by the Democratic Party for a thousand years of statist rule.’
No disagreement but wont they also wonder where the opposition was? I do...the GOP failed miserably. They mostly gave Barry a blank check and ran at the first sign of conflict. The problem is rooted in an asleep electorate willing to enable a political elite who felt no interested in serving anyone but themselves.
Unfortunately, you presume that the GOP was interested in rejecting BHO’s objectives. While McCain and Graham were vocal in their support, many others were complicit in their silence.
Remember the mantra of the socialists: “Two steps forward, one step back”.
If only it were so but in reality it is one forward and two back with intermittent periods of what someone I used to know called “high gear reverse” or as we former sailors would say, FULL SPEED ASTERN. Anyone who does not experience a twinge of nausea at the mention of “progressivism” is out of touch with reality.
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