Posted on 11/12/2008 8:09:25 PM PST by crusher
Many partisans think that the GOP will miraculously regain a place at the table in the 2010 elections, after the full onset of buyer’s remorse causes a portion of the electorate to return to them. I think this is unlikely to the point of delusion. The only immediate effect likely from the upcoming legislative onslaught will be a fundamental structural change in the political process, one which will place the GOP in general and conservatives in particular in a position of permanent disadvantage.
Some folks speak of “The First 100 Days.” I think we will see malignant results within the first few weeks.
1. One of the first items on the Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda is the squelching of contrarian speech. During the Bush 43 administration we learned from the Left that dissent was the essence of patriotism. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, we will soon learn that now the eradication of dissent is the order of the day. Given the collectivist and repressive nature of the agenda, squelching opposition is an absolute necessity. Look for the Fairness Doctrine to be front and center and pronto. In the absence of any organized opposition or even a disorganized opposition in the form of talk radio, coalescing an electoral opposition is so much more difficult in a world without free speech. If they can pull it off, and I fully expect that they will given the establishment media’s infatuation with The Chosen One and the cover they will provide as he leads the charge against the Fourth Estate, look for the Obamanistas to expand their grasp in this regard. Satellite broadcasting uses the airwaves, doesn’t it? And how about the internet, and its wireless aspects? This impulse to punish critics is what led to the illegal snooping into the personal life of Joe The Plumber, and the expulsion of reporters from O Force One once their newspapers endorsed McCain. There is simply no way to project the value of this advantage.
2. With the unholy alliance between ACORN and the Democrat Party, voter fraud will henceforth be a mainstream reality. And, The Chosen One is so deeply in bed with ACORN he’d better send them flowers in the morning. Over the next couple weeks we will see ACORN perfidy played out starkly in front of our eyes as they engineer the theft of elections unseating Norm Coleman in Minnesota and Saxby Chamliss in Georgia. We may in fact have seen the last of legitimate elections in or own nation as hundreds of thousands or even millions of fraudulent votes are being cast on behalf of Leftist Democrat candidates. Count one to two percent new permanent advantage to the Democrats.
3. Hand in glove with domestic voter fraud will be the normalization of tens of millions of alien invaders into the political fabric of the Democrat Party. In my view already 1/3 of Mexico’s citizens reside illegally in the USA; yes folks, that’s 50 million alien invaders. Legal immigrant Hispanics greeted Amnesty Juan with 1/3 of their votes, which means that 2/3 of the same immigrant electorate voted against the most outspoken advocate of amnesty. (I went to public schools but it was a long time ago when they still tyrannically insisted on correct answers to mathematical problems) No telling how many alien invaders will vote, but I’m willing to bet it will be even more virulent than their legal brethren. This immediately adds at least 5% to every Democrat candidate nationwide except for the Southwest, where it will be closer to 20%.
4. A third front in the electorate warfare policy is the coming legislation empowering unions to strong arm almost anyone they set their sights on. Since unions have long been both the piggy bank and the foot soldiers for the Democrat Party, naturally this advantage for the Dems will grow as well. It is worth billions of dollars for their coffers, and millions of man hours for their campaigns.
5. The full impact of the Bailout Mentality will not be known for months, years, or even decades. The immediate result is the rush to the trough for the free goodies. Mortgage industry now, auto industry tomorrow, airline industry next month, personal credit card debt next year. Sounds preposterous? So did the notion that two trillion dollars of taxpayer money would be thrown at corrupt money manipulators, albeit within a perverse framework of incentives established by Jimmah Carter, Xlintoon, Barney Fwank, and Chris Dodd. The last intrusion into the financial markets (to say “inappropriate intrusion of the government into the marketplace” would be redundant) was due mostly to minor meddling of the past. If you sow the wind and reap the whirlwind, I can only imagine what this episode of complete nationalization will yield. At the very least I expect to see inflation rates of 20% - 50% in the next 24 months since all the bailouts are financed with fiat money.
6. During the campaign The One assembled an internet army of 10 million agitators, activists, and underwriters. Obamessiah has promised to keep this army of political extortionists at the ready, willing and able to pounce on any opposition The Great one would ever encounter. Since this is an unprecedented development in American politics, I have no idea how this will play out. But I am confident it will not redound to the cause of liberty and prosperity.
7. My own personal fascination will be to follow the asylum previously known as the U.S. Congress. Unrestrained by an opposition party veto threat in the White House, expect the moonbats to be in full braying mode. Speaker of the House Nancy Nutcakes has been only barely under control with the constant discipline imposed by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (alas, my “representative”) and pragmatic Chicago thug Rahm Emmanuel. Now that Emmanuel is moving on to run the White House, something I predict he will accomplish brilliantly, Nancy Nutcakes and her fellow travelers in the House should run free with quite a head of steam. That will be amusing and terrifying to watch. And with the Left possessing a filibuster proof majority in the Senate (in addition to every Dem but one being a lefty, and a handful of GOP RINOs sharing their views it is a fait accompli) there is no legislation too whacky to make it to the Oval Office desk for signature. And forget ever having a legitimate judiciary again in our lifetimes.
8. Many folks hold on to the hope that the Republicans can stand in the way of the Left’s agenda steamroller. This is a vain hope. GOP leadership is in a state of complete chaos at every national instance. For me to have any confidence in their ability to serve as a hurdle for the New Deal Part Deux I would have to see a complete replacement of leadership in all three institutions; Senate, House, and Republican National Committee. Near as I can tell, the purge is being complete only at the RNC, so GOP “leadership” will not be leading us anywhere any time soon.
9. Obamessiah’s promise to establish an armed Civilian Security Corps should be enough to scare the living bat crap out of every person within the sound of my voice. At the very least it could be used to intimidate most of the sheeple into behaving like, well, sheeple.
10. Regardless of what transpires specifically, it is clear that we no longer have an independent media. They have dropped any pretense of virtue and have cast their lot with a new Beloved One. Media cheerleaders will go to whatever ends they must in order to protect their Beloved and earn his affection. Without the alternate media to counterbalance them, expect truth to become a scarce commodity.
Wise words.
In Obamaworld, people don’t need jobs. The government pays their mortgage and puts gas in their car.
Guess I should just give up, put on the Obama arm band, raise the right hand in “raised fist salute” and goose step with the interior security forces.
Anyone have any “happy German marching tunes” for my IPOD?
Exactly.
I read a report that said we will reach 50% on the dole by 2012.
That’s it then.
Don’t forget DC statehood to make us have to get 2 more Senate seats and four more house seats than before to come out ahead!
I think you’re on to something.
Unlike other peoples who have faced this situation, we have a long history of freedom and democracy, guns and God, rugged individualism and prosperity that comes from prosperity (i.e, the engine of our economy really is discretionary consumer spending).
Key word: *discretionary* consumer spending.
People don’t have to quit work to protest socialism. Just stop discretionary spending. Decide you’ll go one year without buying anything you don’t actually need. Of course, this operates as the “haves” hurting the “have less, “while the “have not” continue to get checks from the guvmint. But, still, it is a form of power/boycott that possibly could somewhat thwart the Left.
Another way to defund the Left, quickly and efficiently, is for every family that can homeschool its children to do so. Massive withdrawals from public schools would bring the Left to its knees (while it got busy passing laws to outlaw homeschooling-—good luck with that)-—and would even make government schools a better place for the chillen still there.
Both these tactics go straight to the purse the socialists intend to raid.
Re the Fairness Doctrine: please see my tagline.
All Obama has to do is tax talk radio or just radio to death. And then tax consumers so much that, even without price hikes to pass on increased taxes, most could not afford cable or satellite.
Easy.
I could see these being used to stay in power. Once these provisions are in place, then the government has the “right” to use its considerable power to enforce them.
In Europe, for example, this means shutting down churches where people teach against homosexuality and so on.
That would be convenient for the Left, don’t you think?
BTW, this is one of the great ironies of Prop 8 in CA. They say it passed because of increased black turnout to vote for Obama. After voting for Obama, blacks voted against gay marriage. Apparently they did not realize or care that an Obama administration completely supports what they abhor.
Wow, I guess we should all go find a bunker and hide now, right?
Sorry, but I intend to fight on.
You do realize that only 30% of the American populace during the Revolutionary war were actually for the Revolution?
Only 30%!
Are odds are far better now.
Throw away the doom and gloom and start talking to your family, friends and neighbors about why the principles of limited government, strong social norms, and a strong military are the best way to go for our country.
Do your part, get in their faces, politely, but firmly and convince them as to the worthiness of your position.
Quit whining and fight!
The European socialist countries are really not very large compared to the U.S., nor historically were they very diverse. They had closed borders until recently and they had no need to raise young people to believe that their country was worth fighting and dying for.
Oh, sure, Swedes and Danes and the French do some sort of compulsory service, but rest assured that they all know that if it came time to do any truly heavy lifting, Uncle Sam would take the brunt of it off their shoulders.
No one throughout history really could get excited about defending their socialist country.
European socialism arose in countries with established monarchies. Freedom was never conceived of as Americans conceive it and, such as it was, it went relatively quietly into the night. The transistion from the oligarchy of a monarchy to the oligarchy of soft socialism is not all that big a leap, nor did it make people feel significantly less free..
In America, by contrast, we do have a long and deep history of freedom, guns and God, rugged individualism, socioeconomic mobility and the "American Dream" of more wealth tomorrow than we have today. It will not go quietly into the night here. While it is now apparent that if the U.S. were to become socialist, it will become so through the political process, not a coup, nevertheless at some point there would be significant resistance.
And here's the point about that that goes to why I think it's much too blithe to say, as you did, that "No need to be alarmist. We aren't drifting towards communism or even fascism [because] the people on the left like their money, too":
Once on the road to socialism, the match has been lit. The programs gobble up more and more of the available wealth. They inevitably become unsustainable.
At that point, the government faces possibly massive civil unrest or the prospect that it must do more to confiscate wealth and control the means of production and supply and demand.
In countries where freedom will go quietly into the night, the latter option is implemented with very little fanfare or resistance. This is more or less the European Socialist model.
However, when there is resistance or when the failures of socialist policies are so great that the government knows they will lose power if the failures are not covered up, history shows that that is when the brutal crackdowns begin. First, against a scapegoat (the Jews, for example). Then generally.
And don't worry: even in truly communist nations, the Left got to enjoy their money, dachas and caviar. Don't in any way think that the Left's desire to preserve their own money is any hindrance to the march of socialism, communism or fascism.
Thus, in a country where resistance is great, or the failures of socialist policies can lead to massive civil unrest, the potential for socialism to lead to communism and then to totalitarian is MUCH greater than, say, in the Swedish model.
Doesn't mean it's going to happen tomorrow. But this is not being alarmist. It's simply history.
[Sidebar: I was living in Germany when the government imposed, almost overnight, a huge new tax on gas to pay for costs associated with the reunification. Gas prices suddenly doubled. It struck me that the Germans I knew simply shrugged and went on about their business. I remember commenting that my country had started a Revolution over the (English) government raising taxes on tea---we weren't the types to wake up to a 100% tax increase and simply shrug and move on.]
European socialists do not have the right to bear arms.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. You do not NEED an IPOD!
Nor will we, very soon.
Do I hear 1984, or is that putting it mildly?
Can Bush pass this law within the next couple of months? We know the Dems will to secure their vote if we don’t do it first. Is there any way it could be done fast with much fanfare?
We’re living inside a dome? Who knew?
Can Bush pass this law within the next couple of months? We know the Dems WILL pass this law to secure their votes if we don’t do it first. The Hispanics are considered to be Conservative when it comes to moral issues. It may not be so hard to convince them to vote Republican. Is there any way it could be done fast with much fanfare?
John Adams was convinced the Jeffersonian Republicans would sign an alliance with those French terrorists, get rid of the elites, and destroy the nation.
Andrew Jackson let mobs into the White House to have a drunken binge while he escaped out the back. All "men of standing" thought the country was finished when he was elected. Even Davy Crockett, no "elite," thought Jackson spelled doom for the U.S.
Both Jefferson and Martin van Buren called the Missouri Compromise the "death knell of the Union."
More than a few thought the Democrats were utterly finished as a national party . . . in 1863.
More than a fe thought the Republicans were finished . . . in 1936.
Now, if you're all through throwing your little hissy fit and feeling sorry for yourselves, how about we get to work and prepare to take back the government.
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