Posted on 11/14/2004 1:57:35 PM PST by CHARLITE
The reelection of President Bush has sent the Democratic Party reeling. How could a President with so many perceived negatives win with such relative ease? The economy is not fantastic, the War in Iraq is not universally popular, health care costs and fuel prices are rising, President Bush smirks and stutters, and the Redskins lost! Why is John Kerry not President today? Additionally, why, in a supposedly ideologically divided electorate, have Republicans defied political convention and steadily increased their majorities at both the Federal and State levels? The truth in undeniable. Americans are beginning to no longer vote in line with individual candidates’ positions on specific issues, but in accordance to their cultural and moral values.
Neither Presidential candidate made cultural values a major issue in their campaign. In fact, Bush made concerted efforts to downplay the same sex marriage and abortion issues, going so far as to give an eleventh hour endorsement of civil unions. Other than a few light weight questions at the debates, the selection of up to four Supreme Court Justices received no attention at all. It is no surprise that Republican and Democrat politicos alike are puzzled by exit poll results that showed concerns for cultural values on a par with the Wars in Iraq and terrorism and healthcare. The American people have taken talk of “family values” out of the arena of the sound bite and placed it front and center as the major issue of the day. The Culture War has begun.
Until now, the Liberal plan to warp America into its version of a European welfare state has advanced unimpeded. Political correctness has become a cultural norm, the forced indoctrination and dumbing down of our school children has become educational dogma, and an oligarchic activist judiciary has usurped the role of the legislature and systematically declared unconstitutional nearly every aspect of traditional American life. As the Liberal elites delighted in their cleverness at redefining the celebration of dysfunction as “tolerance” and oppression of Freedom of Speech as “fairness”, frustrated Americans turned to the only resource left to them, the ballot box.
This was not supposed to happen. The electorate was supposed to base their decisions on the 1000 dead soldiers in Iraq and $2 a gallon gas, not the Left’s 30 year history of duplicity. Now, the true face of liberalism is being exposed. Instead of accepting the loss and looking ahead to the next election, liberals have launched into a psychotic paroxysm of rage and insults unseen in American politics since the aftermath of the Civil War. Major Liberal authors have labeled the voters of “red” states as “ignorant”, “stupid”, and “backward” for doing nothing more than disagreeing with them. American citizens where not voting to protect their right to send a little girl to kindergarten wearing a small gold cross and not be suspended for “violating the separation of church and state”, but in words from the “Berkley Planet”, “the right to yell ‘faggot’ out of their pickups.” There are no words that can properly describe the depths of arrogance, intolerance, insularity and anti-Americanism this widespread response represents.
This is but the opening salvo in the liberals’ counter attack against the expressed will of the electorate. Most contemporary liberals began their political careers in their college days back in the 1960’s. In the ensuing decades, these liberals have successfully pushed their agenda in the expectation that they would pass the staff of their ever so coveted political power to a prefabricated second generation of indoctrinated proto-socialists to continue their work. The 21st Century was to be a new beginning and end. The end of the America the Left hates so badly because of their inability to socialize within it, and the beginning of the god-less, valueless, immoral culture they crave. Instead, they see their life long efforts failing.
The election has shown the Left they are not as successful as they had thought. Traditional American values, morals, and ethics have somehow survived all their stratagems far longer than they anticipated and their biological clocks are ticking. There is no second generation of Socialists because Americans have clung to their pesky habit of making up their own minds and raising their children as they see fit. Now, liberals must try to complete all their goals in the 10 to 15 years they have remaining as an active political force. Americans have seen nothing like what is about to come. Consider that all of the outrageous actions of the Left to date have been when they have perceived they are winning the Culture War and you will understand there will be no limit to the ferocity, deception, and hatred the Left will use in order to achieve their final victory.
Despite post election talk of bipartisanship, there will be none in Washington for the foreseeable future. The leftists who hijacked the Democratic Party in 1968 are realizing their core ideas, not specific policies, were rejected by the American voters. There will be no compromise from the Left because any concession would require they abandon their most fundamental beliefs. In order to cooperate, the left would first have to admit that they might be wrong in a few areas and the rest of America might have a few good points to offer. If one thing is certain about Liberals it is that they are far too arrogant to ever do this. And, even if they were willing to engage in a constructive dialogue, starting it off by calling your opponents a bunch of racist, illiterate, moonshine drinking morons who lack indoor plumbing is hardly the way to do it. Instead, the Democrats will increase their attempts to undermine our way of life, more aggressively pursue their agenda through the Courts, obstruct needed legislation and personally attack anyone who has the audacity to stand in their way.
The Culture War is no longer an idea, but a reality. For the sake of America’s future, it is a battle we must win.
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Sounds reasonable. Personally I draw the line pretty far out, don't be hurting some one else, don't make me finance it and don't say that I must give my stamp of approval to it.
The few hard lines I draw fall into those areas for the most part. I know the words have been perverted but I actually do believe in tolerance and diversity in their original meanings. But I expect tolerance for my diversity. And I am not getting it.
In fact, in seeing what little television I watch today, I'd say we are getting sicker. Same with music, especially rap. Just my observations, not chiseled in stone.
* He says what he means.
* He means what he says.
* He tries to do it.
You may be correct, but I'm having doubts. Does a true Right-to-Lifer intercede in a primary on the side of the baby killer and save his campaign? Does a true fiscal conservative veto absolutely no ridiculous spending bills--or put up a "no-child-left-behind" crap? Does a real believer in national sovereignty allow (and even bless) hordes of illegals entering the U.S.?
Sure, some things he means and stands behind. Some of them he may actually believe, instead of responding to political expedience. It's easy to be for a popular marriage amendment when it has absolutely no chance of passing. It's easy to play both sides on a witless CFR bill. I just no longer have much faith in your three statements.
Actually your analogy of lightning rod was a good one. A lightning rod protects the house from the damage that lightning might cause if the house were hit without one. It safely channels the effect of the lightning to the ground. Bush has done this with the verbal and libelous lightning hurled at him, and thus shielded the house (nation) from its effects, which would have been troubling had he launched similar vituperative attacks in response.
"Now, the true face of liberalism is being exposed. Instead of accepting the loss and looking ahead to the next election, liberals have launched into a psychotic paroxysm of rage and insults unseen in American politics since the aftermath of the Civil War." Putting the focus upon the pre-civil war ravings of the slavers might be more to the point. And the irrationality of the left's outbursts attests their bitterness at being exposed for their extremes. How can a political party defend partial birth serial killing of alive, preborn children? Amazing stuff that!
Well and truly said. May I offer a heartfelt DITTO ?
Bump. :)
Gratefully accepted- my regards to you, Marvin.
Ah, excuse me, even if he had won, he wouldn't be President today. Bush's 1st term isn't up yet.
Likely you've got something there. In any case, that "right track/wrong track" question strikes me as the silliest I've ever heard. There are too many "tracks" going on at once, with too much divergence by state or city. Not to mention the question of who's more likely to slow down or turn around the "wrong track" areas and encourage the "right track" ones. The range of possibilities in how people will understand the question make any total of the answers meaningless.
Because the MSM, the propaganda wing of the Democratic party, no longer holds the monopoly!
Don't forget ol' Hollyweird ... you're going to see a more intense attack against the "moral family" with heavy propaganda on the TV shows, such as Law & Order showing some half-crazed right-winger going out on some kind of shooting spree because someone is wearing a turban; some "normal" family being prejudiced against a two-daddy or two-mommy family only to be shown to be the raging bigots they "really" are; an increase of shows depicting perverted priests molesting little boys or involved with porn in some way; you'll see more attacks against the Bible believers and Christians, in general; you'll see attacks on the denizens in the Red States that will make the typical depiction of the crazed, drugged-out, murderous and anti-social Viet Nam vet of the 70s seem like a Sunday School lesson.
Unless I'm sorely mistaken, the entertainment community is going to unleash a plethora of intolerence and hate that we haven't even imagined.
'Course, I'm not a prophet ... just putting 2 and 2 together, and hoping to come out in the realm of 4, of what I've seen in the past from those "entertainment" freaks and how they love to slam anything that concerns the moral values of the Red States.
Yep!
I was going to say that we have 90% of the ingenuity, 90% of the intelligence, 90% of the firearms, and all the will. They have a bought mainstream media and all the adrenalin that 5 minutes of uncontrolled anger can muster up.
This is their greatest weakness, the Marxist faith in the "iron laws of history". The armies of socialism only march in one direction.
From 1932-1978, US election results and this false fixed belief moved in tandem.
Since 1980, and especially since 1994, things haven't been so good.
This has caused all sorts of other, more absurd Marxist "theories" like false consciousness and economic determinism to bubble to the surface.
The fact is, they are losing this country after having it in their reach, and they are suffering from severe cognitive dissonance as a result.
After all, their victory is guaranteed by the "iron laws of history".
Marx was fixated on the economy and he forgot about the biology. Natural selection eliminates leftists (who abort their own children and indulge in the sexual orientations) very quickly. Each generation half of them dies out.
Right ~ we have to eradicate the lunatic left!
Must see pic in #41.
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