Posted on 05/25/2005 6:03:17 AM PDT by Theodore R.
Liberal policies still abound and expand because the sheeple either don't care, or secretly want the changes, ie affirmative action, pornography, abortion, divorce, feminism, drugs, etc. Of course I'm referring to the half of the country that bothers to vote.
God for most Americans is now Hollywood. The temples are the millions of TV's in American homes. Everyday day and night Americans faithfully take their place in front of these Hollywood temples where they are proselytized in every manner of human perversion and degradation, in the comfort and safety of their own homes. Amazing what people will do these days when they think no one is looking. And then they call it all entertainment.
In gratitude for Hollywood's blessings, Americans throw billions of dollars at the feet of their Hollywood gods. From which Hollywood grows stronger and are then able to provide us with even greater perversions every new TV season.
Remember, virtually half of the American voting electorate elected a lying traitorous POS, twice, and almost elected the same kind of men twice - Gore and sKerry.
Perhaps we should accept the fact that America's direction is exactly what the majority of the American people want it to be - a direction that will not interfere with their worship of Hollywood or episodes of the soft porn perversions of Quentin Tarantino's Crime Scene Investigations (CSI) which drew 30 million viewers. Were they all staunch conservatives?
Want to know where the minds and principles of Americans are, check out what they are watching on TV - when they think no one is watching them. Then imagine what they do in the voting booth, when they think no one is watching.
So who is deluded here, them or us?
It took me a long time to understand why the Right here in the US never seemed to develop its own vision to compete with the Left against. Firstly, Leftists are very comfortable with political wonkdom. People who become political scientists are innately academic or non profit in orientation. In order to get their, they typically were indoctrinated early and often to Leftist thinking. The innate supply of Leftist political scientists and wonks far outstrips the supply of Rightist ones. Due to all that, Leftists get an early taste of political street fighting tactics and learn how to articulate political strategies in ways that excite other political scientists and wonks. Meanwhile, the typical Rightist only gets involved in politics out of frustration and at best pursues it as a hobby or a second career. Street fighting skills never get fully developed plus, being a practical minded, business oriented person, the BS tolerance level for political shenanigans is low. Most Rightists who do go into politics tend not to stay in politics, prefering to go back to business.
Secondly, particular to American Rightists, we tend to fail to recognize the sources of our values. We do acknowledge family and in some cases, church. But being of the Whiggish tradition, we tend to write off, in toto, all aspects of European origins of The Western Tradition and Judeo-Christianity. We do not identify with knightly traditions and with pre 1700 martial orientation. This deprives us of a potentially very powerful proactive mission statement and organizational theme. So, we fall back into defending turf, but never really having any sort of future vision. Although our patron visage is Charlemagne, and others of that type, divorced as we are from our real roots, we fail to visualize the sort of unified and activist Rightist structures and behaviors that led someone like a Charlemagne to be so successful. Helping matters not at all is the fact that Hitler overtly idolized Charlemagne and thereby made any such inkling a third rail.
This is not to say that organizing a positive Rightist program that is free of procrustean aspects, or destructive bastardizations of the Western Tradition, is impossible. But it is to say that doing so would be non trivial and would require major out-of-the-box thinking.
And they preached to the easiest convert.
The classrooms are so full of liberals that the war was won without a major battle.
And it wasn't just America.
The "West" lost out big time.
Yes, there will always be a George W. Bush.
However, the days of Reagan and Thatcher are over.
John Howard remains the last true "Conservative" of the English speaking nations.
It's the song that goes "Let's take America back." Sorry, but my voice is a little rusty.
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