The hell of it is, those urbane San Franciscans need the Pennsylvanians a lot more than the Pennsylvanians need the San Franciscans (although the libs would never admit it). You can live without wine and cheese parties, queers, and The Vagina Monologues. Try living without steel, or 59% of electricity you use every day generated from coal.
Let’s rebuild the steel industry in the US! It is decimated, on account of trade favoritism to overseas producers and because of Union-Management-axis hobbling of finances and morale. We need new companies in the US steel biz, completely new. But the ground has to cleared of the burdens of the old, the old companies with their pension and union contract baggage, the old trade mindsets, and the old anti-free-labor labor regulations.
I just posted the following at Michelle Malkin's blog:
On November 4th, 2008 at 4:12 pm, bvw said:Ahh a Lion! said:Re: FilmLadd
There’s a lot of hyperbole in that statement Film. We’re not going to turn into Cuba with 4 years of Obama.Sorry, Ahh, but the lessons of history say otherwise. Hitler won but not big, yet by diligence and motivation he and his team completely took over the most modern and intelligent society of Germany in the 1930s. And they did it mach schnell.
Not the US? Then read Amity Schales history of FDR’s years. FDR moved fast, and once he wrangled the Supreme Court into an arm of his administration — public freedom suffered greviously and quickly. Read the chapter on the chicken butchers to see just how fast and how severe, and HOW CLOSE WE CAME to National Socialism.
Relatedly President Bush’s reaction to to the credit crisis —throwing WILD amounts of money and authority to Paulsen and big finance can be seen as a necessary attempt to forestall the damage a nazi Obama Administration would cause, and to dilute their power, by giving away so much power BEFORE the Obama Nazis (for German National Socialism, the politics of the Nazi Party, are the closest thing to Obama’s economics and ruling models as he has expressed them) have a chance to wield it.
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In any case, McCain is winning in a landside, imo.
YET — we must always remember (at least for the nest 12 years) how damn close we came to being a Nazi Nation.