Politically, our country has never been majority conservative or liberal and probably never will be. It has always been mostly pragmatic or practical, as have been most of our successful leaders, including Regan. While we have ideologs on both the left and the right and often choose leadership with an ideological tint, most citizens just want government that is honest and efficient. Voters have remarkable patience but when they feel betrayed, they really don’t care about political parties or ideological purity. During tough times, more government will be accepted than during periods of tranquility but radical policies whether from the left or right will not be embraced for long.
We can complain about a poor presidential candidate, biased media, voter fraud, economic manipulation or many other reasons most of which are probably true. However, the bottom line is that Republican leadership was entrusted with both the executive and legislative branches of government and they failed on the critical test of honesty and efficiency. They became a mirror image of those they replaced. The argument that “if you just vote for us again we will promise to stop our bad practices and be better stewards and besides, the other group will be far worse” just doesn’t cut it.
Republican came to power because Democrats lost the trust of the people, not because of a more clever argument or more acceptable philosophy and they lost power for the same reason. Democrats will suffer the same fate; the only question is how long it will take them. With their leadership, I suspect it will not be that long. Hopefully, by the time the people are ready for another change, the Republican Party will be prepared to respond.
The Republican party will not respond because there is no Republican party. There has not been for years.
All that is fine and well, but there is 900 pound gorilla in the room that conservatives WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE: the hard-left.
We’ve gone from the extreme of McCarthy’s witch-hunt to total and utter willful blindness that the hard-left is taking over our country.
They have our schools and universities (have you seen the data on young people’s voting for this election?).
They have the media (I’m sure I don’t have to support this one).
They have pushed the government far enough to where the masses now know they can vote themselves “free” stuff — do you have any idea how dangerous this is?
Does this mean the ‘communists’ are doing this? Well, yes, and no. They have willing liberals pulling strings and starting the paradigm shift.
Once the liberals, through the schools, the media propaganda and the “free” stuff from the pols have marginalized the Republicans then it becomes the liberals versus the hard-left — who do you suppose wins this war?
You couldn’t even get the public to fear Ayers, Wright, the black Klan or any of the very hard-left statements made by president-elect 0bama.
Um, call me extreme, but I’m real nervous about the coming decade and what it will mean for my children.
I think we’re in a world of hurt if nothing changes.