Posted on 07/23/2010 5:17:39 AM PDT by SJackson
The single most important question for Americans today is as simple as it is inescapable: Is it possible to block and reverse Barack Obama’s fundamental transformation of American society to resemble a soft-power, European socialist state (or worse) before the damage he does to his country is irreparable? Waiting until 2012 when his first term is completed may bring, in a different domain and with certain obvious adjustments, something like the catastrophic results which the film 2012, based on the prognostications of the Mayan Long Count Calendar, lividly portrays. For the smug and incompetent leadership of an enigmatic president is starting “progressively” to look like a bad movie with real-world effects. And 2012, at least according to the dread Calendar, is the year when everything goes to pieces.
Of course, it must be acknowledged that Obama began his political career more as an effect, or the symptom of a malaise, than as a cause or the malaise itself. After all, the American people put him where he is, intuiting in Obama an embodiment of their own regrettably facile and unexamined aspirations and an untutored drive to renovate the past. But the effect has now been transformed into a cause in its own right and the symptom has become the infirmity. Consequently, many of those who ensured Obama’s accession to power are presently experiencing a severe case of elector’s remorse.
For there can be little doubt any longer that the United States is now governed by a rogue administration, founded not on the Constitution but on lies, one broken campaign promise after another and attempts to ignore or scamper around the principles of the Fathers. We are observing an establishment that is unwilling to defend the nation’s borders from drug cartel violence and illegal immigration, forcing unread bills through Congress in the dark of night, embarking on a socialized medicine program it cannot afford and which has not worked wherever else it has been tried, plunging the nation into bankruptcy with misnamed “stimulus spending,” unsustainable entitlements and exponential debt, refusing to drill safely on land to reduce its dependence on foreign oil supplies, utterly incapable of dealing with cataclysms like the Gulf oil spill, touting an impractical, premature and ruinously exorbitant Green Energy policy, considering cap-and-trade legislation when it has become undeniably clear that Global Warming research is a profoundly unsettled and perhaps even a false science, scrubbing all reference to Islamic terror from its official documents and pursuing a foreign policy that might accurately be described as geopolitically suicidal. Quite a list, but unfortunately an accurate one.
This is an administration that could just as well have been put in place by America’s most relentless enemies. It is headed by a president with deep roots in a neo-Marxist social movement and associational ties with a host of disreputable characters. This is a president who has embarked on a diplomatic approach of appeasing the country’s despotic competitors and adversaries, with whom he appears to have more in common than with the majority of his own countrymen. Accompanied by his friends, officials, cabinet choices and hand-picked adjutants (aka “czars”), he appears intent on circumventing the rule of law on the one hand—whether considering amnesty for illegal aliens or refusing to prosecute electoral violators like the Black Panthers, guilty of voter intimidation—and on the other hand activating civil law where it does not apply, as in moving to grant civil trials to confessed jihadists or according Miranda rights to captured terrorists.
It is all well and good to complain and lament about what is going on in this administration, the misuse of power, the immorality and intellectual vandalism of its wielders, the momentum of waste and ruin—but at some point concrete measures need to be taken to forestall breakdown and collapse. Nor does one want to contemplate the disaster of an Obama re-election in 2012, which might well realize the mythic predictions of the Mayan Calendar and a sensationalist film, in any event for the U.S. But the calamity need not wait for that red-letter date; it is evolving in increments as we speak. This is why the coming November is so important: it may not only reclaim lost ground but notably weaken Obama’s chances of success in seeking a second term.
Barring Obama and his party’s electoral chastening in 2010, by the time 2012 arrives, what we will very likely see is the following: more socialized, i.e., nationalized industries and bloated entitlement programs; a grinding recession, if not a depression, and traumatic levels of unemployment for which Obama can no longer blame the previous administration and expect to get away with it; twelve to fifteen million enfranchised illegals swelling the welfare and voting rolls; a growing and increasingly bitter racial divide; more terrorist attacks; deep Islamic inroads into the body politic; public resentment reaching critical proportions and more states acting on their own initiative; and former allies moving into the orbit of America’s enemies. We may also see a devastating war in the Middle East which might have been prevented had Obama not skewed the Israeli-Palestinian negotiating process and extended overtures to Syria and Hamas, had he shown himself genuinely sympathetic to Israel and its legitimate concerns, and had he decisively confronted the Iranian regime. Again, quite a list, which may sound like an overly melodramatic prognosis, but it is a grimly plausible one nonetheless and no particular epiphany. Indeed, it would seem a given under the prevailing circumstances. And the United States will suffer in every instance.
Let us not delude ourselves and pretend that the scenario plotted here is merely a species of exotic hyperbole, a doomsayer’s extravaganza. America is disintegrating fragment by fragment across the entire map of its existence, and the decline is accelerating under the worst possible president at the worst possible time. Its enemies are rejoicing and growing ever bolder in their calculations, convinced that they can challenge residual American power with relative impunity. Meanwhile, the American leadership, following the example of the president, has persuaded itself that political ineptness and blind arrogance are nothing of the sort, but farsighted acuity and strategic intelligence. On the contrary, there is not an iota of analytical sobriety to be detected anywhere on the presidential docket.
It should be mentioned, however, that some observers believe the president’s actions are by no means as clueless as they appear but are quite deliberate, that he is actually intent on subverting the nation to render it more amenable to a statist power grab and increased government control. This is the Overton Window syndrome that Glenn Beck has based his new novel upon, a tactic that promotes national crises and invokes maximal states of emergency to prepare the public to accept extreme procedures and enactments, and so to concede subsequent changes in customary cultural paradigms, in the interests of centralized authority. The Overton Window is a manifestation and restatement of the famous, or infamous, Alinsky-inspired Cloward-Piven doctrine that recommends orchestrating crises to further the ulterior purpose of the state, or in the words of James Simpson, it is a “malevolent overarching strategy” envisaging the collapse of the staple political and economic order and its replacement by a socialist regime.
Whether or not this is the case—and who can really say?—the fact remains that the United States, to quote Pajamas Media Chicago editor Rick Moran, is becoming “unmoored…from the basic principles found in the Constitution that defines our nationhood.” And when the definition of nationhood grows problematic and the sense of historical continuity is disrupted or attenuated, the scourge of communal erosion invariably sets in. This condition is materially advanced by honoring what is deceitfully called the “Living Constitution” rather than the original document hospitable to amendments. For the Living Constitution is a dead letter.
Perhaps what we are ultimately witnessing is a historical narrative whose denouement is inevitable in the natural course of events. Perhaps America’s time has come, now that it has installed a president and a party with a destructive agenda and the desire to push it through at all costs, even as the world is in its most volatile state since the 1930s and America’s enemies gather strength by the day. It doesn’t help either that this president, whatever his intentions are, happens to be intellectually frivolous and self-enamored, relying on an ingratiating smile and a supplicant media to work his will upon a partisan or credulous public. The air of supercilious folly is pervasive. Perhaps this is the way an empire ends, not with a bang but a simper.
2010 is the place to start. Only then may the inevitable be deferred, a movie remain a movie and the mythic timetable prevented from entering the realm of national history. Only then may 2012 avoid the upheavals of 2012.
The Geography of Jobs (Updated)
Judging by this series of maps, the Dems are in deep do-do, and cornered rats do desperate things.
This is no time to slack off or give up. Vote as if the life of the nation is at stake, because it is.
Great article! Very sobering as well. Our country will be fortunate if we are able to fight off the destruction & mayhem of the socialist-commie-pig RAT bastard 0b0z0. I don’t believe the GOP will have the balls or fortitude to reverse or repeal any of the 0b0z0 bills, even if we do reclaim majorities in the House & Senate. Especially with RINO traitors like Graham, Snowe, Collins, Scott Brown, Lugar, McVain, etc. I think our country will only be restored through a great bloody American Revolution II. The socialists in this country will never depart from their offices based on such a simple trivial matter as an election.
“The question is, is there any provision by the founders to stop a roque president and a rogue political party?”
Yes. Re-read the Declaration of Independence for your answer.
The only problem with that is you’ll be fighting the US military. What do you do when Obama’s forces nuke Arizona into a cinder, say - just to make an example?
When it comes to raw military might, an uprising has nothing - if the uprising isn’t actually the US military. Do you see that happening, and is there any legal provision for that?
“Do you see that happening, and is there any legal provision for that?”
Apart from the guiding principle that I read in the Declaration of Independence, no regime has ever provided a legal provision for its own overthrow. I know that it is unlawful to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government, but what should we do when the government itself goes against founding principles and ignores or overthrows the Constitution, a document that our leaders themselves are sworn to uphold? What should we call a restoration of our Constitutional form of government?
Would the military stage a coup here against a tyrannical government? I don’t know, but that has happened in other countries. Those soldiers should have been raised by mothers that infused them with the spirit of liberty.
Its called an election...We get the opportunity to “change” things every two years...
Those that do not pay attention long enough to cast an interlligent vote are the one’s easily swayed by the attractiveness of liberalism, social and economic justice...Those that want to create more dependency on government are those in the majority right now...We need to flush that entire body in the next election, and bring fresh faces onto the scene...Texas will certainly show up and participate in this process, and a few other states asa well...
But at the end of the day, the next morning, I don’t want to hear a bunch of whining and crying because some areas in this country that should have shown up and participated, didn’t...
As Sam Adams said basically, I don’t want your counsel or your arms...Leave the rest of us in peace, and accept the bondage you voted for...
I also tell people you’ll be wasting your time getting mad at me for telling some they are intellectually lazy, or complicite in the downturn this country is in right now...Prove me wrong here in a few months...
I don’t think some are up to the challenge yet...And that is fine...Don’t expect any pity from me if the usual suspects are sworn back in up in D.C., if those folks in those districts cannot get it done...
I say it again...Prove me wrong...
I will certainly NOT be holding my breath in anticipation of anything extrordinary in the next election...
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