The Year the Dreams Died

National Review ^ | 12/27/12 | Victor Davis Hanson

[SoFloFreeper]

The year 2012 saw the triumph of cold reality over pie-in-the-sky fantasies.

Barack Obama in 2008 won an election on an upbeat message of change amid hopes that the first black president would mark a redemptive moment in American history. Four years later, the fantasies are gone. In continuing dismal economic times, Obama ran for reelection neither on his first-term achievements — Obamacare, bailouts, financial stimuli, and Keynesian mega-deficits — nor on more utopian promises.

Instead, Obama’s campaign systematically reduced his rival, Wall Street financier Mitt Romney, to a conniving, felonious financial pirate who did dastardly things, from letting the uninsured die to putting his pet dog Seamus in a cage on top of the family car.

Obama once had mused that he wished to be the mirror image of Ronald Reagan — successfully coaxing America to the left as the folksy Reagan had to the right. Instead, 2012 taught us that a calculating Obama is more a canny Richard Nixon, who likewise used any means necessary to be reelected on the premise that his rival would be even worse. But we know what eventually happened to the triumphant, pre-Watergate Nixon after November 1972; what will be the second-term wages of Obama’s winning ugly?

The so-called fiscal cliff offers more examples of 2012 dreams giving way to reality.

[Prole]

Please consider giving to Conservative Red States like Oklahoma or Mississippi in the event of tornadoes wiping them out or some other disaster. While it’s true half the Country is loaded with blue state @ssholes, there are red states out there that will most likely be in a state of disaster or emergency next year. Don’t withhold your charity if they are suffering, because I know I won’t. Blue staters can rot in hell for all I care.

[DooDahhhh]

Amen to that

[SoConPubbie]

Conservatives need to stop blaming Romney and wake up to the harsh reality that half of the American population believes they’re entitled to the other half of the American population money. They don’t care if it cost them their freedom.

Conservatives need to wake up to the reality that unless their side COMMUNICATES conservatism in all of it's totality to include Fiscal, Social and Military/Defense, they don't have a chance in Hell of winning the argument, much less, winning elections.

Mitt Romney was the poster boy of the GOP elite and their message of pragmatism, moderation, and go-along to get along.

He didn't communicate any sense of Fiscal conservatism, his stated policies would do little to nothing in reigning in and DECREASING the size of government and he went absolutely AWOL on social conservatism to the point that he was just a little to the right of the Democrat positions on both Abortion and the Gay Agenda.

If conservatives, such as yourself, refuse to put the blame squarely where it belongs, on the shoulders of both Romney and the GOP-E with their attempt to move the party to the left, then conservatives will hasten the day that the GOP goes the way of the WHIGS.

You will either be honest with yourselves about what went wrong or you will be doomed to repeat the failures of 2008 and 2012.

We, as a party, will either return to the message of Ronald Reagan or we will die.

[ex-snook]

Ah c'mon. This was all brought out by fellow Republicans in the primaries.

Instead, Obama’s campaign systematically reduced his rival, Wall Street financier Mitt Romney, to a conniving, felonious financial pirate who did dastardly things, from letting the uninsured die to putting his pet dog Seamus in a cage on top of the family car."

Obama won because voters lacked confidence that the GOP would make things better. Is is too much to ask the GOP [and conservatives] to lay out specifics on how they will improve the lives of the family working middle class? Hint: step one bring back their exported jobs.

[INVAR]

Sorry my FRiend, but we really have to STOP thinking and strategizing like we are a Constitutional Republic and RECOGNIZE what we once knew and understood is OVER. We MUST start thinking and strategizing as a resistance movement under enemy occupation.

We are under enemy occupation - MarxoFascists staged a velvet coup right under our noses - with help from a complicit Ruling Class that uses elections to create an illusion we have any say or choice in who rules us. The dependent Class they made their slaves have changed the demographics and there is no way in hell a Conservative ideology wins against a welfare state. That’s plain acknowledgement of human nature.

We need to start thinking outside the damn box and the paradigm illusion created to keep us docile whilst the enemy enslaves us right in our face.

That means we no longer strategize about “winning elections”. Conservatives will NEVER, EVER win another “Election” ever again. Not in a MarxoFascist state. 100% of the vote to Obama in some places and still we are reading about strategizing to win elections in 2014?? We’re not paying attention to what time it really is.

I sadly fear that by the time this remnant of Americans wake up and recognize our own supposed government is at war with us, and is engaged in a process of subjugation and eradication - it is going to be too late for any effective resistance.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Prediction-—Obama will not see the end of his term. I don’t know how but I feel he will be forced out even if its a Coup from the Army. He will be forced to resign. Just a gut feeling. I believe the election was fixed. Mitt wasn’t to win. It was as rigged as any WWF match up. Hulk Hogan always took the belt. There is only so much snake oil the people will drink-—even when sold by Masterful Obama and his Media whores. In the end—reality always wins. Look at the Soviet Union.

[ex-snook]

"That means we no longer strategize about “winning elections”. Conservatives will NEVER, EVER win another “Election” ever again."

Hell, Conservatives will never even win another PRIMARY after the Supreme Court declared money is speech. Conservatives can't raise enough free $peech to compete against big money controlling interests. Romney and Obama won because they had the most money, not the best ideas. Owing your arse to those who provide big money is no way for conservative ideas to triumph. Money gives the candidate more speech. The one with the most $peech wins.

[INVAR]

Forgive me if I doubt your Conservative credentials.

Letting Congress restrict who can domestically finance a campaign and limiting support automatically created a worse form of cronyism we suffer.

It takes money to advertise and get a message out. In that regard money spent on political campaigns IS the ultimate form of free speech as intended by the Founders.

But since we now have a media that act as King-makers in favor of the MarxoFascists, money no longer matters in deciding who will rule us. The media in league with the Ruling Class decides who will rule and what the narrative for any national issue will be for us.

The commies control both parties and the media. Do the math. It’s not hard.

Conservatives have ‘won’ their last honest national election back in 2008. 2010 was an anomaly that will never be allowed to happen again.

[kearnyirish2]

“I was hoping to claim that title.”

I’ll give you a run for your money; there is nothing that I can’t crazy-glue or “shoe-goo” back together to get another year out of. I’ve gone to corporate meetings in an adult-sized pair of Boy Scout slacks because I’m too cheap to buy another pair of Dockers...

[sport]

What the election of 2012 proved beyond any doubt is that, as a Nation, the people of the united States of America do not have the collective intelligence to survive as a free people.

[PieterCasparzen]

Yes, my FRiends.

Elites. It's all about how to manage the masses.

Politics and government itself, to elites, is just a public face for control. Something for the masses to get riled up about and throw tomotoes at. To the elites, they are like hired managers working for them.

Some Democrat and most Republican party leaders in the States and counties and towns really do not see what's going on.

Let's step through it:

a) an idea starts floating around the state to "consolidate services" to save money

b) local politicians in towns and counties dive in to the competition - am I for it ? Against it ? What's good about it, what's bad ?

c) local politicians, like a sailor up in the rigging, try to get their feet under them, get a sense for what their electorate feels about the issue.

d) in all the hubbub, NO ONE thinks to ask the tiny little question, who first floated that idea ? And then, why ? Is this policy one step in a bigger plan or is it just an idea all on its own ?

The entire game is difficult to get your mind around, because it's played in many dimensions.

Take the USSR. It's really a rule of the masses by elites. Was it our enemy ? Well, on a political level, yes - we immediately think of it as the evil empire since it's political ideology is statist and it maintained an aggressive military stance. But the elites' level encompasses government and many other levels. To them, the government and laws inside the USSR was neither here nor there; the USSR simply represented a captive market.

Search around for articles on Ford's plant at Gorky, started in 1932 in Stalin's USSR, coincidentally after the first "5-year plan" (go figure). If you continue to research, you'll find that various corporations that did business globally continued to do business with the USSR throughout it's duration.

We must remember that elitists also view the American government, law and people with the same ambivolence, and that they also are largely of the school of thought that they need to control "the masses". They essentially see the world as a big thing that they run, and there are some very basic ideas that they know that masses never think about - because, like the illusionist, they have distracted us with, in this case, politics. They know that if you control the formative years, that is, children, you will eventually have an entire population that you can control. Since they have changed the education system into almost pure mind control at this point, there simply is no political solution in "elections". It is most definitely not a shift in the racial makeup of the nation that is overwhelming the polls, it's the mind control. Regardless of the race of the child, when they come out of public schools, they are thoroughly indoctrinated and they have been conditioned to respond to stimuli. Quite simply, if those who can still think do not fight in that plane of battle - the upbringing of children - they will lose by default. You have to show up at the battle in order to win.

Voting is an elixir which satiates the appetite for hiring and firing leaders. You don't like that politician - elect someone else ! Hooray !

Trouble is, elitists know that control is easily gained in elections by those who decide who appears on the ballot. Not only that, once elected, any politician who desires a second term of office is about as susceptible to corrupting influences as the gazelle is to the hungry lion for supper. When any issue comes up, the elected politician is 99% of the time not an expert themselves in that issue or certain aspects of the issue. They seek out expert advice. Note, however, that the experts are a) not elected, b) unknown by the general public and, most importantly, c) offering their advice to politicians that come and go, while they stay in their coveted position as long as they wish to. Any time you ask "where did that idea come from", invariably the trail leads back through academia, activists, unions, big business and, by whichever route, ultimately to the grand plans of elitism. And the grand plans always, when you get down to it, exhibit a never-ending pursuit of control of the individual through some murky mixture of cronyism, profiteering, control and rationing. And somehow accountability of the elites to the people for how well their grand plans work is oddly absent from the grand plan, as is any mechanism for the populace to make a choice of their own that was not provided to them by the elites.

As far as showing up at the battle, it is time for those that can still think to take a few steps back from politics, and start showing up at the right place, activism that permeates social insitutions and reaches out to the blind and gives them sight. Once a person is set free, they never want to be a slave again. (By the way, that is one of the primary drivers of voters toward liberal causes; they are slaves to immorality). Just as in the USSR where vodka was an essential ingredient to keeping the population under control, all the vices in America are used to keep its population under control. Once you turn your back on the vices, and those desires inside you die, you feel like a great weight has been lifted from you, and you break out into the light of day. You start being able to use your mind to think and understand, and you realize you were not "free" to commit your vices, you were enslaved by them.

I have the following ping list which I'll be contacting shortly with more startup info:

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Judeo-Christian, Small Business (JCSB) Think Tank

You don't for vote for them - or even know them. But they govern your life.



Congress needs small business morals and common sense - they work.

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[Jack Hydrazine]

First of all Conservatives need to vote for someone who isn’t a Progressive (R) but more of a Conservative(R). Romney didn’t want to win. I want my candidate to want to win.

[EternalVigilance]

America's Party

[ex-snook]

"Forgive me if I doubt your Conservative credentials."

OK - I have my doubts too since neo-conservatives eliminated conservatives during the administration of Dubya.

[INVAR]

So you’re one of Ron Paul’s Mob Zombies.

Figured as much.

[Windflier]

We, as a party, will either return to the message of Ronald Reagan or we will die.

Truer words were never spoken.

Since the election, I've been finding solace in reading (and listening to) Reagan's speeches. It's astonishing how appropriate his messages are for this time. Some passages sound like they were written in response to current events.

The reason they seem so timely, is because Reagan spoke from a place most politicians are entirely unfamiliar with; that is, timeless values and truths. Like the Framers, his words would be timely in any age.

[Vaduz]

Agree they don’t think just obey.