Posted on 04/26/2014 4:43:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. – Jonathan Swift
Even Illinoisans are ashamed.
The wickedness has become so obvious, so entrenched and so brazen, that the state that used to take pride in their corruption, because it “worked,” now understands the Faustian bargain they've made.
A Gallup poll reveals that by a wide margin Illinoisans trust their government less than any other state in the union.
According to Gallup only 28% of people from Illinois have a great deal of trust in their government.
The Land of Lincoln is followed by Rhode Island, Maine, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, California and Maryland-- all of which post numbers from 40% to 49% level of trust by resident.
Residents from small government, pro-market states North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas and Alaska rate their government's highest in terms of trust, posting numbers as high as 79% of residents saying they have a great deal of trust in their government.
And that's not really a coincidence is it?
“Even though Midwesterners are generally more positive about their states,” writes the Chicago Tribune, “Illinois residents are the exception, with 25 percent declaring that it is ‘the worst possible state to live.’ The particularly grim outlook of Illinois residents could be attributed to factors like high-profile scandals and high taxes.”
And it can also be attributed to the fact that the same bozo that is running the country right now, came from Illinois.
Or more succinctly, Chicago. And Chicago is certainly the worst thing that ever happened to Obama, in the same way that Obama is the worst thing that ever happened to Chicago.
So like a lot of stories these days, Chicago works its way in there as a burr buried deep in someone’s hair since the 1960s.
If you are like me, you’re about as tired of my hometown of Chicago as the Detroit Lions are of Soldier Field. You are as tired of being ruled by aging hippies from there—like Hillary Clinton-- as you are of seeing slobbering media try to prop up an administration that deserves no props.
Chicago’s become the punchline behind the joke on the Obama administration in the same way that Monica Lewinsky became the punchline for the joke on Bill Clinton’s administration.
Metaphorically, there’s a great big stain splotching up the frock Chicago’s wearing. And we don’t have to wait for the DNA test to show who the culprits are or what they are up to.
Let me tell you what the history books will say.
The history books will say that these were the days of the last hurrah for the Democrat party machine; they will say that Chicago took a corrupt machine politician, packaged him as the reform candidate, realizing that they either had to export their corruption or die.
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him," wrote Swift.
And that applies especially to the genius of smaller government.
At a time when technology has given citizens the ability to be better informed, better educated and lead better lives, the dunces are conspiring to take away choices, rather than truly empower citizens.
So far from being truly “progressive”, in any meaningful sense of the word-- as opposed to the ideological sense of the word-- the nation's experiment in Chicago type politics can be seen as reactionary rather than something new, honest and hopeful.
And it’s not just Illinoisans that are paying attention.
Young people are too.
Conservative is becoming counterculture thanks to organic mismanagement, petty opportunism and lies-- the cornerstones on which the liberal freemasonry rests.
We saw that same effect under Jimmy Carter, as counterculture icons like Saturday Night Live helped turn the peanut farmer’s administration into a real life parody of a Saturday Night Live skit.
From there SNL and liberalism had nowhere to go but the mainstream, thereby creating hordes of young people, like me, who looked at liberalism as a swindle, a contrivance and a fraud.
So prepare, my friends, for the next American Century-- a conservative one.
Illinoisans are.
And that says a lot.
I know, let’s name a Chicago school after Obama. Oh, that’s already being done.
Just now figuring that out, after the endless parade of the vile scum that constantly tout and support it? Sheesh...
Democrats are not progressive. Democrats are regressive. Our culture is being regressed to act like barnyard animals (screw anything that moves). We have regressed to burning our babies’ corpses for energy. We have regressed to taking any basic knowledge out of academics. We have regressed to keeping our mouths shut, so we don’t offend blood-thirsty Satan-soldiers who live among us.
What have I forgotten?
“Yet this stupid a$$ state STILL elects (D)Marxists. Why Illinois? Why?”
Simple. Immigrant voters...who want their “free stuff”.
ILL-n-annoyed...too flat, too cold, too corrupt, too ‘Rat and too avoid.
Chitcago, NYC, Baltimore, Denver, Miami, Portland, Seattle, Philly etc..are the big Lieberal dominated albatrosses around their states necks.___did I miss any?
Oh and not to sound too negative but what do all of these stupid Dem strongholds have in common with hades? You can’t change them and best to avoid living there.
Los Angeles and San Fran. The dem strategy is pretty good, control the cities and control power.
Yep. Going through Chicago when I travel west saves about an extra 80 miles. I drive the extra 80 miles to avoid it.
Thanks to the SRM, we had more LIVs in the past two elections to bring this fraud into power.
LA
And, not content with that degree of control, they want to administer the coup de grace with elimination of the electoral college.
He was referring to the Carter years, not to today.
Swift was naive.
That's right. Cynical Jonathan Swift.
Yeah but they are going to name a school after him. Wait, maybe they’ll just change the name of a school named after MLK, and call it OBAMA school. Then we’ll have OBAMA PHONES, OBAMA CARE, OBAMA SCHOOL, etcetara and so forth.
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