Democrats have used the law, the legal system, education, the media, and Hollywood to build their empire. They have inculcated a system of entitlement where someone now serves a few years in the military and says they are a “veteran”, expecting the same benefits and job preferences of those that fought wars and served twenty years in previous eras. That's the people on our side, not even addressing the true parasites of the Democrats. Entitlement is rampant.
People will vote to trim the edges off other people's government checks, but that is all. Jacques Ellul once wrote of the certainties of political life; that the left is the agent of true power because of the government purse, that the right may only rule as the left allows, and that true federalism can never completely triumph in the age of bureaucracy and arbitrary justice from the ruling class. Federalism and individualism are too frightening to too many people.
Live your life. God bless.
Sorry, Luke, but you're a doomer. If you were truly being objective, you would also note all of the gains the right is making, and acknowledge the weight, momentum, and inertia that is propelling America in a rightward direction.
That you choose to accept some writer's belief that, "the right may only rule as the left allows", is just that...your choice. You are now filtering every development you witness through the sieve of this one man's thinking.
You could just as easily filter everything you witness through the sieve of what the Founders wrote. Personally, I think what they wrote is for the ages, and carries much more weight than some political scientist's armchair musings.
I prefer to absorb history and current events at face value, unfiltered, and as bitter or as sweet as they are.
It is true that the ruling class has put a mighty suppress on fundamental Americanism, and on the American people, but the American people have it within them to overthrow that oppression, as they've done in the past. Revolution happens when a people reach their breaking point.
What you're witnessing today, is a people who are in a pre-revolutionary mode. For now, the people are still willing to work within the established system to exert their will over the ruling class. It will either work, or it won't work. If working within the system doesn't work, the pressure building within the populace will increase, and we will see even greater levels of defiance and resistance to the established regime.
At some point, someone's going to blink, and lay down their arms. It only remains to be seen how far we have to go, and what we have to go through to get to that point. If the people blink, then the American experiment is over, and a long dark night of enslavement is ahead. If the ruling class blinks, then the greater will of the people will prevail, and we will see our country restored to the fundamentals most Americans desire.
For what it's worth, my belief is that it would require the wholesale slaughter of millions of Americans to accomplish the ruling class' goals. They don't have the will, or the capacity to ever do that, so my money's on the people.
After being disappointed by the Bush Administration and disheartened by the election of Obama, I looked in the mirror and thought that for the first time in my adult life, I just don't really care about politics anymore. At 41-years old with a wife and a young child to raise, I've made the decision that my personal happiness and well-being will no longer be governed by whomever sits in Washington. It has really been quite liberating.
I will do my best to raise my child (and future children) and instill the values I believe will make them successful, happy and productive members of society. And accomplishing this will no longer be dependent upon who sits in the White House.
Bashing my head against the wall every time my guy loses (or wins only to disappoint me) is giving these idiots in Washington too much power over my life --power they didn't earn and don't deserve.
Bush, Obama, I don't care anymore. My duties to my wife, my children and to myself are my responsibilities, not theirs. I am my own captain.