Looking at the Election From Afar

I apologize for my absence but it has been Big Important United Nations Meetings season here in Vienna and your humble correspondent has been kept running ragged by a mob of Special Rapporteurs, Deputy Assistant Secretaries of State and Ambassadors-at-Large for Very Heartwarming Causes.

However, I pause in my ceaseless labor for the cause of world peace and the establishment on the international level of a version of the Reed College Office for Multiculturalism and Diversity, at the event of yet another American election. Random observations, from afar:

-- As a native Californian, I warmly welcome Governor Jerry Brown back to the governor’s chair. While I agree with Moonbeam on exactly nothing, there is not the slightest doubt in my mind that he, unlike the hopeless RINO hack he was running against, is not in it to advance his career or be the man in the spotlight. In his own way, he loves California and cares about it, something he inherited from his father, and in any case it was Democrats who ran the state into the ground, so it’s only right that Democrats be on the hot seat to clean up the mess. In any case, I wasn’t going to get a governor who was to adopt Arizona-style sense against the on-going invasion, so I may as well get someone and something that is at least recognizably Californian. Plus, to my delight, the Dead Kennedy’s immortal “California Uber Alles” is now current and contemporary once more.

(More, er, controversial take following the jump!)


-- The story of this election, to read the dead tree, dead mainstream media, is a Republican surge that re-took the House. Ha! Talk about missing the forest for the trees. I mean, yes, this occurred, but it isn’t the *story*.

No, the story is something like this: Once upon a time, in a place called America, due to an historical accident, there lived among the largely European settlers and their posterity a sizable minority population. In time, the people of this minority came to point out the lack of consistency between American theory and American practice and called for fairness and equality. The majority was convinced by this argument, and conceded the point. Having conceded the point, the new men in power then took up that concession and used it as a club to beat the majority. Eventually, it was decided that the majority itself was inherently suspect, the mere presence of a majority child was said to cause psychological harm to minority children. The country before the concession became not the past but a catalogue of Crimes Before Enlightenment, sundering the American people from their own past.

To redress this evil, ever greater power was needed, and ever greater transfers of wealth. In order to really, really, really prove that the concession was genuine, the decision was made further to invite many other minorities to America so we could demonstrate that the historical mission of the U.S. is to prove that there are no differences among people at all, of any kind.

That this infusion of Third World labor also enriched many while allowing the majority to feel smugly superior in a not-too-open way also didn’t hurt.

But, to the majority’s shock, a new era was not ushered in. Instead, every re-affirmation of the concession led to more demands, and finally it was impossible not to notice that every race was effectively organized on the basis of race and voted and even functioned in open caucus in the Congress on the basis of race, but that of the Majority-Scheduled-To-Be-Minority.

And, so, the reasons that lead to the great concession have begun to appear less important, and more distant, and even more irrelevant. And in its first experience in openly non-Majority government, the great mass of the Majority, found themselves moving into new territory, slowly flexing muscles long unused. Polarization on the basis of race has set in, the multi-cultural experiment walks but is actually dead, and in the great heartland of the Majority, the de-facto Party of the Majority has been founded, even though everyone but they themselves already think of the Rs as that Party.

No, the House is not the story. The Story is the Radical Realignment of White America, in a manner not seen since Reconstruction. Not the House, but the State House is the story, as was just quietly reported at The Corner:

Still trying to chase down results in key legislative races around the country,
but at the moment it looks like this:

• Going into the 2010
elections, Democrats held 60 partisan legislative chambers and Republicans held
36, with a couple of ties.

• It looks like the GOP has picked up an
astounding 20 chambers, including both houses in Alabama, Maine, Minnesota, New
Hampshire, North Carolina, and Wisconsin and additional chambers in Indiana,
Iowa, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

•
In total legislative seats, it is possible that after all the results are
posted, Republicans will have won a nationwide majority.

•
Republicans haven’t enjoyed this much power in state capitals since the
1920s.

This process is just beginning. It won’t end pretty. But Progressives have only themselves to thank. Had they accepted color-blindness and been reasonable on immigration, we’d all be looking forward to a stable, mature America. Instead, unable to resist the temptation of the will to power and their own tribal interests, they have forced the issue. And this isn’t South Africa, we are not merely a handful in a sea. And if the pathetic opposition to the liberal order presented by the mere Tea Party was enough to provoke the Establishment into outrageous over-reaction, just wait and see what they do when their pressure throws up ever more radical Majority leaders.

I take no pleasure in reporting this; it simply is what it is and we will all live with the awful consequences before it is sorted out.

-- The House GOP will revert to form by Jan 25. Except, this time, more than just conservatives will take note of it.

-- I note with a mixture of fascination and horror that with two very real, and very, very expensive wars on, that neither were anywhere near a factor in any election. While the USG care very much about the Iraqis and the Afghans, it is clear that Americans care about Americans, or to be more exact, their kind of Americans.

-- Welcome back, New Hampshire!

-- The WSJ's exit poll data show the following on race:

Blacks: 90% Democrat 10% Republican (I believe this must be an historic high)

Latinos: 66% Democrat 33% Republican

Asians: 56% Democrat 41% Republican

Others: 55% Democrat 42% Republican

Whites: 38% Democrat 59% Republican