I dunno. Maybe it's just me, but the whole joint seems to be seizing up these days: the more "activist" Big Government gets, the more inactive the nation at large.Steyn has a way with words that slices through the steaming piles of Washington crap and shreds the rotten facade that the American media struggles to protect. Most people won't read his article this morning; they'll rouse their families, cook breakfast, and bundle them off to church. They'll skip the newspaper and the nightly newscast, other than maybe a quick look at the sports or the weather forecast. They're tired of politics, and angry, and have turned their backs on the whole mess in utter frustration. They sit at their kitchen tables each month and try to stretch a stagnant wage as their dollars buy less and less, and try to prepare for the coming eruption with what little they have. They'll increase the size of their garden, buy a few chickens, and stock up on ammo when they can find it on the dusty store shelves. Such is life outside the big cities, away from the two deep blue coasts that dictate and pontificate to those who live in flyover land (or their own conservative citizens who struggle to be heard), those who work in thousands of small factories, who staff restaurants and hospitals, those that are told that $39,000 is middle class, while states brimming with government workers rake in almost twice that. The tail wags the dog.
We have just began the second reign of the Emperor Obama and his cast of misfits and slithering smeagles. The conservative opposition party is ineffective, corrupt, and steeped in narcissism and outright treason. With the enactment of "immigration reform", millions of new progressive/socialist/communist/slugs will be added to the already compromised voter rolls. If Emperor Obama doesn't cling to power and claim a third term, Hillary will be a shoo-in. Or the drooling, senile Biden. Or Mooch, who somehow has forgotten to say "thank you" to all the taxpayers who funded her gilded, Ivy League education instead of educating themselves or their own children.
I'm thinking, as conservatives and sane citizens, we should concentrate our brain power, our time, and our wealth outside of the cesspool that is Washington. Let's figure out ways to remit as little coin to Caesar as legally possible. We should not comply with any mandate that weakens our Constitutional God-given rights. We should consider abandoning states that are hopelessly blue, pack up the UHaul and the business, and invest our residencies and energies on states that are almost red. We can focus on our statehouses, and elect as many true conservatives as possible. We can support blue-dog dems, because there must be a two party system. I wonder what would happen if half the people in this country turned OFF their televisions and cancelled their cable/satellite contracts?
This is what has been going through my mind.
"A 'bipartisan' agreement means that the Democrats get what they want now and Republicans at some distant far-off date. "
ReplyDeleteYup, ain't that the truth.
There is no doubt that Mark Steyn swings the world's most accurate hammer.
ReplyDelete"There is no doubt that Mark Steyn swings the world's most accurate hammer"
DeleteIf we had a "like" button I'd be hiiting it constantly for this comment :)
Thank you, Fay.
DeleteIf we had a like button, I would be clicking it for this whole post. I praised Steyn, but Lady Red is writing some powerful stuff, here.
She seems to find exactly the right words for how I am thinking, and makes me stretch that thinking, as well.
Great post, lady red. In my neck of the woods it's not socially acceptable to be conservative, but cynicism is still a valid ideology.
ReplyDelete"Who do you think your progressive heros really work for? Who really benefits from all this discord?"
When you demonstrate to people that they're not really thinking, they're only parroting talking points from the liberal press that they really don't understand, haven't thought through...
...I'm never going to convince my neighbors that Cruz is a rockstar. I may plant a seed of doubt that the people they donated to and campaigned for are basically selling them out.
Politics is the art of the possible.
And when they ask, so, what are the alternatives, that's when you say "let's do for ourselves". And you win the ideological argument without ever talking ideology.
Hippy culture has a pretty pragmatic, "don't tread on me" streak in it which can be appealed to. See, e.g., John Perry Barlow.
I am not sure how the hippy mindset ever changed from 'let me think for myself and do my own thing' to 'I will think for you and force you to do my thing'. Maybe it went along with the change from tie-dye to jacket & tie. Maybe they believe if you dress like 'the Man' you have to act like 'the Man' acted in your foolish youthful fantasies.
DeleteBut in fact, power does corrupt, and the somnolence of the majority, the simple, conservative, generally-unquestioning respect for institutions has allowed the haters of America to gain power over those institutions to then corrupt and turn them against America, through the propagandizing of our children in so-called schools where no truth is taught, but 'TRUTHS' are hammered in daily.
No prayer, no pledge, no teaching of the US as a superior culture, has survived the onslaught of the left in our colleges, and then down to the schools where those mis-taught 'educators' now rule.
Despite the fact that this was always pooh-poohed in academia and the media, for decades this twisting of history, reality and logic was funded by Comintern.
That is, of course, why Joe McCarthy was, and is still, so vilified. He had to be, because otherwise the truths that he told (all verified, first by the Verona cables, and later by the opening of KGB files) would have put an end to the foolishness of the 60's and the ensuing collapse of America as she should be.
In any case, it is only getting worse. We are in our 4th generation of propagandized, rather than taught, school-children, and we are seeing an ever-less-knowledgeable, ever-less-patriotic and ever-less-capable electorate.
What other nation, ever, has allowed, in fact required, that it's children be taught to loathe its very existence?
As the communists were extremely influential in the administrations of FDR and Harry Truman, so the islamists are becoming ever more influential in the administration of 0bama, and will continue to be in any administration of Clinton, or any other hand-picked 0bama successor.
The left has institutionalized treason, and treason both underlies and undermines the current government, and the society that used to be the United States.
I have no idea what to do about that, simply because the very nature of freedom of thought, word and deed prevents declaring certain ideas as illegal, no matter how inimical they are to that very freedom.
We are now reaping the whirlwind that springs from the seeds of the wind we allowed to be sown in the 1960's and beyond. I deeply fear that whirlwind will destroy what we were, and what we had, as a nation.
You're right Lewy, it's impossible to talk politics with people who are essentially brainwashed, and continue to be indoctrinated every time they turn on the tube or pick up a newspaper. Planting seeds of doubt is a strategy I'm just learning to use.
DeleteI've been toying with ways to casually introduce this doubt on social media.
I think some on the left are starting to suspect that their rock stars despise them, yet they still clamor and crawl to touch the hem of the royal cloak. It's unsettling, to say the least.
lady red, here's a potential rich vein to mine: Obama the Puppet-master.
DeleteBreitbart? Weekly Standard? No, Politico.
You can expect everyone to wise up to everything but you can't expect nobody to wise up to anything, either. More and more will be wising up "across the political spectrum".
Lewy, I read the Politico article yesterday and nearly fell out of my chair laughing. The media trying to untangle itself from this mess is hilarious.
DeleteAnd here is a group doing essentially what Lady Red is speaking of;
ReplyDeleteThe Free State Project is invading New Hampshire and hopes to have 20,000 freedom-loving voters there soon.
They picked a good state, as NH is already a pretty libertarian type of place 'Live Free Or Die' is the state motto, after all.
I've done no research on the group, but it happened to come up on Twitter just after I wrote the previous, extra-length comment.
I'm heartened to see that people are taking action instead of just talking about it. Noah and I are fully prepared to move if need be. Currently, Arkansas has elected a staunchly conservative House and we continue to enjoy a blue-dog dem as governor. We're content to hold our ground here for the moment, while they enact sweeping conservative changes, including allowing concealed carry in churches and universities, term limits, budget constraints with excess tax revenues being refunded to the taxpayers instead of spent, and strict anti-abortion laws.
DeleteWhen we're needed elsewhere, we'll go.
Now our state legislature is advancing a bill that allows the Bible to be taught in secular schools. The conservative backlash here is unrelenting.
DeleteIn the normal course of events, I probably wouldn't be too fond of teaching the Bible in the classroom. However, these are not normal times; we are fighting a culture war. At stake is the Republic our brilliant forefathers created and entrusted to us for safekeeping.