Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Taking Tantrums to the Streets
In spite of the current stage-set excitement over B. Hussein Obama, I actually believe – baring an unforeseen change in the actual candidates -- that John McCain will win America’s presidential election. I’m not going to write the lengthily list of reasons why I feel this way but can certainly acknowledge that I may be wrong.
I can accurately predict that if McCain does win, his election will not be accepted by many. Being displeased with an election’s outcome and not accepting it are not the same thing.
If Obama wins of course, conservatives and most libertarians will hate the result. We’ll whine amongst ourselves and in conversations with those who are like-minded but we won’t be “taking it to the streets.” An election that fails to put the stamp of approval on “progressives’” so-called “revolution” is another matter. To say they are “sore losers” is one thing. To note the reality of how they react to events that fail to further their will to power is another.
We still hear the well-cultivated urban myth that “Bush stole the election” in 2000 (the facts just don’t bare this out). Any close election is considered “stolen” by a leftist who demands their program finally come of age and be implemented with a vengeance.
John McCain’s not even conservative (though he’s taken pains to act so when it’s politically wise to do so – as has Obama). None the less, to the left, McCain dare not win. He continues to be painted further into a “right wing” caricature by Obama supporters as the campaign continues. Not because he is necessarily right wing, but because he is not far left wing in the blueprint of Hollywood, Moveon.org, and other socialists who now realize that it’s possible to spawn their agenda from a mainstream American political party.
After a potential McCain victory, as under Bush and regardless of actual policies or circumstance, the left will, in typical form; rally, whine, and aggressively demand that their “revolution “ be imposed upon the majority who in varying degrees don’t support their vision.
Even with university indoctrination, one-sided media, and “entertainment” that is profoundly anti-U.S. And anti free-market, most people seem to have the good sense to avoid the moveon-“dot”-Democrat style of socialist vitriol – the “progressive” passion (if a baby’s screams are seen as “passion.”).
America “is human.” America has problems…but, America's system of government is not broken. One of the wise things that conservatives have gleaned from an appraisal of history and human nature is that, “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.”
Change is a perfectly reasonable course of action when dealing with individual issues. The greatest presidential purveyor of change in recent times was Ronald Reagan, but his style of change is not what “progressives” mean when they say they want change. What they wish to change about America is the fact that it is America. A Cuban style of socialist dictatorship would be completely acceptable to many of them. The more reasonable of them (and, I’m not sure there are now many of them left) hope to transform America into a weak-willed appendage of the withering European Union and its staff of secular bureau-priests. They don’t want America to continue to be exceptional – to be wealthy, powerful, free, and diverse of opinion and lifestyle (a religious Christian family is as much a lifestyle as that of a gay wiccan couple).
Since the late 60’s the neo-comm socialists could taste the power of one-day seizing control over the most productive country on the planet. As they have made their quest a mainstream and acceptable course they have become increasingly less patient with those of us who stand in the way. They want their revolution and they want it now (!). If the voters of November’s election offer anything less, the tantrum will again become overwhelming. They’ll once more take their gripe to “the streets” with all the rage, coercion, intimidation, and meaningless violence of….well, a socialist revolutionary.
