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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler |
| Friday, 07
November 2008 |
Ronald Reagan was fond of describing the ultimate optimist as a
young boy happily digging through a huge pile of horse manure
while yelling, "There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"
So after six weeks in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and 7,000
kilometers overland across Chinese Turkestan, I've returned to
Washington and the biggest pile of political manure in the
history of America. I can't help thinking that Ronald Reagan
would say, "There's got to be an elephant in there somewhere."
First, though, let's dispense with two alleged "silver linings"
to this debacle. Both are stupefyingly naïve.
One is that this election "heals" the wound of racism and the
legacy of slavery, so that nevermore can Sharpton-type race
hustlers claim that America is an incurably racist nation.
This is delusionary. Accusations of racism are going to
increase, not vanish. The left's mantra going into this
election was that the only possible reason for not voting for
NMP was racism. Yet roughly 47% of voters or about 57 million
voted for McCain instead. That's 57 million racists! Racism is
still a massive, gigantic problem haunting America's soul, it is
still America's Original Sin - and every failure of NMP and the
Dems running Congress can be blamed on it.
The real racial problem in today's America is of course
anti-white racism: racial hatred of whites by many blacks,
racial hatred of white liberals by themselves (what I call
auto-racism). This election is going to inflame both.
Does anyone not terminally naïve believe that Rev. Jeremiah "God
Damn America" Wright is going start loving and forgiving white
folks now? Or that Teddy Kennedy-type liberals are going to
cast aside all feelings of liberal guilt and stop apologizing
for their and America's existence?
Equally delusionary is the belief by "anti-war" libertarians
that this election means the end of "foreign military
adventurism" by the US military.
Of all people, libertarians ought to know that socialist/fascist
authoritarian governments start or cause most all wars. Yet
they are so incapable of being pro-US military that they
actually think NMP will get us into fewer military interventions
than Bush.
There will be more "military adventurism," not less,
with NMP. The difference is the standard, the justification.
With Bush, it was what he believed were America's critical
national security interests; with NMP, the opposite.
NMP's standard will be to never under any circumstances if he
can possibly avoid it use our military to actually defend our
country and its security. He will use every opportunity to use
our military and risk our soldiers' lives for "humanitarian"
international causes that have nothing to do with our security
interests.
Darfur would be a good example. There is hardly anyplace on
earth more irrelevant to America than the empty wasteland of
western Sudan, no place less worth risking American soldiers'
lives for. And just for those reasons, that is the sort of
place NMP will place our soldiers in harm's way.
To even begin to find the elephant, we have to confront the
reality of the pile in which it may be. There are no silver
linings to this pile of manure. It is a disaster, far
greater than any before, of FDR, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill
Clinton.
For the first time ever, we have an Anti-American President, a
man who deeply believes in his preacher's sermons of God Damn
America hate, who now has access to every classified military
and intelligence secret our government possesses, and will use
it to sell America down the river to every enemy this country
has. That's for openers.
So where's the elephant? It's what's left of the Republican
Party. Bush's oxymoronic "compassionate conservatism" has been
completely discredited. Squishes in the GOP Congressional
leadership like
Roy Blunt have stepped aside for real conservatives like
Mike Pence and Eric Cantor. Chairmanship of the Republican
National Committee may go to either Newt Gingrich or Michael
Steele. Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal are now the leaders of the
party and the conservative movement as a whole.
This election may achieve the well-deserved death of one
elephant - moderate, country-club, candy-ass Republicanism -
plus the revival of another that advocates conservative values
and laissez-faire capitalism without reservation.
The only way to achieve this is to (a) focus our energies on
making sure the moderate elephant stays dead and the
conservative one is nurtured, and (b) let NMP and the Dems in
Congress fail.
Which means make no effort to ameliorate or moderate Dem tax and
regulation policies, letting them free to do as much damage as
they can. For socialism isn't just immoral, it doesn't work.
Left alone without any Republican protection, the Dems are going
to keep digging us deeper into the very deep economic hole we
are already in.
Just like a drunk has to hit bottom before he admits he's a
drunk, so voters must face the full consequences of their vote
for NMP before they can admit their folly.
The key is that Republicans must not in any way cooperate with
or be accomplices to the folly. Only then, when Dem failure is
complete, can Palin, Jindal, Gingrich, and Pence provide the
solution of true economic freedom.
If you want to be involved politically, be "effective" as Joel
Wade is advocating, here is where to do so. And TTP will be
providing insights and specific ways to help you in this regard.
More importantly, though, TTP's purpose will be to assist you in
evading the folly, in preserving your freedom and pocketbook.
The more I look out into the world, the more places and ways I
see where you can do this. I am going to devoting a significant
amount of my energy from now on to discovering these places and
ways and sharing the info with you.
We can and we will survive this. Freedom and prosperity in
America are going to be set back as never before. But the
nightmare will end, the damage repaired. And in the meantime, I
am going to do all I can to see that your personal freedom and
prosperity isn't set back.
A majority of Americans went suicidally crazy this week. We
must let their mass hysteria run its course while we protect
ourselves. Their hysteria will destroy many of them. It will
not destroy us. We will survive and we will prosper
regardless. That's the elephant. |
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