America Stumbles Into Dead of Night
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===== Can’t quote exactly, but he said if nowadays we’re seeing the twilight of the West, soon we’re heading into dead of night. Hence this belated offering of my thoughts, albeit penned at dead of night! Almost all my Jakarta days are lively, and in all the years since I flew in, a refugee from winter’s icy grasp, I’ve never known depression. But then, after an unexpectedly jolly weekend, which somehow rumbled on into Tuesday, I watched the dire tidings unfold. = Nightmarish.
====== Three out of four Marylanders who supported the ballot measure to allow same-sex marriage in the state also backed President Barack Obama…Washington Post.
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Obviously - if one endorses supremely un-American values, one votes for the Supreme Un-American!
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And the Enemy of all that’s honourable is ensconced in the White House, for four more years, eagerly awaiting his chance to nominate more of his ilk to the Supreme Court.
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That’s what will kill America, unless there’s a Second Revolution.
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How has it come to this?
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It would be facile just to blame Romney, who is a mere symptom.
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He exemplifies what the RINO establishment loves, a ‘me-too’ mentality which speaks sense in the primaries then back-tracks, leaving voters baffled. And real conservatives disheartened.
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The best elements in the American conservative movement, in the Tea Party etc., dutifully held their noses and did their best.
Anybody But Obama – rational, but hardly a winning slogan, since the ‘anybody’ was nobody’s idea of a conservative champion.
While not quintessentially evil like Obama, Romney was quite plainly more than a tad dodgy on issues of principle like deportation of illegals.
And the Republicans could have done so much with that issue – look at the latest sell-out by The Enemy, the Sandy Amnesty, another waiver of the law by executive fiat, denying Congress and the States a chance to intervene…
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But it isn’t all down to crimmigrants, any more than it is too Romney.
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The WP story quoted above suggests the simplest explanation for the triumph of evil in the USA – there are simply a huge number of sick puppies around who are not so much hostile to basic standards of decency. but never got the hang of them in the first place.
They honestly believe that wrong is right and bad is good.
School indoctrination? No doubt. But since school? Obviously colleges are infested. And there’s the vacuous bigotry of the MSM.
But it all boils down to the harsh reality that, as Johnny Cash once sang, America, like the rest of the West, needs to re-discover something that it lost somewhere, somehow, along the way.
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No use blaming the crimmigrants.
While there are a lot of illegal immigrant and other fraudulent voters, on their own they might swing some marginal states but could not possibly subvert such diverse parts of the nation as Maine, Maryland, and Washington State.
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So don’t stare angrily at the foreign-looking geezer down the street – the problem is the people who look and ostensibly act like normal citizens but go out and vote against their country.
Don’t leave them to regret it at their own speed – win the battle for hearts and minds.
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God only knows what else will be inflicted on the USA over the next four years – one pro-perv spokesman said “This conversation doesn’t end tonight. It’s only just begun,” which is an insult to the decent Americans fired, persecuted and otherwise abused by the ‘gay’ gestapo, which doesn’t hold conversations – they wage war. A war decent folk lost yesterday, in several states, AND in the White House! —
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Drew, 
dignified expat, and 3 others are discussing. 
vojo 11:35 am on November 8, 2012 Permalink |
I think it’s all progress in the usually Regressive States of America, Ross. You’ll notice that most of the world openly applauded Obama being re-elected, and we did here in Canada too. Romney and Ryan were just too scary to imagine. The fact that several states went for legalized marijuana and for same sex marriage shows that the US is catching up to the norms established in most of the western world. Good on them I say!
yonks 11:40 am on November 8, 2012 Permalink |
Wow, So your perspective is that the majority of Americans are UN American because they voted for Obama. Strange very strange.
“Obviously – if one endorses supremely un-American values, one votes for the Supreme Un-American!”
“That’s what will kill America, unless there’s a Second Revolution”
Interesting of democracy you have, the people choice only counts when they vote the way you want or we call for a revolution. You wonder why the far right was dumped and dumped badly?
dignified expat 3:22 pm on November 8, 2012 Permalink |
Sorry Ross, but the only thing to die yesterday was the chances of the white, racist, sexist, homophobic Republican party of old ever holding the presidency again. Unlike you and your extreme political position, most folks fit into the continuum between center left and center right, and that’s where 98 % of them voted. The real problem with politics is extemists like you who continue to denigrate the will of the people and the office of president. As the right are so often fond of saying in the US – America, love it or leave it (leave it alone in your case).
ross1948 7:57 pm on November 8, 2012 Permalink |
Sorry, Diggie, but you and the other two commenters from the left will not deter those of us who admire what made the West worthwhile.
Everybody loses elections from time to time, and while it was astounding to me that Obama got in, and even more shocking that various state referenda gave a thumbs-down to decency, we must simply weather the storm and renew our efforts.
Swing against us this time, swing back the next time. As the pinkos often put it, one must ‘get over it.’
Enjoy the imminent weekend. I know I will.
vojo 10:45 am on November 9, 2012 Permalink
I agree with Yonks and Diggie, and I would like to add that the GOP has to reinvent itself if it ever hopes to govern the country again. The vast majority of blacks, Latinos, women and YOUNG people voted for Obama and the Democrats. These groups of people do not identify with the values expounded by the Republicans.
In the long run there won’t be any “swinging back”, Ross. Young people and the fastest growing segments of the population, i.e. blacks and Latinos, will probably never vote for the Old White Man’s Party, unless, as I say, if they can reinvent themselves.
I predict that in about 20 years, the GOP will go the way of the dinosaurs or the Dodo bird: extinction. I don’t know which of the animals best symbolize some of their thinking, but I guess either will do.
ross1948 11:51 am on November 10, 2012 Permalink
My apologies, vojo, to you and other commenters whose comments were not published more promptly.
The Jakarta weekend got ahold of me quite suddenly, and I am still being borne along on its delights.
I will reply to you critics by way of a thoughtful retrospect next week!
Yonks 1:46 pm on November 9, 2012 Permalink
Sadly you miss the point, the radical movement of the Republicans to the far right does not make everyone else part of the evil Left. Fortunately, this may motivate the remaining rational moderates to clear out those who think that appealing to fat, old, embittered white guys is a model of success for a modern political party. Political Power is secured in the centre not in the loony margins of the left or the right.
dignified expat 7:14 pm on November 9, 2012 Permalink
Hmmm, methinks you’ve not taken a look at the great demographic shakeup occurring in the US. In 2004, GW Bush took 40% of the Latino vote, in 2012 Romney took a mere 21%. This is the fastest growing demographic in the country and they’re not now, nor are they likely to, vote for the Republicans – even less so the tinfoil hat end you represent. This was the last election in which whites will make up a majority of the US population, so bye-bye voter base. The GOP now needs to decide if it comes into the centre to win votes or is rendered an irrelevent rump on the right. The numbers for gay marriage will also swell as those of a certain age die out. You see, Conservativism is not about holding on to a position forever, rather it is about managing gradual change so as to uphold the values and institutions that benefit the vast masses. You’ve also got me dead wrong in labeling me a leftist. At the most extreme I’m a centrist. Its just that with you being so far to the right, Ross, everyrhing becomes so skewed that even the likes of Mitt Romney can be labeled a leftist. Have a good weekend.
Drew 11:23 pm on November 10, 2012 Permalink |
These guys don’t like your opinions, Ross, but a lot of Americans will.
The demographic thing?
The BS about blacks being liberal is just that, BS.
For starts, blacks are not a million identical twins multiplied assembly-line-style.
There are lots of good conservative blacks, like Allen West.
In the California vote on same-sex marriage, the black vote was more anti than the white vote.
I guess it’s true that most of them voted for obama, but they see him a black symbol, first Afro President, etc. That is not likely next time, when he is not eligible to run again.
Hispanics. Look at all our good conservative Cuban- Americans.
Young people? You can’t say that young people are all liberal. A lot come out of college with dumb ideas, but the more time they spend in real work, the more they get wise to the world.
What I’m saying is that just because you are young, black or Hispanic doesn’t mean you have to be liberal. If most of them voted one way this time, no reason to think they can’t be changed next time.