… I guess we have 4 more years to look forward to.
The disappointing thing, of course, is not that Romney lost, but that Obama actually won.
The scarry thing is that, now “vindicated” by his electoral majority and unfettered by the need to moderate his policies with an eye on winning re-election, Obama may push an even more radical agenda – and all we have to rely on to stop him, at least for the moment, is John Boehner and company in the House.
We have our work cut out for us!
Filed under: American Left, American Right, Culture Wars, Elections, USA
These surely are interesting times. It seems that America, is not actually that much more moral or Christian than Europe, two states voted for ‘gay marriage’, two for very liberal pot laws and of course, liberalised abortion. Thats on top of the reelection of the magic negro to the White House.
A more ‘liberal’ nation that thinks itself ‘conservative’ I can not think.
Like the rest of the West, America is in serious trouble, and it is now that we need to batten down the hatches and survive the Babylon that is upon us.
Well, there is one America and then there’s another. The breakdown of the vote along demographic and geographic lines shows how divided “we” are. But you are right – we (the real we) are (and have been) in serious trouble, a trouble which grows worse with each passing year. However, where I disagree with you perhaps, is in the idea that we should “batten down the hatches and survive the Babylon which is upon us.”
For us to survive in any meaningful way, we need to actively resist, because our collective struggle itself will be the only thing that can really sustain our communal identity.
That such a movement can come into being is not so far-fetched. Americans have a long history of creating powerful populist movements, especially during the middle part of the last century. It was only really in the 80s that the “Middle American Radicals” profiled by the likes of Sam Francis, faded into passive suburban oblivion. While middle Americans may have been living in a state of comfortable denial over the past several decades, this is becoming increasingly difficult. As the demographic transformation of the country continues and the power of the most aggressively liberal and multiculturalist elements of the elites consolidate their hold on power nationally (as they have already done here in California) it is likely (or at least possible) that such movements will arise again.
That is why I think the dissolution of the union is now the only thing left to do. Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, Montana etc, would be very nice places to live once independent, even some of the blue states would be nice to live in, such as Maine and Vermont, but then the places like California and New York and Illinois would be quite horrible, unless the large urban areas were abandoned and quarantined.
Also independence would allow for the differences to be ‘celebrated’ it would be true ‘diversity’, allow the red states to be what they are, right wing, religious and racial and the blue states could be left wing, secular and multicultural
There are a lot of steps between here and actual dissolution, but if things continue as they are, who knows? (And I’d hate to have to give up this great Bay Area weather and move to Texas!)