Look at the Map and Think

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NOTE TO MY LIBERAL FRIENDS (of course I have liberal friends, some more liberal than others): This post is not really addressed to you, though you may want to consider what I have to say. Your hearts, I am convinced, are in the right place, even if I think your political thinking has been seriously compromised. This post is addressed to the hard leftists, the thoroughgoing statists, the communists-in-all-but-name, those men and women who know full well that if ever they made a complete public avowal of their real ambitions for America, they would never win another national election and would most likely be run out of town on a rail. It is addressed, sadly, to those driving the train of the Democratic Party. Even for them, I have some sympathy, for whether sooner or later, disaster will inevitably overtake them--it always does, just ask Robespierre--and I wish their fate on no man.

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As I write, the polling on the race for president is a bit up and down. Some polling shows Mitt Romney--almost certainly the Republican nominee--with an advantage over Barack Obama. Some shows just the reverse. Some makes it look like a toss-up.

I cannot help but think that there is a good--a very good--chance that Barack Obama will be re-elected, yet I am dead certain that, geographically speaking, most of the country doesn't want him. If he is re-elected, it will be because of his strength in more heavily populated, urbanized areas, and even there, because he has successfully demonized his Republican opponent, and because he has lied through his teeth about his background, his political ambitions, and his record. There is no other way. Not enough people want what he is selling. Even his signature achievement, ObamaCare, was achieved only through political skulduggery of the first water and is opposed by a majority of the people. His only hope is to convince an electorate that, in general, barely pays attention to politics until two weeks before the election, that his opponent would be even worse.

And I know that you will be out there, indeed, are already out there, hoping fervently, praying fervently to whatever god it is that you worship (if any), working feverishly to help him do it. You think that if he wins, the long-term success of your ideas, ideas that have never been successful anywhere on the globe, at any time in history, is assured. You think that you will be co-heirs, if not co-rulers, of the kingdom you think you see coming.

You are practically salivating at the thought of victory, aren't you? At the thought of ramming your ideology down the throats of those of us who've long opposed you? I know that you are. I've heard you talk, read what you have to say.

Allow me to suggest that you look again at the map--this map, the county-by-county map of the results of the last presidential election. The one that shows a vast sea of red, with some large blue spots and a number of smaller ones.


It is just as--I know you hate the very sound of his name, but I'm going to say it anyway--Rush Limbaugh has said: Republicans can win most of the counties in the country and still lose the election.

And it is over this that you hope to rule without challenge? Over this vast expanse of land, at least fifty percent of the inhabitants thereof being opposed to your agenda now, and with more who will turn against you as your true nature and agenda becomes progressively more apparent? They will, you know. I know you know. I know you know because you virtually never run under your true colors. You wouldn't dare, not in a national race. You are perpetually running your candidates as centrists, opposed to Republicans whom you relentlessly accuse of "extremism," though their views are well within the mainstream of historical American politics. That this works as often as it does does not mean that Americans are leftists, friends. It means that they prefer, if possible, almost reflexively, to avoid perceived extremes and to be fair, and that you have successfully bamboozled them, lied to them, bewildered them, taken merciless advantage of the fact that you can make most Americans jump through hoops of fire by suggesting that circumstances aren't fair. It means they have given you credit for sincerity that you do not deserve.

It cannot last forever.

I know that you will not listen, but you will not be able to say that I have not warned you. Listen well to one of the wisest statesmen of all time, the right honorable Edmund Burke:

...ask yourselves this question, Will they be content in such a state of slavery? If not, look to the consequences. Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free and think they are not.

Palpatine

I'm sure you remember Palpatine. He was that Star Wars character that spent years in the Galactic Senate, pretending to be a good galactic citizen with the noblest of intentions, eventually rising to the position of Chancellor and invested with emergency powers. In reality, he was an evil Sith Lord, whose goal was to eliminate the Republic and replace it with a Sith Empire.

Why bring him up here?

Well, I've been reading a book called The Manchurian President. It is an interesting read, but I will save you the trouble, if you like. It is little but long and meticulous documentation of how Barack Obama, since he was a small child--since birth, really--has been born to, raised among, influenced by, worked with, worked for, been associated with, favored by, etc., etc., etc., an assortment of communists, socialists, hard-leftists, and Islamist radicals. It is not conjecture. The information has been pulled largely from newspaper accounts, newsletters and magazines (like the Trinity United Church of Christ's Trumpet) and personal interviews.

Many of these people come from organizations where one of the chief tactics is what is termed "boring from within":--joining the established system with the express goal of working from within to undermine and demolish it.

Now, I suppose you can believe one of at least three things:

1) Barack Obama has come from a background of anti-capitalist and anti-America-as-we-know-it thugs, risen to the presidency, and is deliberately trying to crash the system so as to replace it with something else, which would be perfectly consistent with his friends' and acquaintances' ideology and tactics, or...

2) He has played along with all these people since he was a boy, waiting for the right opportunity to betray them all, or...

3) He has somehow fit right in with all these people for decades, yet has absolutely no clue what they're about, or what he's doing, for that matter.

My opinion is that his actions since assuming the presidency strongly point to option "1," but that's just my opinion.

At any rate, for a couple of years now, I've vacillated between "Is he really that stupid?" and "Is he really that evil?"

My mind's made up now. As far as this blog is concerned, he is now "Palpatine." Just in case you were wondering.

The Leftist Track Record

Let's see: leftist policies led to long lines, low productivity, shortages, severe and widespread pollution, poverty, mass murder, and oppression for the Soviet Union. It worked so well for so long that they have repudiated it and are rebuilding themselves, at least according to Stanislav, along mercantilist lines.

Leftist policies led to long lines, low productivity, shortages, severe and widespread pollution, poverty, mass murder, and oppression for China, and China has opened the door to progressively greater and greater market freedom.

Leftist policies work so well that the North Koreans have been known to strip the bark off trees for food.

Leftist policies work so well that people routinely braved likely death to escape via boat from the hellhole of Vietnam.

Leftist policies work so well that the Coast Guard must routinely intervene to save people who've risked likely death to escape from the hellhole of Cuba Castro's workers' paradise.

Leftist policies have Greece teetering on the edge of defaulting on its debt and plunging into widespread societal chaos.

And now, leftist policies have brought Venezuela corruption, oppression, rampant inflation, steep recession, and food shortages when there are tons of food rotting in government warehouses.

And what's the reaction of Leftists in America? Is it to say, "Whoa! Better back off from that!" ?

Is it to say, "Time to re-evaluate our core beliefs"?

Is it to say, "Hmmmm. Maybe those right-wingers knew more than we thought" ?

Is it to say, "What the heck were we thinking?" ?

OH, HECK, NO!!

Instead, what they spend their time doing is nudging America further in the same direction that has led to ruination for country after country, all the while demonizing their opposition as out-of-the-mainstream extremists! They do their darnedest to move the center further and further to the ruinous left, and then have the nerve to complain that their opponents aren't centrists! They champion the same policies that have brought whole nations to their knees and criticize their opponents for their alleged insensitivity to the poor--the poor that leftist policies indisputably create in massive numbers! They attribute any opposition to policies that have killed millions upon millions of people and impoverished countless millions more to racism, sexism, and greed!

They look upon the ruin of nations, and say, "Gotta git us some o' THAT!"

They remind me so very, very much of someone:

Frustrating. VERY frustrating. And the sickest thing is, these people always act so grievously dadgum offended when the truth is told about them and their ideas.

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The inevitable response from someone after one of these posts is always something along the lines of, "Yeah? Well, you guys turn into Nazis!" Look, just take a look at the truth about fascism before you start flapping your gums about it, okay?

Yes, Virginia, the leftists really do own the major murderous ideologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries--lock, stock, and barrel.

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