“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
—Barack Obama, October 30, 2008
“We are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.”
—Michelle Obama, May 14, 2008
I suggest, mission accomplished.
It began in January of 2009. It was at that moment that the last remnants of the old Democratic Party began to fade from existence. In 2016, conservatives believed they had the party of FDR on the ropes but in reality, it was a boon to the new powers that be; the Clintons were vanquished and the last grasp of any opportunity to steer the Democrats back to a semblance of liberalism vanished. Long live the Democratic Party.
Us versus them. The traditional versus a brave new world. As I said in my second piece: This is no longer a struggle between liberals and conservatives; there is nothing liberal in the hard tactics of these fascists. Censorship. Chaos. Destruction. Death. That is not the liberal idealism that I remember. And we are no longer conservatives. What is left to conserve?
We must remember that political parties are but vehicles for political action. The health of our political system relies upon, for better or worse, a strong two-party system, a yin and yang to check power against totalitarianism. You need look no further than to California where the new Marxist/fascist monopoly has strangled all that was good and promising. Like locust destroying crops, that model spread throughout the old bulwark of conservatism, the American West, where urbanism destroyed the will of our ancestorial settlers, those who tamed the wilderness and made the United States the undisputed power in the world. It now has sights on the Midwest and the South.
The slow march through the institutions began in the Progressive Era that gave the government the power over each of our lives, unimaginable to those that chartered the United State a century prior. Direct election of U.S. Senators nulled the Tenth Amendment; direct taxation of the people based upon income allowed the government to supersede the Tenth by over-taxation and refunding back to the states extravagances, so long as the state adhered to the new dictates from the Imperial City. The establishment of the Federal Reserve doomed Middle America with massive transfers of wealth to the nation’s elites that has destined the nation’s finances to the bondage of overwhelming national debt.
Culturally, social sciences cudgeled men of good faith by establishing a method to “manage” institutions by “reasoned” men to the “betterment” of society; thus born the overbearing bureaucracy, or what many term the Deep State.
They gained a foothold in higher education and then government bureaucracies, and into workers unions and churches, financial institutions and ultimately settling into corporate boardrooms. It was all symbiotic; each generation of progressives training the next, exponentially expanding through the system and into the institutions that we have relied upon to build the nation into what it had been. A century after the Progressive Era, the foundation was set for a man of Obama’s pedigree to begin reaping what had been sowed.
We feel surrounded by the evils of the virus that is conquering the host.
George Armstrong Custer stood a better chance.
The Great Sioux War of 1876 wasn’t a war of U.S. aggression into Indian lands as many believe. It was a matter of the U.S. honoring its treaties with the Crow and the Arikara. Custer was dispatched to counter an invasion of their lands by the combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. He was cocky, brash, and arrogant; he split his forces in the Battle of Little Big Horn and became a legend despite his failings. Had he not split his forces, the outcome would have been much different.
Like Custer, our forces are split and we will be slaughtered.
We should yearn for the party of JFK and RFK, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Frank Church, Sam Nunn, Tip O’Neil, and Joe Lieberman. Even Dianne Feinstein, God forbid. Instead, that former party is led by simpletons like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck “the Schmuck” Schumer, kneeling before the conquering fascists, hoping for one last windfall before falling back into the land of irrelevant imbecilic idiots that litter our history. They are surrounded by the mindless dolts of rank-and-file Dems that vote “brand” instead of national loyalty, oblivious to the destructive ways of their new brand. Their surrender should shame anyone who has called themselves a Democrat over the last half century.
The “far right” of the Democratic sphere has all but left; RFK, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Naomi Wolf caught the last train out. Their future is ambiguous, their legacy all but extinct. There are signs that traditional Democratic voters are stepping out. Blacks, Hispanics, and union members see the harm that the progressive/fascists have wrought and are walking—not running as they should—to the door. The fact that they are being splayed before the alter of Satan, their dreams being dashed, the promises broken, has not fully penetrated their conscience but they know something isn’t quite right.
If you have Democratic friends who haven’t yet been subdued by the demon, urge them to vote for the other side for now, but fight like hell to regain control of their party or else the nation is finished. The balance must be restored. We have to rely on the old Democrats to turn the tide.
I wish RFK.Jr stood a chance. I would vote for him in a heartbeat if I were not afraid it might lessen Trump’s chances of unseating the current puppet, whose primary handler is licking his lips hoping for a fourth term.