History Repeating
The 2008 U.S. presidential election has been probably the most bizarre one I’ve witnessed in my nearly half decade of life.
On the one side you have a nominal Republican senator who only won the party’s nomination because he was able to get a bunch of independents and other non-Republicans to vote in Republican primaries. He prevailed over an otherwise weak field of political midgets.
His moribund campaign faltered until the GOP convention and his announcement of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. She, in the meantime, has been subject to an absolutely vicious campaign of personal destruction. While number two on the Republican ticket, Palin has gotten tougher questions and sharper criticisms about her ability to serve as president than the candidate at the top of the other party’s ticket.
And that other party, from the Obama campaign to the Democratic National Committee to the party leadership in Congress and its minions throughout the country, pursue a scorched-earth strategy to win the White House. No lie is too bold, no action too immodest, immoral or illegal, no attack too extreme in their political blood lust.
Their candidate, enjoying the blessing of a truly lapdog press, skates through the campaign on a fog of lies, half-truths and evasions. His supporters intimidate and threaten his opponents and attempt to quash any effort to publicize any legitimate question about their candidate’s background, character or positions.
For the first time in U.S. history an openly Socialist, even Marxist, candidate stands on the brink of becoming the president and bringing wealth redistribution, high taxation, and government control to every aspect of American society.
Meanwhile in state after state, Obama’s comrades conducted a war against the U.S. electoral process, filing millions of fraudulent voter registrations, voting illegally in states allowing early polling, and importing out-of-state supporters into heavily contested “battleground” states.
And the nation watches, or not. More than half the country seem mesmerized by magic words of change and hope, and turn a blind eye to the corruption of the most important political process in the history of the world, a process that has provided for more than 200 years of peaceful transfers of power from one government to another.
Throughout history, dictators and tyrants have been elected by popular majorities. Demagogues have appealed to the most base instincts of the electorate, promising the impossible, stroking grievances, whether real or imagined, all in an effort to delegitimize the democratic system and grab power.
I fear the loss of the freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. I fear the collapse of the two party system as the Democrats use their super-majorities to consolidate power and lock opponents out of the political process.
I fear the total destruction of our economy as politics and cronyism become the basis for government intervention in business and industry. I fear the creation of a command economy where property is expropriated in the name of the greater good and bureaucrats decide what and how much is produced and sold, and at what price.
I’m not one to make careless comparisons to Nazis. While I won’t call our opponents Nazis, it occurs to me that the American public is much like the German public in 1920s, eager to believe lies, unwilling to recognize thuggery when it happens before their eyes. Good Germans many of us are, uncomprehending the threat to liberty posed by the election of Barrack Obama to the presidency of the United States.
Enjoy Shirley Bassey & Propellerheads’ “History Repeating.”
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