George Rebane
With the election over and unknown thousands of votes yet to be discovered, counted, and adjudicated, we have entered a virgin and wild land untrammeled in our history. Having arrived therein, today we are literally a polarized population of pioneers who see the other as savages to be subdued. Common ground for launching a healing dialogue was forsaken long ago.
Reminding readers that these pages contain ‘Observations and Interpretations from the Last Great Century of Man’, we now begin in earnest to witness and partake in our country’s dissolution – the Great Divide has arrived, what remains is how we can go forward to a mutually satisfactory political solution that describes the form and functions of a newly divided continent. If we cannot resolve this peacefully, then we may have our country’s first true civil war in which both sides wish to take over and rule the entire land.
History students understand that the conflagration of 1860-65 was not a civil war, as it is erroneously described today. In reality it was a War for Southern Independence launched by secessionist states that had no desire to ‘take over’ the United States of America. Were violence to be our fate, then one can foresee a similarly purposed conflict with the Right wanting to secede, and the Left opposing secession with the force of arms. That is a political asymmetry the Left has refused to acknowledge, as it vigorously opposes its natural outcome.
The Right wants to live in a land where it can practice its values of liberty, freedom, enterprise, and capitalism. The Right has no desire to force other people to adopt their values and mores. The Left, as the perpetual hatchery of totalitarian regimes, will force everyone it can control to adopt and practice its ideology, even if that necessitates a vast gulag and re-education camps. The Left has demonstrated again its perennial practice of soiling its existing nests, and then emigrating to unspoiled regions and communities to repeat the process. There is no evidence of emigrations in the opposite direction; the people of the Right continue to escape to a shrinking collection of unspoiled pastures with the vain hope that they will not be followed. It is anyone’s guess how long this pattern of migrations can continue.
The election of 2020 is yet to be decided, but the outlook for Republicans does not look good. I assess President Trump’s chance of being re-elected at less than 5%. The only hope for America dodging the fundamental transformation bullet for the near term is that Republicans retain the Senate, and that SCOTUS will revert to a strong constitutionalist bench in adjudicating the blizzard of cases it will encounter. With a Republican Senate under Majority Leader Mitch, we can hope for blockage of the most egregious socialist GND legislation that will issue from Speaker Pelosi’s House. Under the Harris/Biden administration gridlock will be good.
What disturbs (terrifies?) me the most is the fraction of the electorate that support a fundamental transformation of our Republic from the historical country of Makers to a country of government promoted Takers. This is the key attribute that illustrates our divided house, and therefore portends the Great Divide. None of our leading thinkers ensconced in their Institutions of Thinking has a clue on how to stop the ever-widening chasm so well illustrated this week, let alone providing even a rough outline for bringing us back close enough to preserve the Union. I say this because the Takers have been taught to believe that the only means to reduce their pain – real, imagined, or self-inflicted – is to have government take more from the Makers. As has been shown in so many other countries passing through socialism, there always comes a time when the Makers quit making.
The 2022 election will respond to whatever pain the Democrats inflict on the country. Even though fewer Republican Senate seats will be up for grabs, the solution of inducing more Makers to make more is not on any progressive horizon. If the Senate flips to the dark side, then Nellie bar the door; even a conservative SCOTUS on the way to the packing house will be of no help. This election, now going for the bumblebrain and socialist-in-waiting, demonstrates that we Americans no longer have the collective wisdom to preserve our liberties or our land of the free. Once a political monopoly is established at the federal level, it will take the country down the trail so visibly blazed by California and its like-minded coastal calamities. What happens then is anyone’s guess, but for sure it will not be pretty.
During this tendentious week, my final wish is that President Trump will act presidential when this election’s dust settles. And if he must depart, that he does so with newfound dignity and decorum, that were it practiced more frequently during his years in office would have guaranteed him a second term.
[7nov20 update] “Joe Biden is Elected the 46th U.S. President”
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