George Rebane
So, election day 2022 is finally here. It arrived with a months-long preamble of leftwing lies about the current state of the country and the portents for its future were we to deviate from the sorry road that got us to where we are under this administration. The question now is how many of us believed the crap spewing from the White House, Congress, and their lamestream lackies. And yes, it is the most momentous election since I started paying attention in my pre-teen years. Communists of all stripes used to be pariahs in the American political menagerie. Not anymore. Now communism is being taught in our schools as one of the more beneficial ways to organize society after we rid ourselves of the capitalist democratic republic that we have had foisted on us.
The fault is not with our politicians, it lies upon those of us who put them in positions of power. “A republic, if you can keep it.”
[9nov22 update] The much-vaunted Red Wave has now turned out to be recognized nationally at best as the Red Ripple – and that appellation is still hopeful since neither the House nor Senate results are yet in. Our Nevada County went predictably Democratic – RR has acknowledged for years that the county is blue, not quite as badly as California, but close enough for government work. So what happened yesterday and its weeks-long preamble of early voting was a disaster for our republic. My takeaways can be enumerated as follows –
- The irretrievable decline of our constitutional republic is confirmed. The fraction of our electorate that is terminally ignorant of collectivist governance, economics and capitalism, the beneficial role of entrepreneurship and financial risk, elements of science, American history and history in general, AND the basic skills of literacy and numeracy has now breached the 50% level. (cf National Center for Educational Statistics)
- The effectiveness of our progressive educational institutions working in tandem with our compliantly propagandized Fourth Estate is beyond question when it comes to the kind of learning and related behavioral changes that are still possible for our adult population to again support capitalism and American constitutionalism. There is no feasible road back from collectivism and collectivist dogma for a major share of the American electorate whose post-reasonable belief systems have become immune to evidence.
- The Republican party is not an effective alternative to the Democrats, and continues to shrink its political efforts to champion the nation’s Right, which currently has no viable alternative through which to seek ideological resurgence.
- The fork in the road of our national future lead to autocracy cum tyranny or the Great Divide. The peaceful resolution would be a negotiated Great Divide, the several forms of which have been discussed in these pages. What stands in the way is that the Right wants to separate from the Left, but the Left wants to prevent separation and favors controlling a subdued, subservient, and shrinking Right. This is made clear daily by their political leaders and media talking heads.
- The above asymmetries to governance and social order are uniform across the land and visible daily even in our little rural county. In today’s Union, its op-ed pages featured a skewed admonishment of the newspaper’s political orientation which has faithfully represented the county’s invasion by coastal liberals who have soiled their former homes. The paper does print rightwing authors whose sparse offerings are regularly decried for being allowed in print in a community with a majority leftwing population. Such illustrative responses to inhibit free speech and opposing views are innately foreign to people of the Right.
- No matter what the final counts will indicate, this election has proven to be a disaster for Republicans. Never since FDR’s atrocious New Deal policies have we witnessed a more incompetent, corrupt, and corrupting administration with ample evidence of its doings becoming increasingly available over the months. The hopeful sentiment was that this much government corruption, imbecility, and anti-Americanism will surely make an impact on leftwing constituencies. The results didn’t pan out and gives proof to the indelible mentality of the main street Left. (The polls have been worthless, no good ways of random sampling remain in this age of screened telecommunications.)
- The only glimmer that has come out so far is some visible migration of Hispanics and blacks away from the devastating inflation and crime that the Biden administration has brought about over the last two years. But even that was not enough keep the wave from turning into at best a ripple.
Coda: Apparently I’m not alone in the assessment of the American electorate. Stephen Kruiser of PJ Media writes, ‘We're Done–American Voters Are Idiots’.
[15nov22 update] 'Tragically Trump' is Victor Davis Hanson's major essay on the election, the role of Trump, and the Republican Party's future that heavily depends on what Trump will do now. I don't believe he will go quietly into the dark night of political has-beens. H/T to commenters who also picked up on VDH's commentary.
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