Brit Hume hit the nail on the head. The pundits have been trying to make sense of the polls and reportage, because they make little or no sense.
He said we have X percentage of conservatives. We have Y percentage of liberals. That leaves 40% moderates.
His answer is that most of those moderates are liberals. Liberals became a dirty word and so it became better to call themselves moderates.
FACT: Liberals are very good at changing their colors. Not liberals… Moderates. Just like Global Warming morphed into Climate Change and so on.
It’s all in what you call yourself. A win on the conservative side for standing by your ideals, saying what you are, refusing to buy people with free stuff, and calling it like you see it is a Pyrrhic victory – yes, we have won on the side of being true, but we keep getting the shit bashed out of us when it comes to a nation of people who say “What you got fo me?”
Yeah, I am in a piss-ass mood. I don’t see how we can get the electoral votes. It’s early but it isn’t looking good.
Say goodbye to the 230+ year old “Democracy Experiment”.
And the 1st and 2nd Amendment. Well, all of ’em, actually.
We get what we deserve….
U.S.A. Installing Socialism: │▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ 98% complete.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy–to be followed by a dictatorship.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler
And so, the progressive public school system managed to teach that “shackles” is spelled S-E-C-U-R-I-T-Y.
I was a top spellar at one time but I think I faled that one.
I’m not sure how conservatives will ever get elected again. Too many people are happy to take the handouts the government gives them with our money. Why should they vote to make themselves get jobs?
Nicole, I wish I had an answer for you. I really do.
Until people stop saying “the man” or “whitey” or “the majority” or “the gov’mint” owes them something, and until they rally behind something bigger than their grubby give-me lives, until they find some real unity (think how it was in WWII) -AND- some true pride, unwilling to take a thing until there was no other choice whatsoever – well, until then I don’t think they’ll vote any other way.
I just keep wondering… how did Reagan do it? The liberal media hated his guts. He didn’t have Rush, or Fox, or any of the conservative so-called brains. I wonder if the conservative movement doesn’t need to ditch a whole lot of pundits and search, search real hard, for a person who doesn’t have to invent themselves to be appealing. I don’t think for a second that Reagan had to invent himself, hide himself, partially reveal himself, or anything in order to win.
Liberals are like a virus. They infect their host, destroying it from within. When the host cell/city dies or self-destructs, the infection spreads to a new area and begins it’s process all over again. Californians escaped to Oregon and Washington and points east. New York/Jersey/Maryland have started to spread down the East Coast and the central states are being infected from Chicago and Detroit. Intentional or not, it is happening.
Now, how to survive and get rid of the infection without destroying the host?
mrmacs – I think I read somewhere that 8 or 9 of the ten richest cities were carried by Obama. Huh. Who would have thought that rich high-density populations that require a lot of infrastructure and cash that they can’t really support would be… liberal?
I suspect you gave the answer to your own, question, LK.
War.
The “civilized” world is long overdue, and would be in a major one already if the be-Toweled Ones were but a bit more competent.
Just wait…
You’re probably right.
Boil it down to schoolyard psychology, everybody is a bit more of an ass to everyone else until there is a good free-for-all and a number of black eyes, broken noses, and missing teeth get created, and then for a while everyone is as polite as can be. I think WWII is almost completely worn off.
I guess I’d rather that than an out-and-out civil war here. Not so much unifying there. But most of all I’d just prefer the assholes to stop being assholes. Yeah, right, like that’s ever going to happen.
I’ve studied enough to know that I’m pretty ignorant of war but I know enough to know it is awful awful shit. But it just may be that it will always be part and parcel of the human condition.
I have to concur with your assertions.
I’d read someplace that the possibility of nuclear war and its attendant mega-horrors caused the “super powers” to work VERY hard to – if not resolve their differences – at least find a kind of dynamic compromise. This was supposedly a direct result of most leaders personal first-hand experience in WW2 Korea, etc. The European civilians – having personally seen far worse than their US counterparts – have embraced this behavior even more.
This “seen war” factor is no longer present. To extend your analogy: the kids in the free-for-all learned compromise: their children did not.
Most adults (including those nasty folk who lead certain nations) are the children or grandchildren of those folks and don’t grasp the utter horror.
I’d say we’re overdue. But the result – horrific as it would be – might just do the world some long-term good.