An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Which Way Do We Go?
If On the Wrong Track, Why Go Left?
Today’s most widely accepted political belief is that because an unprecedentedly high percentage of Americans — 81 percent — believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the Republicans are headed for a major defeat this coming November.
If this is the case, it can only be because the American voter translates “headed in the wrong direction” as “because the Republicans have had their way, so it’s time to let the Democrats have theirs.”
That should not be the case. I count myself as one of the 81 percent who believes America is headed in the wrong direction, and that is precisely why I am voting Republican. Moreover, I suspect I am not alone among the 81 percent in ascribing the wrong track to the leftist, not the conservative, influence on American life.
Well, I too, am one of those 81%. Oh, you bet we’ve been heading in the “wrong direction”. The wrong direction is left, not right. We’ve been heading so far over to the left, I fear we’re going to fall over, and the splat is going to be a LOT bigger than a lot of folks think.
First, are the 81 percent unhappy with their own economic status or with the economic direction of the country? They are obviously not the same things. But whichever it is — and it may well be both — why do most Americans believe the Democrats’ prescriptions are going to help? Why will a huge tax increase on all Americans earning over $200,000, on capital gains for all Americans and on social security (if Barack Obama is elected) help the economy?
Those who think the “change” that’s been touted by the B campaign is going to make their life ever so much better will be in for a very rude awakening. Y’see, those rich folks (what the heck is the definition of rich these days anyway?) are the ones who create the jobs that the Dhimmis are courting. If I were a business owner, with a personal income of such and such, and a business profit of whatever, due solely to the success of my business, and some weasel came along and said, “Hey, you have too much money and we’re going to take a lot of it away from you!”, what do you think I’m going to do? Create more jobs? I don’t bloody well think so! I’d be cutting jobs to stay afloat financially.
Furthermore, the economic plans of the Democrats to have the government take over health care and increase taxes will expand the power and reach of the state more than ever before, and will therefore make more Americans dependent upon the state than ever before. These are earthquakes in the American value system. If there are any values that can meaningfully be called “American,” self-reliance and limited government are among them. The movement from self-reliance to reliance on the state is truly “un-American.” For those who recoil at the use of this term, it must be noted that it in no way implies less love of America, let alone lack of patriotism. It simply states the obvious truth that self-reliance, individualism and limited government have been basic and distinguishing American values, and the Democrats and the left aim to undo those underpinnings of American civilization.
Paleeze! Those peckerheads can’t even balance a freakin’ check book, do you really want them deciding what is best for you concerning your health care? Again! I don’t bloody well think so! I don’t want the gubmint up in my intestines for any reason!
George W. Bush has passed legislation — such as prescription drug benefits for the elderly — that Democrats would pass; he is a personally decent and honest man who has led perhaps the most scandal-free eight years in modern American history; he has kept America free from terror since 9-11 — something no one, left or right, expected; pro-American leaders have been elected in European countries most identified with anti-Americanism — Germany and France; and until the sub-prime loan-induced credit crisis, the economy has been among the most robust in American history.
I’m not going to beat the drum for Bush (there’s that ILLEGAL aliens issue), but love him, hate him, or somewhere in between, your ass hasn’t been bombed again….so far. That subprime crap….and the idiocy of trying to ‘bail out’ the morons that got themselves into the mess by buying into the BS they were fed….can’t be totally laid on Bush’s plate. Hey people, try taking responsibility for your OWN actions once in a while!
It is hard to believe that “Bush lied” is the primary reason for his low popularity ratings. If it is, we are in deep trouble. It means Americans have been irrationally influenced, almost brainwashed, by the media.
Yeah, that mantra gets old after a while. I guess it all depends on what your definition of “is is”.
Do most Americans really prefer Obama’s and the Democrats’ pledge to leave Iraq to the Republicans’ pledge to win this war? No matter how horrific, even potentially genocidal, the consequences would be to Iraqis? No matter how adversely it would affect potential U.S. allies who will no longer trust our commitments to them? And no matter how much it would weaken America’s domestic security, given an Islamist victory in Iraq? If so, we are in deep trouble as a nation.
I have a real problem with the way things have been going in Iraq (my solution…bomb the crap out of the areas the bad guys are infiltrating, and let Allah sort it out), but that doesn’t mean I want our nation to declare DEFEAT against terrorists. Honestly, I’d like to slap the dogfire out of anyone who bleats the defeatism of the Dhimmis and the MSM.
On the other hand, perhaps most of the 81 percent think that “wrong direction” means, among many other things, the following:
– Forty years of left-wing control of the news media, of Hollywood, of the public schools, of the universities and of nearly every big city government have nearly ruined those institutions.
– Forty years of a litigation explosion has had terrible social and economic effects.
– Children are being prematurely sexualized through early sex education.
– A generation of children is being frightened about too much — from seesaws to dodgeball to ring-a-levio to secondhand smoke to the destruction of the world caused by global warming.
– The left’s war against Judeo-Christian values as the bases of American values is leaving us morally rudderless.
– Redefining marriage to include people of the same sex for the first time in history, while compassionate to gays, will be disorienting to young people when forming their sexual identities.
– Multiculturalism is destroying the concept of an American culture and people. Obama and the Democrats even opposed declaring English as America’s national language.
There ya go! A partial list of just why I, personally, am none too happy with the “direction”.
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