a manifesto
Western culture has all but fallen. Only a few dominos are left, and little stands in the way to prevent their fall.
Our culture has been nearly been defeated not by people who exploited its weaknesses, but by those who abused its strengths: its generosity, its liberty, its sense of order and justice, its courtesy, its idealism, but most of all its tolerance. In balance, these things made for the richest, most free, most virtuous society in history. We fought wars for good causes, we went to the moon in peace, we elevated the highest moral values, we treated each other with respect and goodwill -- not perfectly, never perfectly, but better than any human society had ever done in history.
The America of the future has three classes: A ruling class, a productive class, and a dependent class. The ruling class will tax and regulate the productive class in order to give largesse to the dependent class, who will then continue to vote to keep the ruling class in power. One class is to be hosed for the benefit of the other two. The election of 2012 is our last chance to forestall this from coming about, and our only hope, God help us, is Mitt Romney and the Republican Party.
It's really not fair. If President Obama is re-elected, and particularly if the Republicans fail to decisively take control of Congress, America will be locked into course for at least a generation that no future president will be able to substantially alter. The relationship between the government and the governed will have been altered. Government will no longer exist for the people, but the people for the government. People will no longer be self-reliant, they will be reliant upon the government. The exceptions will be despised, reviled, and eventually hunted down and eliminated.
But if Obama is not re-elected, or if the GOP takes Congress to such an extreme extent as no one is today predicting, it won't mean that we are saved from that outcome. It will only mean the the outcome will be, temporarily, less certain.
Our choice is not between good and evil, but between mediocrity and evil. The good work of the Tea Party remains incomplete. It must now unseat a president if it hopes to gain time to complete its reform work. This is a completion that is by no means certain. In the last 70 years, only three incumbent presidents have been defeated for re-election.
The rules of the game of life in America have changed fundamentally. Increasingly, those who have tried to play by the rules find that the game is rigged against them. Advancement, at least by honorable means, is less easy, and much less common, than it used to be. Advancement by dishonorable means, on the other hand, has been easier and more common. Costs have risen faster than wages. Government growth has outstripped population growth. Interlocking directorships, crony capitalism, liberal redistributionism, conservative apathy, and greed at every level have combined to place the middle class everyman in the sights of a cannon that will blow him away entirely. His slavery is nearly complete, the last of his shackles has only to be locked.
The re-election of Barack Obama will put the seal on a time of public dependence and government oppression unheard-of in the history of the North American continent. Government will choose whether a man will be born, when he will die, how he will be educated, and what will be his work. Government will dictate what he is to believe, how he is to be entertained, and how he will live. It will be done in the name of "fairness" and "equality", but the result will be neither.
This prediction may seem extreme. But things in America are far worse under Barack Obama than anyone predicted in 2008. Did anyone in 2008 predict the outrages, the enormities, the privations we have in fact experienced? No. As it is, things in most sectors are worse than most people realize. Our economy is depressed, our culture degraded, our freedom denigrated, and our military decimated. Morality has been turned upside down. Virtue has become a weapon used by the immoral against the virtuous. Courts, once the guardians of justice, have become our black-robed masters, who ride roughshod over law, and precedent, and justice itself, to rule like feudal lords over legislatures and their constituents alike. Judges in America now order legislatures to pass laws, wielding power that executives can only dream of.
Our borders are porous, and, lured by tales of streets lined in gold, uncounted millions illegally cross them, a silent invasion that depresses wages, and creates a sullen, exploited underclass beyond the protection of law, at once both perpetrators and victims of crime.
A million or more of our children die each year by abortion, and those who disapprove are sued or legislated into silence, and forced to pay for the procedure through both their taxes and their insurance premiums.. The federal government has declared open war on traditional religious morality, and with the approval of huge swaths of the populace, notably those influenced by the mainstream news and entertainment media, academia, and those seeking benefits from government cronyism.
The much pleaded-for (by liberals, gays, and other minority groups) age of tolerance has been brought to an end as these groups have gained ascendance, and turned upon authentic Christians with a level of bile and vitriol never before seen in modern America, nor, indeed (outside of communist nations) since the days of ancient Rome. The sole societal institution oriented towards the care of children has been weakened to the point of collapse, and the wrecking ball is poised to destroy it utterly.
The rules of the game have changed, the playing field altered, the goalposts have been moved. If you are still playing by the old rules, you are playing a fool's game.
With this blog, I will discuss these trends, and how you can address them.
