Did you ever think you'd live through the open subversion of the United States Constitution? I always feared it. Now I'm seeing it. It's called Soft Despotism, and it appeals to the idiot in your office, on the road, the one standing in line who says 'Why shouldn't we have universal health care?', and assumes that means voting democratic:
Today, the animating principles of the American idea are entirely absent from public discourse. To the new Administration, American exceptionalism means an exceptional effort to harness an exceptionally big government in the cause of exceptionally massive spending. The can-do spirit means Ty’Sheoma Bethea can do with some government money: A high-school student in Dillon, South Carolina, Miss Bethea wrote to the President to ask him to do something about the peeling paint in her classroom. He read the letter out approvingly in a televised address to Congress. Imagine if Miss Bethea gets her way, and the national bureaucracy in Washington becomes responsible for grade- school paint jobs from Maine to Hawaii. What size of government would be required for such a project? And is it compatible with a constitutional republic?
Professor Rahe knows the answer to that. The first three-quarters of his book are about Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Tocqueville, which is to say they’re really about us. Montesquieu’s prediction that “in Europe the last sigh of liberty will be heaved by an Englishman” seemed self-evident after the totalitarian enthusiasms of the Continent in the twentieth century. Today? The last sigh will be heaved by England’s progeny, in the United States, or perhaps, given the galloping ambition of twenty-first-century American statism, in Australia. Is “the last sigh of liberty” inevitable? A progressivist would scoff at the utter codswallop of such a fancy. Why, modern man would not tolerate for a moment the encroachments his forebears took for granted! And so in the face of the careless assumption that social progress is like the internal combustion engine—once invented, it can never be uninvented—it is left to a trio of dead French blokes to anticipate the long-term temptations of a republic none had ever lived in, and which at that point was technologically all but impossible.
The Commissars of Cool. It's good to see ordinary Americans are perhaps waking up to Obama's Commissariat. If you ask me do I think we can turn the tide back, my answer is No. There is no reason to "turn the tide back." The American "citizen" is too clueless to see what is happening to him. You cannot help a pig to the slaughter. He will be driven by his masters, and he is surely being driven now by the folks who have replaced our frontier spirit: the urbanus Americanass.
You can read the difference here, in the Code of the West, Compared. Yes We Can! Ass!
Dontcha just love "People who voted for Obama because “There’s Just Something About Him!” and they “Really Want(ed) To Be Part Of This!”
How long do you think it will be before Free Speech is curtailed? I rather expect it. Don't you? If not, why not? Do you really think Total Mind Control is so far removed from Political Correctness? I would argue the latter is a condition precedent to the former, and that the folks who don't see it are already controlled. In fact, one of the best arguments against the Left is that they either failed to see this, or deliberately concealed it. In either case, the Left is not worthy of your loyalty.
One lady very recently figured that out, and there have been other Brain Dead Liberals who have made the switch. Today we read that lifelong Democrat Anita MonCrief is coming to her senses:
Will we gain enough Anita MonCriefs in time to turn the tide? I'm not expecting it.
We at Washington Rebel remember real Americans. And we miss them!
When Adoration Replaces Manhood
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