I’m telling you…
Posted by TFG on April 7th, 2008
…that Barry NMI Hussein is going to win. I just left a bar full of white-bread, brisket-smoking, general-contractor, cold-dead-hands rednecks telling me, the lone voice of reason, that Barry is The Man because he’s “a change.” They don’t care, and don’t care to know, that he’s only slightly to the right of Karl Marx. All he is to them, is what he’s successfully represented himself to be — a change. To hell with economics, to hell with political philosophy, to hell with conservatism and Constitutionality — change.
Changie “Changerpants” McHoperson is in. We aren’t all going to have goons kicking down our doors to get our guns. We’re going to get voluntary registration forms in the mail, and we’re going to have tagged ammo. We’re not going to have our blogs shut down, we’re going to have non-anonymous publication rules enforced by the ISPs. We’re not going to have Universal Health Care in the first year, but when it gets here in Year Two or Five, we’re going to get toilet monitors that measure the size and content of our turds and remind us that we really need to be cutting down on the booze and the butter. What’s more, everyone is going to be thrilled to death that Big Mommy is helping them be a healthier, better-adjusted, less-environmentally-impactful comrade citizen.
Yall laugh and laugh at me, but that’s the way it’s going to go. Good God, I hope I’m wrong on this, because I’m more frightened than I’ve ever been. We are so on our way to Idiocracy. Nobody cares, because that’s what everybody wants…a nice, warm, cuddly Mommy to kiss their boo-boos and give ‘em a sandwich. Start talking to your neighbors, folks. We’re in for one hell of a ride, and if you’re not a lawyer and you haven’t gotten really good at not just finding that state trough, but shoving your fellow citizens piglets out of the way, you’re gonna get real hungry, real quick.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
In their dreams, maybe.
April 8th, 2008 at 4:24 am
Nobody cares, because that’s what everybody wants…a nice, warm, cuddly Mommy to kiss their boo-boos and give ‘em a sandwich.
Maybe this movement to put “Mommy” politics in the WH is a hyper-reaction in the opposite direction from the “Daddy” politics of “Shut up, we’ll invade anyone we want and screw having to justify it to Congress” we’ve been enduring for seven years now.
I’m not sure I necessarily agree on your “just to the right of Karl Marx” sentiment, but incremental big government just opens the door to full bore big government further down the line, so I won’t argue the bigger picture.
That being said, dude’s going to find himself hamstrung by this recession, and I can’t imagine a scenario where the health care that we get isn’t ultimately just a bastard child of our current system with the sheen of universality to it. We won’t be willing to pay the price tag, so we’ll still be stuck with the insurance companies in the middle in a in-name-only National Health Care Plan.
I’m not excited to keep dealing with Blue Cross.
April 8th, 2008 at 5:39 am
When the “Other Guys” are talking about invading another country when we’re already fighting a two front war that has been bungled from the beginning and has no strategic plan (other than “we don’t know when we’re leaving”), it’s not hard to see why “change and hope” sounds like a good idea to people.
We’ll end up with some form of National Health Care even if McCain wins the election. Ditto for higher taxes because by 2010 the Medicare population is going to increase by 50% and there’s no budget for that sort of increase anywhere.
The one thing that makes me pause before agreeing with you is the trend of more and more elected officials having a pro-Second Amendment stance. Even Democrats in Congress (the new guys, not the Old Idiots) are being called “Blue Dogs” because of their pro-gun opinions. It’ll be interesting to see what happens on this front, for sure.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:58 am
I’m not excited to keep dealing with Blue Cross.
Wait till you get to deal with the federales instead. Why anybody thinks they can do a good (not better) job is beyond my ken.
talking about invading another country
I’m assuming you’re talking about Iran. Sy Hersh and his fellow travelers have been beating that drum since 2003. I’m calling bullshit on the ‘invade Iran’ story, because it’s not going to happen.
the trend of more and more elected officials having a pro-Second Amendment stance
I’d say, less aggressively anti-RKBA. But I’m the cranky old guy.
April 8th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
This becomes a battle to educate the “change” simpletons that “Any change isn’t necessarily good change”. But as long as the MSM robots keep chanting the mantra “change change change”, the brainless puppets will parrot it.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Not only will they parrot it, hoss, they will vote it. I’ll keep fighting the battle from barstool to barstool and blog post to blog post, but I have no fantasies about my persuasiveness. Look above ye. Smart, smart guys are convinced that we’re invading Iran tomorrow, and that Universal Health Care is a thing to be desired and deserved, and that George Bush invaded Iraq purely on his own whim. How he got re-elected after that end-run around Congress, it’s a mystery to me.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Come on Scott, he didn’t get reelected, he stole it in Ohio, just like he stole it in Florida four years earlier. Personally, I can’t wait to finish turning into my parents so I can start bitching because some drug that wasn’t even available ten years ago costs $100. Oh, and we’ll be invading Iran on Thursday, so the USGS news will be buried and Halliburton can steal all the oil. What do you think Dick Cheney’s been doin’ all these years?
Sometimes, when I think I’ve written the perfect conspiratorial rant, someone will call me and remind me that this can’t be the perfect conspiratorial rant because I didn’t mention JFK, the CFR, and Freemasonry. But then again, I’m no Steve Goodman.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:55 am
dont see any emerging common sense leadership on the horizon,but maybe im just old & cynical.frieghtened,NO,scared shitless,your damn right.