Reflections From a Murky Pond

In all functional ways there is no significant difference between the Socialists of the 19th century and the Liberals and Progressives of the 20th and 21st centuries. They all have the same complaints about their more normative American enemies.

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

— Frédéric Bastiat
The Law

Bastiat died of tuberculosis of tuberculosis at the age 49 in 1850 yet his position is still valid, even unto this benighted day in a far lesser and darker age age of Man’s descent into damnation.

After #wirecall failed utterly and Wisconsin’s Governor, Scott Walker defeated the unions’ recall attempts by a larger margin than he won his original election race, the unions have been left shocked and reeling.

Wisconsin’s Union Leadership Figuring Out What’s Next

Be assured though that their leaders and the politicians that they’ve purchased or coerced are right now in their headquarters figuring out what comes next and what harm they can wreak upon the state of Wisconsin.

I’d imagine that it’s going to get messy in the Badger State. I’d also imagine that the unions will fall back upon their historically proven methods of dealing with those who don’t toe the line like they were told to do – punitive violence against both persons and property.

It just may, in the near future, look like a new Zombie Apocalypse in Wisconsin.

Fortunately for everyone of good character, Americans have been very well-taught by Hollywood and the Internet how to deal with ghouls and zombies. 😉

Every people have their stereotypes – beliefs about them based upon their nature, behaviors, predilections, and cultural norms. While often exagerated and always over-generalized, these stereotypes are almost always based upon a kernel of truth.

The Scots, for example, are known for frugality and miserliness and for a tendency to act the grifter when dealing with non-Scots.

And so we come to the tale of the sinful Scottish painter…

There was a Scottish house painter named Smokey Macgregor who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.

As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings.

Smokey put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job. So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with water.

Well, Smokey was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder, the sky opened, and the rain poured down washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking Smokey clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint.

Smokey was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got down on his knees and cried: “Oh, God, Oh God, forgive me; what should I do?”

And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke…

“Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!

Hehe…The Scots may well be hard-headed and stubborn but a bolt from the blue is something that they’d listen to so I’m sure old Smokey lived a good life from that point on. 😆

The oddly extended GOP Primary has stirred up a bit of internecine rancor within the American people, as comments on a previous post clearly illustrate. Many Americans really don’t want Romney as either the Republican Nominee or the POTUS because he’d likely be only a cosmetic change in most ways from Obama.

In the end though, I think we will come together and stand shoulder to shoulder, a unified and focused legion that will metaphorically sweep the Liberals, Progressives, and their minority tenant into the sea.

Typical Voters In Modern America

This is what the 2012 Presidential Elections are going to come down to. American voters holding their noses and voting for the lesser of evils and their Liberal, Progressive, and Minority voters plugging their ears and voting for Obama. It’s going to be, as it almost always is despite the Lamestream Media’s lies, a straight-up base-against-base fight for the future of America.

There will, of course be a few hold-outs. Some few Americans will either put their personal preferences, prejudices, and/or idealism and dreams above the near-term needs of the country. From the look of it though, Obama’s base is crumbling under his feet. Hence, these few stalwarts won’t likely be an issue.

To borrow from the Christians, we can suffer these children, and they are children because only they can dream so well and strong. We must since what is not first dreamed can never be made real.

What it’s going to come down to, in my considered opinion, is can more Americans hold their nose against Romney’s stench than can Liberals plug their ears to harsh sounds of reality.

A lot of Americans are less than totally pleased that Mitt Romney is the Republican Presidential Nominee, feeling that the choice between Romney and Obama is not really much of a choice at all. Romney is, after all, not fundamentally different from Obama in most meaningful ways.

The resulting apathy among Americans is compounded by the fact that Obama isn’t the great Socialist demagogue that he portrayed himself to be. He is, instead, a weak, petty, and narcissistic, and has no real agenda beyond his own aggrandizement. Additionally, with Conservatives in control of the House and having a strong enough force in the Senate to block the Liberal agenda, the tenant of the White House seems largely immaterial to the more casual observer.

Any Questions As To Why Obama Must Be Defeated?

The similarities between Obama and Romney once again compound the issue. Romney too is weak, petty, and narcissistic, and has no real agenda beyond his own aggrandizement. He has no moral or policy positions and will, as he has always done, flip-flop on one issue after another based upon what he and his handlers feel will serve him best at that moment.

This malaise must be countered firmly and put to rest. Beyond all foreign and domestic policy (non)positions, beyond all legislative attempts that can be altered or blocked by the Americans in Congress, it is imperative that Obama be defeated and removed from office in November, 2012. The threat he poses to America is dire and of a generational nature.

US Supreme Court justices Kennedy, Scalia, and Ginsburg are all expected to retire soon, quite likely within the next four years. Given the nature of the Court this means that whoever is President over the next four years will likely be able to shape the nature of the SCOTUS for a generation!

Are there any questions left as to why Americans must do everything and anything in their power to ensure that Obama is not the to be in a position to do that? Does any American want another Warren Court?!?