Blue
wave. Tsunami. Bloodbath. (If you trust the process and counting.)
I was
never optimistic about the midterm results. And today we learned what many of
us have long suspected: the bulk of the American citizenry, or non-citizenry,
no longer possesses the morals or the knowledge required to keep a free,
representative republic from collapsing into slothfulness, envy, chaos, and
tyranny. The United States, once the lone supernova among nations, has now
begun its transformation into a black dwarf. The ramifications are staggering,
tragic, and universal…and not just for the U.S. Those that celebrate this,
whether at home or abroad, will soon realize that their glee was heinously
misplaced.
How?
Why?
There
are many factors, of course, including massive demographic change, an anti-American
educational system and media, and the consequent collapse in Judeo-Christian values
and respect for the values and beliefs upon which this country was founded. The
idea of limited government, incepted specifically to protect the unalienable rights
granted to us by our Creator has been replaced by a desire for a big government
to give us “free” stuff. Meaning paid for by others. There’s the immorality.
And, of course, there was much hatred of Trump. (But the proximate cause
could be COVID-19 and the government’s response to the Wuhan Flu. Suddenly, we
had mail-in voting, ballot-harvesting, drop boxes, and vote counting for days
after “Election Day.” People stopped meeting, discussing, debating, and took to
“social” media to hurl obscenities at each other.)
Politics
is the Left’s religion. Government its one true God. Progressives/Leftists/Marxists
believe any individual’s rights are granted by government, meaning them.
Convenient if you are a power-hungry thug. They further believe that the rights
they may bestow on you should be correlated to how “oppressed” you are, determined
by your race, class, sexual preference, etc. And if your rights, or lack thereof,
legitimately come from government and the government determines what is right or
wrong, then you have the Holocaust. And the Killing Fields. And the purges. And
the guillotines.
They
have vowed, on numerous occasions, that they would come after their political
opponents…and their political opponents’ supporters. Like me. Possibly you, as
well. Ever purchased a MAGA hat? Be afraid. Be very afraid. This is not a joke.
Ask Charlie Kirk. Many of these far-left politicians—and their supporters-- are
truly amoral assholes. The New Jacobins are not substantively different than
the old ones.
But, Mr. writer, you’re exaggerating! And if these new radical Democrats make things
worse, won’ it bode well for Republicans in 2028? No, I’m not. And no, it won’t.
They won’t let it. They will find a way to undo much of what Trump has done and
manage to make it impossible for a conservative to ever win an important office
again. Remember, we’re talking governors, representatives, and Senators. And
there’s always the judges. “Deep-red Texas” is now blue. Florida and South
Carolina are purple. Other states that used to be red just a couple of decades
ago, like Colorado, are now “deep-blue.” Most of the nation’s big cities, where
the majority of voters reside, haven’t had Republican leadership in many decades,
even as they hemorrhage people, businesses, the tax base, and human decency. When
the majority of residents either work for government or receive benefits from
it, the die is cast, there is no going back, no matter how bad things get. The people
who work for government have money and power, those who are on the dole are addicted
to it, like the addicts on the streets.
There
is one unalterable truth that “good” people don’t want to acknowledge: if evil and
tyranny are not aggressively confronted, they will prevail every time. They have
to. If they are willing to-- and are even excited by—lying, cheating, stealing,
looting, harassing, assaulting, and killing, and “good” people aren’t willing
to do what it takes to stop them, there is no other possible outcome. And,
if a person is not willing to do whatever it takes to stop the evil, and
is therefore willing to allow untold damage to their descendants and
others in perpetuity, I do not consider them a “good” person.
But,
gosh, Mr. writer, aren’t you saying you’re okay with the very attitudes and behavior
you decry in Leftist tyrants? Yes, but it couldn’t be for more different, you
might say binary, reasons. We didn’t start this. Conservatives want everyone to
have the right to free speech— and to be afforded the protections of the rest
of the Bill of Rights. We believe in individual liberty for everyone…and
the unalienable rights granted by God, not the whims of those obviously imperfect
people in government. We don’t want to rule over others and be worshipped by them.
We don’t wish to control every aspect of others’ lives or take ever more money from
their pocketbooks. But no one seems to be willing to take a stand anymore, which
means they don’t believe there is anything more important than their own temporary
convenience and comfort. We could not be more removed from our illustrious
founders, who risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for their freedom,
and subsequently fought the largest military on the face of the Earth…though they
didn’t have one.
For
some inexplicable reason, most Republicans appear utterly incapable of making a
case for great ideas, timeless wisdom, and inarguable results. We sure could
use a man like Rush Limbaugh again. Instead, most essentially let Trump’s tariffs,
the ongoing conflict with Iran, and the resulting gas prices define them,
despite the facts that there have been so many other successes—and that gas
prices were just as high under Biden at times. (Don’t seem to remember
Democrats going ballistic then. Odd.)
So
here many of us are, wondering How we look our kids in the eye-- kids perhaps
about to be married, with their whole lives in front of them-- and tell them
that this, today, is as prosperous and free as the United States will ever be.
That everything will be downhill from here. Yet, if we don't explain certain
things to them, we would surely also be doing them a disservice.
This
is where we stand. Feeling blue, but red in the face. James (“I hate
Christianity”) Talarico is a Senator from Texas. Texas. And the diminutive,
terrorist-friendly Marxist Muslim, Abdul El-Sayed, may well be the new Senator
from increasingly Muslim Michigan.
What
do we do now? That is one thing that is still up to us.