So sayeth the fine folks over at Not The Bee, and they might well be onto something.
Some post-election thoughts:
1- Everything I have been saying about democracy was vindicated last night. The fact that such a massive number of people voted for more of the same after two years of horrific mismanagement shows that it is unfit to choose its own leaders.
2- Public education and its consequences have been a disaster for the American people. Any Christians that still think sending their children to public schools is a morally neutral choice are choosing national suicide.
2a- The damage is probably already irreversible at this point. The D’s staved off what should have been a bloodbath through the youth vote. The boomers and Xers can no longer counterbalance the pozzed generations electorally.
3- With such an advanced level of moral degeneracy, the best thing for the world is that American global influence wane rapidly, and it probably will. Our unique flavor of degeneracy seems to be bound up with a commitment to incompetence, and our global hegemon cannot last long.
Ahh, the elusive silver lining shows up at last. But Jefferson’s fabled “reign of witches” will NOT just “pass over” on its own; it will have to be ushered out, and quite forcefully. In the contemporary context, Jefferson’s profound wisdom doesn’t meet the case, as the rest of the passage shows (emphasis mine):
It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt…If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.
What will it avail us to retain our principles, once all else is lost? Jefferson seems to have had the sequence exactly backwards this one time.
At this historic moment, it strikes me as surpassing strange that Jefferson, of all people, would counsel reliance on “luck” and “patience” instead of bold, vigorous action in defiance of corruption and raw tyranny. After all, this is the same man who also told us this:
What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms…What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.
One of these quotes is NOT like the other. Ah well; Thomas Jefferson, great as he inarguably was, was only human too. And no human can be right EVERY time.
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Yet again:
What makes ANYONE think that any close election was in any way “legitimate”?
In the two states with NO “election difficulties” (FL and OH), the (R) candidates won in a landslide.
In the three states that had “election difficulties”, (R) candidates with growing poll-margin leads as of Monday night are all going down to narrow, even razor-thin, defeats.
And this sounds legit to…WHO?!?
Months of mail-in voting, and the swiss-cheesiest voting machines and software in the Western world, and anybody is surprised at the announced results? And yet still believes them? You might as well have the results delivered and announced by the fucking Tooth Fairy.
Jesus Christ, didn’t people learn anything from reading Solzhenitsyn, or Orwell’s 1984???
Communism makes you eat a bucket of shit, and call it tasty, on purpose, FFS. It’s what they do.
yea, I don’t get it. Stolen elections on a massive scale, and clear as a bell. Instead of talking about that we have hand wringing over election “losses” that didn’t occur.
Are we sure that “principles” as used in that passage means the same as we use it — scruples, morals, honor, philosophical points?
-modest cough-
I’m not thinking that cough was modest 🙂
I don’t have an ego problem. My ego’s in great shape!
🙂