I think you are right, but it might not matter. There are six billion people in this world. At any one time, many hundreds of millions of them would come to the US, if given the chance. While the Dems have been distracted by the economy and the perceived need to further demonize the Bush administration, they will soon get to “comprehensive immigration reform.” I am afraid that the Dems will, in time for the 2010 and 2012 elections, import as many new voters as necessary to maintain their grip on power.

Bertolt Brecht, who I otherwise have no use for, wrote this poem about the 1953 East German uprising:

After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had thrown away the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

With their ability to import millions of voters, and get ACCORN to manufacture more as needed, the Dems can determine the outcomes of most elections in advance.

I don’t know how this will all play out, but I am not optimistic.

The decline in Europe was slowed somewhat by the strength of the US and the enormous defense subsidy they got from us. I don’t see anything to slow our decline from the damages of socialism, especially considering that we were already half way there before Obama.

You heighten my hope and my optimism! Thank you!

Nice reference, Danny.

On the other hand, as a corollary, there will never be something with nothing but negatives. This kind of purity does not exist, not even in the laws of the universe.

Diversity is the name of the game, but diversity within strict and unmoving laws.

And the law of human nature is that human beings cannot always do wrong just as we cannot always do the right thing. So long as an opposite exists, both shall exist. And so long as opposites exist, matter and anti-matter, perfection will never come into existence.

The Left, however, they want to change this. They want to equalize things. This is an arrogant and megalomaniacal grab at power that was never meant for their hands.

The hypocritical Left talks about how we aren’t worthy or responsible enough or the rewards don’t outweigh the risks, in terms of having the citizens of America be armed with the fearsome “gun”. (shivers, fearsome)

But the Left, the Democrat corrupt murderers and wannabe murderers, they, and they only, believe that they are worthy of the power to equalize things in human beings. They attribute to themselves the virtues and powers of a God, a state of perfection that is only marred by the imperfection and the increasingly non-uniform and non-conformist/pliable opposition, that would be us.

If a child was raised under this kind of teaching in respect to the child’s accomplishments and failures, how would that child develop? And how does the Left justify it to the rest of us, successfully so even, that we should treat children and educate them so that they have a high degree of confidence, when the Left has sought to decrease humanity’s confidence in America from day one with an endless psychological campaign of pillaging and burning?

You know…I never thought of it that way. Of course, you’re right. Of course, it’s obvious. I just never thought of it that way.

It needs to be carved into something _big_ somewhere!

That’s what he has his Jugend Civilian “Volunteer” Force For, Charles.

What we see in the media is not the tip of an iceberg. It is a dirty little snowball perched on one side with a couple dozen television cameras zoomed in on it.

When I retired, my wife and I spent a couple years touring America in a motor coach. What we found was a very big, very beautiful country with a whole lot of very good people in it.

What I am sensing now is a growing, smoldering, pent up, deep felt anger among those very good people with what is going on these days in Washington. The Tea Party movement was a straw in the wind which showed just how deep and widespread that anger has already become. I believe that it will only take a spark for that anger to burst forth and a leader to channel it.

What event will provide that spark, and when it will occur, I do not know. It might be a decision by the Obama administration to hold show trials for former Bush administration officials, or it might be something else. Whatever it is, I pray that when it happens and the American people finally say, “Enough!” an articulate leader will appear who can show us how to reestablish the principles that made us great — not in a sense of moving back, but in a sense of moving forward.

America is the only country in the history of the world to be founded on principles. Those principles are still embedded in the hearts and minds of most of the American people, the media not withstanding. I pray that Charles is right and that those principles will be the rock upon which the ship of socialism founders.

Thank you Charles for a magnificent post. You have rekindled my hope.

You take almost any EU country and they’re further down the road towards the collapse – or even in the midst of the collapse – than we are. And yet they simply cannot see what is all around them.

Or you look at Russia, beset with social and cultural problems on every front, and most of them are due to their adherence to various parts of the socialist ideology. Can they see this? They truly are in the midst of a catastrophic collapse, and yet they on the whole cannot perceive it, and thus fail to lay the blame where it belongs.

Is there any reason to have confidence that the American People are any better than this, and will be able to perceive the truth, and lay the blame where it belongs? In time for 2010, or 2012, or even 2016? Heck, it could be 2024, and we could be in the midst of a catastrophic leftist/Statist collapse… and 55% of the American People might still be unable to perceive the true causes of their misery. Befuddled and misdirected by media campaigns that blame other causes, deliberately deceived by their politicians…

Today I am unsure that the American People will perceive the truth, and abandon this disastrous experiment with Statist fiscal policy and leftist social policy in time to send Obama back to Chicago and turn out enough others in Congress to make a difference. I’m hopeful but not exactly optimistic. On other days I’m actually optimistic, even for 2010!