Quit Whining and Organize, Organize, Organize!
by John Young
America has elected its first black — and first truly Marxist — president. I can already hear the whining from various quarters about all of the horrible things Barack Obama is going to do: He’s going to shut down talk radio in partnership with Charles Schumer. He’s going to give illegal aliens amnesty. He’s going to ban guns. He’s going to tax us into a second Great Depression.
No doubt these are his intentions, because he has made them plain as day.
Perhaps the worst whining I have heard, though, comes from people who see Barack Obama’s election as evidence of a philosophical seachange among the American electorate that will render the Republic unsalvageable.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The election of Barack Obama over John McCain is not a symptom of philosophical degeneracy of the electorate. After all, the average voter is not a philosopher. Instead, the election of Barack Obama is a symptom of the degeneracy of our political system as a whole, and of the Republican party, in particular.Just look at John McCain. He has made his career by thumbing his nose at the Constitution. He couldn’t wait to betray European-Americans on practically every issue of importance: immigration, economics and the Bill of Rights. The simple fact is that, in terms of his positions on
the issues, he was practically indistinguishable from the Marxist he was running against.
Then, at 72 years of age, he brought in Sarah Palin as his running mate. Bless her, she seems like an awfully nice person. But when Katie Couric interviewed her, she was like a deer caught in the headlights. Aspiring to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency, she couldn’t name a single important Supreme Court decision other than Roe v. Wade. During her only debate against Joe Biden, her primary emphasis was on John McCain’s credentials as a “maverick” who had constantly betrayed his purported
principles. In arguing this, she wasn’t doing herself any favors. “Willingness to reach across the aisle” is just a euphemism for “willingness to compromise on matters of principle.”
In essence, McCain compromised over and over, decade after decade; and then basked in the adulation of a laudatory corporate media in the mistaken belief that when given a choice between a real Marxist and a man who merely had no principles left, they’d support him instead of the Marxist. In the end, he had nothing to offer the American people.
But most of all, his endless compromises cost him his base:
European-Americans. Every step along the way, from his advocacy of amnesty for illegal aliens to the way he shamelessly slammed white Americans while paying lip-service to sham black-victimhood in his concession speech … he alienated the only core constituency that Republicans have: us.
For decades Republicans have taken us for granted as a pretty much guaranteed voting block that could be secured by throwing us a social conservative bone once in a while or sounding patriotic — but then running off to Washington to engage in a frenzy of selling off our jobs to the highest Chinese bidder. For decades Republicans have relied on our patriotic instinct to provide support for foreign incursions even under the most dubious of justifications. But the Iraq war — supported by John McCain for his neo-con masters — went too far. The lies were just too obvious, and the price was just too high.
When you strip away the occasional social-conservative bone, the patriotic talk and “wars for democracy” from the Republicans — there isn’t much to distinguish them from the other side. There’s no coherrent philosophical difference on anything of importance. Republicans don’t
propose abolishing the income tax — they just debate the regulatory details.
And that is why Barack Obama won the election. John McCain is proof in spades that the Republicans can no longer take European-Americans for granted. If they want our votes, they are going to have to EARN them.
And this is good news.
During a Republican administration, Republican law makers have no way to distinguish themselves and just “fall asleep atteh switch” giving us deficit spending, social welfare programs and other detritus they would have opposed during a Democratic administration.
But now they have a chance to wake up. Republicans have fallen, and fallen mightily. They now have less power than at any point in the past 75 years. This means they have less to lose, and will be more willing to take risks that would raise the ire of the media.
And that further means that now would be an ideal time to exercise influence.
And HOW do you exercise influence? This is one question that Barack Obama answered quite well: organize, organize, organize. We need to convince Republicans to abandon neo-Conservatism and join US.
While rights accrue to individuals under our Constitution, they must be preserved collectively. Only the organized effort of large numbers of people will wield the influence necessary to keep a Marxist president and a majority socialist Congress from doing all the things the whiners fear.
So now is not the time to whine. Now is the time to http://www.wvwnews.net, and get active!