"This is not America. It is like most failed states abroad, which also are not America"Very nice article by Vic Hanson summing up the corrupt nature and noxious emanations of the progressive plague unleashed by Obama and his minions on a stupefied nation - stupefied in large part because the media is a co-conspirator in the quiet coup, which the non-reporting on the IRS scandal, dwarfing the already quite disturbing non-reporting on various other things like Benghazi, blatantly makes clear - it does seem like a ruinous nexus - you have a president who clearly believes a progressive oligarchy answering to the ideological whims of people like himself is the best future for the country and anything that can be done to make it happen, legal or otherwise, true or not, factual or distorted by self serving fantasy, is necessarily good regardless of whether or not some objective observer might disagree - you have an opinion manufacturing media that by and large is onboard with this agenda - you have a large, invasive, manipulative, punitive bureaucracy acting as the wehrmacht of this agenda with the footsoldier bureaucrats of course on board because they are so well rewarded for this loyalty - the royal court may be a corrupt and dysfunctional mess of self regard and vanity but better to be in its favor than stuck out in the street shovelling shit. And then finally you have an electorate, the only thing capable of stopping this menace, that is supine, ignorant, misinformed, uninterested or just already too far indoctrinated into the progressive orthodoxy to be bothered or just even capable of imagining that maybe there's something wrong with this picture - idealist ideologies like today's progressivism do not encourage dissent for the assumptions that underwrite their beliefs would not survive honest scrutiny and therefore to hope for apostasy amongst its adherents is to practice a delusion equal to the cause.
This can't end well - I'm not sure how the badness will manifest itself - one can certainly conjure up several disturbing scenarios that could take a generation to fully play out or could be jarringly immediate in their effect - but barring the coming of a significant correction that moves the country back towards a sane path, this quite simply cannot end well.
[to make an attempt at a sort of optimism, polls are, despite the best efforts of the NY Times et al, finally indicating that the electorate is at long frickin' last starting to figure out that 'hope and change' was a vacuous tagline conjured up by progressivism's used car salesmen to unload a lemon on the gullible - it is still possible that the Obama presidency could devolve into such an unmitigated disaster that not even the zealots will be able to sustain the notion that everything's fine and just ignore all that smoke billowing out of the tailpipe - hell, even Peter Beinart, stalwart progressive and long time idolater of The Obama has written an article sharply criticising his handling of Iraq - that's a definite indication of porcine aviation brewing - if we get to the point where the Times is writing IRS in a big, juicy font on page one then look out, swine will be filling the air]
[to make an attempt at a sort of optimism, polls are, despite the best efforts of the NY Times et al, finally indicating that the electorate is at long frickin' last starting to figure out that 'hope and change' was a vacuous tagline conjured up by progressivism's used car salesmen to unload a lemon on the gullible - it is still possible that the Obama presidency could devolve into such an unmitigated disaster that not even the zealots will be able to sustain the notion that everything's fine and just ignore all that smoke billowing out of the tailpipe - hell, even Peter Beinart, stalwart progressive and long time idolater of The Obama has written an article sharply criticising his handling of Iraq - that's a definite indication of porcine aviation brewing - if we get to the point where the Times is writing IRS in a big, juicy font on page one then look out, swine will be filling the air]
