A Comment Left Elsewhere. . .
Over at Margaret Soltan’s University Diaries, Margaret links to and quotes from a Heather Mac Donald City Journal piece critical of Sarah Palin because of her speech patterns. Her commenters contribute further, but I left this:
I’ll chime in here. The two-party primary process this year has given us a choice between two excrement sandwiches. I have watched the process, and I am convinced that Dr. Bob of The Doctor is In is right when he says:
For years we have tolerated incompetence, corruption, dishonesty — and yes, greed — in government while looking the other way. On those rare occasions when politicians have made principled stands, we have rewarded them with a firestorm of political assault, full-throated media ridicule and criticism, and enormous financial pressure from lobbyists pouring money into the pockets of those who purport to represent the people. We have elected a government of the people, in the most literal and disgraceful sense: we have elected, and kept in office, those who share our desire for self-gratification and materialistic acquisition at the expense of character, moral integrity, honesty, and prudence. The cesspool which is our current Congress is what we have reaped by our own actions — or perhaps more accurately, by our inaction. We have elected those politicians who are like us in every way — and we hate them for it. They are, after all, created in our own image.
That goes approximately double for our choices of President and Vice-President this year.
And yet. . .
One of the choices we have for President has been surrounded since childhood by avowed Marxists/Socialists. I realize that Antonio Gramsci has won, and that our educational system has been suborned into cranking out large quantities of people who think socialism is a marvelous idea, but now we appear to be at a point where we are about to elect to the highest office in the land a man who would not otherwise pass an FBI background check for a job at the CIA or the Pentagon due to his known associates.
Last Thursday I heard a small Asian lady ask of Wayne LaPierre, “I have only been a citizen of the United States for fourteen years, and I just joined the NRA because I believe in the Constitution and the right to arms. When I see Barack Obama, I see a Communist, and I am afraid. I think he is going to win the election. Does the NRA have a plan if this occurs?” I spoke with her shortly after. She was born of Chinese parents in Cambodia, and was raised and schooled in Taiwan. She studied our Constitution, and made a conscious effort to come to the US and become a citizen. If there’s anyone who knows what a Communist looks like, she should be one.
And yet apparently half the electorate either doesn’t care, or is fine with Obama’s long-time associates.
As I said, Gramsci has won, and the United States is heading into World Socialism just as the Left worldwide has desired.
As Henry Louis Mencken said many decades ago: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
For what we are about to receive, may we be truly thankful.