Keeping the Faith

I wrote a piece on this site about how the Democrats will likely try to force ObamaCare through the Senate via reconciliation, and how I believe it will cost them their majority in both houses.

Long time pal and stalwart Joshua's Army member Louie Louie responded:

uh, yeah, good luck with that.

Come 2010, the jackass party picks up 10 seats in the house and 2 in the senate.

Remember, Americans are as dumb as a sack of hair.

Here's the thing about that.

If you're going to live in a democracy, you have to have some confidence in your fellow citizens to do the right thing ultimately.Otherwise there's no point.

This isn't any disrespect on my part towards Louie Louie, but simply what I innately believe.

I too am still amazed that the American people were misled enough to buy into Obama's con game, but they did, and there was obviously a reason for it. Remember my riffs on historical resonance. Leaders in a democracy usually get chosen because they reflect the needs and ethos of the electorate at a given time.

Consider this: When Obama ran, America had been toying with massive entitlements, debts and quasi-socialism for quite sometime. And in foreign policy, we had also been dealing with mostly ignoring or deliberately misdirecting our efforts towards defeating the Islamist jihad directed towards America, particularly within our own country, as well as coping with what I consider to be virtually a fifth column of the Left.

So we ended up with basically two inferior candidates, and people elected the Wizard of O because he was marketed as a panacea for what was ailing us. He was supposed to be all things to all people, and after 8 years of Bush people wanted to give it a try.

In Obama, we are seeing all of the qualities the Leftist elite always told us would be good for America...socialist take overs and diktats for 'fairness', a conciliatory foreign policy, appeasement of the Muslim world to make them go away, a so-called post racial America, 'green' policies, health care and assorted goodies for all.

None of it worked, of course. And having got what they thought they wanted, only now is the average American seeing how dangerous all this really is, as the facade cracks. We have never seen a president's approval ratings fall as quickly as Obama's in our history.

It never happened to me,but I have heard of parents catching their young children sneaking smokes or alcohol and curing them of the habit by sitting them down,breaking out the liquor or cigarettes and having them indulge excessively to the point of illness. And I believe that as a nation, we're going through something like that right now, because we were unable or unwilling to clean up our act otherwise.

What Obama and a number of his followers represent is the anti-America, in the sense of having values so divorced from the basic principles this country was founded on as to be almost direct opposites. My friend Bookworm recently wrote a superb piece in American Thinker on this very premise.

Either Obama will help clean out the arteries and provide a catharsis for us to reclaim our true nature, or he will be the death of our Republic, not because of any particular power he possesses but because he happened to come along at a very dangerous time, after a couple of mediocre presidents. And I fully believe it will be the former for a number of reasons, not least of which is my conviction that Almighty G-d has a special purpose or America and my bedrock faith in its people.

I've been fortunate to travel all across this amazing country we call home, and for all the chiseling,conniving and stupidity you find ( and that sort of thing exists in every country, trust me) what most stuck with me was the simple decency of the average American, their common sense, their willingness to lend a hand and pitch in, their basic sense of fairness.

Why else do you think the Left prefers to use the courts, resort to dirty tricks and do things behind closed doors rather than face a vote by their fellow citizens? And when an election can't be avoided, why else would the Left resort to things like voting illegal aliens and dead people, eliminating military absentee ballots on technicalities and similar tactics to cook the results if they really felt their ideas had widespread acceptance?

What Obama is doing is to wake people up who were placidly asleep and remind them of why this country was founded in the first place. Not all of them, and many of them are not entirely awake yet, but it's coming.

That's why Sarah Palin is such a visceral force politically..because she shares the values of average Americans and has an instinctive sense of what drives them and moves them. Reagan had the same quality, and likewise came along when the country was in danger and seemed to be in an unchangeable spiral of decline.

In the end, it will go how G-d intends, and I'm keeping the faith.

-selah-