If a pinch of salt added to the great ethnic stew (that America just simply by gosh must become) is good, and ratchets up our "diversity" one more notch to heavenly heights of righteous rapture, then, as current thinking goes, five pounds of salt won't screw up the stew either.
These come to my mind as cultural and political movements on a tectonic scale that warrant hardly a whisper of discussion in the MSM, and certainly not extended discussion:
- allowing, even celebrating, inundation by illegal immigration,
- being indifferent to the tsunami wave of transfer of power to the federal government,
- encouraging movement of significant manufacturing capacity to the shores of a communist dictatorship,
- failing to confront Islam for being the retrograde disgrace that it is,
- undermining bedrock principles like free speech, and
- kow towing to disgraceful subminorities (e.g., the black underclass).
As a conservative, I don't want society and government to lurch this way and that with every blip on the NORAD radar occasioned by the occasional Canada goose or film-at-11 news chopper. But it can't denied that sometimes a nation just does reach a massive, spiked, command-detonated speed bump in the middle of the road that hints at systemic problems not amenable to solution by familiar means.
We are at the end of the post-WWII period where America had come out on top militarily, economically, and technologically and was internally blessed with dominance by European values. Only someone in an extended coma could fail to note that the rest of the world has caught up to us economically in significant ways and that our European values have been under an increasingly frenzied attack since the 60s. (You know the Brits are in trouble when a Nigerian woman immigrant has a better appreciation for traditional British values than native Brits do!)
So, what is called for at this time? I don't think many people have a very good idea about what's needed and, really, most of us don't want to spend time trying to identify and understand our bedrock cultural values. Nor do many relish mounting a defense of the white race to counter determined efforts to portray it as the spear point of all that is vile in the world. There's far more immediate return on our investment of time and energy taking care of daily problems.
But that option of walling off one's life from the "crowbar of events," as Solzhenitsyn termed it, has disappeared. One cannot rely on past solutions, let alone leaders.
A few voters genuinely wanted "change," albeit of an unspecified type, crossed their fingers, and hoped that Mr. Obama would supply the precisely right kind, frail and ridiculous hope that that was. "NOT BUSH" translated into "The Man From Nowhere and Friend to Commies, Black Bigots, and Terrorist Revolutionaries Everywhere" by a process that my staff has yet satisfactorily to explain.
That kind of voting behavior is like a frog's pouncing on a piece of chalk thinking it's a tasty bug, when it's actually reacting to movement rather than precise target identification.
Well, we've got a leader who wants change allright but where is the evidence that he's got a pipeline to anything new? It doesn't exist. His (??) showcase accomplishment of the "stimulus" package is business-as-usual, socialism-on-the-half-shell, pork-till-you-choke, beggar-our-descendants garbage that's as likely to positively affect our difficulties as ice cream would improve scrambled eggs.
We all live in "interesting times" as the alleged Chinese curse contemplates and, maybe we need, a la Orwell, simply to restate the obvious. We certainly could profit by going back to the Constitution of 1789 (plus the 13th and 15th Amendments). And we certainly all need to clear off our desks, put on the green eye shades, and begin to write down the essentials of a new National Owner's Manual. Nothing by way of blood-in-the-streets revolution, mind you – the usual liberal Rx for everything from hurtful looks to plastic grocery bags. But we certainly CAN identify fundamental problems and innovative solutions by engaging in original thinking and scraping from our cerebral gortex the layer of scum deposited by exposure to the treasonous MSM and liberal elite.
All of which is to encourage you to read Charles Hugh Smith's interesting piece on complacency:
When does supreme confidence turn into supremely dangerous complacency? When you read fawning accounts of U.S. innovation saving the day. The mainstream media is chockful of predictably mealy-mouthed mea culpas: OK, we missed the subprime meltdown, the housing bubble, the derivatives insanity, the inevitable collapse of over-leveraged lenders and insurers, the corruption and lax oversight--but really, some of our reporters did cover these things--on page B-11...occasionally...."Complacency and The Will To Radical Reform." By Charles Hugh Smith, oftwominds.com, 2/12/09.
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