A War We Must Win

Rove vs. Dowd is merely a Punch 'n Judy side-show for the politically addicted. It makes no difference what either of them says as long as they continue to invoke the names of past presidents.

Yesterday, the NYT ran an article by David Leonhardt entitled “For U.S., a Sea of Perilous Red Ink, Years in the Making”. In it he charts the now reasonable dystopian predictions of severe financial crisis ahead. He makes certain to remind us several times that it is mostly Bush’s policies that have brought us to this sad state of affairs. Obama’s only role in this looming disaster, he claims, is in continuing with the bulk of Bush’s policies unabated. Let me say at the outset that I do not ascribe any credibility to what the NYT says on any matter. I raise the point merely to show that everyone now concedes that we’re in for a rough ride.

I would even go a step further and say that everything we see happening today and can safely project into the future has been carefully orchestrated with the ultimate aim of reducing what some see as the disparity inherent in the following sentence: The U.S. has 5% of the world’s population and uses 25% of the planet’s (energy) resources. This has been the goal of foreign and domestic Leftists for years. With the America-hating Obamas in the White House and an equally deranged majority in Congress it now seems possible for them to get their way.

Americans are not stupid; they can smell the coffee. I dare say if elections were held today, the whole gang of Marxists, their sympathizers and appeasers (which includes practically everybody in Washington these days) would be sent packing. As it is, when mid-term elections finally do come around, many people fear it will already be too late to turn things around.

Must we sit idly by while Democrat-dominated Washington does its worst? The answer is unequivocally NO! In fact, without consciously knowing how to fight them, we’ve been instinctively doing just that. We’ve canceled our subscription to TIME and the NYT. Some of us have canceled cable. Some have quit smoking. Almost all of us have stopped buying (now government) cars. We’ve stopped going out to restaurants as much, especially the ones with pictures of Sean Penn up on the celebrity wall. We’ve stopped going to the movies.

You might think that it’s just a matter of not feeling quite as flush as we did a year ago; when our nest egg was still something we could fall back on; when the company we work for wasn’t looking to lay off people every other week. But I really think it goes far deeper than that. We instinctively know that this is a war we must win if there’s any chance at all of passing anything on to our kids. Wars are never comfortable, but we’ve reached the conclusion that we must deny ourselves; we must starve them out. By laying low and not buying that new car (which we always buy after two or three years); by not going out to eat as much; by simply making do with what we have, we deny our rogue government the taxes our consumerism generates.

Quit your job; live off your savings instead (if you can). It’s the only way we can slow them down. They need us more than we need them. If we lie down on the job of running the country, they’re sunk.

Don’t try to pretend everything is alright when you know it isn’t. It’s time to invest everything you have in this (what has turned out to be an existential) struggle; which simply must result in a win for the good guys. They’ll howl like stuck pigs when they find out what we’re (not) up to. They’ll try to silence the likes of Rush and Savage. Even should they succeed, they’ll realize it’s not them; that it’s morphic resonance (look it up) that has gripped the nation; that the American spirit is now fully awake and poised to throw salt on the leeches.

When I first started smoking I would cough. Now that I've been smoking for many years I find myself coughing again. It's high time, I think, for us to break our addiction to smoke and mirrors liberalism.