Jim Pethokoukis uses charts to make the case. Me, I think the answer is pretty obvious, charts or no: every so often, and for whatever the reasons, the left is able to convince Americans that they aren’t really who we know they are. After which, they take power, run left, and create economic displacement, high unemployment, and a country that is less free and more government-centric.
Then, after each such time, Americans wake up and ask, what the hell were we thinking? — and try to correct their own mistake.
This time, though, the economic displacement, high unemployment, and expansion of government seems to be quite intentional — and the “progressive” dead enders and their various client blocs are going to do everything they can to hold on to power. Because, though the country may be going down the crapper, so long as theft is legalized and is given the imprimatur of beneficent government, there are those who will remain to bleed it dry — those who are told they need to vote in the own economic interests, which means, simply, vote themselves others’ stuff.
November will tell us if we’ve reached the tipping point. And that’s before the 2-3% voter fraud the left relies upon gets added to the ledger.
We need a landslide. And even then? Mitt Romney.
If I wasn’t already drunk most of the time, I’d probably take up heavy drinking.
All we can do is to try to restore function to our own little pieces of the enterprise. Then maybe there will be a few islands of peace and relative prosperity when the whole thing comes down.
– Booker does it again.
He later Tweeted a photo of his ankle, which he described as “badly sprained.” He added that he stands with Obama, “even with this bum ankle.”
– Yeh. I won’t say it. It’s getting too easy.
yup. And you’re to be ashamed if you don’t vote yourself more of other people’s money, because even if you don’t think you need it, surely other people in your grievance group do, and if you don’t vote in their best interests you are a miserly selfish person.
True story.
When my conspiracy fevers are at their highest-pitch, I sometimes wonder which Obama family member will need to be sacrificed at the last minute to generate a tidal wave of sympathy votes for his re-election. Or maybe it will be Obama. The voices say, “After all, we’re not the only ones who know how much is at stake in this election.”
But then I don’t think they’d really do it because they can already count on the overwhelming support of the dog and dead people vote.
Meant to say, “or maybe it will be Biden” because Obama would be extremely self-defeating.
See also “Bob Roberts”, “Wag the Dog”, etc.
Democrat Convention Video: “Government Is The Only Thing We All Belong To”
POWERFUL Video: 16 Trillion Reasons
So far the whole DNC convention has been people who drive nicer cars than I do, and who stay in nicer hotel rooms than the house I barely still live in telling me that everything this is fine, in fact it’s great, and if it’s not then it is the republicans fault. The same people tried to tell me in 2004 that I was miserable and that we needed a new misery index.
What a crock of shit.
I had to quit watching it.
16 trillion mentions of Buh-rock Obama was making me nauseous.
I know it’s a waste of time trying to persuade someone who’s already drunk the kool-aid to the dregs, but if anybody happens to know a squishy moderate out there:
Why is it that voting your economic interests is rational and perfectly normal for the takers, but not for the makers?
– Because the makers are suckers, or they wouldn’t be falling for this load of crap in the first place.