“American capitalism gone with a whimper “
May 30th, 2009 at 10:41 am by NigelIf there is a columnist who can rightly analyze what is going on in the US, it’s this one:
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
Is there anything we can do to stop this train from crashing? Perhaps desperate times call for desperate measures…
May 30th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I’m in!! How about the other millions of people who DIDN’T vote for Obama? If all Republicans stopped paying taxes? That’d get their attention!
May 30th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Back before the election, I was having a conversation with someone who’s opinion I respected (an admittedly dwindling pool). He was nervous about all of the things that Obama was saying and was rightly concerned that McCain was another Dole who pandered to the much ballyhooed “centrists” and “moderates” who couldn’t win a national election if his life depended on it.
At the time, I recall saying “Well, what can you do? You can either worry about it all day long or have faith that the American people will do the right thing.”
Boy, was I wrong. Example.
What a tool.
Couple that with those same mushy middlers on the Sotomayor nomination and I’m reminded of Mark Steyn’s old column “Telling It Like It Is: We’re Awful” from the Spectator but I can’t find a link to it. Set after the week of the 2000 convention, it’s just as relevant today:
“…Finally, though, someone at this Republican Convention had the guts to stand up, go negative and make a vicious personal attack…on Republicans. In his keynote address, General Colin Powell said enough with the niceness and argued that Republicans were racist hypocrites who’d abandoned the mantle of Lincoln and cared nothing for helping black children while being happy to provide corporate affirmative action for fat cats.
And the Republicans loved it! General Powell had said much the same thing at the ‘96 convention, but the cranky Doleful GOP of four years ago had been unimpressed and had even had the temerity to venture the occasional boo. This time round, they applauded, they cheered to themselves: “You know, that’s guy’s got us just right. We really are awful, aren’t we?”
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Come November, I don’t expect Republicans to have made significant inroads among African-American voters. And, whether or not the General knows it, that’s not his job. His job is to make significant inroads among those “moderate” white voters who feel vaguely squeamish about the GOP and need to be reassured that pulling the lever for the Republicans doesn’t mean you’re Jesse Helms.”
Peggy Noonan called your office. The 2000 Republicans convention wants it’s condescending smarm back.
May 30th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
So true, and so frighteningly real, Nigel. I have said for the past 10 years that America has become a nation of apathetic, ambivalent, lazy minds, trained to celebrate mediocrity at every given opportunity.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Has anyone noticed that none of the links are working to the English version of Pravda?
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:04 am
Link works just fine. In fact, it enabled me to also read this amazing story:
http://tinyurl.com/6gbztx
Oh. I almost forgot…
Warning. You can’t “unsee” this…