Okay, I've had just about enough of this. The country isn't what we thought it
was. Maybe we've hit the tipping
point. Maybe the republic can't be
saved. Decline is here, and it's unstoppable. Blah, blah, blah.
Here's what happened:
we got smoked. The eternal
verities haven't changed. Right is still
right, wrong is wrong, and our government is still on an unsustainable path
that will eventually lead us to ruin if it isn't checked. The Democrats ran a better campaign. They injected abortion into an argument about
economic idiocy. They successfully
turned an election about the direction of this country into a discussion about
"lady parts". They ran a
left-wing, ideologue, crony capitalist politician and managed to convince the
electorate that our guy was the out-of-touch plutocrat. While we sat around one-upping each other
about how no one could possibly want to give this obvious fool another four
years at the wheel, they, bit by bit, sliced off pieces of the voting public,
and maintained enough control of the "narrative" that they managed to
win the election. They kicked our ass.
This is a disaster, but it's not a refutation of the idea
that liberty is still better than slavery, or that a growing blob of a
government is a bad thing. Those things
are still true. The fool in the White
House is still going to attempt to do foolish things, and our job is to attempt
to stop him. It just got harder, that's
all.
What kind of conservatives would we be if we didn't already
know that people are fickle, things go wrong, and life is and always has been a
constant struggle? Do I have to quote Kipling at you?
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