Some On Red, Some On Black

I saw a note online somewhere several days ago. This morning, I heard it mentioned on Rush Limbaugh's show. I saved the note when I found it to comment on later, but now that I am aware that it is appearing all over the Internet and has already been out for some time, I decided to pick up the pace a bit and mention it now.

The note, which you may or may not already be aware of, reads:

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

The author is unknown, but I don't think who wrote it is particularly important. What interests me is that this captures my own thoughts on a matter that runs much deeper than who is in office and what agendas they pursue from one administration to the next.

Obama is here now, and along with his party, they are destroying this country. But already they are being thwarted and are being beaten back, and before long I expect that they will be tossed out. I believe we will see much of what they've attempted to build torn down and burned, as it should be. Their days are numbered, and I think even they know that.

But I do not expect any such victory over what they represent to last. The reason I think any reversals of their disastrous policies that we might accomplish will be only temporary is that it was not Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and other politicians of their ilk who put themselves into power; these depraved, nihilistic goons were put there by citizens who willingly and consciously voted for them.

That is where my pessimism lies: I am not confident that the contemporary U.S. electorate is principled in any way that would prevent these destroyers from being returned to power again. I applaud every victory we score against them, and I do what I can to bring those about, but in the back of my mind I am always doubting the sincerity and the substance of the waves that occasionally shift and move against the enemy. When Obama and his Merry Band of Comrades finally lose, will it be because people woke up to the evil that they represent, or will the votes cast for their opponents actually be votes against Obama et al. for not doling out enough goodies from the pockets of others? Will people actually be aware of the value of individual liberty, that the leftists that infest the DNC have kept it under sustained attack for decades, and remove them from power for that reason? Or will it be a "change for the sake of change" sort of unreasoned, mindless act, just a casual flip-flopping back and forth between apparent opposites without consideration of the substantive differences (if any) between them?

I don't know. All I do know is that right now, Obama is the President, and he didn't get there by himself. An electorate that has been conditioned by decades of exposure to such things as the anti-American academics that infest our schools and universities, pop culture messages that constantly attack what has made this country great, a news media that does not simply report events but attempts to push people toward reaching certain conclusions, they are the ones who selected Obama. Are today's voters equipped to see through the smoke and mirrors, or has the well been poisoned so much and in so many ways that this cannot truly happen? If they become so, will subsequent generations of voters, indoctrinated into Kantian/Marxist ideologies, simply replace them and repeat the cycle? Will we only end up once again with charlatans and con artists in power?

I hope not, and I'll do my part to repair this damage and remove its causes. However, it is what I have described here that compels me to work toward creating an expat life for myself, something I have mentioned before. Episodes of liberty interspersed amongst periods of tyranny is not what I want, that isn't good enough for me. I am not content to build my fortune freely for a time while having to wonder if tomorrow fickle, gullible masses will install people into power who will rob me of it. I guess you could say that while I am willing to continue the work of restoring the United States to liberty, I hedge my bets. Time will tell if it will have been a necessary expenditure of time and money, and perhaps it will all prove to have been unnecessary in the end, but the price of being wrong in that way seems to me to be far less than the price of being wrong the other way.