Hard to say that the day after The One was inaugurated? Not at all. We’ve got it all, they’ve got nothing but image.
I did end up having to see a good deal of yesterday’s activities…the management decided to put it up on the office monitors. I plan on filing an OSHA complaint, as I got a sick headache what with all the oozing Obamania. It was a bit surreal to watch – there was Obama; handsome, happy, young and in charge…and all the while it just seemed as if I were watching my dearly beloved mother enter into a slow motion train wreck. Its going to be a long four years, in a lot of ways.
Our liberals will dispute this, but the plain fact of the matter is that Obama’s economic policies are going to increase the debt, increase inflation (though this might be a year or two in the future), increase unemployment, increase interest rates, lower productivity and lower real wages. We don’t guess this will happen. We don’t think this will happen. We know this will happen. How do we know? Because every time the Obama plan has been tried, it has resulted in this…and as Obama appears set to really, really go whole hog into tax and spend liberalism, we can just expect things to be worse than they were in the past. We might all start longing for the relatively prosperous days of Jimmy Carter.
For those of us with faith, this will all be ok – we know that any trials sent our way are blessings from God so that we may better become good and faithful servants. But for those on the other side…well, they’re going to get a rude awakening and they will be both disorientated and angered. So, we’re going to have to carry the ball – helping as best we can to curb the worst excesses of the Obama policies, bucking up the flagging spirits of liberals who will start talking “malaise” and “era of limits”, as they were under Carter, and generally keeping the country up on the rails until we can get Obama and his Democrats booted out of power.
The one thing I do caution us against is Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS); it is tempting to hammer back exactly as they hammered our guy, but that is ungenerous as well as counter-productive. Remember, for quite a while now Obama will be suffused with an unearthly glow. As his policies cause the country to crater, the MSM and the Obamaniacs will desperately try to spin any good news as the be all and end all of great leadership. When things really fly apart and we’re sitting with a hugely expanded debt, high unemployment and inflation eroding our money day by day, the real fanatics will still insist, in spite of all evidence, that Obama is The One and will pull us out of it. No sense provoking them unnecessarily – a gentle rebuke will do, if anything is needed at all. Our task is to be prepared with alternative policies to map a way out of the liberal morass, ready to go when needed during the 2010 and 2012 campaigns. Hating liberals won’t help us craft these alternate policies, nor help us discover and groom the leaders we’ll need to both win the elections and carry through the policies.
America made a mistake – we elected a well meaning but clueless tax and spend liberal. So be it. The American people made their choice and now we’re all going to have to sit tight and ride it out as best we can. No matter how bad it gets, we’re still Americans and thus capable of enduring anything and emerging triumphant at the end of it. America will correct its mistake, in the by and by – our job is to be prepared for when the American people realize their mistake.
So, have at it with gusto – take no guff from liberals who are going to insist that the debate is over and that no longer is dissent the highest form of patriotism. Don’t worry about the accusations of racism which will be hurled against you – they were going to do that anyway, and you might as well score some points while they’re doing it. Don’t be stampeded by the dark hints of social breakdown if The One were to lose in 2012. And, most of all, don’t take them too seriously – and when they really screw the pooch, don’t laugh at them. Well, ok…go ahead and laugh, but try to hide it when they’re standing right next to you.
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