Peter Hitchens says it all.
The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.
I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.
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They grasped the real significance of this moment. They knew it meant that America had finally switched sides in a global cultural war. Forget the Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world.
Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique.
These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America’s conservative party – the Republicans – to fight on the cultural and moral fronts.
They preferred to posture on the world stage. Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?
Damn. Read the whole thing.
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Hi,
I love your articles about wild airplane and spaceship projects. I like your photography. I think your cats are cute. I diasagree hugely with your politics of name-calling. “Marxist” “gun grabbers” “Obamist”
Dude, it can’t just be “my way or the highway” — sometimes things can’t be your way and sometimes the highway is just not an option.
I’m a veteran, former Marine, an astrophysicist, a Jew, a Democrat and I’m a neighbor and an American. My family goes back 350 years in America. It is of course your blog and you can say what you want but there’s a difference between getting your point across and simply stabbing people with it.
I’ll keep reading your blog for the cool projects and photos but I’ll also cross to the other side of the street whenever you try to come my way with your politics.
Oddly enough, if I’m looking for the correct future course of America, I’m not going to ask some God-damned expatriate Trotskyite Limey for his opinion on the matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens
These SOBs have slaughtered tens of thousands of your Saxon forefathers, and hundreds of thousands of my Welsh/Irish forefathers.
Now they sit around like Greeks from the failed Alexandrian Empire telling Romans what civilized behavior looks like…after the Victorian British Empire also went straight down the tubes.
…as the American propaganda posters said in 1812: “We Owe Allegiance To No Crown”: http://tinyurl.com/5jnkjt
> I diasagree hugely with your politics of name-calling. “Marxist” “gun grabbers” “Obamist”
It’s not “name calling” if it is strictly accurate.
1) Marxist: Obama has a long track record of hanging around with Marxists (which he wrote about in one if not both of his autobiographies) as well as espousing Marxist economic policies. “Economic justice,” one of Obama’s little goals, is a concept that, as commonly used by the far Left, makes my skin crawl.
2) Gun grabber: read his platform, and the records of people of similar political persuasions who called for similar policies: gun grabber is *entirely* accurate. Anyone who suggests that we need new laws to get assualt weapons off our streets is either a liar or a goddamend moron… and neither case inspires confidence in rational leadership.
3) Obamist: Obama won the Presidency *not* because of a long track record of success when it comes to legislation (exactly *what* has he accomplished?), but because a cult of personalty has been built up around him. The Clinonites, the Reaganites, even the Kennedyites got *nuthin’* on the Obamists when it comes to mindless adoration.
> there’s a difference between getting your point across and simply stabbing people with it.
Shrug. In the words of Dukhat: “When others do a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the truth is where it needs to be.”
If you saw a beloved family member falling into a cult, woudl you be politely respectful… or would you raise your damned voice? Too many Americans seem to have bought into *this* particular cult.
>I’m a veteran
Don’t care.
> former Marine
Don’t care.
> an astrophysicist
Don’t care.
> a Jew
Don’t care.
> a Democrat
My condolensces.
> and I’m a neighbor
Don’t care.
> and an American.
Then do more research. While it’s too late to prevent the tragedy of an Obama administration, do what you can to help prevent him from doing his worst. Make damned sure that your congresscritters will vote against increasing taxes (any taxes, including ending the “Bush tax cuts”), Obamas exceedingly creepy “civilian defense corps,” any attempt to limit the right of citizens to keep and bear arms, any attempt to quash free speech (specifically via the fraudulently named “Fairness Doctrine”), any attempt to bankrupt the coal industry in order to aqppease envirnmental hysteria, and so on.