The video follows my rant.
Let me point out that the smart voter is now a minority. They are not Democrats. They are not Republicans. They are not Libertarians. In fact they would just as soon not identify themselves with any political party. For were it not the political parties that destroyed everything that made this country great?
If we begin to start name calling such as, "You voters are stupid.", then the voters become apprehensive and/or defensive...and they will continue to ignore you or put you down with a barrage of words that would imply that they are smarter than you rather than submit to the truth. Case in point:
Recently the voters of Massachusetts voted in a special election to fill the vacated seat of Senator John Kerry. As it turns out the guy that won the election was a 35 year veteran of Congress, U.S. Representative Edward Markey. Now how stupid was that? The country is rapidly falling apart and you elect a guy that contributed to the downfall as if it were some kind of a reward for good behavior. Now I didn't like some of the ideas of his opponent but a little new blood in the game would have cut out some of the cancer that is eating us away.Stupid stories somehow never make it into the voter textbooks to be used as learning tools. Rather, the voters will make the same failing grade year after year until the school of hard knocks is closed. It's reminiscent of U.S. Representative John Murhta of Pennsylvania and U.S. Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts, two of the most corrupt, long term politicians who died while in office whereas they should have died behind bars...niether one of them ever did one good thing for the country...every voter that I had asked about those good-for-nothing politicians could not come up with that one-good-thing-for-the-country reason to vote for them. Now how stupid is that? ~ Norman E. Hooben
Now would be a good time to repeat this:
Originally posted in 2010, this commentary says it all...but only the smart voters will read it to the end.
An open letter to
Americans:
As a Canadian, I’ve been
observing for some time now, with great concern and even greater disbelief, the
political farce enacted day after day in your country. And I keep asking, what
have you done? For it seems to me, and to many others as well, that you have
embarked upon a truly destructive course that may eventually bring the United
States to the brink of ruination.
What have you done? You
have elected a president on the strength of an ellipsis, neglecting to fill in
the three dots trailing after his every echoing jingle—“Yes we can”…what? You
have credited a nimble spinner of tales, a pretty fellow with no significant
experience of the real world of risk, hard work and the hazards of survival, a
thug with a beguiling smile. You have elevated to the highest office in the land
a man without discernible qualifications who is plunging the nation into
unredeemable debt for generations to come. You have installed possibly the most
consummate liar in POTUS history, who breaks campaign promises as if he were
cracking eggs for the skillet and changes his mind almost daily like a
weathervane on steroids. You have put your trust in an intellectual lightweight
and geopolitical bungler who makes Jimmy Carter look like a paragon of acute
intelligence, moral substance and rare diplomatic foresight.
What have you done? You
have bought into a fraudulent narrative. You have made a Faustian bargain with a
suave Mephistophelian who offers hope and change but delivers instead inevitable
suffering and a violated people. As in all such compacts, the price for a brief
state of euphoria is subsequent prolonged distress. You have given carte
blanche to a man with a personal dossier blacked out in many places like a
letter from the front, so as not, apparently, to divulge sensitive information.
You have raised among you a man whose friends and influences would surely have
precluded him from meriting your confidence had you paid attention to plain
facts rather than to quasi-mystical incantations. You have anointed a man with a
sinister agenda. You have voted for your historical nemesis who with his every
move and decision renders you increasingly insecure in a violent and unforgiving
world.
If
you need a slogan to trigger a reaction, it should not be “Yes we can”—whatever
that might conceivably have meant—but “What have we done?”—whose implications
should now be obvious. I pray it is not too late to reverse the trajectory you
have unthinkingly plotted for yourselves. It may be a shame to let a serious
crisis go to waste, as your president’s intimate adviser cynically put it, but
it would be a much greater shame to let a crisis reach the point of no return.
And there is little doubt that you are now facing an impending crisis of the
first magnitude, both domestically and globally.
Let us count the
ways.
The
response to a looming international menace is paralysis, appeasement and
misconstrual—to the dire effects of which we are all, not only Americans,
susceptible. American troops are targeted on the battlefield by the
interventions of rogue regimes, such as Syria and Iran, which the present
administration refuses to condemn and, indeed, with which it is seeking closer
engagement. Defense capability is progressively truncated. Officials sworn to
defend the nation to the best of their ability are saddled with the fear of
prosecution, discouraging their peers and successors from properly doing their
job. Detained terrorists are repatriated to their fields of operation, many
taking up once again the jihadist activities for which they were originally
interned. Acts of military aggression are adjudicated as civil offenses,
awarding terrorists the same constitutional rights as ordinary Americans. Solemn
alliances are flouted with whimsical impunity and typical hissy fits while
manifest tyrants are treated with kid gloves and gestures of obeisance. UN
kleptocrats and avowed enemies are laureled with meretricious authority. This is
what your president’s current foreign policy amounts to, abetted by a carefully
selected and pliable cadre of career puppets without character or
backbone.
Meanwhile, legitimate
dissent is denounced as a form of subversion. The Constitution is
euphemistically interpreted as a “living document,” that is, as subject to
tampering, which is nothing less than an assault upon the foundational heritage
of the Republic. Individual liberties are being relentlessly eroded and private
behavior regulated by an expanding government bureaucracy. The prospect of
enfranchising up to eleven million illegal immigrants presages an American
ochlocracy, that is, government by the masses rather than the laws—the very
antithesis of Republican rule. Unelected officials, appointed by the president
and known as “czars,” wield disproportionate power as they carry out their
master’s directives. Unsustainable entitlement programs impinge dramatically
upon the future. Income redistribution schemes disincentivize industrial and
commercial productivity, creating a shrinking GDP and budgetary shortfall.
Discredited hypotheses such as anthropogenic “climate change” are allowed to
drive economic policy, leading to even further instability. Major tax hikes are
on the horizon, complemented by the shell game of disappearing numbers,
especially in regard to the so-called healthcare “reform,” with revenue
calculated over a longer period than expenditures. New debt is piled on old debt
like Pelion on Ossa. Fiscal blood drains from the nation’s arteries. These and
more are the daylight consequences of your electoral delirium.
Who am I to address the
citizens of another country? A loyal friend, and a citizen of a nation whose
fate is inextricably bound up with yours. My interests are also at stake. That
is why I am glad to note that many people are now awakening to the nature and
extent of their folly, but far too many still malinger in the grip of a profound
narcosis. To these latter, I would say that, in your desire for novelty, your
pampered sense of frivolous grievance and your hypnotic suggestibility, you have
chosen to cohabit with an incubus. You have shown a readiness to be seduced not
by a lover of freedom but by a votary of his own malign gods. Despite the recent
surfeit of Hollywood films, TV programs and neo-gothic novels fondly
rehabilitating the undead, deep down you must know there is no such thing as a
good vampire.
And so, in conclusion, I
ask once again. What have you done?
_____________________
Thoughts about Hillary...
A society that
does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is
entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and
cannot really know freedom. ~ Friedrich August von Hayek
We all know that Hillary Clinton cusses and lies with almost
every off camera breath and that in and of itself is not reason to deny her
your vote. You deny her your vote
because she can care less about you, the individual. Which means she can care less about your freedom…to her, it’s all about
control…and that’s bad!
1 comment:
Well, MOST have been playing computer games...
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