If there’s anything satisfying about the GOP sweep in today’s election, it’s that the progressive liberals can stick up their arses all that inane talk about how the 2008 election was some kind of mandate for more government usurpation of the markets and other economic freedoms, and to balance the budget by more private wealth confiscation through taxation.
It should now be crystal clear to one and all that the shift in power enabled by the electorate was not an endorsement of lefty progressive authoritarians, but rather a referendum on republican stupidity. Left with no other choice, the previously indifferent majority showed up and tilted the election to the Democrats. This was nothing more than an “anything but the republicans” mandate, with many bluntly stating it was a vote for the lesser of two evils.
Which brings us to today’s results. I’m a longtime abstainer of succumbing to R and D party elections. Both have for too long been the opposite sides of the same political coin. One, the party of warfare, the other the party of welfare, with both in love with the powerful central state and its inherent power to deliver authoritarian results.
Today I actually voted R in the local races that were close. I don’t care to endorse the Rs in any way, other than to give a big “fuck you” to the democrat governor and senate candidates, and implied in that — a major league F-YOU to all D’s for forcing that piece of shit healthcare program onto the American public. I could only hold my nose barely enough to do this, largely because I, for the first time, watched elements of the multi-headed Tea Party actually run out of town the same old GOP types that have compromised this nation into fiscal insolvency. To hell with the normal election expedience of compromise it all to win politics. They were willing to scrap an election in Delaware by throwing out the establishment pro-authoritarian heir candidate by nominating a long-shot Christine O’Donnel, whose colorful background enabled the press to ignore her stance on many issues and focus on her, well, goofiness. For the past two decades I tried to convince Republican and Democrat voters to bail from the party and vote their libertarian hearts, and they’d always say “i don’t want to waste my vote.” This change took balls, and I voted R to reward a bucking of the age-odl bullshit of “get along n’ compromise politics” that has done nothing but dug the hole we’re sinking into deeper and deeper.
And now I wait and watch to see if the GOP pulls a ’94 by running scared from the Tea Party that restored them to power in order to worship the dimwitted middle while pushing to expand the police state, both of which I fully expect them to do.
As such, I expect the debate over “cutting government” to revolve around cutting the pace of growth vs. actually shrinking the bullshit. And when it’s back to that baloney, I then hope there’s enough sanity lingering in this mild revolution taking place to hold the wasteful authoritarian Republican types equally accountable, and in a direction more towards freedom and the rights of individuals, vs.whipsawing back to the Dem’s. Although, the way the system is rigged to protect the major two parties, we’ll likely see a restoration of progressive hokum in 2012.
Yes, that is my fear — that we shall ratchet back and forth between Rs and Ds, and at best, glacially move the spectrum slightly to freedom vs. the current embraced paradigm of democratically elected authoritarianism.
That said, we’ll run out of financial rope in this bankrupt nation long before liberty and freedom are again restored in this nation. Which means, unfortunately, we risk dropping into the dark ages as the Empire of Fools Electing Bigger Fools collapses into itself like a burnt out star.
Posted on November 2, 2010
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