Last night’s election results were a welcome sign of life, and a clear indication that the Left’s cultural and political blitzkrieg of the past few years has outstripped its supply lines, and conquered more territory than it can hold. Exactly what legislative ground can actually be retaken by the forces of order, liberty, sanity, and American tradition remains to be seen — a full repeal of the ACA still seems out of reach, for example, even with a unified Congress — but at the very least we have, for now, halted the enemy’s advance.
That’s about as far as I’ll go: from a reactionary standpoint, temporary decelerations of the dismantling of the American order might just prolong and extend a slow decline, whereas letting the destruction continue at its rapid pace might have hastened a collapse from the ashes of which something far more vital might have arisen. (To use an overworked metaphor, it might, in the long run, mean the difference between a successfully boiled frog and one that jumps out of the pot.)
Our lefty pal Peter commented in a recent post that “we are a center left country”, leaning on the familiar myth that House Republican majorities are due only to evil gerrymandering (reflecting the customary liberal assumption that anything they can’t have must have been taken from them unfairly) — but as CNN’s John King demonstrated last night, things have changed over the past few years. It’s hard not to see that conservative groundswell as a reaction to overreach by the Left, and to too-rapid change.
So: we’ll see where we go from here. It is one thing to campaign successfully; it is another to govern. But for today, a sigh of relief is in order at the very least, and perhaps even a cheer. At the very least, the vile and venal Harry Reid no longer controls the Senate. And that’s not nothing.
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“It’s hard not to see that conservative groundswell as a reaction to overreach by the Left, and to too-rapid change…”
You are objecting to the pace, and not the direction, of Leftism. Reset.
Your blitzkrieg metaphor is quite apt, as it correlates well with the winter vanquishment of Barbarossa at Stalingrad.
Now is the winter of our discontent.
“You are objecting to the pace, and not the direction, of Leftism.”
No. The remark you quote was about why I thought the red sweep happened, not what my own preferences might be.
As for the “direction”: if the high civilization of the West is not already rotted beyond repair, its restoration requires that the long post-Enlightenment march of the Left be not slowed, nor even halted, but reversed.
Apparently, you aren’t reading yahoo news. Here’s the headline I got this morning:
“How Hillary Clinton won the 2014 midterms”
http://news.yahoo.com/how-hillary-clinton-won-the-2014-midterms-075943434.html
Yes, folks, she wasn’t even running, but she still won the race.
We’ll see. I’m actually pretty confident that Hillary Clinton will never be president.
Still, I’ll admit that the very idea makes my blood run cold.
our spring is pulled by
outraged moves, until it
fails, and falls apart
Our “center-left country” today:
A cursory glance at the map shows, unambiguously and geographically, a center-right country. If not for a few blue patches in northern NM (nauseatingly liberal Santa Fe) and CO, the center would be right exclusively.
If you squint you can almost make out our friend Peter, way over there on the left. From where he sits, of course, it’s nothing but blue, as far as the eye can see.
Your friend takes solace from the knowledge that his Four
HorsemenHorseshits of the Apocalypse remain for the time being: Bat-shit-crazy Pelosi; Brown Shit-for-brains; and the Doody-duo Senators.Moreover, his monoculer vision limits his depth perception.
The Left is tagged with the color “Blue”. Blue is also what a body begins to exhibit when the oxygen supply to the brain runs out.