
Originally Posted by
jcb
Those of us with a conservative bent better get used to it. We will not see another conservative president in our lifetime.
Why? Glad you asked.
First, we lost control of our borders. Although there are more conservative voting immigrants than we might expect, the vast majority are going to vote for whoever promises the most from Uncle Sam. Even a cursory glance back at history shows that when a nation begins to lose control of its borders, that is the beginning of the end.
Next, we hurt our own cause. Those of us who believe in both morality AND social justice, who believe in both justice AND compassion, allowed Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed and Phyllis Schlafly to define social conservatism. Those of us who believe in fiscal conservatism held our nose and voted for politicians like GWB who ran on smaller government, only to outspend the liberals after being elected. I'm including myself in that category.
Having created the welfare state, we had no idea how to stop the snowball from getting bigger as it rolled downhill. Didn't take long for unmarried mothers to figure out that having another baby meant a bigger check, and getting a job meant a smaller one. Can you blame them?
Finally, we've broken the system. Madison Avenue rings a bell, and we salivate like Pavlov's dog. Our desire to have bigger, faster, and more STUFF fattens corporate bank accounts, giving them more money to hire lobbyists, who buy politicians the way you and I buy a pair of jeans at Target. Of course, it's only *the other guy's* elected representative that is the problem; survey after survey shows that we all think Congress as a group is corrupt, but *our* guy is great. Democracy no longer exists in this country--we live in a corpocracy, because the corporations are now calling the shots.
The coming years should be nothing if not interesting. Politicians are so desperate to keep the economy afloat they're going to drop us $300-$600 checks out of the sky. When this economy, built on debt, finally collapses, it's going to make 1929 look like a garden party.
Brace yourself, folks. We've got decades of liberalism ahead.