October 4, 2003
I'M NOT CHICKEN LITTLE
I'm Chicken Mel (what's that from?). And just because I'm paranoid it doesn't mean the sky isn't falling.
Acidman had a good post yesterday about W's betrayal of the conservatives who voted for him. I tend to agree, however I'll vote for him anyway in '04 as the least of any number of evils.
Let's understand one thing: there will never be a real conservative or libertarian in the White House. Ain't gonna happen. There are too many special interest groups and grievance mongers to ever get a plurality of votes without selling out to a critical mass of these peckerheads.
W spends tax money like a drunken sailor in Bangkok. Guess what? So did Reagan. While both of them beefed up the military, neither had the balls to take on the truly onerous task of downsizing the beast that is the federal government. Hell, Reagan was going to axe the Department of Education. Remember that? Bullshit.
American conservatism is one long retrograde movement. You bust a cap on the truly egregious people who raise their heads too high while you retreat, retreat, retreat. We are ultimately doomed as a free society. For every gain in gun control laws, partial birth abortion, whatever, the losses are treble. In five years you not only won't be able to smoke in your car, you won't be able to smoke in your own house. Against that backdrop I really don't care if there is a small victory against illegal immigrants getting California driver licenses, or affirmative action being banned in graduate schools. We're fucking hosed. Better to slow the inevitable. You aren't going to get a flat-taxer or bureaucracy-buster in the White House. EVER. We are a Balkanized, single-issue society now. That is not going to change. That fact sucks, but it's still a fact.
I'm going to spend the rest of my life merely tripping the feet of the Brave New Worlders, and hope the society my kids inherit isn't totally fucked up.
I'm with you, Kim. At least the leftists will have to spend a few extra bucks to buy a pack of smokes and a bottle of Ripple to bribe some wino so he'll get in the van so they can drive him to the polls to cancel out my vote.
Anything to make the hurdles higher for the leftists, I say.
Posted by: tobacco road fogey at October 4, 2003 6:36 PMHmmm. Doom and gloom here. Is it time for some serious political action? I recall my youth, where I read a lot of science fiction. In one story, executions were done by convening a stadium of 30,000 people and a facilitator who caused said crowd to concentrate on various parts of the miscreant's body, and the combined and coordinated evil thoughts of all those people resulted in physical damage, and eventually death to the condemned.
If all the conservative bloggers picked out ONE target, say Teddy Kennedy, and the whole conservative blogosphere took him down, one FUBAR at a time, surely the rest of the world would notice, and he would be finished. We would have as our objective his resignation (no, ritual suicide is for honorable men, and he ain't) from the Senate.
That's the strategy, and here is the tactic: every blogger must know at least 10 people (like myself) who are not bloggers. If each blogger engaged all ten of those readers, then if even three of those engaged a few more, soon the whole nation would be talking about the evil Ted Kennedy. His political machinations would become daily talk show fodder, and as any snake who is exposed long enough, he would just wither and die (politically).
The next tactic is easy: DON'T GLOAT and sit on our laurels for that job, but pick another target and go after him/her.
The only way this strategy can be countered would be for the Left bloggers to copy it and try to counter the RIGHT results, but that would only end in the entire nation seeing the debate and making up their minds, coming down firmly and justly on the Right side. The final result for the Left would be loss of political power, and they will know this starting out, and won't engage at the level of the Right.
Collective (yes, I know that's a curse word for the Right, but it's accurate) action will work. What won't work is the conservatives taking a holiday next November. That makes a vacuum, and into that vacuum will flow liberals.
Give it a shot, Kim, talk it up and see what comes of it.
Posted by: Rivrdog at October 5, 2003 11:35 AMI give up. What is Chicken Mel from?
Posted by: Jack Straw at October 6, 2003 7:35 PM