ARE WE HAVING FUN NOW?
"The sun does not rise in the east. That cannot happen. We can’t allow it. If the sun were to rise in the east – just for the sake of argument for it is impossible – then Greece will default, the euro will collapse, the European Union will disintegrate, and all of civilization will face a doom worse than the catastrophe of Global Warming, which by the way, is real."
Don’t you find this awesome denial of reality by all the leaders of Europe absolutely hilarious? Yet this only scratches the surface of mirth regarding what is happening in our world now. Speaking of our world, I’m writing this 35,000 feet above it, flying to Africa on a wing and a prayer. The wing is an Airbus 380-300’s, the prayer is that I’ll have an internet connection in Bangui in the Central African Republic once I get there so I can post this on TTP.
Where I am and where I’m headed is perhaps an apt metaphor. I’m over the Sahara now, with its sandy uninhabited wastes reminding me of Zero’s desertification of America’s economy and culture. I’m going into the unknown, the deepest jungle abyss of the Dark Continent, similar to the chaotic unknown future facing America.
Yet this non-stop Air France flight from Paris is packed, full of folks with no sense of foreboding whatever. Nor should we, facing the future we are bound for. It’s about time we began looking forward to it.
The connection between danger and opportunity is an overworked cliché now, but it’s true – as is its corollary: the greater the danger the greater the opportunity. The great enemy of progress is inertia. Individuals and societies get into ruts which they won’t be rooted out of unless they have to – unless the danger of staying in the rut is so great they can’t remain there.
That’s where we are now. That’s why I love the Occupy Wall Street "protest" movement. You and I couldn’t have designed anything better with which to delegitimate and ludicrize Zero, the Dems, the Enemedia, and the entire Left if we tried. It’s too beautiful for words.
From the naïve trust-fund hippie morons in Zuccotti Park now being overrun by druggies and hobos to the Black Panther thugs taking over Occupy Oakland, the entire OWS movement is disintegrating into such anarchic violent pointlessness that it’s a come-to-Jesus moment for millions: so this is where our current president and his party are leading us?
No wonder Mrs. Zero is boiling over with resentment these days as the First Shrew. She sees the end of her husband’s deification. So do the editors of TIME Magazine with their current cover hagiography of Hillary and her "Smart Power" foreign policy (smart exactly where?).
Yet the opportunity Providence is placing at America’s feet goes far beyond replacing a disastrous president, to rectify the almost-fatal error of electing him. The real opportunity is to kill the legacy of the 1960s. And more.
The 60s were a cultural and political disaster created by the Baby Boomers as they came into their twenties and teens: the drug-addled "Woodstock Generation." There was a doubling, even tripling of rates for murder, rape, assault, and every other category of major crime. Every stabilizing cultural institution, from marriage and family to common courtesy and manners was trashed, while their opposites were eulogized as "revolutionary."
Sanity was ridiculed as "bourgeois logic," while psychosis was romantic, as in movies like A Fine Madness. Criminals were morphed into heroic rebels and class warriors. Black Marxists like Eldridge Cleaver bragged about raping white women as "an insurrectionary act" – words that were praised by the New York Times as "brilliant and revealing."
At precisely the same time, Lyndon Johnson – whom both Jacqueline Kennedy and I suspect of murdering JFK – was getting thousands of American soldiers (the finest Baby Boomers, the opposite of the Woodstockers) killed in a war he had no intention whatever of winning, while embarking on a Great Society explosion of unconstitutional government expansion and intrusion into our lives.
Finally the Woodstock Baby Boomers started growing up, crime rates dropped, Ronald Reagan was elected, et al – but the legacy of the 60s lives deeply on, as you can see with the description above sounding like dèjá vu all over again. Now we have a chance to get rid of it, drive a stake into its heart and goodbye.
Here’s what’s coming. Americans are not just sick and tired and being unemployed, sick and tired of having no economic future. They are sick and tired of their fascist government running their lives. They are sick and tired of morons in Zuccotti Park and Harvard professors telling them capitalism sucks, that it’s immoral and exploitative of Planet Earth to want to live well and not in a cave. They are sick and tired of Zero and Pelosi Galore and Barney Frank blaming them for the disasters they themselves have caused and for which they belong in jail, not in high office.
Or at least a majority of Americans, the "53 percenters" who are producers and not parasites.
The timing of this, coming at just the same time as the collapse of Europe’s welfare state and its political currency, plus the contraction of the Chicom’s house of cards economy, is exquisite. More danger, more opportunity.
After 64 years of unbroken monopoly of power in the House (the two 46-48 and 52-54 interregnums being irrelevant), the Republicans gained a majority in 1994. One of their promises was to eliminate entire unconstitutional cabinet departments: Energy and Education. Nothing whatever came of it.
For six years, 2001-2006, the Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House. They had a priceless, never-before-in-our-lifetimes opportunity to shrink Leviathan, to reduce government interference and control over our lives. They not only squandered it, they made it worse.
The point of this is not that they will squander it again if they win in 2012, but that they won’t. The political energy has changed, no matter how much the Country Club Republican Establishment, exemplified by Mitt Romney and Karl Rove resist it. All Pub presidential candidates, save for Romney, are advocating massive cutbacks in Leviathan, and they mean it. When did you ever hear that before? What was Laissez Faire-Ayn Rand-Ludwig Von Mises off the wall fringey radical is now mainstream.
This is why Mitt Romney is doomed. He is not going to be the GOP candidate. He is yesterday. A fixer-upper technocrat. That is so 20th Century. We are finally going to get into this century, into the future instead of stuck in the past. We are going to get rid of the 60s at last. We are going to get rid of the whole Marxist-Fascist-Democrat irrationalist claptrap of class-envy parasite moocher politics. That is the opportunity that Providence is handing to us on a platter.
Yes, I think Rick Perry is the man who will spearhead this. It could be Herman Cain if he can somehow surmount his increasing problems. If both of them fail, it could be someone else – Sarah? – who will rise to the challenge. I believe the challenge will be met, because the opportunity is too great.
That’s what Americans do. The greater the challenge, the greater their determination to overcome it. America is the future. It’s about time we got excited about it. Are we having fun now?