THE LOSERS OF THE LEFT
Bruno Ganz. He’s the Swiss actor you’ve seen starring in more movies than Brad Pitt, Johnnie Depp, or Daniel Craig combined. You may have never heard of him, but you’ve seen his most famous movie a lot. It was a 2004 German film entitled Der Untergang. The English version is entitled The Downfall.
Still not ringing a bell? Here’s the scene you’ve watched so often. It is April 20, 1945, Adolph Hitler’s 56th birthday. Trapped in his Führerbunker in Berlin, Hitler is informed by his generals Wilhelm Bergdorf and Hans Krebs that the Soviet Red Army is just 12 kilometers from the city center.
He waves the threat away, saying that he has ordered the crack Waffen SS troops of Gen. Felix Steiner to outflank the Russians. Krebs tells him that Steiner has failed to gather enough of his soldiers together for a counterattack. Hitler orders everyone out of the room save for generals Krebs, Burgdorf, Alfred Jodl, and Wilhelm Keitel, and goes berserk with rage.
Bruno Ganz’s portrayal of Hitler’s Bunker Meltdown has been parodied so many times that you have to have seen at least one or two dozen. We’ve run a number of them in the TTP Humor File, such as Hitler Learns of Gov. Scott Walker’s Victory in Wisconsin.
Get ready to see a lot more after November 6th.
There are 19 days to go. We must continually keep Yogi Berra’s wisdom in mind: "It’s never over until it’s over." Yet the momentum, the energy, of the campaign is clearly and obviously surging in Romney’s direction. With every day that passes, it becomes massively more difficult for Zero and his minions to reverse it.
So, remembering Yogi Berra – and Hans Solo who advised Luke Skywalker when he had just shot down his first TIE fighter, "Don’t get cocky, kid" – it’s time to start tallying up the multiple Losers of the Left who are going to be melting down like Bruno Ganz’s Hitler when Zero goes down in electoral flames.
And let’s caveat this further. Rome wasn’t torn down in a day. It took the Left decades to ruin America one steady drip of cultural poison at a time. It may not take us decades, but leaching out the poison from our country’s bloodstream won’t be done overnight.
We all know that if voters choose to elect Zero, it will be a willful act of seppuku, the ritual suicide of America by disembowelment. There is no chance our country will recover in the foreseeable future. Anyone who thinks some group of capitalist heroes will emerge out of the pages of Atlas Shrugged to resurrect America from Zero’s ashes is indulging in a complete fantasy. There will be nothing left but ashes.
Mitt Romney is as close to a capitalist hero as we’re going to get. He’s no John Galt or Hank Rearden. All he gives us is a chance, and that’s all we can reasonably ask of history or reality. Actually, not one chance, but a large number of chances or opportunities available for us take advantage of. Let us count the ways, and identify the Losers of the Left.
First to take it in the shorts will be the corrupt media. Fruitcakes like Chrissie Mathews may still have a job, but their audience will contract to irrelevance. Nobody will notice when they foam at the mouth. The major print lefties like the New York Times will soldier on, with the second tier like Newsweek falling into oblivion. Yet even the Grey Lady (the NYT) will learn the more it fulminates for political correctness, the less it will be heard.
Second will be the enviros, the glo-warmers, the scam artists of eco-fascism. The entire "renewable energy" rip-off of wind-turbines and Solyndras will shrivel up without taxpayer subsidies. Corn farmers will have to go back to growing corn for food. EPA fascism will wane. Warmism will be so yesterday.
Third is teachers’ unions. What Scott Walker did to them in Wisconsin will be the template for two or three dozen states, while Romney guts the budget and power of the Department of Education.
Fourth is California. Gov. Moonbeam and the moonbat pols who run Sacramento have bet the farm that they can impose whatever taxes and regulations they want, and spend whatever they want, trusting that Zero will be reelected and bail them out with fed money. There goes the moonbat farm.
A Republican House & Senate will pass, and Romney will sign, legislation allowing states to declare bankruptcy. California will have to go into receivership. Illinois and other blue states will not be far behind.
Fifth will be Eric Holder. Romney is too much of a gentleman to investigate Zero for his crimes, and he’ll want to have Americans focus on the future ahead, not the past behind. But Holder’s crimes are another matter. Romney may well be persuaded that never again must an Attorney General be allowed to trample and corrupt the Justice Department – and the way to do that is to prosecute Holder to the full extent of the law.
Sixth will be Hollywood. The impact will be indirect, reflecting the cultural shift we discussed last August in Mitt Romney and the Culture of Chuck Berry. Movies and television dramas portraying America and her businessmen as evil will no longer be cool, but rather gauche, uncool and passé. Smart-aleck cynicism and moral relativism will be out. Optimism and moral decency will be in.
Hollywood will have to start making movies that reflect this, or else they’ll bomb at the box office.
Seventh will be the United Nations. Secretary of State John Bolton will see to that. Any attempt by the UN bureaucracy to impinge on the sovereignty of the United States will be quickly snuffed out. Adapted from the Marines, our foreign policy will be: "America – your best friend, your worst enemy, and we don’t have to take crap from anyone." You can bet your life savings you won’t see Romney bowing to any foreign dictators.
Eighth are the moochers, the food-stampers, the spongers who scream that the taxpayers owe them a living. Headlines like today’s (10/18), "Welfare Spending Jumps 32% in Four Years" will be from the past. Welfare spending will drop precipitously as Romney gets the government out of the way of the economy so it can provide a plethora of jobs, and folks realize they are far happier working than being a moocher.
Ninth, and hand-in-hand with the eighth, are the race-baiters, guilt-mongers, and professional victimologists. Last week’s HFR linked to an extraordinary story, Extreme Black Anger at Obama. The writer’s black friends are enraged that Zero has spoiled their white-guilt scam: "We don’t get to exploit the white guilt anymore because that’s not there these days. It’s all gone. He (Obama) done did it. He ruined it for us. White people don’t feel guilty no more and won’t do stuff for us now."
White guilt is over. Capitulation to threats of "Racism!" is over. What George Bush condemned as "the soft bigotry of low expectations" is over. Racial preferences and affirmative action will soon be over. Black rage and intimidation will be shrugged at, and finally Black Americans will be treated as adults responsible for their own lives like any other grown-up, not infantilized by Democrats.
Tenth are the liberal courts and activist judges. This will take place over a longer time-frame. Take the insanity of laws against homosexual marriage being ruled unconstitutional, or the Supremes ruling for Obamacare. The Roberts Court was intimidated by Zero. Under Romney, it will not be, and thus freer to follow its conservative majority instincts.
Romney will appoint at least two Supremes, most likely the oldest, Breyer (born 1938) and Ginsburg (born 1933), plus a huge raft of lower court selections. Further, it’s the culture that counts. "Same-sex" marriage will be far less of an issue as the lib media driving it wanes drastically in influence. The political power of the homosexual community will wane – especially as we learn now that it makes up a very small fraction (3.4%) of Americans.
As "political correctness" dies in American culture, judges’ rulings, over time, will follow.
We are all working hard to achieve a Nobama Future. Romney’s victory will ensure it, but it is only a chance for a new beginning. It is no silver bullet, no instant panacea. We have a gigantically deep hole, economically and culturally, to dig ourselves out of.
Will Romney Be Our FDR? is a question we discussed last June. We need to revisit the question, and realize that he can be if we work and choose to make it so.
America’s destiny will soon be in our hands, and no longer the Left’s. The Left has lost the future. Soon it will be ours once more.