I finally have a
moment or two to put down some thoughts about last night.
I’ve noticed some
of like mind say that this is not a disaster. There’s been bad elections before, and our system of checks
and balances will do its job and preserve our republic just fine. I do wish they are proved correct, but
I beg to differ.
Last night is
different because of the voters and because of the President they re-elected.
I’ll dispense with
the latter first and quickly. I’ve
long and frequently noted that Obama has a totalitarian streak. He has already shown a propensity for
running over the Constitution and its checks and balances. Obama is dangerous in large part because
of his disregard for Constitutional checks and balances. And now that he no longer has the
accountability of an election, his disregard will become more evident and
consequential.
But what saddens me
more about this election is what it says about what Americans have become. With all the information available, it
does not take a great deal of effort to know the kind of President that Obama
is. And yet they re-elected
him. (I say “they” because I sure
as heck did not re-elect him.)
This is different
than 2008. Thanks to a feckless
news media, you had to dig a little to find out about Obama. But now he had a record and a horrific
one. It’s different than 1992 and
1996, too. Clinton hid much of his
liberal-left agenda in 1992, and had already run to the center (and wisely so)
by 1996 after the spanking he got in 1994.
This time, voters
had no such excuses. Obama’s first
term record is clear for all to see.
And he certainly has not run from it to the center. And yet, they re-elected him
anyway.
To be blunt, the
electorate acted more like Venezuelans than Americans. Yes, that is harsh. (And don’t give me “RACIST!”
crap. I’m referring to culture,
not skin tone.) But rest assured I say that with more sadness than anger.
Greg Griffith
spells out some of what this election says about what American voters have
become:
How could anyone who had drunk in even a sip of the
disgusting actions of our president even entertain the notion of re-electing
him?
My answer didn’t come immediately, but it came soon
enough. The answer is this:
- There are millions of voters who can’t tell you that
Benghazi is in Libya, can’t tell you that our ambassador was murdered there,
can’t even point to Libya on a map.
- There are millions of voters who, while perhaps being
able to tell you that our ambassador was killed in some sort of attack, are
wholly ignorant of the administration’s fecklessness and perhaps traitorous
culpability in all of it.
- But the most important answer is this: There are
millions of voters who can be sat down, and have it explained to them exactly
what happened, and fully comprehend the disgusting failures of leadership and
morality of the Obama administration… they can look at the photos of the men
who died fighting in Benghazi and have at least some understanding of their
honor and courage and sacrifice, and look at the photos of Barack Obama
partying with Beyonce and Jay-Z beside a champagne tower… and they prefer the
champagne tower. They prefer the depravity of Barack and Beyonce and Jay-Z to
the honor and courage and sacrifice of the men who died in Benghazi.
And combined, those millions of voters outnumber the ones
who cannot conceive of preferring depravity over honor.
We could run the same exercise using other questions of
morality - photos of partial-birth abortions, for example, or the indignity of
the poverty and insecurity that results from socialism - and we would get the
same results.
Sad, but true. And regardless of what Obama may or may
not do in his 2nd term, what the American electorate has become does
not bode well for our nation’s future.
As I concluded last
night, it was a dark night. And it’s
about to get darker.
