Sunday, October 26, 2008

The Tragic Failure of Democratic Values

I love it. Barack Obama is being called a Liberal. A Socialist. A Communist. And now, a Nazi, who will do horrible things to Jews. I'm waiting until later on in the week when he will be accused of attacking 20 year-old McCain volunteers and carving "B's" on their cheeks, backwards, as if it was done with a mirror. Also, the Democrats are responsible for the current economic crisis because they didn't stop us...

We have had elements of socialism in our government for many years. There are some very good ideas that other countries have adopted and have worked out well for them. The trick is not to force socialistic programs with military force. The same goes with Democratic values, its better to persuade other countries to adopt our ideals by example than it is by occupying their countries. We failed miserably to do this in the human rights department, and seem to be failing to be persuasive in the economic area, threatening to bring the entire world's economy down with us.

The United States may lose its primacy in the world of business. English may give way to some other language as the international lingua franca, and the dollar may lose to the Euro. Which may send us further spiraling downwards into becoming just another third world, tin-horn ex-super power. 

I seriously doubt if Obama can pull off the miracle that is needed to put us back on the right track. It will take the right wing element to give up most of what they have believed in for the last 20 years or so, to acknowledge that their ideas don't work in real life. And the liberal element will have to restrain themselves from promoting social programs that will bankrupt us even more. I haven't heard anyone saying we need to outlaw lobbying, or that all laws need a sunset clause on them, that we need the right kind of regulation of our money industries instead of blanket regulation. 

The Democratic Congress hasn't fulfilled on the promises they made when they became the majority, and I'm afraid that with even more overwhelming victories in November, there won't be enough opposition to call them out when they propose stupid legislation. We need checks and balances, we need polite opposition. We need more than two viable political parties.



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