Excellent article.
We're now ruled by an angry American underclass that wants what you have, and a tool like Obama leading them as they take it away from us.
As conservatives/libertarians, we have nothing to offer this new underclass. They don't care about less government (in fact, they want more), and to them, prosperity comes from the Party or Union. They are economic illiterates, but their appetite for what you have is infinite, and Obama has shown them the way to get what they want.
There aren't two similar but competing approaches here...then there could be compromise. The other side has a very different goal in mind, and their numbers are such that they don't need to ask permission anymore. Welcome to Obama's fundamental change.
During the Los Angeles riots of 1992, Rodney King famously asked, “Can’t we all just get along?” The answer should be an easy and unequivocal “yes,” but it seems less and less likely these days.
King was speaking in term of race, but the same could be said of political ideology. Liberals, conservatives and every other point on the political spectrum used to co-exist fairly easily (with the exception of left-wing anarchists who don’t get along with anyone). But these days détente has given way to anger and open hostility.
Some, not all, people have become less civil to those...
I swear, this is NOT going to end well. Imagine a family trying to have an intervention...when more than half their members are addicts.
Many in here seem to think we're still a center-right nation, and over time, it will self-correct. Sadly, I think *that* America is now behind us, and our fate will be sealed when Obama finds a way to grant citizenship to the 12-20 million illegals here in the US.
Texas, Arizona and Florida will turn solid blue under those rules, and from there on, the Marxists will begin every presidential election with a 200 point electoral college head start. The rest of us will be slave to their wishes, at least until the collapse is complete.