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November 06, 2008

Seething

Quite a bit more to say about this farce of an election and the prospect of President Nothing. My current dominant emotional state: Generalized contempt. More as my blood returns to a semi-liquid liquid state. I think it is a plasma just now so it could take some time.

Related: The Invisible Man.

Unlike Ralph Ellison, unlike Ellison's Invisible Man by the story's end, Obama has most assuredly not transcended the injustice of his existential 'invisibility'. Rather, he is at the stage of wallowing in it. Indeed, if we are to take the novel as our model, he is at precisely the crux of a far greater horror, of which Ellison and all great humanists warn: an inward invisibility. Of becoming a man whom everyone sees, perhaps, but no one knows. (Least of all himself.)

I had been thinking something along these lines. If Bill Ayers is not the dimwit I suspect him to be, he is being very careful to stay in the public eye. If the incoming President is the sociopath I suspect him to be, there are all sorts of former friends and mentors about to find themselves surplus to requirements. It is going to get sticky for everybody but inevitably it is the old guard revolutionaries who are first against the wall. Which is what we call a silver lining.

Uplifting: The Infidel Blogger Awards, now accepting nominations.

Also, Melanie Phillips.

What this election tells us is that America voted for change because America is in the process of changing – not just demographically by becoming less white and more diverse, but as the result of a culture war in which western civilisation is losing out to a far-left agenda which has become mainstream, teaching American children to despise the founding values of their country and hijacking discourse by the minority power-grab of victim-culture.

The reaction of conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic to this undoubted change – not just in the US but in Britain too – shows the intellectual disarray caused by these profound developments. They say politicians must stop trying to hold the cultural line and go instead with the flow of change. In Britain, the Tory party has adopted this strategy. Now there are Republicans saying the same thing.

Which is, of course, doing it wrong. The Provisional VRWC needs to purge the onservatives, identify core objectives and figure out how to start a long march of our own. Those institutions are not going to retake themselves.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 6, 2008 05:17 AM

Comments

Some are contemplating this work, among them Jeff G. at PW, but one needs to recall it would be akin to the Goldwater debacle. If one is prepared for 16 years out of power in the cause of a purer Classical Liberalism, then OK.

OTOH, the powers and pundits that be are jockeying for the next pragmatic power grab. To some extent, they're viewing the present chaos as a means to further themselves, which is OK, too.

I see no reason both avenues could not be pursued. The clock is ticking on security issues and on the domestic front.

Posted by: urthshu at November 6, 2008 09:54 AM

OTOH, the powers and pundits that be are jockeying for the next pragmatic power grab. To some extent, they're viewing the present chaos as a means to further themselves, which is OK, too.

I see no reason both avenues could not be pursued. The clock is ticking on security issues and on the domestic front.

Posted by: urthshu at November 6, 2008 10:05 AM

AUGH! double post - sorry

Posted by: urthshu at November 6, 2008 10:09 AM