[ April 25, 2024 ]
Read my first column for 2013. Fighting words.
DEFENDING THE WESTThe end of America: Why Romney lost WND, January 1, 2013
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The United States of America was created as an independent nation
whose founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Freedom.
Ayn Rand said that “freedom, in a political context, means freedom from
government coercion.” America was the first moral government based on
individual rights, the nation of the Enlightenment.In this age of Obama, that ideal has been tossed aside for … “free stuff.”
I have, for some time, struggled with the new reality: America void
of her reason, existing without the reason for her existence, her
morality. It did not seem possible. And yet what now seems impossible is
that America ever was. As we revert back to the age of the primitive,
the fact that America happened at all is nothing short of a miracle.The United States of America was the rational man’s shining hour.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, N.J., recently wrote an analysis
of the 2012 presidential election that is the best thing I have read on
Romney’s election loss and the broader question of the loss of America.“It is a different world,” wrote Pruzansky, “and a different America.
Obama is part of that different America, knows it, and knows how to tap
into it. That is why he won.” What kind of different America?
Pruzansky’s explanation is devastating: “Romney lost,” he writes,
“because the conservative virtues – the traditional American virtues –
of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and
aspirations to moral greatness – no longer inspire or animate a majority
of the electorate. The notion of the ‘Reagan Democrat’ is one cliché
that should be permanently retired. Ronald Reagan himself could not win
an election in today’s America. The simplest reason why Romney lost was
because it is impossible to compete against free stuff.”It is impossible to compete against “free stuff.” As Pruzansky
explains: “The adults among the 47,000,000 on food stamps clearly
recognized for whom they should vote, and so they did, by the tens of
millions; those who – courtesy of Obama – receive two full years of
unemployment benefits (which, of course, both disincentivizes looking
for work and also motivates people to work off the books while
collecting their windfall) surely know for whom to vote; so too those
who anticipate ‘free’ health care, who expect the government to pay
their mortgages, who look for the government to give them jobs. The lure
of free stuff is irresistible.”And given Obama’s relentless hostility to Israel, Pruzansky says,
“this election should be a wake-up call to Jews. There is no permanent
empire, nor is there is an enduring haven for Jews anywhere in the
exile. The American empire began to decline in 2007, and the
deterioration has been exacerbated in the last five years. This election
only hastens that decline. Society is permeated with sloth, greed, envy
and materialistic excess. It has lost its moorings and its moral
foundations. The takers outnumber the givers, and that will only
increase in years to come.” His conclusion for American Jews is stark:
“We have about a decade, perhaps 15 years, to leave with dignity and
without stress.”What was once unthinkable is now not just thinkable, but entirely
possible. When I was a child, I remember sitting in the backseat of the
family car listening in on my parents’ conversation. I am not sure what
led to the following exchange, but I never forgot it. My father said,
“Nothing is forever.” And my mother said, “Nothing?” He repeated:
“Nothing.” And my mother thought for a moment and asked, “Not even
America?” He said, “Not even America.”At that time the idea that America could fall was inconceivable to her (and to me). America – freedom – was forever.
But that is not so. And scarier still is the tenuous status of Jews
in America. It’s hard not to draw parallels to persecuted Jews in
once-friendly nations and their subsequent persecution, expulsion and
slaughter. To think that Poland was once the Israel of Europe. Millions
of Jews made Poland their home and had a long history there of over a
thousand years. And in three short years … complete annihilation.German Jews, meanwhile, were so very vested in the motherland they
considered themselves Germans before Jews. They were war heroes for
Germany in World War I.How long do Jews have in Obama’s America? How long before we can’t
walk down the street with a kippah or a Star of David? This is already
reality for Belgium Jews, Swedish Jews and French Jews. Large portions
of Norway are already Judenrein.Proud Jews at Berkeley or the University of California Irvine can
give you a glimpse of how things can turn, quickly, in America as well.
Now that America itself has turned, everything is up for grabs.“To be a socialist,” said Josef Goebbels, “is to submit the I to the
thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.”
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17 Comments
11 years ago
While I do not disagree with any of the assertions in your article, there is a much simpler explanation for the presidential election results. You can do the math on the male/female statistics in a few minutes.
More women voted than men in the presidential election. If men only were counted Romney would have won by a landslide. Women, especially black and Hispanic women voted overwhelmingly for Obama. I have spoken to otherwise rational, well-educated, patriotic women. I did not have to conduct a scientifically correct survey, I just asked those in my circle a simple question. Why the hell did you vote for Obama? They all said it was the abortion issue. Most of the women I know have not had abortions and are pro-life. On this issue they see the Republican Party as willing to deny them the right to make that decision for themselves and feel they should solely have that right to determine whether or not they have an abortion. They constantly told me “it is my body” and “no one else’s business”. That included some, when I asked them what about the man who fathered the child said “nope it was none of the man’s business if they were not married to that woman” and some said it was “not their husband’s business”. The majority of them think that if you are under 18 you should have parental permission to have an abortion. Many of them were mothers who have had daughters who are single parents.
So lets not kid ourselves: Abortion was the huge issue among women and that alone was enough to vault the Obama run on the presidency over the top.
Myself, I think it is a woman’s right to determine what happens to her body. If she is married she should share that right with her husband and if she is under 18 then her parents should have to grant permission unless she is married.
What alarms me is the overwhelming assault on the very building block of our society, the family unit. Mother, father and children.
It is the basic building block of all societies since history has been recorded. With the agenda fueled push to destroy our civilization from within the left has used the glorification and acceptance of same sex physical liaisons to assault traditional marriage via redefining what a marriage is. It is no longer (check your latest dictionaries) a union between a man and a woman/husband and wife. It is now more broadly defined. I actually do not think you can call anyone husband and wife anymore and be within the newly defined parameters of marriage. In a same sex marriage who is the husband and who is the wife?
Yeah twenty years ago we would have laughed at this absurdity for what it is.
Now this is even called a civil rights issue and has spearheaded the charge into destroying society, as we know it. Just how many of us have been brainwashed into thinking we are homophobic if we think same sex marriage is beyond stupid.
For all those people who find their sexual preference with their own gender that I used to actually defend, I think you have become pawns of the left and are totally selfish beyond all reason.
I want to be defined for more than what my sexual preference is and you should too!
11 years ago
Great article! But each of us who care must do all that we can (without violence of course) to get our original culture back with its “The Way We Were” values. Re-educate the dim wit Progressives and get conservative thinking and morality back in the main stream. I will never give up without talking them down because I want my country back! I won’t sit down and shut up! Love you Pamela for all that you do! G-d Bless You.
11 years ago
The election was stolen, plain and simple. I saw the numbers of people rallying for Romney. My friends in my circle who voted for Obama the first time, were not voting for him a second time. People who are not even legal citizens of our country were voting with the help of community organizers. This do NOTHING president along with his do NOTHING crew of merry men fixed this election. PERIOD!
11 years ago
I agree completely. The state of the Jews today is a complete repeat of Germany’s Jews.
It is very painful to think about because USA was a great country,
also as an Israeli i consider Americans as kin… as the only sort of family in this whole world.
The world is reshaping itself and at the moment it seems that really tough times are coming.
People will see the wrongness of all this but it will be after much suffering as it is always under every totalitarian regime ever…the only thing i think could help salvage the good people is to unite.
I wish the Jewish community will wake up !! and be a positive element of unity and mutual responsibility to help change this tide. Miracles can happen you know.
If not..come to Israel people! seriously . Christians too. We will need you there too and there we will have to unite in order to survive.
11 years ago
Anytime you promise something for nothing, everyone will lose. People in the USA were promised goods and services for free and they got it. Conservative values, hard working Americans, people with vision and determination were shuffled to the rear as freeloaders and welfare recipients were pushed to the front. This is what seemed to propel this recent National election in the USA. Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt all promised something for nothing. It worked for awhile, but in the end, the people got wise, caught on to the program, and abandoned all hope of ever achieving anything. The bottom line is quite simple; nothing is free, to achieve anything, one must work, and work hard. Right now there are millions of Americans waiting for the next free “gift” Much like the lady in the Mid-West who demanded her free Obama cell phone. The big question here is when will we begin to have the old Protestant Work Ethic return; that is, Hard Work Will Lead to Salvation?
11 years ago
Very saddening, and unfortunately probably correct. A world without America as a major beacon of freedom is most certainly not a better world.
11 years ago
Ben Franklin said it ‘When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.’
Those that voted for Obama, voted to continue to receive gov’t handouts.
‘This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.’
‘Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.’
Ben was foretelling about Barack Obama when he stated ‘Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.’
11 years ago
SS-Standartenfuhrer von Stuckermann’s “son” Georg tries to slip in what seems to be just a “normal post” until at the very end where he thinly disguises the Nazi LIE on Concentration Camp gates, “Arbeit Macht Frei”/ “Work Makes You Free”, as” Hard Work Will Lead to Salvation” .
11 years ago
>>> THE REAL REASON AND THE ONLY REASON ” WE THE PEOPLE ” ARE FORCED TO DEAL WITH AN ILLEGAL ALIEN IN OUR OVAL OFFICE AND WHITEHOUSE IS MASSIVE AND WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD , MILITARY VOTES NOT COUNTED , INELIGIBLE VOTERS , MULTIPLE VOTES AND OUTRIGHT CHEATING AND ELECTION THEFT .
GET YOURSELVES BUSY AND SEND MESSAGES TO YOUR MEMBERS OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE DEMANDING THEY REFUSE TO CERTIFY THE FRAUDULENT ELECTION OF 2012
11 years ago
To Choi: Back to the grocery store for you. What part of the Protestant Ethic do you disagree with? America since its inception back some 4 hundred years ago and more if you count the Noble Savages have employed the hard work principle. You and your people however have learned to extract the wealth that hard working Americans earn through your welfare mentality. Why don’t you get a real job, and quit your complaining. To compare the protestant Work Ethic to Arbeit Macht Frei is patently absurd.
11 years ago
“But that is not so. And scarier still is the tenuous status of Jews in America. It’s hard not to draw parallels to persecuted Jews in once-friendly nations and their subsequent persecution, expulsion and slaughter. To think that Poland was once the Israel of Europe. Millions of Jews made Poland their home and had a long history there of over a thousand years. And in three short years … complete annihilation”.
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I must take issue with this particular point. Jews were mistreated and persecuted in Poland long before the holocaust, going back a couple of centuries.
11 years ago
@ SS-Standartenfuhrer von Starkermann’s “son”:
Nothing wrong with the ‘Work Ethic’,but the Nazis MISUSED IT and NAZI YOU uses it as an “opportunity”to slyly word it as “Arbeit Macht Frei”.
In YOUR words and COMING FROM YOU,it comes out to “Arbeit Macht Frei”.
Now as to your RACIST attitude towards Asians ,in general,and Koreans in particular,how does being Independent Small American Business,Grocery Business,equate to being on Welfare?
You’re a POS RACIST who obviously regards himself as an “Aryan Superman”
You were born TOO LATE, to your great disappointment,to GO DOWN,in the Bunker, with your DAMNED ancestors.
As for REAL jobs,yours seem to be CYBER-HATE TROLLING.
11 years ago
I just love the energy you put into protecting us from these alien cultures. What I don’ understand is why you resist so completely the idea that there are processes that could work to stave off their assaults. You can continue to whine all day long about freedom of religion or freedom of speech but those people(?) have no need for either.
The best defense is a good offense someone once said.
Demanding no visas, aid, or technical exchanges with regimes that refuse to enshrine the First Amendment is a process. We can still trade with them if they have their own money. Enforcing it would end up forcing their camels to eat sand. Making our representatives mouth support for our own freedoms before sending our tax dollars over there would purge our leadership of fascists and communists.
On the other hand, we can always raise hell with bus signs.
Policy can be corrupted by the beaurocrats. Process can be tracked like pennies.
11 years ago
11 years ago
Honestly, if you good people actually think that Obama won the election
because a whole lot of “free loaders” so to speak, went out and
voted for him, you must be in self denial to the fact that many
of us were concerned that he just seemed to elitist as a conservative, relying
on typical conservative knee jerk styled thinking.
Pretty much like this article.
11 years ago
Too many well educated young white westerners are taxed so much, they find it hard to afford to have 3 or more children to perpetuate the white societies. Their money is given to incomers who are intended to “enrich” while impoverishing and replacing.
Today, it’s revealed that this problem manifests itself in my UK in this way. Social Benifits bill now top £208 billion and rising. 60% of those recieving it have never paid in through National Insurance.
40 years ago, only 30% never paid in. Is America on this course too?
If you research your Armed Forces you may find the majority are like the majority of the tax paying locomotives, white and educated. The casualties profile from these recent conflicts reflect this trend too.In the UK, this is the case and has been for years. The notable exceptions rather prove this rule. They stand with us, they’re one of us.
I understand some of you will shortly be paying 40% tax on single incomes over $250,000. In UK we pay that on income of £40,000. To help understand the dollars and cents of whats being planned for you, read the London Daily Telegraph, so much reported there applies to most of you. We pay the price of Liberal/Socialism, a failed experiment, do try and avoid it if you can.
11 years ago
The Republican Party is a failure.. The election was set up by the candidates nominated. We had no good choice to bring us out to vote. Why? Because of the moral breakdown in our society. The nation was only special and blessed while God was honored.
