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2016 America's Gift To Hillary - The Oval Office!



America is going to have a Democrat - specifically Hilary Clinton - for its next president. I sincerely hope I'm wrong about this one - but I'm not. What follows is why and embarrassingly devoid of anything close to rocket science. Four years ago the right caved. And it's going to keep happening because none of what caused it last time has changed. The self-consumed GOP doesn't behave as though they understand the challenges they really face regarding capturing public support. Most of the problem is how they are perceived - and that is worsened by their appearing not to care about it. That's arrogance. (Proverbs 16:18)
Last election wealthy Republicans decided to run a couple of people who would have been a 'shoe-in' - back in the early '70s. But to today's voters, mostly millennials who are the cable-fed children and children's children of baby boomers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan came across as the '67 version of Batman and Robin. I then thought to myself ... 'You might as well have run Bob Dole, for crying out loud.' For the past 40 years, 'white guys in suits' have been sold to the national viewing audience as everything that is the problem with America. Hollywood loves to create and then knock down the stereotypical Watergate crew look-a-likes, Madoff and the Enron gang, etc. Conservative leaders are easy targets these days solely because they act and look - 'conservative.' And even that term is today the popularly accepted synonym for tired, old and laughable. This isn't news to most, I realise. The very definition of 'conservative' has reflected the gradual morphing of its perceived meaning over time. Just forty years ago the primary, dictionary definition was, "Preservative; having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste or injury. 'conserving,' preservative'" (to save). Today the definition of that same simple adjective lacks all that, but has added, "not liking or accepting changes or new ideas." The left has cashed in on that popularly accepted anathema, and we have done little to correct their slander. The ingredients of true conservatism - sound individual thinking, entrepreneurial hard work and subsequently bettering ourselves - are necessary in achieving the attractive benefits of a solidly capitalist America/strong economy. I personally have known a few dedicated liberals since college who have appreciatively warmed up to conservatism after they have 'worked' the system and achieved their dreams! At that point, they prefer to maintain their hard-earned ground, and do what it takes to PRESERVE the goodness they labored to secure for themselves and their families. Now they are 'conservatives!'

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All liberal, professional politicians clothe themselves as the sheep they want to fleece

But that same perfectly sensible system will always only aggravate and confound those who would rather just receive a check and watch from the sidelines. In fact the sidelines now form a battle-line. Liberal politicians want to underwrite those sidelined people because they stay obliged and answerable to those who provide the checks. The sideline is really the boundary to keep the playing field in the possession of those in power. And that's why some of the most tyrannically power-mad and personally avaricious leaders in modern history have been ardent liberals/socialists - and deathly afraid of fully informed and unbridled capitalists. In case you haven't noticed, all liberal, professional politicians clothe themselves as the sheep they want to fleece. Liberal politicians speak 'Street' - they bother to learn the language of those on the sidline who believe that government can sieze the good life for them. Right-side politicos don't act as if they need the sideline electorate. But they should bother to at least learn how to speak their language, because there are simply too many of them now to ignore. And, what's worse, they are now the fully charged product of eight years of a laid-back, shucking and jiving, racial pot-stirring White House. They are the new massive voting bloc - nationwide and on the move. They are 21st century conservatism's greatest challenge. And conservative politicians deal with them much like the armed forces in a 50s sci-fi movie deal with Martians. Liberals, however, have expertly mastered their dialect and have pandered to them completely. Now they are the formidable, truly momentous force to contend with - and ultra-chameleon Hillary and a fading Bernie own them. A vivid example of this clone-force was seen in the recent 'protest' that happened at the University of Illinois. Hundreds of mindless bodies found entertainment in the turnout that shut down a scheduled Trump rally. There was very little grey matter present in that crowd - but they managed to use their First Amendment rights to block The Donald from using his. And the true level of their sincerity/authenticity was pitifully revealed in several of the ensuing interviews with the alleged 'protesters' (poseurs). It was a circus. Many of them, laughing hysterically, clearly had no idea what they were actually disagreeing with beyond Trump's presence. A call posted on social media had told them to be there - and they obeyed. There were hundreds of middle fingers sprouting from the raised fists of these frolicking nincompoops chanting "F#@K TRUMP!!" in front of cameras (much bigger than their phones). The videotaped response from some of the giggling teens was roughly, "We're like, sick of all this like, hatred?! And, he ... Trump, he's like, a racist?" And others, protesting Trump's supporters "hatefully" waiting in line to see Trump, seemed themselves sincerely hateful - like they had consumed way too much coffee. But in all seriousness, these sorts of happenings are especially sobering to me simply because they demonstrate how the new left has so dialed in the vacant minds of today's video-saturated kids and the silver ponytails who are starved for a life/cause. Today's opportunistic liberal mouths vying for power have harnessed these hapless, aimless clones prepared for them by a warm tv and a lot of non-parenting. At that baby riot, a bunch of kids were mimicking precisely what a liberal media has so promoted, and programmed them to be - the champions of political correctness.

Our pitiful lack of 'eternal vigilance' has fed the fully metastasized decay in 2016 America

Very few conservatives seem to fully comprehend that the homogeneous, obedient mindset of those performers in Chicago can actually take down America (as we know it) in the coming election. That identical mob mentality is now nearly universal, and will be powerfully mobilized in the voting force which will bring about the watershed moment for liberalism's final takeover. And, just as they succeeded in shutting down that Trump rally, come November they will quite unwittingly use all the First-Amendment liberty the founding fathers put in place to preserve our democratic republic - in order to bring it to its knees. They will simply line up and vote while conservatives bicker amongst themselves, with many self-righteously abstaining entirely. I cannot emphasize this warning enough! Our pitiful lack of 'eternal vigilance' has fed the fully metastasized decay in 2016 America. And all the hard-purchased liberties we so take for granted - turf we believed was inviolate simply because, 'this is America' - has become a safe haven for the thistles we allowed to be sown by Trojan enemies. In that travesty of a 'protest,' and so many other recent happenings like it: free speech was silenced, the Constitution lost, and the madness of the silly mob which only amounted to a noisy brute force, won - completely. And yet I have heard nothing but crickets from most of what should be a wide-awake America - on her toes and ready, desperately so - to preserve and restore our crumbling nation. And the painful fact is that most of genuinely conservative America is - working, paying bills and taxes, raising families, trying to play by the rules - just too practical and busy to stop and fathom the concept that those who only want to ride are now simply outnumbering those who work to keep the lights on.

Hillary, the quintessential demagogue

This brings us to the Democrat herself. Hillary, the quintessential demagogue, doesn't bog down her audience with anything other than what will make them feel good. As we know, truth has NOTHING to do with it. Hillary speaks 'Street.' Conservatives are not fluent in the language of carelessness in the face of danger. Political correctness promotes that sort of foolishness as bravery. When the left sees danger ahead, they don't stop and think or prepare. They will instead negotiate a deal with it: a now fully nuclear Iran, our lost borders, terrorists hiding amongst incoming hordes of openhanded 'refugees,' illegal aliens demanding college educations, racial violence, Islamic violence, gay marriage, common core, you name it, are examples of the spinelessness of Obama's 'FORWARD!' While thinking conservatives look for the off switch, the left just wants to know where to send the money in order to placate and show good faith toward whatever threatens to destroy us.

Completely disjointed and impotent conservatives

But Hillary will take the Oval Office this year, not only because the feel-good party has captured the obedience of the mob (and therefore the electoral vote) - but also because of the amazing cooperation given her by the completely disjointed and impotent conservatives. By the time we get to election day, the liberals will have Hillary on the ballot. But conservatives will, to our great detriment, offer several flavors (GOP, Independent(s), Libertarian, Write-ins, etc.) from which to choose. Forget about it. After the fact, so many of us will proudly boast, "Well at least I voted my conscience!" For the last two elections we've demonstrated the solidarity of chickens in a windstorm (those who have bothered to participate). Whatever happened to the desperately simple, common sense of "JOIN OR DIE," Franklin's motto for early patriots. What I have said here won't win me any popularity contests, I know. But let's see if I'm wrong. The conservative ticket - and therefore its strength - will be effectively shredded this time around, once again. And if we lose at this sad point in our nation's history, it's all over for any semblance of the America the framers intended. We will not just have lost the battle - we will have lost the war. And when I consider the depressing reality of Hillary Clinton as our 45th president, I am suddenly reminded of the words on the bumper sticker I saw on so many cars during the years of her husband's presidency ... "DON'T BLAME ME, I VOTED FOR ROSS!"


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