Bad news for America in the Democratic race

It is an inconceivable historical disaster that the Democrats seem to be moving toward choosing as their nominee, over Bill Clinton’s honestly corrupt socialist wife, a man who has repeatedly expressed contempt for white people, who has belonged to an anti-American Farrakhanite church for 20 years, and whose despicable lies about his involvement in it have transcended in scale and importance Clinton’s lies. It is a damning statement about liberals that so many of them do not see, or, if they see it, are not repelled by, the low vileness of Jeremiah Wright and Obama’s serial dishonesty concerning his relationship with him. It also throws into question my hopeful scenario that an Obama presidency would wake the country out of its liberalism. Maybe it will wake up some conservatives. But as for the rest of the people, they seem all too ready to hand the country over to an alien and his alien wife. It’s true that I’ve said more than once, bring it on, meaning, let’s elect Obama, so that the conflicts simmering under the surface of America can come out into the open. Nevertheless, I would have infinitely preferred the familiar Clinton corruption in the White House to the trauma of open enemies of America in the White House—and the worse trauma of seeing much of the country approving and rationalizing them. Clinton debauched us ethically and morally. Obama could go a long way toward destroying American identity itself.

Notwithstanding everything I’ve said, I still have no intention of voting for or supporting McCain. Better an open leftist as POTUS. Then we’re in a quasi-revolutionary situation, and either country rejects the left, or not. We have to have it out with the left sooner or later. Better sooner than later, when the conservative part of the country will be even weaker than it is now.

But I must say, contemplating the prospect of an anti-white, anti-American, radical leftist presidency, I feel for America something like what Jesus felt in the Garden: would that this cup could pass from us.

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Adela G. writes:

Bad news indeed. The depression and disorientation I feel regarding our country’s headlong rush to disaster that led me to VFR last year has only intensified in recent weeks. (I should add that, though I feel this very personally, it is not about my personal life, which is fine.)

I truly love my country so to see it in such horrible disarray is terrible for me. It’s like August 1914, only worse because then most people thought the war would last only weeks. I know our battle against liberal madness will be a long and arduous one.

You write: “But I must say, contemplating the prospect of an anti-white, anti-American, radical leftist presidency, I feel for America something like what Jesus felt in the Garden: would that this cup could pass from us.”

Several times lately while I’ve listened to the national news, the phrase, “Take this cup from my lips” has come to mind.

It is particularly galling that a presidential candidate could repeatedly reveal himself, by both his words and his associations, to be an anti-American racist, and not only have his candidacy continue, without disgrace, but be defended and even lauded for his contempt for our country and the majority of its citizens. I feel I’m in the midst of a national nightmare.

Matthew H. writes:

I don’t buy the “We win if we lose” scenario with which many conservatives, fondly recalling Ronald Reagan’s triumph over the pathetic Jimmy Carter Administration, are consoling themselves in the face of Barack Obama’s steady advance toward the presidency.

There are a number of reasons to think he will be shielded from responsibility for the consequences of his racial obsessions and disastrous left-wing policies:

1. An affirmative action honeymoon of indefinite duration. What is the limit of white America’s sufferance of minority failure? No one knows.

2. We can expect all press criticism to be perfunctory: “See, we’re as hard on him as we would be on anyone else.”

3. The Clinton effect: Radical policy proposals early in the administration may lead to Republican resurgence, saving him from his own excesses and allowing him to take credit for GOP policy initiatives, a la welfare reform and tax restraint (assuming that he, like Bill, is shrewd enough to sign them).

4. The Camelot factor: He’s young, appealing and has broken another ethnic barrier, which for a vast number of Americans will probably offset a lot of failure.

5. Whatever goes wrong can plausibly be blamed on the profligacy of the current administration.

All the while, the vast machinery of the Federal Government will be fully under Democrat (i.e., America-hating socialist) control.

If a majority of Americans can sleep through all the wake-up calls they have received over the last forty years, why should they respond any differently to a disastrous Obama Administration?

I tend to think that 1980 was a one-time-only event. Much of that electorate has ridden off with Ronnie into the golden sunset. The situation today looks quite different.

Are we to turn the presidency over to a man who has more in common with Hugo Chavez than Ronald Reagan in the hopes that, if and when we finally dump him, the same people who were fool enough to elect him in the first place will have come to their senses? That’s pretty high-stakes poker.

Mark Jaws writes:

I disagree with Matthew H. I believe there is a definite correlation between affluence, which we have experienced for over 50 years, and tolerance and complacency. As long as white Americans could continually flee to the lily pastures and as long as their personal financial situations improved or did not falter, and as long as the country was relatively safe, than all was well with the typical white American voter.

Increase taxes on the American people, allow even more illegals to gain access to our public support infrastructure, make us more vulnerable by softening some of Bush’s effective anti-terrorist initiatives, and add some frank and honest leadership (a white version of Bill Cosby) and I believe we could see a genuine revival of the right.

Ben W. writes:

From Yahoo:

Obama scored a convincing victory of about 14 points in North Carolina, where he’d been favored. Clinton squeezed out a narrow margin in Indiana after a long night of counting.

Racial divisions were stark.

In both states, Clinton won six in ten white votes while Obama got nine in ten black votes, exit polls indicated.

It was a slightly better performance than usual by Clinton among whites, while Obama’s backing from blacks was one of his highest winning percentages yet with that group.

Obama loses one in ten black votes. Clinton loses four in ten white votes. This nine in ten ratio of blacks for Obama—is that representative of the US as a whole? It seems as if we have a skewed distribution based on race.

Since it appears that the black electorate is thinking and acting “racially,” how are these primaries any indication of what the nation as a whole needs and requires?

How is the Obama phenomenon not racial?

LA replies:

Blacks consistently go for the Democrats by 90 percent. So here, with a black Democrat against a white Democrat, they simply shifted their usual 90 percent Democratic vote to the black candidate.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 07, 2008 11:45 AM | Send