I suppose that it's to be expected. That the media would be doing a boomlet for Hillary Clinton for President in 2016 in the lame-duck days of December.
Don't even bother, you Rubios and you Ryans, because Hillary has it all sewn up. First woman president, and all that.
But let us not forget the head winds facing a three-in-a-row for the Democrats.
First there is corruption. The modern Democratic Party is built on a coalition between the 19th century big-city political machines, the chaps that organized the Irish immigrants into US politics, and the goo-goo Progressive reformers. It was a match made in heaven. The Progressives would come up with the ideas for big government and spending other peoples' money, and the machines would deliver the votes. But it is horribly corrupt. People on the outside looking in really don't like that.
Then there is cruelty. The Progressive-machine coalition exists by promoting a soft form of civil war: class war and race war, and the war on religion. The result is that the Democratic Party has been busily making enemies of whites, middle-class achievers, and Christians for the last couple of generations. That is how you get social conservatives and Reagan Democrats turning up, unannounced, in the Republican Party.
Let's talk about injustice. The fact is that government is always and everywhere a system of power and domination. What moderns want with enlightenment reason is to dominate nature and other men. It was a couple of lefties that wrote that. Big government means big injustice, and it's getting worse all the time. We don't get to see it that clearly because the mainstream media is running interference for the Democrats and the liberals, but sooner or later it is going to pop onto the national radar.
Then there is waste. Everything the government does, from the Pentagon down to the littlest program, to kill barred owls in order to save the spotted owl, is pure waste. Now there is no question that we need the Pentagon and the police, because all human societies need protection from enemies foreign and domestic. Otherwise you get the modern equivalent of the Vikings sailing up the rivers in the fall, just after the harvest. But everything else is something that we ought to be doing for ourselves or for each other without the government forcing us to do it.
Finally there is delusion. Yes, our liberal friends busily tell each other that they are the reality-based community. But every ruling class sustains itself by telling itself lies. The Brits told themselves that they were really bringing India into the modern age. Liberals tell themselves that they are the most evolved, educated Americans, and that only they know to do the right thing for anti-intellectual America.
Underneath all the propaganda and the hoopla these irreducible facts are working away. Just like the Soviet Union, our Democratic friends look unbeatable right now. They have the best propaganda that money can buy and Chicago bullies can intimidate. But then one day the whole thing collapses.
That is the faith that sustains us, and that is the reason that 2016 may be too late for Hillary Clinton.
Don't even bother, you Rubios and you Ryans, because Hillary has it all sewn up. First woman president, and all that.
But let us not forget the head winds facing a three-in-a-row for the Democrats.
First there is corruption. The modern Democratic Party is built on a coalition between the 19th century big-city political machines, the chaps that organized the Irish immigrants into US politics, and the goo-goo Progressive reformers. It was a match made in heaven. The Progressives would come up with the ideas for big government and spending other peoples' money, and the machines would deliver the votes. But it is horribly corrupt. People on the outside looking in really don't like that.
Then there is cruelty. The Progressive-machine coalition exists by promoting a soft form of civil war: class war and race war, and the war on religion. The result is that the Democratic Party has been busily making enemies of whites, middle-class achievers, and Christians for the last couple of generations. That is how you get social conservatives and Reagan Democrats turning up, unannounced, in the Republican Party.
Let's talk about injustice. The fact is that government is always and everywhere a system of power and domination. What moderns want with enlightenment reason is to dominate nature and other men. It was a couple of lefties that wrote that. Big government means big injustice, and it's getting worse all the time. We don't get to see it that clearly because the mainstream media is running interference for the Democrats and the liberals, but sooner or later it is going to pop onto the national radar.
Then there is waste. Everything the government does, from the Pentagon down to the littlest program, to kill barred owls in order to save the spotted owl, is pure waste. Now there is no question that we need the Pentagon and the police, because all human societies need protection from enemies foreign and domestic. Otherwise you get the modern equivalent of the Vikings sailing up the rivers in the fall, just after the harvest. But everything else is something that we ought to be doing for ourselves or for each other without the government forcing us to do it.
Finally there is delusion. Yes, our liberal friends busily tell each other that they are the reality-based community. But every ruling class sustains itself by telling itself lies. The Brits told themselves that they were really bringing India into the modern age. Liberals tell themselves that they are the most evolved, educated Americans, and that only they know to do the right thing for anti-intellectual America.
Underneath all the propaganda and the hoopla these irreducible facts are working away. Just like the Soviet Union, our Democratic friends look unbeatable right now. They have the best propaganda that money can buy and Chicago bullies can intimidate. But then one day the whole thing collapses.
That is the faith that sustains us, and that is the reason that 2016 may be too late for Hillary Clinton.
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