The problem for any spectator of events is that of discrimination. Which events are important and which events are mere noise?
That's the question after the late election. Who is in more trouble, the Republicans or the Democrats? It depends, in the end, on what the American people want.
Do they want a land of freedom where people launch themselves into the world to try and serve it? Or do they want a land of power where people fight to get their fair share?
Of course, there is a bit of each of these in all of us. We want freedom for some things and we want to force our way in others.
Is the Republican Party finished as a national party? Probably, except that the experts are always predicting the end of the Republican Party, and it always refuses to die.
But look at the Democratic Party. For years and years it represented Everyman, the working stiff who went off to work everyday with his lunch-pail to build the houses, dig the coal, smelt the steel and produce the products. Now it represents everyone who is not really working gainfully, from college professors to government employees to all the crony capitalists that feed at the government trough.
In my view the Democrats made a fateful decision back in about 1990 when it seemed that the Reagan revolution had dealt a fatal blow to the party. That's when they really kicked the race thing into gear, and the secular thing, and the effort to boost the Hispanic population and vote by turning a blind eye to illegal immigration and passing the Motor Voter Act to make it easy to register to vote.
Meanwhile there's a problem. While Democrats have been desperately demagoguing their way back into power they have allowed all their social programs to develop into corrupt monstrosities: Social Security corrupted by fraudulent disability claims, Medicare a bottomless pit that will eat the budget, welfare a yearly trillion dollar incentive against work.
When you see gigantic areas of corruption you have to think end-of-an-era. When you see the annual staged budget crises, Debt Crisis followed by Fiscal Cliff, you have to think that things are worse than we know.
But how and when does it all change? Who knows?
And it's all such a shame. This great nation is bulging with possibilities and potential. Instead we are diverted by cunning stratagems and pummeled by political slugfests.
At least we know this. The Democrats have opted for cheap money and higher taxes. That always ends in a cliff. That's a shame, because the American people deserve better.
That's the question after the late election. Who is in more trouble, the Republicans or the Democrats? It depends, in the end, on what the American people want.
Do they want a land of freedom where people launch themselves into the world to try and serve it? Or do they want a land of power where people fight to get their fair share?
Of course, there is a bit of each of these in all of us. We want freedom for some things and we want to force our way in others.
Is the Republican Party finished as a national party? Probably, except that the experts are always predicting the end of the Republican Party, and it always refuses to die.
But look at the Democratic Party. For years and years it represented Everyman, the working stiff who went off to work everyday with his lunch-pail to build the houses, dig the coal, smelt the steel and produce the products. Now it represents everyone who is not really working gainfully, from college professors to government employees to all the crony capitalists that feed at the government trough.
In my view the Democrats made a fateful decision back in about 1990 when it seemed that the Reagan revolution had dealt a fatal blow to the party. That's when they really kicked the race thing into gear, and the secular thing, and the effort to boost the Hispanic population and vote by turning a blind eye to illegal immigration and passing the Motor Voter Act to make it easy to register to vote.
Meanwhile there's a problem. While Democrats have been desperately demagoguing their way back into power they have allowed all their social programs to develop into corrupt monstrosities: Social Security corrupted by fraudulent disability claims, Medicare a bottomless pit that will eat the budget, welfare a yearly trillion dollar incentive against work.
When you see gigantic areas of corruption you have to think end-of-an-era. When you see the annual staged budget crises, Debt Crisis followed by Fiscal Cliff, you have to think that things are worse than we know.
But how and when does it all change? Who knows?
And it's all such a shame. This great nation is bulging with possibilities and potential. Instead we are diverted by cunning stratagems and pummeled by political slugfests.
At least we know this. The Democrats have opted for cheap money and higher taxes. That always ends in a cliff. That's a shame, because the American people deserve better.
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