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A Second Blair, Not a Third Bush

by | 2:55 pm, January 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

From James Delingpole at the (UK) Spectator, some interesting insights into the real nature of the Øbamenon – I Have Seen Your Future, America, And It Doesn’t Work:

In four, or more likely, eight years time, America is going to wake up one morning — rather as Britain did in the dog-end of the Blair years — with the most terrible hang- over, only to find its pockets empty, its savings gone, its property trashed to virtual worthlessness, its streets rife with crime and its traditional liberties circumscribed by nannying bureaucrats and pettifogging regulation, and it’s going to ask itself: ‘Huh? How did that happen? Did someone drug me? Why didn’t I see that one coming?’

As one who did and does see it coming, I find it hard to summon too much sympathy. It’s like Dr Faustus complaining when, having been granted his every earthly fantasy, the devil turns up at the end to steal away his soul. It’s like the citizens of Hamlyn complaining when, having welshed on their deal with the Pied Piper, he lures all their kids inside the mountain. You just want to give them all a good shake and say: ‘Did you think it was going to come free, this once-in-a-lifetime wonder deal you made with the mysterious dark stranger you met at the crossroads at midnight?’ In your dreams, America. In your dreams!

Read the whole thing.  Once again, the literary reference that comes to mind for me is Atlas Shrugged.  After the Øbama/Pelosi/Reid triumvirate get done disincentivizing innovation and business creation through an acceleration of intrusive regulation, environmental mandates, industrial nationalization, and wealth-transfer schemes - and the jacking up of taxes across the board to pay for it all –  the “strike of the mind” will happen all on its own without a Galt to organize it.

Or to play off of another cautionary fable, the American people will wake up after the forthcoming orgy of socialism with the aftertaste of goose in their mouths, and wonder why the supply of golden eggs has suddenly dried up.

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  1.   Snaggle-Tooth Jones
      January 25th, 2009 @ 8:44 pm

    And then, suddenly seeing the Light, they’ll rush right back into the “conservative” embrace. Poor, benighted sods.

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