It’s been a while since I posted here. Frankly I have been busy with other things and as this little corner of the web is far from a national platform I haven’t really felt like the fight hinged on these posts. There are a lot of awesome people doing fantastic work so I have had the luxury of relaxation.
However, as the fight for the very survival of Capitalism in the United States of America grows in intensity under the constant hammering of a president who is comfortable with the rhetoric of socialism, it is clear that “live and let live” is not a great option any more.
I will admit to a certain amazement as I observe many of those who lean left contort themselves to hold onto their bias.
- They can rail against the problems of government intrusion via the Patriot act yet openly call for FBI monitoring of the Tea Party.
- They see no contradiction in the belief that hanging George W. Bush in effigy was valid political speech but Sarah Pailin using the term “targeting” is an incitement to violence that needs to be shut down.
- They will go on and on about how the police have too much power in a drug investigation but never bat an eye as the rights of those accused of rape were systematically destroyed.
- Without any hint of the conflict these folks will openly advocate for quotas and racial preferences while screaming about how problematic profiling is.
- While living in one of the most permissive societies on the planet they will rail against how persecuted they are while singing the praises of Muslim cultures that would see them beaten and stoned to death for opening their mouths.
The odds are you know these same types of folks. Well meaning I am sure, but utterly misguided. This used to be cute, even amusing. We can’t afford to just let it slide any more, plotting our low friction trajectories by not speaking up or causing a “scene”. We need to (politely, rationally, non-violently) challenge the ideas that our leading an entire nation astray.
In less time than we might have thought possible a perfect storm of political circumstances has allowed Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to open the government doors wide and allow every union thug, socialist sympathizer and hater of capitalism they could find into positions of power. The joke that we might someday need to “Go Galt” has gone from obvious exaggeration to distinct possibility.
We are now living in what might as well be an Ayn Rand novel we can either recognize this fact and act accordingly or face subservience and persecution. Shackled indefinitely as the plow horses of those who feel we owe them our effort, our intellect and anything we produce.
In the coming battle for our survival as a free nation we need to fight with conviction but also our good humor, good will and the clear understanding that while we lack the siren call of victimization we possess all the real skills.
They need us to create what they cannot ultimately it is we who hold the power.
On the bright side, in recent I have been spending a fair amount of time in discussions with folks I don’t normally discuss politics with in discussion and debate. Friends and acquaintances mostly, some of them are not usually political, others are but we have stayed away from those topics between us. These people who have in the past quietly drifted along are suddenly deeply engaged. While many of them have emerged as hard left leaners there is a huge undercurrent of folks who are just now seeing the full expanse of what the American left has in store for our future. In their confidence that the end game is near Obama and the Democratic party may have overplayed their hand. Suddenly citizens who may have thought this stuff was academic are realizing how completely this administration holds them in contempt and how much power they have let slip away in their silence.
I will be adding content to Herdwatching with some regularity again. Not because this blog has suddenly gained national prominence but because it is now useful to provide these views to the folks I know in my social graph. This is a good time for us to stand and be counted.
Expect commentary on Obama and the current administration but also continued discussions of all aspects of the fringe that is around us: because if the internet isn’t a good place to make fun of the stupid and insane, then what good is it? 
The Herdwatcher
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