Posted by
KsReaganite on Sunday, May 18, 2008 7:08:41 PM
I am borrowing a parallel from the redoubtable H L Mencken here...so there is the acknowledgment.
That said, there are few things more disgusting to behold than America's self-declared youth in the throes of one of its periodic frenzies of uninformed idealism guided by nothing more than a desire for change from a status quo that doesn't exist. We saw it in 1960, we saw it in 1974, and we are seeing it today in the Obamamania sweeping large parts of the land. Even in that land of the good commonsense peoples, Nebraska, I counted at least three Obama bumper stickers in one parking lot in the middle of Lincoln this weekend. The irony is not lost on me that I was in a city named after the first Republican president and first presidential candidate to forcefully argue about the moral nature of the politics of good and evil.
Today's twenty somethings are rebels without a cause except that of worshipping anything that smacks of 'cool', 'diverse' and 'idealistic'. Pity, that if they elect Barack Hussein Obama, they would be the ones paying a high price as they mature into people with families, real jobs, homes, and social stakes of personal liberty. For I guarantee you misplaced idealists...by the time a first Obama Presidency is done, you will be prosecuted by federal authorities for invoking the Bible, owning a gun, and cracking an impolite joke, while paying 40 % taxes for the privilege of being the subjects of a benign federal bureaucracy run by unelected judges. And you and your children would have richly deserved it.
**On a different note, please note the addition of the website of the Catholic League for Civil Rights in my blog roll under the category of public interest organizations. KsReaganite is not a Roman Catholic but does believe that anti-Catholic bigotry is one of the most openly tolerated forms of prejudice in political and social discourse today. From the radical leftist attacks by liberal Democrat seantors and hate groups like NOW and NARAL to rightwing xenophobes like Tom Tancredo and Lou Dobbs, the source of ant--Cathoic prejudice in 21st century America is as multi-faceted as it is ugly. But thanks to the Catholic League, the most vicious of such attacks are countered quickly by those who believe, like President Reagan did, that religious intolerance should have no place in American discourse.