But, to be fair, we knew nothing would change for the better.  We knew that the only changes would be for the perverse:  more abortions, more homosexual marriages, more taxes, more bailouts, more printing of worthless fiat money, more governmental regulation, more government agencies, more political correctness, more racism, more social engineering, and more leaching of sovereignty to international organizations.  But, how long will it take for the hypnotized masses to understand that they were duped?  There are signs that this may be the shortest honeymoon since Britney Spears got drunk and flew to Vegas.

This emperor has no clothes.  He has stumbled from a bumbling and bloated inauguration to the appointment of crooked and clueless cabinet members, to executive orders which pacify pacifists and excite extremists, to support for a stimulus package which everyone knows will only stimulate discontent and plant the seed for future tax hikes and inflation.  Have we ever witnessed a new executive who showed less charisma, less confidence, less leadership, or less desire in our lifetime?  He makes Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton look like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

The beautiful shining silver lining around the clueless inept dark cloud is the fact that Americans are justifiably worried about the future and will, therefore, be much more cynical about gulping down the full measure of socialist kool-aid served to them by a less and less charismatic charlatan and his merry band of morons.  The magnitude of the ignorance and confusion is so large that it creates a window of opportunity for traditional, small government, pro-liberty conservatism.  How is that?

Much like the failure of LBJ, Nixon, and Carter provided fertile ground for a return to the rhetorical conservatism of Reagan, and much like Clinton’s eight years of lurid and clumsy mishandling of all aspects of foreign and domestic policy aided the rise of counter-revolutionary radio-fueled rebellion, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Axis of Ignorance will till the soil for a rediscovery of our historical and natural conservative roots.

Seizing this opportunity will not be easy and we must be wary of false prophets and political hacks.  While the likes of Limbaugh, Gingrich, and scores of stale GOP figure-heads will sound the trumpet to rally troops to a reformed neo-conservatism or a reconditioned compassionate conservatism, the true philosophical descendants of the Sons of Liberty must reject any deviation from a principled, logical, and traditional decentralized and liberty-based approach to governmental reform.  These magical points in time are rare and must not be wasted on snake-oil salesmen.

The seeds of an anti-taxation, anti-governmental growth, anti-regulation, and anti-interventionist movement are waiting to be watered and nurtured by a strong and principled defense of the Constitution and a proactive resistance to the left-wing Axis of Ignorance.  We must suffer the slings and arrows of mainstream media manipulation, absorb the inevitable mathematical defeats in DC bean-counting, and preserve internal dissension to carry the message to Middle America, the great strong-hold of traditional values in our republic.  While these very folks were battered and bruised by the maniacal machinations of Bush and neoconservative cabal, they still yearn for the true American Renaissance promised to them many times by the GOP, before they were then bashed on the rocks of bipartisanship and political triangulation.

In spite of mass hysteria on both coasts and leg-tingling media euphoria, the American republic remains cynical and uneasy about our present economic situation and the dangers of the proposed radical measures to heal our financial woes.  This is the time for a principled and unwavering stand for smaller government and sound free market economics.  We must reject the socialist plans of Obama, and the return to the failed Keynesian economics of FDR.  Do we have the heart for such a fight?  We may have little choice, as the failure to engage this battle at this time could prove the last chance to do so for many years.

The popular mantra of the President-Elect, and a chant enjoined by the bleating masses of America’s idiocracy, is “change”. While a collective sigh of relief will be exhaled across the fruited plains of our Republic as Bush is replaced, most Americans have no clue as to the true direction of the change to come. According to the mainstream media, only radicals and alarmists should fear any change proposed by the infallible savior-elect of America. What can we, the radicals, expect in the next four years?

The short answer to this question is easy – more governmental intrusion and control in all aspects of human endeavor. The longer and more complicated answer is that we will see a continuation and increased velocity of the consolidation of federal power witnessed over the last seven decades. The latter is more complicated due to the fact that every administration since the 1920s has overseen a growth in the power and abuse of our nation’s central government. While there have been presidents, primarily and perhaps singly Ronald Reagan, who have philosophically opposed the consolidation of power, they have either acquiesced to political reality or have used the accumulation of power to political advantage. No president in living memory actually quelled our slide into a European-style socialism. The incoming government of Obama-Pelosi-Reid will fully embrace the continuation and even acceleration of the transfer of private activity to the governmental sphere.

If one examines history, and all responsible Americans should, they would see a startling parallel between America in 2008 and America during the era of the Great Depression, and the coronation of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. America’s, and the world’s, economic collapse in the 1920s was blamed by most on risky and unsound private financial practices, and the followers of John Maynard Keynes mandated a strong governmental response, and encroachment over Constitutional boundaries, to steady the financial ship and to save Americans from their own stupidity. (This writer will refuse, at this point, to debate the fine points of the argument that FDR’s actions actually prolonged the economic malaise.) The result was an unconstitutional leviathan government which has never ceased growing.

Our nation is now facing another “perfect storm” for a monumental increase in federal power, and the requisite increased limitations on local governmental decision-making and individual liberties. In fact, Bush and Pelosi have given the Obama Administration a head-start in his campaign to change America. The multi-trillion dollar deals to save banks, mortgage entities, and now automobile manufacturers, are nothing more than the federal government becoming part-owners of “private” firms. While no critic is under the illusion that governmental regulations, another phrase for governmental control, of private enterprise is not already in place, these moves are those of a government transitioning from a mixed economy, the “servile state” of Hellaire Belloc, to a truce socialism in which all means of production are controlled by a centralized government. Barak Obama and his allies have no moral qualms with such a government. This is the primary change which Americans chose in November, whether they were aware of this notion or not.
Buchanan said of the social policy plans of William J. Clinton:

“…it is not the kind of change America needs. It is not the kind of change
America wants. And it is not the kind of change we can abide in a nation
we still call God’s country.”

Our present crises beg the question, is the ongoing and increasing change to a European-style socialism a change America needs? Even more so, is an Obama-styled socialism a change we can abide in our Republic, created so long ago on the ideals of limited government and individual rights?