Is This A Natural Progression?

Victor Davis Hanson, on Wednesday's Hugh Hewitt show, asked a pointed question: is an Obama Presidency and a Pelosi/Reid-controlled House and Senate simply a natural progression?

It made me think: perhaps it really is. Perhaps this nation's path is that it has to, as it has in its history, hit the real rock bottom before it can begin to functionally recuperate and succeed once more.

Those who will vote for Barack Hussein Obama, I believe, are doing so for two reasons:

1. The Idealogues: those who simply trundle the true Leftist/Socialist dogma and have consumed the Kool Air because they either truly like it or have been trained to like it;

2. The Uninformed Bulk: the greater mass of persons who simply are "Bush-ed Out" so to speak, know little if anything about politics, aren't necessarily "bad" people but have this niggling little pique in their Brain Housing Groups saying: "just vote for somebody else in the opposite camp."

So when I posit that perhaps this nation has to encounter a precipitously rocky and treacherous bottom, I'm also subjecting myself to those results. I thought: if I go there on the blog, it can't be in a vacuum; I'll have to "own" all the resulting potentially horrendous consequences. So do I even want to broach this unpleasant topic?

I do.

It further resulted in a comment on TexasFred's blog that I reprint here, prompted by Fred's examining of McCain's indicating, in the recent debate, that he advocates the United States government's purchase of bad mortgages -- a stunningly horrendous idea in my opinion. I responded:

I think what we’re seeing is the result of the alleged “wide open spaces” in money. And it’s been building for years. The original purpose of “stock,” for example, was to allow a business to raise capital so that it might expand, build a new office, a warehouse, etc. But now, the procession of markets and investments are such that a great deal of control is proffered to and a great deal of “wealth” acquired by persons and companies who DO nothing, who BUILD nothing, who PROVIDE nothing. THEIR stock in trade, shall we say, is AIR. It is emotions. It is feelings, and predictions and guessing and then either hoping something falls precipitously and tanks or something soars. They do nothing, they stand to make money by creating NOTHING. They ARE in fact air, literally empty suits. And we are beginning to pay the price for people who do, contribute NOTHING but are excellent forecasters and manipulators.

John McCain “buying” bad mortgages makes the United States of America a new landlord. And you know what a landlord does: it sets the rules. The more of a whore you are, the more you suck from the government nipple the more now — and definitely in the future — the government will be DECIDING on HOW you utilize or interact with your shelter because, after all, it’s NOT yours. It belongs to the government. THEY hold the note and, more and more, the government has an agenda to hold and it is a SOCIAL agenda with YOU as the SUBJECT. And I DON’T mean “as opposed to predicate.”

You couple this, with an Obama presidency and a Demorat House and Senate, and in the not too distant future you really WILL get some of these possibilities: a complete fleecing of the American taxpayer to the point where taxpayers simply won’t put ANY discretionary spending back INTO play, and/or (likely both) societal constrictions and freedoms removed by a new government which pushes some factions of Americans, who have a history of perspective and DON’T have Historical Alzheimers (that is to say, they remember that things DON’T have to be as they might be, with even more occluded freedoms, who have a sense and a knowledge of where this nation has been and what it was like to live in it then, with true freedoms, fewer restrictions, a sense of an unbridled future) to the point where they believe the only venue left for repair is some form of insurrection, to possibly include violence.

You cannot stand to continuously pit the Producers of this nation against the Takers, and expect that terrible results will not eventually occur.

THIS JUST IN:

"US May Take Ownership Stake In Banks" from the New York Times:

WASHINGTON — Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system, according to government officials.

Your thoughts?

BZ