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Home Front: Politix

The Flight 93 Election

2016-09-08

[Claremont.org] 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You--or the leader of your party--may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees.

More to the point, what has conservatism achieved lately? In the last 20 years? The answer--which appears to be "nothing"--might seem to lend credence to the plea that "our ideas haven’t been tried." Except that the same conservatives who generate those ideas are in charge of selling them to the broader public. If their ideas "haven’t been tried," who is ultimately at fault? The whole enterprise of Conservatism, Inc., reeks of failure. Its sole recent and ongoing success is its own self-preservation. Conservative intellectuals never tire of praising "entrepreneurs" and "creative destruction." Dare to fail! they exhort businessmen. Let the market decide! Except, um, not with respect to us. Or is their true market not the political arena, but the fundraising circuit?

Only three questions matter. First, how bad are things really? Second, what do we do right now? Third, what should we do for the long term?

Posted by:Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

#7 We will not be able to recover from Hillary - we might not be able to recover regardless.

'Non-recovery'.... it really is the goal. $20T in Nationnal Debt is a key indicator.

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-09-08 11:35

#6 Best thing I've read in a long time (RTWT). A pox on conservative pundits, apparatchiks, and funders. We will not be able to recover from Hillary - we might not be able to recover regardless.

Posted by: Spot 2016-09-08 11:26

#5 Yes, yes, Flight 93. The memorial that looks like a crescent moon and counts the hijackers as "victims." Good times...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-09-08 10:34

#4 Second, what do we do right now?

How about just quit doing what you are doing that created the mess?

You know if you put the interests of the country first and everything else behind that, you might start the turn around.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-09-08 10:01

#3 Yup, 8 more years of rot and corruption or worse or a possibility that Flight 93 or the target the terrorists had in mind might be saved is where we are at this time.

Posted by: JohnQC 2016-09-08 09:29

#2 You could have voted for another Jim Bob Bush....or Ted Cruz and beady eyes.

So its down to Trump and you better Vote.... or Hillary DOES her thingy. Not a lot of choices left now, are there? And can Trump OR Hillary hold onto what they win? WHAT do they win?

And you still lock your doors nowadays cause its DARK out there... and you just aren't the kind to go to Church.

( You can't fly the plane anyway, even if you do get to the controls. )

Posted by: Elmusons Thavigum3500 2016-09-08 09:22

#1 ...conservatism’s typical combination of the useless and inapt with the utopian and unrealizable

Things-Are-Really-Bad—But-Not-So-Bad-that-We-Have-to-Consider-Anything-Really-Different

"Conservative thinker" is a profession - like a dentist.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-09-08 04:03

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