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2014-01-20 Government

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-20 00:48|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Here is a reply I posted at Wretchard's site, it bears reposting here at the 'burg:

The philosophizing and the social agenda are interesting, but they
are the ultimate goal, not primary one in the present. The goal and
not the means. We lose sight of that at our peril.

Hillary's inevitability has more to do with the 47% Romney accurately
described than anything else.

99% of the people in this country who get their income from a
government source - public sector workers, welfare recipients, ag
subsidy recipients, grant recipients, attorneys (most of whom are de
facto public employees or rent-seekers) and rent-seeking "private"
businesses - are going to vote for whichever candidate will have the
lowest likelihood of cutting off or even diminishing their income
stream. Period. Do not kid yourselves that anyone who works for the
government, no matter how conservative their lifestyle is privately,
will do anything but vote for the most fiscally irresponsible
candidate under ANY conditions. All Hillary, all ANY candidate has to
do, is project the image that not one single government expenditure
will be cut in any way and they will win any election at the national level.

In a down economy, fear of losing the magic government check trumps
everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. It is the real explanation for
2012. More than conservatives staying home. More than election fraud.

You can point out that this dynamic has been growing for a while, and
perhaps so. But the real cause for concern is an ugly new twist. The
left has become very aware of this new found permanent voting
propensity. They have awoken to its power. They will exploit it to
the max. We really, truly have reached the point where if Hillary set
fire to a bunch of third graders on national TV pretty much everyone
who gets a government check would vote for her against anyone from
the center/right anyways. And everyone in the entertainment industry
would either claim it didn't happen or blame Republicans.

If she told the public work force, people in subsidized industries
like education, and welfare recipients, "I'm planning to round up
every serious Christian, conservative and orthodox jew, gun owner,
and person we can prove advocates for limited government, confiscate
their property, and send them to concentration camps and kill them -
but your magic checks will never be interrupted", 99% of those people
would vote for her with a smile on their face and joy in their hearts.

If you believe otherwise, you are a terrible, terrible fool. Russians
and Germans - people who had similar attitudes towards the size and
power of government and were more educated, more informed, and more
enlightened than today's left living in America and the LIV's who
have profited by a bloated government - cheered on as their
governments committed terrible atrocities, as long as their own
situations remained comfortable. What, precisely, is different this
time, such that we can be confident history will not repeat itself?

Posted by no mo uro 2014-01-20 08:09|| 2014-01-20 08:09|| Front Page Top

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