After the 2012 elections were... no they aren't over yet even in the middle of December actually so it would be more accurate to say after the President was decided on by the 51% well 52% of Americans it was clear that every high hope for the conservative side went out the window. The meltdown began and I watched as conservative pundits took off the gloves and folks I knew also took off the gloves and threw them to the ground. The progressives I know were nothing but smiles though, hey after all they knew who they were voting for and so the question is one of perception; what makes this election any different for the conservatives?
Well to be fair Bush Jr. was seen as the Satan by most left wing pundits and never even got credit for his humanity in the aids research work he did. But never did I get the feeling that the losing party of 2004 and 2000 thought America would literally end under a Bush presidency. In fact quite the opposite I felt several things that gave me the impression that America was very strong moving to just strong as we wages two wars. The same can't be said of Obama's America from the conservative perspective.
So let's get this clear first: Barack Obama is ideologically attuned to third world perspectives of the United States, the reason why probably has something to do with where he was from fine but I don't think that's really the case. There is an argument I've encountered before from the far left that America has been a negative force on the world at large and especially in the third world. My dear friend tells me that essentially the US uses the IMF to keep a good country down.
In life there are winners and losers, it's not the way we like it or want it but that's how it works and if you are not winning then you are losing and I think Barack Obama uses the leftist idea that there is a middle ground, which is if memory serves the foundation of the redistribution position. Except it isn't just Obama but the idea the left has about how to square things in the world, the idea that America has enough to actually level the playing field globally. This socialistic twist globalism has none of the markings of capitalism except to domestically incorporate a crony form of capitalism regulated by an elite group of politicians.
The conservative melt down isn't so much that a democratic president got elected twice since Clinton was also elected twice, it isn't that Barack Obama has a browner skin shade than the average president since the GOP was pushing to replace him with an even browner alternative. The reason for the meltdown might just be something I'm familiar with as a business guy, the ticking clock on the American welfare state. To put it simply America is 80 years too young to run some of the programs it's currently running, it could do it in another 80 years but for not the technology isn't here that would allow for a socialism to work without the classical showing of collectivism.
It's more than just financial ruin and through political diffuse that awaits America to the conservatives, also ideologically the Humes definition of conservatism is no longer of import and so they know that Mr. Obama will be working this year to lean the courts to a more progressive cast and then for the 2nd time in American history he will attempt to augment the Bill of Rights. A change like this to the constitution is only ever attempted by dictators of the constitution of other countries, so this will be interesting for me to see if the courts can resist the temptation to make political a document about restricting future government from messing with basic human rights. So also ideologically conservatives are desperate.
I've got my popcorn for this one,.
