Democracy at Work in America

MM reacts to the results of the 2012 US Presidential election in what may be the most commented-on post on his blog. I highly recommend clicking on the link and reading the comments!

From The Mad Monarchist (6 November 2012)

Well, it's over and the United States will have four more years of Barack Hussein Obama, our President, our Chairman, the "Great Helmsman" etc and etc. Despite record debt, record unemployment, a sinking dollar and sky high energy prices, American voters decided they wanted to stick to the big B.O. from here on out. The Republican Party majority in the House of Representatives was maintained and even increased. The Democrat Party majority in the Senate was maintained and even increased and Secretary-General Obama was reelected. What does that mean? I'll tell you what it means; IT MEANS WE JUST SPENT TWO YEARS MUD-SLINGING, NAME-CALLING AND SPENDING MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND CHANGED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Can anyone fully comprehend the sheer waste this represents? The United States is $16 trillion in debt, the most broke nation in history and we just spent many, many billions of dollars in the most expensive presidential race in American history and it changed absolutely NOTHING. Cry Baby Boehner is still the Speaker of the House, Harry 'We're-$16trillion-in-debt-but-can't-give-up-cowboy-poetry-month' Reed is still the leader of the Senate and Obama is still President. In other words, we just wasted two years of time for every American man, woman and child.

In his victory speech, Obama said the public didn't vote for "politics as usual". I'm sorry Comrade President, but yes they did, they voted for exactly that. Even if no one wants to admit it. Congress has never had a lower approval rating than now, yet the same people were voted back into office by both sides. Most people said that government should be smaller and that raising taxes would not solve the debt problem yet these same people voted for the President who promised bigger government and raising taxes to deal with the debt problem. In other words, the public doesn't seem to have any sense at all. You can blame the politicians for plenty but the public that keeps voting for them cannot get off totally blameless either. Sure, the choices the public are given don't help. I was never a fan of Romney or Obama (and didn't vote for either of them). I never heard Romney make the case for smaller government, in fact I never heard him present a plan at all. He was about as dull and ordinary as they come. He was a walking contradiction and, I have no doubt, would have been simply George W. Bush Part II: tax cuts but no spending cuts and so a still bigger debt. Obama, who claimed to be the "post-racial" President, has left the country more divided by race than I have ever known it. Never before have the voting blocs been so solid. Whites vote for the Republicans, non-Whites vote for the Democrats.

On that front, the Democrats are advising Republicans to face reality and they are probably right. Demographics cannot be changed. Once your population changes, that's it and, I know some people won't like this, but Europe and North America need to just get used to the idea that "White" people will soon be a thing of the past. I don't think there are any real racists to speak of these days but, if there are, especially if you have children, you better get over your prejudice or you are going to have a very miserable life. The racial changes to America are having an impact and no one can deny it any longer. Some thought Obama's about-face on gay "marriage" might alienate some African-Americans but that was not the case. Some thought his deportation of illegal immigrants and the fact that he broke his promise to tackle "immigration reform" in his first year in office might put off Hispanics but, that was not the case. He also supports gay "marriage" and abortion and the HHS mandate which the Catholic Church has called a violation of religious freedom -all things condemned by the Catholic Church, which the vast majority of Hispanics belong to, and it did nothing to deter from their support for Obama. Blacks, Hispanics and single women have the highest unemployement and poverty levels yet, they all voted for more of the same and, evidently, do not hold Obama responsible for this.

I have heard numerous pundits, from the left and the right, say that America has changed, that the "face" of America has changed and the Republican Party no longer represents the mainstream. Like it or not, racial and ethnic groups have been politicized and the GOP is on the losing side of the demographic battle. Fighting over immigration at this point is rather silly -what's done is done. More than that, values have changed. One-fifth of Americans no longer belong to any church and, evidently, single women at least consider their "right" to abortion and taxpayer-funded birth control a greater priority than the overall economy, their employment status and the price of gasoline. And all of this happened because "we the people" allowed it. And we gripe and moan and complain and still vote for more of the same. So the rule of Obama will continue, the deadlock will continue and, in my opinion, things will get worse rather than better. But that's coming from my worldview and virtually no one shares it. That's why I'm not a Republican or a Democrat but just ... The Mad Monarchist.