{"id":9238,"date":"2012-11-06T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/06\/in-the-event-of-an-obama-victory\/"},"modified":"2012-11-06T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T11:09:09","slug":"in-the-event-of-an-obama-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/06\/in-the-event-of-an-obama-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Event of an Obama Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can Dick Morris and other conservative pundits be so cocksure<\/em> that Romney will win big?  Do they have crystal balls?  It's more a case of brass balls.  Do they think that by confidently predicting a Romney landslide they will energize the conservative base?  Why wouldn't it have the opposite effect?  ("If Romney's going to win in a landslide, there's no need for me to head for the polls.") There is something I am not understanding here.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am preparing for the disaster of an Obama victory.  Lawrence Auster speaks<\/a> of the "horror" of such a thing:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why horror? To repeat: For America to re-elect a president who has presided over an economic and fiscal disaster and who has made it crystal clear that he intends to keep following the same policies in his second term, would mean that America has become in the full sense of the word a parasitical leftist country. Meaning, a country which believes, as Obama believes, that the conditions making possible the production of all the goods of society can be ignored, because somehow the goods of society will always be there<\/em>, like rocks and stars, no matter how much we condemn and punish those who provide them, and therefore all we need to do is appropriate and distribute the goods\u2014more and more and more of them\u2014to the unfortunate and the oppressed, with the unfortunate and oppressed including such as groups as woman who lack totally free contraceptives; blacks who have been deprived by white racism of an education that will turn them into the intellectual and economic equals of whites; and blacks who have been deprived by America\u2019s racist geography of full access to the white tax base.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Although I consider Auster an extremist in some ways, the above statement eloquently expresses the fundamental  and deeply pernicious ignorance of human nature and of economics at the root of Obama's vision.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Obama wins, what then?  We soldier on, of course.  We continue the fight but without falling into the totalitarian error of leftists for whom politics is everything.  But of course this is why it is so difficult to defeat them.  They seek and find their very meaning in the political sphere.  Politics is their religion.  Curiously, it's a religion without any morality: they will do anything to win.  This puts us at  a two-fold disadvantage: we don't bring the full measure of our energy and commitment to the fight, and we have moral scruples.    I call it The Conservative Disadvantage<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum<\/strong>:  I just found the following<\/a> at Keith Burgess-Jackson's weblog:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why do almost all Romney supporters think he will win, and why do almost all
Obama supporters think he<\/em> will win? It would be refreshing, from time
to time, to hear a representative of possibility 2 or possibility 4. I, for
example, want Romney to win, but I believe that Obama has a good chance of
winning. I won't go as far as to say that Obama will<\/em> win, since I have
no basis for such a decisive judgment, but I won't be surprised if he does.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is this evidence that great minds think alike?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can Dick Morris and other conservative pundits be so cocksure that Romney will win big?  Do they have crystal balls?  It's more a case of brass balls.  Do they think that by confidently predicting a Romney landslide they will energize the conservative base?  Why wouldn't it have the opposite effect?  ("If Romney's going to win … Continue reading “In the Event of an Obama Victory”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}