Turn out the lights, the Party’s over
Posted by Amphictyon | November 21, 2009 at 8:35AM CST
America’s conservative population is at war with itself. Especially the Christian community; the GOP has abused us for a decade, and the Democrat party has abused us for ten times as long. Conservative cheerleaders put on their makeup, key their mike, and do their show every day for the faithful. Yet something in their faces and voices betrays the truth about all this. Something feels contrived...and of course, it is.
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Steele and other partisan saviors of the ‘conservative right’...their pitch falls flatter every day as they assure listeners that voting GOP one more time, will change things. The elephant handlers are as clueless as the pimps and power-brokers in the donkey party...something is changing. Something very basic. Very big.
As a former ‘right-wing conservative’, I say the GOP has proven itself unworthy of any conservative. As James Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg predicted over a decade ago in their book The Sovereign Individual, the Internet is changing the world at the speed of light. Most institutions refuse to grasp the tectonic shift, and productive individuals sense opportunity for real liberty from this date-rape. We daily learn more truths about those who have always pretended to be our friends.
Political parties, like religious denominations, are anachronistic mediating institutions. Dinosaurs tottering on failing rear legs; gasping for breath in a new world ushered in by this printing press on steroids, with wings.
The 2009 tea party phenomenon is just one of many megatrends in American life; facets of a larger-scale shift worldwide, resulting from the Internet. As the printing press did 550 years ago, this new method of human interaction is shaking old power relationships and parasitic or bureaucratic institutions, right to their foundations.
Power, relevancy, funding, and support have now begun to flow to merit; to value, rather than at the point of a gun. Coercive regulation and blind party loyalty simply lack the power to convince that they once had. The population seethes with anger; yet the politician, bureaucrat, and party functionary doesn't dare grasp the sea-change for it means his extinction. Countless parasitic institutions and professions nail planking on the hole in the ship's hull, hoping that passengers will stay seated on their sinking ship.
It's too late. Wise citizens are taking George Washington's advice, leaving party politics; history flows in one direction, and the Internet can’t be stopped. America’s bureaucratic institutions – religious denominations, fat governments at the local, county, state, or national level, huge corporations, political party machines – are an overweight, lumbering Leviathan, unequal to internet-age challenges. It blinks its tiny eyes in the harsh new sun, and shakes its head to no avail.
Today, millions of diligent Americans are figuring out how to pay the bills, or keep their homes. Meanwhile, having devised how to bilk the people out of trillions of dollars (with further heists to come), Congress, the Obamas, and their giddy staffs laugh all the way to their $3,000 lunches.
(Blinks its tiny eyes in the harsh new sun...)
Mainstream media corporations and the political parties are no longer considered honest social mediating institutions. The average working American now sees them as enemies, in league with D.C. corruption. After the tea party movement of 2009 they are also considered dinosaurs, staggering in the tar-pit.
Political parties -- left, right, or center -- appear more irrelevant, more grasping every week. Like a WWF wrestling match that has continued long past the point of entertainment.
We the People will not plead for vertical checks-and-balances. By definition, self-governing citizens don’t ask their public 'servants' for liberty; they assure it by enforcing laws of limitation on those public servants.
For two centuries, wealthy barons have used backroom tactics to own and operate the U.S. Congress. These money powers have been reinforced by party machines and increasingly corrupt media. Americans used to cluck our tongues at corrupt foreign governments; now that Washington D.C. ethics have slid below those of the average banana republic, most citizens can only march in protest!? Preposterous.
At AmericaAgain! we don't care if it's Michael Steele or Mickey Mouse. It makes no difference how talented the talk show host may be, if he's pushing an irrelevant elephant, he will begin to lose audience. Glenn Beck may not be much good at finding solutions, but this part he has had right from the beginning: the party is over.
It's time for AmericaAgain!
