The Battle is Joined

Charles Krauthammer has picked up on the fact that we are once again living in interesting times:

Which brings us to the age of Obama, perhaps the most exhilarating time of all. There is nothing as bracing for democracy as the alternation of power, particularly when it yields as serious, determined and challenging an ideological agenda as Barack Obama's. This third wave of transformative liberalism -- FDR, then LBJ, now Obama -- is no time for triangulation. This is not incrementalism. We're not debating school uniforms. When Obama once declared Ronald Reagan historically consequential and Bill Clinton not, he meant it. Obama intends to be the Reagan of the new liberalism. The prospect of combative and clarifying 2010s, of sharply defined and radically opposed visions, is both politically and intellectually invigorating.

He's right- after Reagan's Presidency that marked the 1980's and the Republicans took back Congress in the 1990's, everything got better, and success and prosperity was boring and predictable and happy, and a sizable number of people couldn't handle that and rejected that. They rejected the 'jobless' 4% GDP growth of the Bush years, they rejected the victory over evil enemies in Iraq, they rejected the accountability of our education system, and they demanded a change. And they got it.

The election of Obama and rise of the liberals in Congress changed America- it marks the end of our nation as a free, prosperous nation built on liberty, freedom, rule of law, and protection of property rights. The new USA that Obama is building, the hope for many and the change from the past, is a nation built on nationalization and government takeover of privately owned and operated industries like the auto companies and healthcare and banking, of unelected bureaucrats in the EPA or czars like the pay czar determining what sorts of policy we will follow as a nation, of the rise in the power of the person and the violation of the rules of law by people, of increasing tyranny and dehumanization of those opposed to their tyrannical agenda, and the fall of morals and values in society.

The change that Obama represents is a change that I oppose with the whole strength of my being, and which I now fight on every front that I can possibly fight it on- I resist the rise in drug use, I resist the increase in abortions, I resist the rise in unemployment, I resist the increase in disrespect in our society, I resist the rise in sexting and underage sex, and I reject other changes the Obama's policies represent.

And because I resist and fight this change of Obama, it is going to be an interesting decade that we are looking forward to. The children of Reagan, embracing the conservative principles on which our nation was built and recognizing the benefits and beauty of the free market and religion and liberty, are going to be engaging an all out war against a generation of lost and sad individuals who embrace meaningless phrases as they stumble through their religion-less life believing in ghosts and global warming, fighting to establish communism and fascism in our society. Through this battle, America will emerge either stronger and more certain of itself and its place in the world, or weaker and less certain of its future as a nation in this world.

Expect the '10's to be a wild ride. Indeed, Our Long Conservative Nightmare is Over
and May You Live in Interesting Times.