Yes, We Can Get Through This

Obama has spent the first months of his Presidency being good for the only thing I suspected he would be:  a rude awakening.  The country needed one after decades of dumbing down and propaganda, and nothing short of it would have sufficed.  It’s not what we wanted and it won’t end well in the short term, but more people will be awake and aware of exactly how much they have to lose by the time this is over.

It’s not pleasant to watch, and certainly not to live in a mess like this.  But yes, we can get through this.  It’s not the first time we’ve had to sail through rough waters, and it won’t be the first time we’ve succeeded once we’re done.

So while many of you may not see it now, I’m going to take some time to mention the silver linings to the current giant political storm cloud over all of our heads:

• The Tea Party movement wouldn’t have formed without Obama.  As conservative activism is a must if we want to put America back on track, this is a good thing.  We’ll need them for Republican RINOs too, since a few are bound to slip by the purge and get back into office.  No more free rides for people like Bush.
• The Republican Party spent two election cycles suffering some major defeats.  They were also major garbage disposals that couldn’t be avoided any longer.  Because of it, they moved back to the right, and until recently, stayed there.  Finishing what we started will put a stake through the heart of the Republican’s “Other Democrat” platform, at least for a time.
• McCain’s defeat discredited the “Curry media favor by spitting on the base, then get elected President with their help.  What are the conservatives going to do about it, heh heh?” theory of politics.  Had he won, any Republican who wanted to be President would have attempted to use that theory to duplicate McCain’s success.  Think the opposition party is in trouble now?  Imagine if it was full of McCain clones, and you’ll see the bright side to this.
• The race card is being played more abusively lately than at any time in my life.  Rush Limbaugh is its latest undeserving target.  If Obama and his like-minded allies abuse it to destruction, he removes one huge weapon from the arsenal of the Democrats, and we will have taken a huge step towards real post-racialism in the US.
• A lot of people are about to learn to appreciate the freedoms and prosperity they have the hard way.  When that happens, a lot more people will stand up to defend it instead of being the sheeple they are today. If you look at all the first-time protesters joining the Tea Party Movement, you’ll see that this has already begun.

It’s not the first time we’ve had to do the seemingly impossible.  We’ve been through wars, a Great Depression, and all manner of social unrest.  We began when our Founding Fathers told the most powerful nation of its day to begone, and then made it stick.  Now is just another time we have to overcome the seemingly impossible, a supposedly irreversible descent into soft tyranny and socialism.  When we do, we’ll make jaws drop again, and we can do it because that’s who we are.

Yes, we can get through this.  Sooner or later, we will find a way.

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