November 4, 2008, - 6:10 pm
Congrats, America!: With Obama Rout, We’re the New Europe
By Debbie Schlussel
**** Bumped Up from 4:26 p.m. ET ****
The best thing I’ve read on today’s election is, “Is America Really Going to Do This?” the column written last week by an outsider looking in–Britain’s great Melanie Phillips. She’s the author of “Londonistan”, who has written about the decline of Europe under Islam and leftism. Now, it’s happening here.
This morning, as I drove around my largely-Black suburb of Detroit, I saw long lines–veeeeery long lines–at many polling places. I’ve never seen anything like it in over two decades of voting. I saw people waiting for hours, parking lots completely parked up with people parked on the side of the road very far from the polling places. I saw lines, even at 10:45 a.m. in my city of 100,000.
And it occurred to me: For years, whenever I heard liberals whine about how the majority of Americans eligible to vote don’t and that they have low turnout, I thought this was a huge compliment to America. They would always compare that to the high voter turnout that regularly occurs in Europe. But in Europe, their countries are unstable. A single election could change everyone’s lives and some would lose everything. In America, we were relatively stable. An election wouldn’t really change our lives. More dummies and slackers stay away from the polls, and America was better off.
But, today, all that changed.
With Black Panthers ruling the polling places and idiocy ruling the minds, America is now unstable. This election will instantly change our lives . . . for the worse. And dummies and the mob mentality are dominating voting booths across America. Our country is now unstable like those of Europe. The numbers of Muslim aliens and U.S.-born Muslims will eventually mirror those of Europe. We’re just a decade or so behind.
Congrats, America. We’re the new Europe.
(No deodorant, lack of showers, and women without shaved pits and legs can’t be far behind . . . along with the Islamic wildings and mobs.
I can already smell it. And it’s malodorous.)
I certainly agree that we are becoming more and more like Europe. The pacifism, appeasement on an international basis, redistributive socialism, political indoctrination, mass leftist parties, etc.
I’m not sure though that elections are watershed events in either Europe or the US though. Conservatives presumably won elections in France and Germany, but it didn’t really seem to affect their foreign policies. In spite of verbal comments favorable to Israel, both countries are pro-Arab in their foreign policies. France has not really backed off its socialist policies, in spite of very small retrenchments. The leftist movements transcend the major parties.
I think the same is true in the US. Leftism has transcended the two-party structure. I think this is shown by the lack of any effective conservative leadership in the Republican Party, no real conservative candidates for the Republican nomination, no real break from the leftist Bush foreign policy in spite of a few verbal sops by McCain, no leadership opposition to affirmative action, illegal immigration, the pervasive PC in this country, appeasement on an international basis, the bailout (the only opposition wasn’t really opposition — they just allowed a few members of Congress in close elections to make the record against it; who knows if they were really against it). This will happen faster with the Democrats, but the Republicans are moving in the same direction. The incompetence and frustrations of the McCain campaign are manifestations of this.
It is unlikely, although no impossible that an effective leadership will arise within the Republican Party. The reversals of leftism that have occurred in the last 100 years have occurred as a result of events that have involved millions of people, like the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, the Hungarian uprising in 1956, and so on.
The demographics are on the side of the leftists. All the illegal aliens, leftists having more and more babies who we support with our taxes, we’ll just continue to witness the decline of our civilization both in American and Europe regardless of election results.
I’ll be very happy if I’m wrong, but I’m very pessimistic.
c f on November 4, 2008 at 6:39 pm