Originally Posted by
Yoda
Was Romney one of the most liberal candidates the GOP could have chosen? Yup. Was he as liberal as Obama? Nope. Was Romney likely to be as hostile to business as Obama, to coal as Obama, to Israel as Obama, to families, to Christians, to the very fabric of traditional American society? Don't think so. Was Romney an expert in running large organizations? Yup. In making them live within their budgets? Yup. In financial turn arounds. Yup.
The enemy of the good is often the perfect. Politics is a business of fuzzy edges, of compromise, of failure to achieve goals, of the inherently imperfect. It is sheer and utter lunacy to claim that we will have a re-birth by destroying the current system. We might, but it is much more likely that we will in fact end up with a socialist mess, and there are precious few examples of that where return to democracy happens within a lifetime, and even fewer where it does so without the active pressure from a Reaganesque US bankrolling the change under the covers, providing money and arms, or both.
Let Obama do his worst? Are you insane? His worst might, for example, include your impoverishment, destitution, imprisonment, and as suggested here, your demise. Your attitude reflects an assumption of re-birth. People don't have that luxury, and most societies descend into a worse state, with recovery sometimes including mass executions, and physical destruction of the society. Where is it that you get this 'destroy and rebuild' template?
Germany was split after WWII, with half its population prisoners for decades. Or rather, half its surviving population. The German Jews were not fortunate to survive their imprisonment, and most of the German males of fighting age were fed to their war machine never to return. The country's industrial base was bombed into oblivion. Only US generosity made their recovery possible. The same for Japan. That Phoenix rose from nuclear ashes with American money. Do you expect the same generosity from Russia? From China? Where will this rebirth come from? Our external enemies, or our internal ones? Iran? The US funded UN?
Your absolutism will be your destruction. I guess just before it occurs you can reconsider, or, if you are Hindu, look forward to your next life. In the meantime, I don't want Obama to "do his worst", to create destruction in order to make a point. I want America to understand it made a mistake, and to correct it in the next election, while we still have a very little time.
The same situation was present with Carter, who had created far less damage than Obama, but enough to elect Reagan and to reverse course for a while. This reversal of course was incomplete and of short duration, but it was powerful enough to create a decades lasting economic boom, and to result in the fall of communism in a number of Eastern European countries, not because conditions in those countries were as bad as in, say, Germany at the end of WWII, but rather because the USSR ran out of cash to prop up its satellites. And that happened because the US was prosperous and determined enough under Reagan to play a big game of poker.
There is nobody big enough and motivated to bail us out if we crash. It will be a long climb back, with little assistance and much interference along the way. And waiting in the wings will be the world governance crowd, for they have looked forward to a crippled US for a long time. Do you not see that Obama IS adopting policies that will destroy, in order to rebuild as he and his ideological backers want? What makes you think that from a position of political weakness, the forces of freedom will be permitted to rebuild as they see fit, when they could not halt the decent that their opponents have long engineered, when they had more tools and the opposition was far less empowered, far less emboldened?
Geez, what naivete.....