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By Selwyn Duke
Even before the election, with the
realization that a Barack Obama presidency lay on the horizon, many saw a
silver lining in the cloud that drifted into Washington, DC, from the left
coast. “The right will be re-energized,”
many thought, “and we’ll have a better Republican candidate and improved
prospects in 2012.” Moreover, it was
figured that Obama will exacerbate a bad situation, causing a meltdown in our economy
and emboldening enemies without and within, thereby creating fertile ground for
a Republican victory. Of course, the GOP
nominee may in fact be better four years hence, although he is far more likely
to be so in terms of persona than policy. But his prospects are a different matter.
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No one likes the bearer of bad
news, but, in this case, to render good news would be to offer bad
prognostication. Frankly, I don’t see
anything short of divine or devilish intervention (and the latter favors the
president-elect) that will prevent Obama from being a two-term president.
There are numerous reasons for
this. First, the mainstream media may
take minor potshots at him occasionally for circulation purposes and to
convince themselves they’re still journalists, but, ultimately, they will
remain his all-powerful public relations team. Second, Obama is a remarkably effective demagogue. Sure, as with all of the species, it amounts
to illusion; in Obama’s case, this involves formidable but not singular
ability, a resonant voice, and that activist media which smoothes out the rough edges. Yet there is one factor which, barring some
monumental event that upsets the rotten-apple cart (a distinct possibility),
will guarantee the ascent of the leftist agenda and descent of our culture at a
rate heretofore unseen in America. It is
a simple thing to understand, and, lamentably, I don’t think I’m wrong about
it.
The coup de grace Obama will use against rightist opposition is mostly
embodied in one word: Amnesty. This,
along with some other measures, will both grow the Hispanic voting block and
ingratiate Obama to it. This will enable
him to create a powerful coalition of blacks, young voters and Hispanics that,
along with the older whites he will be able to retain, will constitute an
insurmountable electoral force. And this
is why amnesty has long been a dream of the Democrats. Even easier than brainwashing new voters
(which the media and academia specialize in) is importing them.
The last time the left proposed
amnesty for the 20-30 million (a realistic estimate) illegals in our nation,
they were blocked by the Republicans. Now, however, with a president who will enjoy great popular and media
support, more significant Democrat majorities in the Houses, and with sheer
attrition-induced exhaustion in the opposition, I suspect that it will be
impossible to forestall.
So how monolithically Democrat will
this larger Hispanic voting block be? Well, let’s begin by considering this research
by the Pew Hispanic Center:
“Hispanics voted for Sens. Barack
Obama and Joe Biden over Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin by a margin of
more than two-to-one in the 2008 presidential election, 66% versus 32% . . .
. Latino youth, just as all youth
nationwide, supported Obama over McCain by a lopsided margin – 76% versus 19%.”
A new infusion of foreign-born
Hispanic voters will tilt this block even further left, and it isn’t hard to
understand why. Most such people have a socialist
political orientation, which is why governments in Mexico and much of central
and South America also tend have one. And the proof is in U.S.-election pudding, too; for instance, in the
1990s, first-time Hispanic voters cast ballots for Bill Clinton by a ratio of 15 to 1. People’s passions don’t change simply because they set foot on American
terra firma.
Barack Obama and his fellow
travelers know this well, and they have already done much to curry favor with
Hispanics. Obama said during the primaries
that American children needed to learn Spanish, and he will continue to send
the message – albeit in more subtle ways – that he is sympathetic to the
Latinization of the U.S. These messages
will be downplayed by the mainstream media but emphasized in the Spanish one,
which was in the tank for Obama even more than the former. I also expect him to appoint an ample number
of Hispanics to posts in his administration.
Of course, like many others, I envision
that the coming years will bring some very tough times. And while it’s usually the case that a
president who presides over a nation in distress doesn’t win re-election, I
suspect Obama will defy this trend. Why?
That media again.
President Bush, through only some
fault of his own, will be the gift that keeps on giving. The media have already cemented the
narrative, “The last eight years have destroyed the nation, and it will take a
long time to repair the damage.” How
long might this be? For as long as leftists
need a diversionary tactic with which to deflect attention from their misbegotten
policies.
This could, of course, be a very
long period. As I wrote
recently, Bush will become an “. . . omnipresent phantom of failure. It’s much
like how, decades after Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile to barren Saint Helena,
British children were kept in line with the admonition, ‘Be good, or Nappy will
get you.’ Bush’s power will greatly outlive his tenure.”
Yes, if you don’t elect me, Bushy
will get you. And there is yet so, so
much work to be done. Pass the New York Times and the café latte.
But having a water-carrying
mainstream media isn’t enough – the left will also try to stifle voices that
would report the truth. To this end,
they will attempt to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine. And although it may be ruled unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court of two years hence, this may not be the case once Obama
has the opportunity to appoint two or three justices. Also lying further down the road may be
hate-speech laws, which target “hate” about as much as legislation that would
destroy talk radio ensures fairness. They already exist in most of the western world and, incredibly, some
judges actually view this as precedent. Ruth Bader-Ginsberg, that affirmative-action appointee, said herself
that the Internet makes other nations’ court rulings readily available and that
we should learn from them. Said she, “[As
judges and lawyers] we must look beyond our borders, to the laws and
constitutions of other nations.” By the
way, some people call this a judicial philosophy. I call it malfeasance and treason.
So this is our probable dystopian
reality. Yet we do have some
recourse. And here is what I recommend
for now.
The Founding Fathers meant for us
to be a nation of states, not a nation state; they intended for most power to
rest on the state level and for localities to largely shape their own
destinies. We must embrace this model
with boldness and vigor. Huge swaths of
our nation are now in the pocket of the left, but there are yet bastions of
light wherein traditionalists can hold sway. In these places, campaign hard and seize control of the local
governments. Then, resist any and every
unconstitutional mandate. Just as there
was a cold war, we need to initiate a cold revolution.
We have already seen examples of
this, and one that leaps to mind is Judge Roy Moore and his refusal to
remove the Ten Commandments from in front of Alabama’s Supreme Court
building. While some on the right said
he was wrong, reasoning that we must follow the rule of law, I must respectfully
and passionately disagree. When the law
becomes lawless, we owe it no allegiance. When perfidious judges will unabashedly claim that the will of the
American people as expressed through domestic law – both within the
Constitution and without – can be subordinated to the will of foreigners as
expressed through alien constitutions and laws, they become enemies. They then deserve nothing but the deepest contempt we can muster.
When the only possible unity is
under the banner of secular-fascism, we need to become dividers, not uniters. And this, my friends, is a real message of
change and hope.
© 2008 Selwyn Duke — All Rights Reserved
selwynduke.com 
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