“Can’t we all just get along” is the famous quote with which
I concluded my column last month on our partisan nation. The late Rodney King,
who spoke those words after the Los Angeles riot 20 years ago, would be sad
today to see that no, we are not getting along.
Last month’s Presidential election told an important story about the current and future path of our country. Based on that vote, we are currently not a nation that cares about being the economic engine of the world. Instead a slim majority of our citizenry is more concerned about perceived economic fairness and redistribution here in the United States.
Our nation is also not currently concerned about protecting and enforcing our Constitution and its unalienable rights. Instead that slim majority of our citizenry seems to be okay with a federal government that tramples on our rights to privacy, personal liberty, and the rule of law.
Citizens in 20 states in our union have actually started petition drives, since President Obama was elected to another four year term, to potentially have their states secede from our United States of America.
While it is doubtful their secession efforts will succeed, it is exciting to see so many citizens following the words of our Declaration of Independence that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
While the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Monica Lewinsky’s oral
fixation certainly caused major rifts in our country, nobody has been as
destructive to our citizens getting along than has President Obama. His 2012
election strategy played to the worst fears of blacks, Latinos, single women
with and without children, and to young voters by attacking Mitt Romney for
positions allegedly which would negatively affected those groups. There were no
optimistic “Shining City on the Hill” comments from Obama. In fact, he ended
his campaign by telling his minions that voting was the best revenge. Revenge
against what?
There has been much talk that the current and future demographics of our country have set a pace for permanent structural change in our country. I will not argue that demographics are changing. In fact I have been educating my friends and family for years that our country is never again going to be like or look like it was in the fictional Happy Days and Leave It To Beaver eras. To me, demographic change is nothing to fear or despise as our country was built on evolving demographics. It is something to celebrate.
But those of us on the right do not believe those demographic groups voted for President Obama because they want the United States to go down the path of more socialist Latin American and European countries despite the Democrats again believing they have a mandate for more entitlements and onerous taxes and regulations. Because those groups also voted to keep Republicans in control of the United States House of Representatives which is the people’s chamber in Congress.
I believe that a majority within those demographic groups understand that our country was not founded to provide economic fairness to all but rather to provide a free and fair chance at economic success. And that our nation was not founded so a powerful federal government could entrap its citizens in growing bureaucracies and entitlement programs as envisioned by Obama in his “Life Of Julia” video campaign which depicted cradle-to-crave government involvement.
I believe that these demographic groups and all other Americans will soon be looking for a national political figure who will come forward and again prove that government programs and entitlements are not the answer to a successful future for our democracy. And that a bright and prosperous future for their children and grandchildren cannot and will not come from government but from an entrepreneurial marketplace.
I am confident that political figure will come from the Republican Party. And I am hopeful that person will also showcase to these demographic groups that my Republican Party is the same in principle as it was when Lincoln supported black Americans when they needed it most in the 1800s and 1960’s; that it is a party of diversity with the likes of US Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, Governors Susana Martinez, Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, and Brian Sandoval; and that it is still the party of Ronald Reagan who united this country after a faltering economy caused by an ineffective Democratic President not unlike the current occupant of the White House.
