It’s been fairly quiet here on The Island of late. I get the feeling the mix of events between the election results and the massive level of government intervention in the free market has put a damper on thinking people’s input to the blog.
Perhaps most of you feel like I do right now. The whirlwind of recent political events coupled with the impending holiday season (plus the regular business of going to work and doing business) leaves me feeling like I’ve been beaten about the head and shoulders and left with a fog surrounding me.
Still, I find myself frequently going back to this election and trying to get a grip on what just happened and why. And no, I don’t mean whether this was referendum on Democrat or Republican position points (they are virtually the same anymore) or whether the election was a turning point in American History (outside of the obvious hoo-rah of the media). I mean what really happened.
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After all, the American Electorate just put into office a man of whom we know almost nothing about his real inner character, who easily plagiarizes Left-Speak in the same paragraph with FDR-Speak and surrounds himself with retread Clintonites newly announced almost every day. This is a man with political Teflon smoothness that puts Bill Clinton to shame.
But what was it that managed to get him elevated to this position? Well, I’ve spent some time reading various political reviews and crystal-ball reader’s prognostications about what he might do, when he might do it, what the eventual outcome will be and so forth.
And I think I finally hit on the most clear-cut, articulate reading of what really happened and why as well as what will happen and why.
I direct you to the National Review Online and highly recommend you spend a few minutes watching the five-part conversations with Mr. Thomas Sowell and Mr. Shelby Steele, a pair of Conservatives with a different perspective. It will help clear the fog, I’m sure.
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