The Election's Done; What Now?

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American Thinker:



The statist ideology of Progressivism first shaped federal law in 1890 and has moved forward for 120 years, reshaping the states and cities along the way. Progressive education reshaped the public schools in the 1930s, proceeding since uninterrupted; it has produced generations of journalists who have evolved from professionals into political pimps for Progressivism. Progressive politicians of both parties have provided generations of Progressive judges. Governments at every level have fattened themselves with hordes of highly rewarded bureaucrats employed on Progressive programs while tax-funded nonprofits employing many more have sprouted. That's a large and very committed interest group.

Most of the U.S. electorate comfortably accepted it all as time passed until Obamacrat overreaching outraged its sensibilities, resulting in the Tea Parties. That awakening would likely not have happened but for the widespread unemployment accompanying the 2008 bank collapse. Tea Parties are not National Review conservatives, standing before the Progressives yelling stop! Their general thrust is radical; they want Progressivism extirpated, gone; they want to restore the Constitution the Founders had in mind. Many of them maybe haven't thought about the details. You know details can be a bitch.

One big detail is the economic fiasco unfolding -- the real-world cost of Progressivism. The Progressives finally understood the economic poverty of their statist policies; all it took was the economic collapses of the Soviet Union, China, and the European Union for it to dawn on them. In response, they have given up promising prosperity and offer genteel poverty instead -- less is more --- painted green so it looks nicer. The electorate is still figuring out that one, but the missing jobs are clear.