Silent Majority Know Somethings Wrong With Government...

    “Politically, I am a ‘mutt’” she began.  “I don’t fit anywhere…I’m pro-choice, but I think that pretty much everything that Obama and congress are trying do is wrong.”

     She is a co-worker of mine, single, and in her early thirties, who was never previously interested in anything remotely political.  But it’s a funny thing:  Once President Obama and his adoring minions began their quest to codify unread legislation designed to destroy the American way of life, those individuals who comprise what Richard Nixon called the Silent Majority began perking up their ears…and I don’t think they plan to remain silent for long.

     My young friend is now in the process of learning all the things that public schools seem to fail to teach about our government; from reading, news, talk radio, and chiefly in talking to others, and she is not alone.  One of the great things about having a normal job with normal people as co-workers and customers (as opposed to those in the rarified “permanent political class” and intelligentsia) is listening to their conversations.  The primary topics these days are about the workings of government at all levels, local, state and federal.  From the Springfield police and fire pension issue to the house health care bill, to the question of strategy in Afghanistan, people are engaged in a way I have never seen.  Friends, they are not happy.

     I believe that within all people there exists an innate desire to chart one’s own course; in effect to be free; I also believe that this desire is particularly strong in Americans.  Beginning with 2008’s bailout bill and continuing to passage of the 1,990 page health care fiasco, people instinctively feel that our leaders are taking us down a dark alley where we don’t want to go, and worse yet, refuse to pay attention. 

     People know that the job creation numbers as a result of stimulus spending are bogus, even without doing the math that apparently reflects costs of over $113,000 per job in this state alone. They know that the congress that passed that massive health care bill supplies its members with the ultimate gold-plated health plan.  They see a president who rushed to Denmark to lobby for the Olympics but as of this writing, cannot make a decision about what to do in Afghanistan.

     As in the case of my friend, wedge issues like abortion, and longstanding party loyalties will not carry the day in 2010.  Many folks will not be voting democrat or republican; rather they will be voting for individuals who make sense and want to return to what was the United States of America prior to the establishment of elite authoritarianism.  Get ready.

      Finally, as I am writing this on Veterans Day, a challenge:  If you have never heard of Herman Davis of Big Lake Island, Arkansas, or Commander Ernest Evans of Pawnee, Oklahoma, look them up, read their stories, and thank God for everyone who has served this nation.