Some take comfort in the rationale that we can thank Jimmy Carter’s disastrous presidency for giving us Ronald Reagan. From that fact of history they extrapolate that the election of Barack Obama might lead to another Ronald Reagan.
This logic fails because if we had another Ronald Reagan we would be winning this election.
But an even greater flaw in this rationale resides in the reality that Barack Obama is no Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was well-intentioned but inept. Barack Obama is neither well-intentioned nor inept. Therefore, while Jimmy Carter opened the door for the election of Ronald Reagan, if elected Barak Obama will nail the door shut on elections of conservatives in the future.
How so?
First, he will seriously curtail free speech. Michael Barone documents this inclination of Barak Obama and today’s Democratic party in his article entitled “The Coming Liberal Thugocracy.” I would urge you to read this entire article.
Barone’s observations drive home the reality that the new Democratic left is militant in its beliefs and tactics. If Barack is elected and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid remain in control of the Congress, we can expect to find the same political correctness currently existing on college campuses to be imposed on society as a whole.
The academic world uses their degree-granting power to force its will on our young people. Under a Barak presidency we can expect legislation that will empower our legal and judicial system to deal with those who do not adhere to the party line.
Banks have already experienced coercion of this nature in the imposition of Congressional social engineering on their loan policies, which has produced our present financial crisis. If Obama is elected we can expect such tactics to strike closer to the doors of our homes.
One such move already in the mill resides in the reinstatement of the “Fairness Doctrine.” This will effectively silence the voice of talk radio. That news outlet can be credited with conservative political success in recent years. Without it, conservative success at the polls will be very difficult.
Yet another initiative we can expect from a President Obama and an empowered Democratic Congress consist of extending free reign and added financial support to ACORN and similar organizations that have the objective of loading the ballot box toward the left.
Imagine an organization that receives millions from the federal government, which has the sole mission of registering Democrats, especially those with radical left leanings. That requires no imagination at all because this is what we have now. However, with greater freedom and support, the playing field will be tilted even more steeply against conservatives.
Make no mistake about it, even the current efforts of ACORN are bringing in many thousands of voters to the left side of the political spectrum, numbers sufficient to change election outcomes.
The combination of silencing talk radio and other aspects of free speech along with stuffing the ballot box will make it practically impossible for conservatives to win elections. These efforts will be aided and abetted by the mainstream media, making it almost impossible for the truth to be known and objections to be raised. This would mean that the left would become more entrenched and more empowered and more radical.
In other words, Barack Obama is no Jimmy Carter. Carter brought us Reagan. Obama, if elected, will take us down a one-way dead-end street from which there will be no return. Pray fervently that God will spare us from that fate.
Hello, Dr. Brownback.
I just discovered you had been sending your message out again.
You might have added Obama’s promise to Planned Parenthood for support of what I think is called the “Right of Choice” Act.
We are in for trying times.
Perhaps, though no Reagan seems to be on the horizon, we will see someone arise who will courageously offer some moral leadership before it is too late. That is, if this nation would even listen.
Or perhaps God will move, in his plan, another direction which leaves this country, and presumably many of it’s Christians, out of the mainstream of world evangelism. Isn’t that what your website is trying to say anyway ? Isn’t it a call to “wake up” ? There is too much Jerimiah in me, I doubt many will respond.