It's official Options

[razbus]

I dont know about everyone else, but i am really pissed about bush being re-elected. I dont even feel like typing all the bad things i said on my blog. If you want to read it.... here.

[ComradeRed]

A STATE can pass limits on gun ownership.

The Federal Government is LEGALLY PROHIBITED from passing gun laws. Law is the most important thing in a country. A country without laws must be either an anarchy or a dictatorship.

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But there is reason to believe that Bush's second term will be much better than his first:

1) He will not pander to evangelicals and base voters so much. As Tim Russert noted, "Bush's first term was for the voters, his second is for history." Bush will want to be remembered well, and I think that the best way he can do this is by reigning in Social Security, Medicare, and the Tax System. Now that Bush has won a second term, there will be no doubt that he will go down in history, for better or worse, as one of our most influential presidents. The same goes for Kerry.

2) The reason behind this is because, the three most important events in our political history: The ratification of the Constitutiion (1789), the start of the Civil War (1861), and FDR's New Deal (1933) all happened 72 years apart. It seems that every 72 years, a politician (Washington, Lincoln, FDR) makes an earth-shaking change that CHANGES OUR REPUBLIC FOREVER. For example, the period from 1789 to 1861 is widely called Constitutional, because the government followed the Constitution, between 1861 and 1933 is corporate, because the government primarily followed the interests of big business, and from 1933 on as socialist, where the government primarily focused on enlargening itself.

Now if this trend holds, then 2005 will be the start of the Fourth Era, and Bush will be the one who starts it. He will do something in 2005--circumstance will force it--which may lead to restoring our Constitutional liberties, and the total destruction or at least reform of many of hte programs such as Social Seucirty and Medicare that are bankrupting our country.

Either that or he'll lead us into a fascist dictatorship.

3) Neoconservatism is turning out of vogue. The failure in Iraq has convinced many in the Republican Party that their brief experiement with neocosnervativism ought never be repeated. Exit polls after the election show that, while over 80% of the voters perfer Bush to handle the War on Terror, fewer than 30% perfer him to handle the War in Iraq. Even Francis Fukuyama, the founder of neoconservative thought, has dismissed the war as an abject failure which has not led to democratization, and has only created more terrorists--as much as I disagree with him on many issues, he is right about that. In this sense, the war was a valuable learning experience for hte Republican Party, much as Vietnam was a valuable learning experience for the Democratic Party to mind our own business.


I supported Kerry (Badnarik was my first choice), but just because Bush has been elected does not make this the end of hte world.