The
American people have spoken. It is estimated that approximately 6
billion dollars was spent on political campaigns in 2012, and we ended
up exactly in the same place that we were before. Barack Obama is still
in the White House, the Democrats still have solid control of the U.S.
Senate and the Republicans still have solid control of the U.S. House of
Representatives. Clearly, the American people want more of the same,
and that is really bad news. The path that we have been on will only
lead to unprecedented disaster, and now it is abundantly clear that
there is not going to be any solutions to our problems on the national
level. Not that things would be that much different if we reversed
things and gave Republicans control of the White House and the Senate
and we gave Democrats control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Over the past several decades, nothing has really seemed to get any
better no matter what faces we have sent to Washington. But this time
there is really a feeling of “finality” to things. The American people
have made their choices, and those choices are going to have
consequences. There is no turning back now. The politicians that we
have chosen reflect who we are as a nation. It is not just our leaders
that have turned their backs on the U.S. Constitution and on the
principles that this country was founded upon – the truth is that the
majority of the American people have rejected them. We have willingly
chosen our destiny, and there are no more excuses.
What
Barack Obama has pulled off is absolutely mind blowing. First of all, I
must acknowledge that the Obama campaign had the best “ground game” in
the history of American politics. Their ability to deliver their voters
to the polls was absolutely amazing. Yes, the election was close, but I
thought it would be much closer. The Obama “ground game” made a
significant difference.
Having
said that, it says a lot about who we are as a nation that the American
people would willingly send Barack Obama back to the White House for a
second term. You could almost excuse the American people for having the
wool pulled over their eyes the first time, but at this point American
voters have had four years to evaluate Barack Obama and learn what he is
all about.
Barack
Obama, like many of our politicians, is a con man. He just doesn’t
have a few skeletons in his closet – he has a whole army of them. Over
the course of two presidential campaigns he has refused to release his
school records, there are very serious irregularities concerning his
Social Security number, and he has managed to keep vast stretches of his
past a total secret to the American people. Anyone applying for a
decent job or trying to get into a decent school would have been
required to disclose more background information than Barack Obama has
revealed to the American people. What Obama has pulled off is
completely and totally absurd. I truly believe that Barack Obama will
someday be regarded as one of the greatest con men of all time.
But
even setting all of that aside, the outrageous things that Barack Obama
has publicly said and done should be more than enough for every
American that loves the U.S. Constitution to reject him. The truth is
that no American should have ever cast a single vote for him for any
political office under any circumstances.
And
yet now he is headed for a second term in the White House, and now he
will feel absolutely no accountability to the voters since he will not
be running in 2016. He can do whatever he wants over the next four
years, and nobody can do anything about it.
Not
that Mitt Romney would have been much different. Out of all of the
Republican candidates, the Republicans selected the candidate that
was most similar to
Barack Obama. During primary season, in many of my articles I pleaded
with the Republicans not to choose Mitt Romney. I warned that large
numbers of very conservative voters would refuse to support him in the
general election. I was horrified by how Romney treated Ron Paul and
his supporters during the primaries. It turns out that Romney
desperately could have used their help in swing states that Romney
barely lost like Ohio, Virginia and Florida.
- A D V E R T I S E M E N T
In
the end, Mitt Romney ran one of the most inept campaigns in modern
American political history. Except for his one brief shining moment
during the first debate, Romney just seemed to keep falling flat on his
face over and over. He seemed to have absolutely no idea how to attack
Obama’s track record, and he kept shifting positions every five
minutes. To be honest, his campaign was an embarrassment to the
Republican Party.
I
know that a lot of Republicans are mourning today, but things would not
have been much different under a Romney administration. Romney was
perhaps the most liberal candidate the Republicans have ever nominated
for president, and Obama and Romney were perhaps the two most similar
candidates that we have ever seen run against each other on the national
stage.
The
fact that the Republicans picked Mitt Romney says a whole lot about the
Republican Party just like the fact that the Democrats picked Barack
Obama says a whole lot about who they are.
But let us not overlook the other choices that the American people made yesterday either.
The U.S. Senate has been an abysmal failure for years, and yet the American people just keep voting for more of the same.
If you can believe it, the U.S. Senate has not passed a budget in over 1,200 days.
In fact, the last time the U.S. Senate passed a budget, there was no such thing as an iPad.
But
not only did the American people allow Democrats to keep control of the
U.S. Senate, the Democrats actually gained a couple of extra seats, and
several of the newly elected Senators are extremely liberal.
And keep in mind that all of the new Senators that were elected yesterday will not be up for re-election until 2018.
That is very frightening to think about.
The
funny thing is that the American people also gave the Republicans very
firm control of the U.S. House of Representatives once again. It is
almost as if they were saying that they want things to remain exactly
the same as they are right now.
So
we can definitely expect more gridlock in Washington. And perhaps that
is a small piece of good news to come out of all this.
If
we can get our politicians fighting with each other so much that they
can’t get anything done, perhaps they will have less of a chance of
messing this country up even worse than it already is.
This
election season was the last, best chance that the American people had
to bring about changes on the national level. Unfortunately, the
Republicans, the Democrats and the American people all failed miserably
in this regard.
As
far as the economy is concerned (after all, this is a column about
economics), we will continue to steamroll toward collapse at record
speed. It is now glaringly obvious that there will be no political
solutions to our problems on the national level.
So you better brace for impact, because a crash is coming.
And I think we just got a preview of coming attractions. The Dow was down by more than 300 points on Wednesday.
I
wish that I could be more optimistic, but the truth is that there is no
hope on the horizon on the national level. The American people have
spoken, and they have made their choices.
Now we all get to pay the price.
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