A DEMOCRATIC PARTY VICTORY: THE TRAGEDY OF GETTING WHAT YOU WANT
By Robert Klein Engler (11/20/05)
(CHICAGO--20 Nov. '05) The poet and playwright Oscar Wilde told us there are two tragedies in life: one is not getting what we want, and the other is getting it. Nowadays, the Democrats want an immediate end to the war in Iraq and the troops brought home. They chant the mantra, "Bush lied and Americans died" in an attempt to gain a political advantage and eventually regain control of Congress and the White House.
In what looks like a calculated move to gain that political advantage, former Democratic President Bill Clinton said recently the Iraq war is "a big mistake." His wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, then voted for a Democratic bill that would have a timetable for U. S. withdrawal from Iraq. With the elite media on their side and millions from wealthy donors like George Soros, we have to ask what tragedy would befall the U. S. if these Democrats were successful in getting what they want?
Although you seldom hear Senator Clinton say what she stands for as she positions herself for a campaign to become President, it is possible to make a list of what many Democrats would like to see happen in the United States. That list would look something like this: open borders, amnesty for illegal immigrants, abortion on demand, higher taxes, big government, support for international organizations like the U. N. and the International Court, affirmative action, outlawing citizen ownership of firearms, gay marriage, multiculturalism and a secularization of American society. In short, the Democrats stand for the dismantling of America's traditional core values.
Imagine the national Democratic party comes to power in the next election cycle and brings the troops home from Iraq. What do you imagine will happen after that? I see a series of national and international events that result in the U. S. military declaring martial law and taking over the country in order to preserve our sovereignty and territory. Martial law will happen to the chagrin of the transnational elites, but with the support of a majority of the American people.
The political map of the world will suddenly take on a different shape when U. S. troops are gone from Iraq and Afghanistan. Radical Islam with its Chinese and Mexican allies will effectively circle the globe. Samuel P. Huntington describes a variation of this situation in his book, Who Are We? Huntington writes: "The real and potential enemies of the United States now are religiously driven militant Islam and entirely nonideological Chinese nationalism."
After the withdrawal of U. S. troops from the middle-east, there will be a ring of anti-Western states that will divide the northern hemisphere from the southern. This ring of anti-Western states will slowly creep northward, eroding Europe and the U. S. at its southern underbelly. France and the U. S. southwest will gradually fall into the orbit of anti-U. S. powers, while Japan will be absorbed by China.
Eventually, the southern hemisphere and fragile, liberal states like Denmark and Canada, which has considered adopting Islamic courts for the enforcement of Shari'a law, will evolve into bicultural societies of "two solitudes." They will align then with anti-American forces. There will be an end to the influence of Western Civilization as we know it. The Democrats will get their wish.
With the redrawing of the world's political map and open U. S. borders, acts of terrorism may increase here and in Europe. The liberal Democrats in power in the U. S. will be unable to stop these terrorist acts. They will offer appeasement instead of action. Meanwhile, in Rome, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church will be caught in the middle of a vice where European secularism and Islamic fundamentalism squeeze them into reexamining their attitudes about U. S. foreign policy. The civil unrest that happened in France recently, where more than 5,000 cars went up in flames, will be just the beginning of wider social unrest.
The Sino-Islamic powers with their Latin American allies will ask for more and more concessions from Europe and the U. S., while in the meantime China will begin to colonize the African continent. Unable to act on the international stage the same way the Democrats are unable to act in storm ravaged New Orleans, President Hillary Clinton's appeasement to the Sino-Islamic powers will make British prime minister Neville Chamberlain's 1939 appeasement to Adolph Hitler look like just a rehearsal for the tragic opera to come.
Sooner or later, there will be another radical Islamic attack against the U. S., and it will stagger the imagination. That attack will be accompanied by an interruption of the flow of oil and an attack on Israel. It will be these acts of terrorism that bring martial law in the U. S. and the military to power, not the massive diversion of military forces to civilian uses that Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. predicted in his essay, "The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012."
Weary of the radical social change brought on by Democratic party policies, most Americans will not oppose a military takeover to save our traditions and sovereignty. Furthermore, the very troops that were brought home by the Democrats will support a military takeover that removes the Democrats from power. This will happen because the most patriotic group in American society today is the U. S. military. We can expect also that many conservative Christians will welcome such a military takeover.
The United States is still a very religious nation. About 85 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians. Although many of these American Christians are so in name only, there seems to be a national revival of conservative Christianity taking place in the U. S. now that mirrors past religious revivals. This revival may develop also into a critique of the moral relativism inherent in advanced capitalism. Even if a Christian revival in the U. S. has little economic impact, it is occurring at the same time that radical Islam is also on the rise. In the past, conservative Christianity and radical Islam could have developed in isolation, but globalization has set the stage for a face to face conflict that seems unavoidable.
Ordinary Americans, unlike many of the nations elites and transnationals, are not only religious but are also patriotic. When asked in 1991, "How proud are you to be an American?" 96 percent of Americans said "very proud" or "quite proud" (Huntington, p. 273). Recent studies of the armed forces show that members of the U. S. military are generally more patriotic then the rest of the U. S. population. This makes sense, given the fact that the U. S. has an all volunteer service. Patriotism may be the prime motive for young men and woman to volunteer in the first place, but there is also an indoctrination to tradition and history that occurs in the military that furthers patriotism.
Michael Barone writes in his article, "Spurning America," that tradition both in the military and civilian life makes a person realize, "You're part of something larger than yourself." Barone goes on to say, "Americans in military service and those with strong religious beliefs now vote heavily Republican" (U. S. News.com). It is because of these reasons that returning American troops will not resist a military takeover in the United States.
Martial law will gain support also among working-class Americans in spite of the objections of the Republican corporate elites. Soldiers returning home from Iraq and looking for jobs will not want to choose between English or Spanish every time they use the cash machine at the bank and check out their groceries with the scanner at the local supermarket. Perhaps, then, we will look to Russia as an ally that has been too long overlooked, if not to help secure our borders then at least to help secure outer space and the moon.
Unless some limits are imposed on corrosive liberalism, an international reign of terror may begin that only martial law in the U. S. will bring to an end. If the Democrats win the Presidency and Congress, and impose their liberal agenda on the American people, then something like what we imagine seems possible. An open border with Mexico, an aggressive Islam and communist China are all threats to the U. S. that free trade will not diminish. Certainly, such a future scenario is not what the advocates of the American Revolution had in mind more than 200 years ago.
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