Prelutsky makes a great point, once again:
I realize that the late Sen. Goldwater is anathema to liberals, even to those who only know him as the unfortunate victim of a famous TV spot in which a little girl picking a flower appears to be vaporized by a nuclear bomb. The vile message in 1964 was that Goldwater was a nutburger who was anxious to get us involved in a nuclear showdown with the Soviet Union. Because most voters 50 years ago were just as dumb as they are today, 61% of them voted for LBJ, who took that as a signal to sink us even deeper into the quagmire of Vietnam.
What more people should remember about Goldwater is based on fact, not a slander perpetuated by a cynical political operative; namely, that he was the man, the Republican senator, who went to Richard Nixon and told him to his face that it was time to resign, that he was an embarrassment not only to the nation, but to the political party to which they both belonged.
Isn’t it a shame that there is no Democrat of equal stature who will go to Obama and point out that what he is doing by ignoring the Constitutional limits on the executive branch, by racking up one scandal after another and by unleashing the dogs at the IRS and the EPA on innocent Americans, is not only bad for the nation, but will be a disaster for every Democrat seeking election this coming November?
Hmmm. Dunno about that. Liberals win elections by fooling people into believing, usually without any supporting evidence at all, that once the liberalism has done what liberalism is supposed to do the liberal will have the sense to say “Okay stop, that’s enough liberalism.” The way you do when you brush your teeth with toothpaste, or something. They win re-elections that way. They lose once it becomes clear that they’re a lot more like dogs begging for food, or ex-wives demanding more quote-unquote “child support,” when it becomes clear, then undeniable, that their solution to EVERY problem is more liberalism and they’ll never, ever stop.
This is all part of the natural cycle. People get prosperous, they find smaller and more nit-picky subjects of their complaints, they get it in their heads that the potholes in their career paths or diminished alms are due to the Republicans in office, and then even in the midst of all their complaining they think they can afford to make poor decisions and think sloppy. Then they vote in democrats, and recite democrat mantras like “The rich get richer, the poor get poorer.”
The democrats take over, everything turns to shit, after awhile people figure out this is not the answer. Nothing stimulates cool, crisp, responsible thinking like an empty refrigerator. Then they turn the democrats out of office and vow never to make the mistake ever again. And keep the vow…for a little while. Then, people get more and more prosperous, and once again get the idea they can afford to make poor decisions and think sloppy again.
Fixing the problems, therefore, would rely on the democrats periodically overplaying their hand. Which is natural. They’re great at winning elections, when the time is right. They suck at pretty much everything else. Including policing their own. They don’t have a Goldwater visiting the White House and telling President Selfie that the time has come. And this is metaphorical for everything else they do. They lack the circuit-breaker. When what they want to do doesn’t solve the problem, and they can see that, the answer is always to do a lot more of it.
And that’s when the voters figure out it’s necessary to pull the plug. The time is coming. That’s a good thing. And I think, this time, the era of prosperity is going to be plush and long. The “Obama lesson” will sink in stay learned for a good long time. Among most, anyway.