I’ve said it over and over. The history of our current culture war is the same as what happened in the culture wars of the mid-1800s.
Then, it was slavery, alcohol and abortion. Today, it’s abortion, bioethics, and marriage.
Then, you had the Whig Party, divided between religious “fundamentalists” and rich laissez-faire capitalists, against the pro-slavery, pro-states’ rights Democratic Party.
Then, you had some Catholics who were abolitionists, and you had some Catholics who were pro-South, but not pro-slavery, saying that the South represented Catholic “social teachings”, even if it was wrong on slavery.
Today, you have some Catholics who want to stop abortion first and foremost, and other Catholics who supported the Democratic Party, claiming that it is more in keeping with Catholic “social teaching,” even if it’s wrong on abortion.
Both times, the Democrats rallied support by saying that the Whigs/Republicans were trying to establish a theocracy.
In 1852, the tendentious alliance of the Whig Party was fractured over the slavery issue. Many abolitionists pulled out of politics altogether for a while. In 1860, the abolitionists joined together as the Republicans, and Lincoln won in a 3-way split.
It may be that this year will turn out to be the 1860. If religious conservaties–many of whom are talking about abstaining altogether–were to rally around Dr. Alan Keyes, he could actually have a shot at winning.
However, too many people have already signed on to the McCain camp. Most pundits are now saying McCain is doomed to lose. America is very likely doomed to 4 years of tyranny under Barack Obama, who will not allow diversity of thought in his administration. Bush has certainly laid the groundwork for presidential tyranny.
However, if history repeats itself–as it has been throughout the Bush administration–2016 should be the year. Obama will win, and will prove to be the worst tyrant in US history. The First Amendment will be all but repealed by Hate Speech laws. Various UN declarations, such as the World Court, that Republicans have successfully kept at by for 20 years will be passed in a matter of months. All sorts of “Gay rights” legislation will be passed. Federal funding of abortion and contraception will skyrocket. Laws will be past penalizing people from having children, if not an outright 1 or 2 child policy. Medicine will be socialized, and people will have to wait in line just to see a cardiologist or get an echo, much less open heart surgery. Those of us with more severe health problems will be “triaged” out of the system. Euthanasia will be legalized to take the burden off the government health plan.
Taxes will go through the roof to fund the new health mandates.
And, once it’s too late, people will wake up and realize the mistakes they’ve made. A new party will form, in 2012 or 2016, maybe even 2020, but it will form. And it will win. There will very likely be another civil war within the next generation. But it won’t be a war between the states. It will be outright anarchy between at least four factions: Michael Moore Anarchists, Religious Conservatives, African Americans and Hispanics.
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