EDITORIAL: Americans Always Get The Government They Vote For
Americans revel in full-contact sport. Football, alas, has replaced baseball as the national pastime. No longer satisfied to put on their favorite team jersey, some parents stoke their competitive fires by dyeing their toddler's hair to match the team colors. But pigskin fanaticism is not politics, and
For the past two years, the national life has been marked by a raging (or at least ranting) national argument over the results of the presidential election that sent
After 17 years of war and terror, a certain number of Americans appear to have concluded that the American Dream is finished. Long-standing ideals of limited government and unlimited opportunity have failed. In their stead, trendy notions born in university faculty lounges or imported from foreign shores — hatred of national heritage, embrace of freedom-shrinking socialism, bans on free speech, promotion of sexual anarchy — are championed as harbingers of utopia.
For self-proclaimed "progressives," it all seems to follow "the long arc of the moral universe," as
It has only primed the anger of
It all ends now, if
Nothing drives voters to the polls like the unsettling feeling that the nation has gone off the rails. A survey of American values conducted by the polling firm PRRI found that 47 percent of Americans "feel like a stranger in their own country." Though 51 percent disagreed with that view, it's hardly surprising that a sizable portion of Americans do feel that way, a view heartily supported by
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After Americans make their midterm choices and the record bookkeepers post the final results, the winners and losers are supposed to bury the hatchet and shake hands. "There is one way to settle our differences," the president rightly says. "It's peacefully at the ballot box." Actually, there is another way, but only the irredeemably foolish wish for a second civil war. Only those who have never seen war, up close and personal, would wish that. Fortunately, the electorate eventually sobers up.
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