Unrelenting Clarity

Call us hopelessly optimistic, but we’re starting to feel good about America’s post-Obama future. We think that post-Obama future will arrive sooner than 2012, but that’s another topic, addressed here and many other places on this site. The reason we’re starting to feel good is the growing sense that there is an unrelenting clarity that has taken hold of Americans’ thinking about themselves and their nation—and it is leading, rightly, to an unrelenting and across-the-board rejection of everything Obama says, does, and proposes. Sure, the mainstream media echo chamber would tempt some to think that there is meaningful support for Obama’s initiatives, but there isn’t. Americans have so tuned out the mainstream media—it’s becoming laughable. Nobody cares what the media says or thinks.

The Arizona immigration legislation is the latest example. Real Americans—of every background, race, ethnicity and gender—living in a border state are feeling overwhelmed by the absence of border security and an influx of illegal aliens who are burdening all aspects of the social and economic infrastructure, from a starting point of disregard for the law. This is a recipe for anarchy, and the duly elected Arizona legislature enacted a law to address the citizens’ genuine concerns. And in stark contrast to the contemptible healthcare takeover by Congress, which was characterized by hidden negotiation and blatant bribery and probably extortion, against a backdrop of clear majority opinion opposing it—the Arizona legislative process appears to have been duly deliberative, carefully crafted, and is supported by more than 70% of the people of Arizona.

Under these circumstances, it is beyond tone-deaf for the Obama regime to take to the mainstream airwaves with messages of racism, Nazi-ism and all other sorts malicious and out-of-bounds accusations against the American citizens of Arizona. The accusations just don’t ring true—about Arizonans, or any other collection of American citizens. We don’t have any state in this nation where 70% of the people are racists. But the lawlessness that is epitomized by unsecured borders and unenforced laws is rejected by 70% of the American people, including Hispanics. And rightly so.

We’re beginning to move toward having 70% of the people in every state of the nation appalled, disgusted, and fed up with the dangerous and slanderous-toward-the-American-people nonsense that comes spewing out of the Obama administration on an almost daily basis.

Americans opposing out-of-control illegal immigration are not racists. Americans opposing regime takeover of healthcare are not lacking compassion for the needy. Americans rejecting out-of-control spending and the prospect of out-of-control taxation are not selfish. Americans who want to destroy militant Islamists who wish to kill Americans are not bigoted. Americans who want their Constitution honored and their inalienable rights from their Creator kept inalienable are not extremists. They are, one and all, Americans.

Anyone living in a border state with Mexico knows exactly why Arizonans have taken the step they have. And here’s a fact that may have far more impact than any polling group can measure: anyone not living in a border state probably knows somebody who does. The result: the left-wing assumption that the rest of the country will get behind sanctimonious talk of dangerous impositions on ‘civil rights’ from enforcing the immigration laws, just isn’t going to fly anywhere. Hyperspin from the mainstream media may gin up a poll or two to indicate disapproval of what the Arizona state government did, but it won’t last because the hyperspin is just that, hyperspin. The facts on the ground in Arizona are getting through on the internet and over talk radio, and they will cut through the spin. As we wrote earlier, it’s a fallacy to assume Hispanics, or anyone else, favor living in a lawless society.

Yes, we know ‘rallies’ of some sort are planned this weekend in support of illegal immigration, and we know the mainstream media will cover them and try to magnify their importance. But the far left that is whipping up this racist talk and promoting the so-called rallies does not represent even 15% of the American people. The tea parties already represent more than 50% of the American people, and we’d guess they will represent 70% or more before Obama is out.

We sense that the American people are now locked on. An unrelenting clarity has taken hold of the American perception of Obama and his agenda—and the American people are not going to be fooled again by any initiative of this administration. And even if the Democrats ram a few more things through, they’ll just be detonating the snowbanks and feeding the avalanche that is coming their way in November.

So we’re optimistic.

Paul Gable

April 28, 2010