Hope for 2011

There is plenty of reason for hope in 2011. The year 2010 saw the full exposure of four lies about major issues of the day: (1) man-made global warming; (2) Islam as a ‘religion of peace’; (3) tea parties as racist; and (4) Barack Obama as an honest, competent, patriotic, unifying American President.

Exposure is the first, biggest, most difficult and most necessary step toward correction, cure and progress. The fondest hope of lies and liars is to be left alone. That’s why exposure causes some of the most strident wailing, as the lies and liars see that they are losing sway among the public. This wailing can be amplified for awhile through the dilapidated megaphone of the Pravda media, but pretty soon the whole fraudulent construct just collapses. There’s just no one left to buy the nonsense.

1. Man-made Global Warming. Despite the deliberate coverup and/or disparagement of the Climate-gate email exposure of fraud in the data, fraud in the reporting, and fraud in denying the real agenda of so-called AGW alarmists (which is nothing other than international redistribution of wealth), the internet has spread the facts far and wide, and anyone with an honest desire to know can learn exactly what has happened. The public has been duped, an entire generation of so-called ‘scientists’ have been exposed as human and fallible (there’s news!)—eager to go along to get along, feeding at the federal trough of politically correct grants and visions, almost literally tilting at windmills in the all out effort to be on the right side, say the right things, be invited to the right parties, have their picture in the right papers, and be interviewed on the right television newscasts.

Even the most arrogant elitist (think Al Gore or John Kerry) is having trouble keeping a straight face as he or she explains that historic blizzards and record low temperatures are proof of global warming. The efforts to say, well, what we were really concerned about all along was climate change, and so never mind what we said about warming, are falling on deaf ears. Common sense is making a comeback, aided by truth. There is no man-made global warming, and humanity can stop paralyzing itself by thinking otherwise.

2. Islam as a Religion of Peace. The great progress here is that Americans are rising above the conflation of individual people with theology. The fact that there might be someone who calls himself a Muslim who is a nice guy just doesn’t cut it as a relevant fact in determining whether Islamic theology and teaching are themselves instruments of peace and productive relations between and among different peoples. Nor does the pronouncement that there are a large number of people who identify as Muslims make Islam a religion of peace.

Where Islamic theology prevails in countries or regions, there tends to be greater oppression of women, more visible hatred and aggressive intolerance of other faiths and of non-believers, more violence and bloodshed, and a general standard of living far below that of Judeo-Christian cultures. And where exceptions may appear, the reason is usually because of exceptional individual leaders who don’t strictly follow Islamic theology and teaching.

Intellectuals and other moral relativists can twist themselves into pretzels trying to deny or dispute these facts, but centuries of history are standing in their way, every bit as much as the deceitful and offensive Ground Zero mosque episode of 2010 stands in their way. The American people are alert and investigating for themselves—and they are arriving at clear and accurate conclusions.

There is still a long way to go as Americans come to grips with the irreconcilable nature of Islam and its sharia law with America and her founding Judeo-Christian principles and values. But dismantling the delusion of ‘religion of peace’ is actually a big step toward clearer and less dangerous decision-making as to all dimensions of American national security.

3. Tea Parties as Racist. It has long been a source of amazement to watch the Pravda media condescend to the heartland of America as if it were comprised of hate-filled lowlifes who preoccupy themselves with small-minded bigotry, group grievance and class warfare. The American heartland is the bedrock of American greatness—the foundation of values and morals from which world wars against the evils of totalitarianism and Nazism and fascism have been fought and won. It is the exact opposite of its caricature by Pravda, as the breadth and energy and conduct of the tea parties have shown. These are the Americans who know their heritage, who know the nobility and divinely inspired nature of their founding ideals, who have fully and finally sensed the war being waged against them and their ideals by a wildly radical, godless and anti-Christian administration. They are responding with determination and clarity in the peaceful use of their Constitutional rights; they have not taken the bait of provocation by false accusations of racism; and they are not resting or retiring—they are fighting, and they won in November and they will continue to win in 2011, as political leaders learn what kind of power an engaged American electorate can wield.

4. Obama. The fraud behind Obama has been discernible by many since even before the election (click here). But 2010 brought much more out into the open for even the undiscerning to see. Backroom dealing, unread legislation not seen by the legislature or the public, doing by regulatory fiat what the public does not want done and Congress has refused to do—this is an honest President? A record of economic disaster, oil spill mismanagement for the whole country to see, a pattern of constant rebuke on the international stage—this is competence? Open talk of Republicans and ‘hostage takers’ and enemies, playing the race card in Arizona, playing the class warfare card in all matters of economic policy—this is unifying?

All of this exposure occurred with strong Democrat majorities in both the House and the Senate, and a full-throated Pravda providing cover. But there are new and forceful voices arriving in Washington this week—Marco Rubio and Allen West are just two you will hear from—who will confront Obama with substance, intelligence and style, and an unconventional strength of character that Obama is not familiar with. And their words will be amplified by the vibrant and growing alternative media. We expect Obama’s dishonesty, incompetence, and divisiveness will flare beyond anyone’s ability to ignore, and we don’t think there is any limit on the possible reactions—including increasing pressure to resign the Presidency.

Forget what secular prognosticators have to say about the economy or any other subject; they are mostly describing symptoms and effects, not causes. Truth is achieving the cleansing upheaval that only truth can achieve, leaving a healthier society and, in turn, a foundation for a healthier economy and environment. There is a lot to fear when lies are controlling thought and discourse; there is nothing to fear when truth takes the helm. That’s why there’s plenty of reason for hope in 2011.

Paul Gable

January 2, 2011