The Most Important Election in 222 Years

[endicom]

American Thinker
Gregory Buls
Sept. 22, 2018

In 1796, America under George Washington enjoyed peace and prosperity unforeseen by even the most optimistic Founders.  The election of 1796 was arguably the most important in the nation's history because it represented our first true transfer of power.  Many had urged Washington to be king.  Instead, he willingly gave his power back to the people, who then placed it into the hands of our second president, John Adams.  Though Adams beat Thomas Jefferson by a mere three electoral votes – and won just 71 out of 276 cast – thoughts of monarchy were forgotten, and America was set on a course it maintained for the next 204 years.

The presidential election of 2000 established a new paradigm, where the winner of the contest was considered illegitimate by a large part of the opposition.  Ditto 2004 and 2016.  Though the effort to de-legitimize President Bush was interrupted by 9/11, the new paradigm appears fixed: Democrat winners are as American as apple pie, and Republican winners are cheaters.  The peaceful transfer of power is no longer a given.

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[Right_in_Virginia]

Given the forces arrayed against us, it is hard to imagine that one election could make much difference.  Cynics will argue that the cause is lost, the Republic died long ago in all but form, and the ascendancy and normalization of the left insures that it will be generations before it can be restored to its former glory.  The combined power of the forces of unmaking seem congealed to form an fixed object.  If that is so, then moving the left off its political center of gravity will require an unstoppable force.

The relentlessly energetic engine of that force exists in the person of President Trump, but the body of it consists of those Americans who still value freedom over entitlement, individualism over conformity, work over idleness, nationhood over globalism, and faith over self-worship and idolatry.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The election of President Trump was a richly deserved blow to the establishment and to a political party that despises you if you are not a member of its club of malcontents.  For the first time since their ascendancy, the left and their enablers are off balance and fully exposed. 

You can either help to deliver them a crippling blow or extend your hand to help them up.  In this election, inaction is the most telling vote you can cast – it will say everything about you that is really worth knowing.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thanks for posting this @endicom

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

The election of President Trump was a richly deserved blow to the establishment

Not much of a blow.  Sure, they lost out on a steady financial backer, but it's not like he was contributing his own money.  They'll still get "theirs".

[mystery-ak]

September 22, 2018
The Most Important Election in 222 Years
By Gregory Buls

In 1796, America under George Washington enjoyed peace and prosperity unforeseen by even the most optimistic Founders.  The election of 1796 was arguably the most important in the nation's history because it represented our first true transfer of power.  Many had urged Washington to be king.  Instead, he willingly gave his power back to the people, who then placed it into the hands of our second president, John Adams.  Though Adams beat Thomas Jefferson by a mere three electoral votes – and won just 71 out of 276 cast – thoughts of monarchy were forgotten, and America was set on a course it maintained for the next 204 years.

The presidential election of 2000 established a new paradigm, where the winner of the contest was considered illegitimate by a large part of the opposition.  Ditto 2004 and 2016.  Though the effort to de-legitimize President Bush was interrupted by 9/11, the new paradigm appears fixed: Democrat winners are as American as apple pie, and Republican winners are cheaters.  The peaceful transfer of power is no longer a given.

As troubling as the new paradigm is, it is just another convenient political gambit for the irresponsible left.  The prominence of the new paradigm should alarm every freedom-loving American.  If unchecked, in time, it will force a breaking point.  It also speaks to a palpable division that goes beyond anything we've seen since at least the Civil War.  Politics is no longer the art of reasonable compromise; it has become an exercise in grudging, chafing tolerance, with one side consumed by a passionate hatred for the other side – a spreading hatred that threatens to consume both sides.  America is at a tipping point, and the 2018 elections will likely determine which direction we take for a generation or more.

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[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

222 years? Really?

[Right_in_Virginia]

This article is already up and moving.  It's posted here @mystery-ak  http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,333056.0.html

@Machiavelli

[endicom]

Topics merged.

[skeeter]

At first blush the essay's premise seems overblown, but I'm inclined to agree with it.

If people could just put away their antipathy for a moment and consider the lengths at which the 'establishment' or 'deep state' or bureaucracy, or whatever you'd call it, has been going to to impede Trump's administration. Much of what has happened I never thought I'd live to see in America.

On the other hand, if you aren't concerned with how intelligence law enforcement & other federal agencies have been politically co-opted and believe the country was chugging along just fine before you probably consider Trump a bothersome sideshow, an anomaly better gotten rid of.

Which is pretty much what will happen if the rats take either or both houses this Nov. I do not think they will allow another Trump, or anyone they haven't sanctioned, to happen again.

[Silver Pines]

I’ve been hearing this since 2004.  It doesn’t get me stirred up anymore.