Mitt Romney Equals the End of the American Dream

Mitt Romney Equals the End of the American Dream

By Joseph Andrew Settanni


With the now sadly expected nomination of Mitt Romney and, moreover, his equally expected loss to Obama in November of this year, the (extremely uninformed) people of this country ought to now accept the fundamental end of what had been once joyously called the American dream.

Essentially, it meant that one’s children and, especially, one’s grandchildren would certainly, meaning without any basic or real doubt, have a better and, probably, much better kind of life, of a greater future, in America. Optimism appeared warranted. Affluence, the “good life,” seemed guaranteed.

It had become, therefore, a simple and accepted expectation, virtual anticipation, of what had been the forever optimistic and ever confident foundations of extremely triumphant American life and culture; thus, it is more or less fairly synonymous with the liberal Whig doctrine of “American exceptionalism,” as expounded openly by, e. g., Rush Limbaugh, a prominent proponent of conservative ideology and (consequent) related politics in this country. It is supposed to be an axiom of true Americanism, of righteousness itself, that this nation forever is to and will, therefore, remain completely unique and apart from all the other countries on the entire face of this earth.

Wherefore the Dream

The brilliant and ever undoubted American future was to be naturally greeted with full optimism and undiluted cheerful enthusiasm that the past was merely the promise-filled prologue to ever greater abundance for all, for all the people of this great and good land of plenty and (supposedly) unlimited and unquestioned prosperity for all. An always rising standard of living, generation after generation, was just a given; the way things had to be. It is a, thus, natural part of American exceptionalism.

Each successive prideful generation in this forever blessed country would, as if by law or natural right, have it better than the previous generation; the boastful American dream was, furthermore, thought of as an informal or unofficial birthright of all the citizens of the ever truly most magnificent and greatest nation on the face of God’s good green earth, nay, in the entire recorded history of humanity on this planet. Prosperity and America were to be synonyms.

But, now, there is a literally massive, gargantuan, main national debt over $17,000,000,000,000.00 (that’s seventeen trillion dollars) and, by the way, still counting; and, in addition, a truly colossal, estimated, unfunded national debt of over $500 trillion dollars and, by the way, still counting.

But, what the heck, this is still the mighty and invincible United States of America and, it is widely (stupidly) believed that this critical economic situation can just go into infinity with no actually dire consequences resulting. The Grim Reaper will never be paid. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow. The Brooklyn Bridge can be purchased.

The political reasoning, however, as to how a socioeconomic and politicoeconomic disaster will occur are easy to see. Romney will certainly not be leading a united Republican Party, far from it. He will choose as his luckless running mate someone who is ideologically compatible, such as, e. g., Huntsman or Condy Rice, and heartily believes in Big Government as the truly best way to go. The only real and clear opponent of all this, meaning Ron Paul, even if he may get a small chance to give a speech at the Republican Convention, is just going nowhere. What is going on? What ought to one think?

Think of Romney as being the Gerald Ford of 2012 choosing the Nelson Rockefeller of 2012 as his VP candidate; historically speaking, Ford lost; the senior Bush lost (in his stupid reelection bid); Dole lost; McCain lost. Political axiom: Moderate-to-liberal Republican nominees for President can never get the truly needed and essential support of the hard-core conservative base (his truly vital margin of for victory) of the party. [The first time George H. W. Bush got elected he ran under the false colors of a Reaganite, though, once in office, he turned toward liberalism. He reverted to what he really was: a neoconservative, meaning a Big Government supporter] Q. E. D.

Romney, of course, stupidly thinks that many centrists, moderates, and moderate Democrats and moderate liberals will, somehow or other, magically make up for his so predictable loss of the hard-core conservatives. With this man from Massachusetts’ ascendancy to the (hollow) Republican nomination, the perceived future, for this much troubled nation, looks quite too dark indeed.

It is no mere coincidence that, among an increasing group of very discordant voices, the prominent neoconservative Jonah Goldberg, knowing full well the “electability” notion surrounding Romney to be a totally false perception, is mightily hoping for a brokered Republican Convention—to pick, i. e., a non-Romney nominee. But, that scenario is unlikely.

The presumed “popularity” of him, of his electability, is a proverbial mile wide and about an inch deep in terms of genuine support; such purported enthusiasm, for this wealthy scion of inherited privilege, is quite underwhelming, which naturally bodes ill for his rather dim presidential prospects. His just absurd nomination is then the definite grasping of defeat from the jaws of victory.

Few people, as a kind of warning, remember Alf Landon or Wendell Willkie running against a Democrat (FDR) and, of course, during an economic depression no less; hint: they lost. On the other hand, when Donna Brazile (a senior Democrat strategist, a political commentator and contributor to CNN and ABC News) happened to mention that, in fact, only Ron Paul ever got tremendously enthusiastic crowds of charged up supporters almost everywhere he went, her ideological colleagues on the Left shut her up quickly on such a matter.

[And, no, Ron Paul is NOT the anti-Christ, among other stupid charges. He is definitely not a Hitlerian figure. He does not, e. g., kick in the faces of little babies for fun nor pull the wings off butterflies to get his jollies. The insinuations and accusations bombastically and strangely made by his conservative and neoconservative critics are irrationally excessive and, thus, entirely inconsistent with his well-known and publicly documented pro-freedom philosophy.]

Needless to say, the GOP hierarchy/leadership does not want Paul as the Republican nominee in any way, shape, or form; he might and, probably, would win in November 2012. They want the dubious “honor” of helping Obama with his nefarious plans upon this country; this is by willfully assisting him in doing Big Government much better, meaning under Republican management.

The coldly Machiavellian strategy is clear: Voters will be scared into creating a GOP-dominated Congress, Senate and House, in knowing that Romney will not get elected; it is a perverse political ploy worthy of fiendish swine, meaning the Republican Party leadership, who greatly do detest conservatives and, thus, conservatism. So, they, naturally, ardently prefer that Obama should win and, of course, Romney lose to, thus, then better serve their well-known statist purposes in disgusting support of the corrupt and oppressive Iron Triangle: Big Government, Big Business, and Big Labor. Consequently, the national debt, funded and unfunded, will accelerate unchallenged.

And, a cognate political matter can be commented on here. Because of their strong desire, related to an unchanging human nature, to stop being on the outside looking in, to be with the in-crowd, the clique, Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Coulter, etc. launched their greatest and most severe attacks upon Paul, not against any of the other candidates. It is completely, utterly, disproportionate beyond measure because he has no real chance of success toward the nomination.

As for the exciting and electrifying, stirring and moving, Republican nominee, the “Ken Doll” on steroids, one can just imagine the really rousing and inspiring (or, is it actually dispiriting) campaign slogans and political chants for 2012:

“Ruin, RINO, and Romney!” [Hey, it rhymes.] or “Vote Romney, for just (some) less Big Government!” or “RINO Romney for President!” or “Romney, He’ll Fight for (only) Corporate America!” or “Romney, He’s the RINO for You and Me!” and, perhaps, “Romney’s the One!, He’ll Outdo Obama!” Yes, all that, one can guess, will be sure to quite wildly inspire the main conservative base of the Republican Party, especially the hard-core conservatives (not so).

Conclusion

Obama, therefore, gets reelected (probably in a close election) and then launches full-scale into the fundamental transition of America into becoming a European-style, social-market oriented, social-democratic/collectivist/interventionist State. And, that becomes this nation’s determined future for at least several to, perhaps, many generations, a Dark Age.

America, thus, becomes the degenerate “Italy” of the New World, as witness the uncontrolled national debt and uncontrolled unfunded national debt. All this is by way of, courtesy of, Romney’s ugly victory at the Republican Convention. It is so surely enough, moreover, to make one vomit, in righteously profound revulsion, at the disgusting thought of his vile nomination.

So much for the American dream. It ought, logically, to also mean the simultaneous end of the idiotic belief in American exceptionalism. Pandemic pessimism, gloom, hopelessness, despondency, bleakness, and despair do seem very necessarily warranted and logical in the sad face of this moral, social, cultural, economic, and political disaster of an enormous magnitude lasting for generations. The diminishment of American life, with the passing of time, will simply seem normal to most people, as social civil liberties are then gradually and, sometimes, quickly crushed.

What is out of sight becomes, sooner or later, what is out of mind, including what was, perhaps, once supposedly thought to be the American Dream, a seemingly vague kind of disappearing myth, becoming in mental reflection more cloudy with the increasing fog of dulled memories galore. The drift is toward, of coure, the United Socialist States of Ame