Election: "We will have to fight for survival on the ground that we now stand."

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Rush Limbaugh is proclaiming "Wipe Out!" and playing "Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead!" in honor of Nancy Pelosi. The Commissars of the Media Comintern on the other hand are singing the siren song of compromise and Tea Party frustration and future co-option.

Neither is right.

Initially, with the understanding that the Democrats were likely to retain control of the Senate last night I began this piece pessimistically:

If the American electorate can't figure this out we are truly screwed as a country. They are more screwed than we are, for at least we understand the impending collapse and can make preparations to deal with it.

We are not immune to history. We are not exempt from economic laws. We will not save ourselves with elections. We will have to fight for survival. . . on the ground that we now stand.

In the light of day, I do not dispute the truth of any single sentence above. But just now, today, I refuse to see those words quite so pessimistically as I was when I wrote them.

A glance at the red-blue county-by-county map from last night shows what we already knew -- we are two countries. The combined United States of America corporate entity is undoubtedly "truly screwed." Their America is more screwed than ours, precisely because we live in different parts of the geography. Yet our slice of the geography just got larger as the result of last night.

The most unique moment for me as I was channel surfing last night was Chris Matthews -- his leg tingle at Obama's oratory now a long-forgotten transitory thrill -- bitching about the Bi-Coastal Elite's failure to understand the great middle, leading to a "wipe-out from Scranton to Green Bay."

Now, I am not mistaking GOP numbers for a lock on the restoration of the Founders' Republic. Such an idea is ludicrous. However, the maintenance of our safety and liberty is, of necessity -- at least in part -- a matter of politics and community. Local politics and local community versus federal politics and the federal Leviathan.

As my brother from another mother wrote, in drawing my attention to Erick Erickson's observations on the local level gains of Tea Party candidates and their GOP fellow travelers:

While I do not believe there is a purely political solution to the present crisis in this, the American experiment in ordered Liberty, I note with interest just how telling this election was - at a local level.

Of course, it remains inexplicable to me how the big-name, outrageously progressive candidates remained in office (Reid, Boxer, et al).

We are indeed two nations within one border.

Yet, look at where we sit this morning here in Alabama. ALL significant state offices now are claimed by the GOP. For the first time since Reconstruction, thanks to the Tea Parties, the GOP now will control both the state senate and house. The excuse for non-action on a whole host of issues is removed. From anti-corruption measures to firearms freedom, the GOP will own whatever happens. I expect that we will, in fairly short order, have Constitutional Carry, An expanded Castle Doctrine and an Alabama Firearms Freedom Act. We will put the state government into the position of confrontation with the federal leviathan.

Now, is it possible that these political campaigns will fail locally? Certainly, but we will still make more friends, greater networks of like-minded freedom fighters, which will serve us well as we move to confront the storm that is coming.

For as I wrote in the second paragraph:

We are not immune to history. We are not exempt from economic laws. We will not save ourselves with elections. We will have to fight for survival. . . on the ground that we now stand.

On the ground that we now stand. Look at that red-blue map again. Our ground is laid out. Wherever the citizens outnumber the serfs in sufficient numbers, that is our ground. And if you don't live on one of those pieces of ground, you need to figure out how to get there.

Because we are not immune to history. And despite the necromancers of the Federal Reserve, we are not exempt from economic laws.

The storm is still coming, and GOP control of the House -- though it will cause the bureaucratic cockroaches who fear the antiseptic qualities of light much indigestion -- will not stop it.

So, we will not save ourselves with elections. We will have to fight for survival. . . on the ground that we now stand.

But if we take advantage of every political opportunity, every added minute of preparation time, every extra FTX, every extra bean in the larder and bullet in the cache, we can win.

We CAN win.

We must win.

And we have no time for pessimism.

Use every opportunity this election has given you, as inadequate as it may be.

For we must win.

Mike
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