North Star Writers Group

It would appear on this day after Election Day, that the Democrats are big winners. And to some extent, that is true, though certainly not to the extent that they will think. The true big winner this time is the mainstream media. Their constant barrage of lies and liberal propaganda regarding Iraq took root in the mostly uninformed and ignorant minds of the masses, and the result was a GOP bloodbath at the polls.

Never mind that virtually none of these folks had the slightest clue what they were voting for in putting the Democrats back in control. Heck they most likely can't comprehend that there even is an alternative to "Not Bush." (And don't think the Democrats didn't know that, staging the “Seinfeld” campaign about nothing; running a bunch of empty-suit candidates who pretended to be "moderate" or "conservative" and perpetually mouthing substance-free platitudes like so many Borg drones on Star Trek yammering the collective's line about resistance being futile. As if Speaker Pelosi will let any of them wander off the ultra-liberal reservation for one nano-second once they're seated in January.)

The truth that elections actually have consequences is utterly lost on them, as they vote based on the untruth fed to them by their media masters and bury their heads firmly in the sand. (Apparently Carter and Clinton respectively giving us a nuclear Iran and North Korea with their naive incompetence wasn't enough for some to learn their lesson.)

This victory for the media will lead to their trying to implement their liberal ideas and effectively run the show. (They were already calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's head last nigh. Funny, I didn't know "talking head on ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC" was either a cabinet-level position or an elected office.) And politicians who need the media to say nice things about them to get re-elected aren't about to do anything that doesn't please them, which means they aren't going to attempt anything conservative, and both parties will continue their inexorable marches to the left.

Perhaps in another time and place, I could dismiss this as no big deal, or maybe even enjoy watching the GOP's largely deserved comeuppance resulting in a short season out of power, leading in turn to a conservative rejuvenation. But this is a post-9/11 world, where any display of weakness can embolden our radical Islamic enemies and result in bloodshed on a truly horrific scale. Even worse, it can make America's allies no longer trust her word and thus cease to be her allies. That many refuse to see, or are blinded by the media from seeing, the consequences of elections does not mean that they don't exist and won't come home to roost in a terrible way. Thus, yesterday's effective brainwashing by the liberal media of enough ignorant fools to flip Congress is nothing short of ghastly.

We cannot hide from the ugly truth by simply closing our eyes pretending it doesn't exist. We can't vote it away and we can't just leave Iraq and pretend it never happened. If we try, we are in for one hell of a rude awakening when the alarm clock inevitably goes off in the morning and interrupts our peaceful but phony dream with cold, hard reality. I just pray that the clock doesn't take the form of, say, a dirty nuke exploding on the east coast. But it would seem that's what it will take to wake up those who've been addled by an unofficial-fourth-branch-of-government liberal media.

Thomas Paine, writing during a similar time of choosing in America's infancy (but when the media was actually on her side), gets the sentiment down perfectly. May it generate the same response from her people now as then.

"Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet and to repulse it. ... It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy."

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