One benefit that may emerge from today’s collective seance will be the demise of the Republican Party. The GOP (the Guileful Ossified Plutocrats) is as meaningless to a free society as are legs on a snake. Of course, the Democratic Party is equally destructive of the conditions necessary for a decent society, but it has always been able to assemble a better song-and-dance team with which to persuade Boobus Americanus that it is blessed with the wizardry skills that can overturn the laws of causation and transform lead into gold.
Obama campaigns on the mantra of “hope.” Well, if I could “hope” for a better country when I awoke tomorrow morning, it would be for every Republican candidate for every office – with the exception of Ron Paul – to go down to a thunderous defeat. As the only Republican left in the House, Ron would become the ranking member of every committee and subcommittee. He would still get outvoted 434-1, just as he does now with numerous other Republicans around him. But the reality of America having a one-party system would be all the more obvious.
In anticipation of the GOP going down the memory hole – taking its place alongside the Federalists, Whigs, Bull Moose, and other parties – the established order has mounted the case for a revived Republican organization. “We need both the GOP and the Democrats,” whined one television babbler. The unstated reason for such a claim is that a two-party system is necessary to maintain the illusion that there are any fundamental differences in thinking within the ruling establishment. Boobus must remain convinced that he has any “choice” as to how – or whether – he is to be ruled by others; the kind of “choice” one has in a grocery store when opting between paper or plastic bags!
