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It’s been over a month…

…since we have posted here. My apologies to anyone who may check in once and awhile.

Most of my posts have been at North of the Shire lately.

There is something that we have been watching closely. That is the political landscape of the United States. Today I heard the Glen Beck show on Fox over the satellite. Occasionally I think Glen Beck has been meandering around in the dark a bit, searching for answers rather than providing them. And, in some sense that is the charm of his show that he doesn’t pretend to have all the answers all of the time.

Today I think he struck gold and was right on the money. Regardless of where you are in the political spectrum I think it would be difficult to argue with his conclusions. He didn’t spend a lot of time trying to tell the audience how important or dangerous the situation is. He touched on it but for the most part the show was objective analysis of what is happening on the left hand side of the political spectrum based on facts at hand.

Without trying to re-cap the show his conclusion was that right now there is a battle in the Democrat party for control, of the party and the agenda. The far left, the radical left, the Marxists and fellow travelers are very impatient with Obama and the Democrat Congress. They want the party to move quickly and seize more of the levers of power and the levers of the economy.

He called the two camps the “politicians” and the “radicals”. The politicians are the Progressives that are not in a rush. They are the incrementalists. The radicals are the Marxists who want the change of the entire system, economic and political, to happen right now.

Each of these has been using the other over the years and it has worked to the advantage of both. However, with a completely Democrat House, Senate and Administration, the radicals know that the opportunity will never get better to strike the real blow for Marxism. They can also read the polls and realize that November will change the entire landscape, and the window of opportunity may well close. This also goes to show that they really don’t care what the majority of the American people think. They are elitists and believe they know what is best for people, regardless if they know it or not.

The politicians realize that the incremental approach has worked in the past and certainly it can be accelerated in times when governmental control is so total, but they also think that they have already gained a lot of ground. They want the radicals to agitate and enforce what has already been imposed on the American people. But they also realize that the more openly the radical agenda is talked about by its most ardent activists, the more frightened and resolute the conservatives become, and those who are half-asleep start to wake up and many who are middle of the road will shy away from the left when they see how radical the agenda is on the left.

There is a political shift coming in the country and the radicals see it coming. They also see that it will set them back a long way. Right now they are getting impatient and vocal and showing who they really are. Caution has been thrown to the wind because of their sense of urgency.

The problem is that the radicals have never been averse to violence and mayhem if they think that is the only way. If they get disgusted enough with their friends, partners in the political class they may erupt. Also, in the next election there will be a lot of dirty tricks, skullduggery, and election fraud, not to speak of intimidation.

It will be interesting to watch in November and following.

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