The Little Coup that Could

I grew up in the 50s and 60s, and can still remember the "duck and cover" drills we used to have in  school.  It was during the height of the cold war, and we knew the USSR was just waiting to invade us.  My family had a improvised bomb shelter in the basement, stocked up with canned goods and bottled water, and we were prepared. I live on the west coast of Florida, and we're only a hundred or so miles from Cuba, where the Russians had deployed ballistic missiles.  We were an easy target for them at only 35 miles from MacDill AFB.  Of course, we know how that turned out; the USSR backed down and removed the missles from Cuba, and in a political gesture for the USSR to save face, President Kennedy denied support of the Cuban liberty fighters, and they were decimated at the infamous Bay of Pigs invasion.  Not our finest hour.

But we won the cold war.  Really, we did.  The USSR devolved into several sovereign nations, the Berlin Wall came down, and all was right with the world.  And yet today, we in the US find ourselves under the rule of totalitarianism.  How did that happen?  How did this communist coup occur?   Back in the bad old days of the cold war, Soviet Premier Khrushchev banged his shoe on the lectern at the United Nations and screamed, "We will bury you."  And now all these years later it would seem he was right.  Although it's unclear if the remnants of the old Soviet apparatchik is responsible for empowering this unknown alien and his minions who now control us, the fact remains that we are buried under a gargantuan government that we can no longer support or tolerate.

To make matters worse, in the face of this coup - literally a government takeover - there is no loyal opposition.  The old guard of the Republican Party like McCain, McConnell, Rove, and many others, seem hellbent on kissing ass of the Marxist regime now in Washington.  And they wrack themselves trying to figure out why support of the GOP is dwindling.  Immigration?  Government shutdown?  Gays?   No.  Allow me to clarify.  It's because the vast majority of the American people do not want a socialist totalitarian state, and they see no opposition to it from the GOP.  So then why support your enemy's friends?  We have a constitution that puts quantifiable limits on federal governmental power.  The left has been marginalizing and denigrating that document for decades, hoping that people will forget that we own the government and it works for us, not the other way around.  Yet they do forget and now the situation is dire.  The only salvation comes next year; we have an election to change the political mindset in Washington, if we are brave enough to do so.  On that point I wonder if we are.