Socialism on the Run – The Right on the Rise

In United States, I could only sing: “Election
2015, on what a night!” Those were my first words after learning that Matt
Bevin won the governor’s race in Kentucky. The forces
of faith and family pushed past the transgender bathroom bill in Houston, Texas
otherwise known as San Francisco along the Rio Grande. Churches are waking up,
and conservatives are rallying to take back their local communities, and their
countries. It has been quite a year for conservatives, and not just in America.
Throughout the world, men and women who have labored under Big Government
liberalism and its socialist tendencies have had enough, and are pushing right.

Lets’ consider the welcome upset in Israel, first. Perhaps “upset”
is not the correct word, since Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, pro-Israel and pro national security, retained power in the
Jewish State. Yet the political odds against him were stacked higher than a
modern day Tower of Babel. Reports from within Jerusalem and the United States
indicated that Barack Obama’s Organizing or Action was trying to fix the election
for their left-wing contemporary. All of Obama’s money and progressive
ground-game machinery failed, and “Bibi-sitter” Netanyahu is standing proud representing
a nation which the UN and attending Islamic forces want to see wiped off the
face of the earth.

Great Britain greeted world-wide conservatives with another
unprecedented surprise, too.

May 2015, and I wanted a UKIP sweep like nothing else.
Imagine a strong pro-British, vocally Euroskeptic political party taking back
the United Kingdom, then taking the country out of the failing Europroject. Instead,
and despite
the negative polling detailing their demise, the conservatives under
Cameron’s tottering grip swept into power, now with a stable majority without
coalition building. To their credit, Cameron’s Tories have cut spending more
than any modern government, and they are still cutting. Welfare recipients had
to sit for an interview to determine their eligibility for government subsidy.
At least Cameron
calls the global terrorist threats upon us “Islamic.”

In Croatia, a
pro-national party won the plurality of seats, their first election since
entry into the Eurozone. With open borders and a mass migration a Eurozone, but
not an individually European, agenda, more countries in the Eastern bloc are
closing up their borders. While “refugees” try to vote with their feet,
Hungarians are voting with their minds, and saying “Enough!” The
Croatian parties have not yet formed a government, but international trends
toward national liberty are pushing back against global equality.

In Poland, too, a strongly pro-life, pro-family, and pro-Poland political party
took over. Anybody want to polka? The particularly striking element of this
outcome? “It will be the first time since 1989 that there will be no left-wing
party in parliament.” Imagine that: no left-wing partisans in Poland pushing
socialism and government writ large as the final solutions for societal ills. I
have seen bumper stickers in California and on Facebook which read: “Imagine,
no Democrats”. In Poland, they enjoy a similar reality. In France, Marine Le
Pen’s new, improved (now purged of its anti-Semitic members) Front National already won one round of
voting in regional elections, a harbinger of the nationalist turn taking
over France, backing away the failed socialist Presidency of Francois Hollande,
who
in turn backed away from his extortionist tax schemes against the wealthy.

Even in Latin America, where left-wing ideologies triumphed
and consolidated power for decades, the conservative opposition is busting up
the statist status quo. Defeating the Kirchner’s left-wing successor, Mauricio
Macri won the presidency in Argentina, signaling a turn away from socialist
policies directed toward “helping the poor” and more towards fostering a
business friendly environment. One Macri supporter declared on election night: I
want the country to grow. Our children had to leave because of the economic
situation and we want them to return." Children who leave their home
countries because of economic stagnation – does that sound familiar to American
ears, where adult children live at home or leave their home states for better economic
opportunities?

And now for the lastest, most exciting development yet for
the world-wide conservative cause?

Venezuela, where Hugo “El Pueblo” Chavez dedicated
his corrupted communistic reign toward running his country into the ground. His
left-wing successor has continued his slow, failing march into economic
stagnation and rampant lawlessness. Venezuelans shouted “Basta!” and
elected the conservative Mesa de la Unidad Democratica to power in the
legislature. Yes, the country still faces
Chavista clone Maduro, yet the country is taking the first of many
necessary steps to bring free markets, free enterprise, and free people back to
power. Even Maduro had to concede peacefully to the opposition on state
television, a major shift from  nearly
two decades of fiery rhetoric.

Now, what’s the unifying thread motivating these political
upsets across the country? National identity trumps economic concerns time and
again. Karl Marx is wrong: the final clashes of our times will not focus on
class, but religion and ethnic conflict. George Will has repeated this
repudiation of Marxism. Thankfully, the right side of the political spectrum is
back in the swing of things.

Socialism is on the run; the right is on the rise. Market-oriented
policies are in vogue because after four, eight (or in Venezuela, sixteen)
years of taking from makers and making more takers, the voters have gotten stagflation,
rationing, and riots in the streets. Law and order, peace and prosperity, are
popular platforms to run on, and conservatives have the principles – and now
the politics – to make those reforms happen. Granted, “The Right” is not always
synonymous with liberty, since Big Government nationalism is still dangerous to
our well-being (fascism is national socialism, and national socialism with a
gun, gives you Nazism”). And yet, the victories in Argentina and more
importantly Venezuela indicate a move toward economic liberty rather than
government controlled equality of results.

Let’s hope the Weltgeist
to the right works its wonders here in America in 2016. We need leaders who
will enforce the law, and legislators who want to make America great again.