Melanie Philips hits many nails on the head:
"Obama’s agenda has been crystal
clear from the get-go: to increase the power of the state over the citizen at
home, and to neutralise American power abroad. Four more years of this and he’ll
almost certainly have succeeded. The impact
upon western security could be cataclysmic.
Britain and the Europeans love Obama because they think he
will end American exceptionalism and turn the US into a pale shadow of themselves.
What they don’t realise is that, all but lobotomised by consumerist rights, state
dependency, victim culture, sentimentality, post-religion, post-nationalism and
post-Holocaust and Empire guilt, Britain and Europe are themselves fast going
down the civilisational tubes.
Romney lost because he refused to provide an alternative to
any of this for fear of being labelled a warmonger, flint-heart or social
reactionary. He refused to engage with any of the issues that made this Presidential
election so truly momentous. Up against the bullying of the totalitarian left,
he ran for cover. He played safe, and as a result only advertised his own weakness
and dishonesty. Well, voters can smell inconsistency from a mile away; they
call it untrustworthiness, and they are right.
Romney lost because, like Britain’s Conservative Party, the
Republicans just don’t understand that America and the west are being consumed
by a culture war. In their cowardice and moral confusion, they all attempt to
appease the enemies within. And from without, the Islamic enemies of
civilisation stand poised to occupy the void.
With the re-election of Obama, America now threatens to lead
the west into a terrifying darkness."
More here: http://melaniephillips.com/america-goes-into-the-darkness
