There is now two Americas.

The left has gone off the deep end and there is no compromising with them. The proponants of socialism, climate change, unions, green energy and big government nanny state that would dictate every facet of your life see some kind of utopia being the ultimate goal that simply cannot and has never worked in history. The only faith these people have is that the government will take care of everything. They are delusional.

The conservatives still cling to what liberties are still there but seem to have been losing ground at an alarming rate. They have faith that the founding fathers actually knew what they were doing and that freedom coupled with a free market system is by far the best system ever devised by man. They have faith that mother nature (ie. GOD) has the capacity to cleanse the earth as evidenced by 'miraculous' recoveries after natural events such as volcanos, natural oil spills and the like. They have faith in true scientific studies such as ice core soundings which shows the cyclical nature of climate temperatures going back in time in hundreds of thousands of years. They have faith in the Bible which instructs us to use all our natural resourses to their fullest. They have faith in mankind guided by their God.

I happen to be a conservative and refuse to fall for the left's message.

It may very well be the time that the two Americas split.

Let the left have their utopia.

Let us conservatives have ours.

I refuse to allow myself and loved ones to be dragged into a flawed and doomed ideology.

The wing-nut lefties don't give a crap about our nations welfare in regards to commerse so long as their welfare checks keep coming.

P.S. Barak Husain Obama or Barry Soetoro (which ever name you know him by) is a traitor to this country and will destroy it given more time.

So, what about any of this is surprising? Depressingly: Nothing.

We may be doomed whether or not BO gets re-elected. Who can undo all of this mess? Is there even a will to undo it?

Will writes, "...as America changes from a nation that celebrated getting things done to a nation that celebrates people and groups who prevent things from being done."

Unfortunately, Mr. Will got the tense wrong. This change has already occurred, as you will discover if you spend a few minutes at just about any high school in the country.

Let's play blame the lefties game!!

Answer the following with either lefty or righty:

1-Has made it almost impossible to start up any private business because of laws, regulations, fees or new BS in the Frank-Dodd act?

2-Wastes millions of tax payer money on 'green' start-up companies which were green lighted in question no. 1.

3-Grew the Fed gov't. to be the biggest and most bloated monstosity in our history then just announced a combining of agencies to make it look like he's concerned about gov't spending. (but is actually a very sneaky way to placate his unions)?

4-Believes late term abortions are just dandy but is appalled by the death penalty?

5-Would rather people starve than to possibly harm the habitat of the desert chub (little fish 'bout an inch long and isn't on anything's food chain)?

6-Thinks the private sector is doing just fine but the public sector (gov't union workers) are in need of more and more and more assistance. (Sen. Reid, your table is ready...)

7-Has broken virtually all campaign promises?

(ok,ok trick question...'Both' is correct ans.)

8-Resorts to either emotions or the race card on all political arguements.

9-Is trying to bankrupt this nation?

10-Keeps minorities as dumb and ignorant as possible by creating the wellfare state and letting the Dept. of Education dream up more ways to dumb down ciriculim, thereby keeping them voting for their masters.

11-Keep on re-inventing socialism and forcing it upon us even though it's never worked, will never work but they're going to do it anyway else they'd be outta work?

.......ok, ok I'll stop.

Great article, Mr. Will.

McCrindle cracks me up. *nodding and grinning* And, makes me impatient to vote!

We home schooled, thereby avoiding the dumbing down in education, and I now have five good voters lined up along side me (with McCrindle).

Cultures, societies, and nations are established by leaders, -men who get things done and know how to crack the whip when needed, but in time the institutions they establish are entrusted with so much authority that the strong leader is eclipsed and unnecessary.

The wheels of the bureaucracy become the new power and those wheels turn very slowly because there is no strong leader cracking any whip behind them. So it is today.

The nation is not ruled by Congress or the Constitution, it is ruled by regulations that were created by bureaucrats with nothing better to do than to dream-up regulations for everything. Their very existence is the result of the luxury of affluence and the audacity to borrow money like there's no tomorrow.

Well, the result may be that there IS no tomorrow. At least not one that we'll want to live in. And all too possibly, it may come as it almost did in 2008, all of a sudden and with no one ready. Next time a financial crisis hits, our Congress and Fed will be out of bullets. What then?

A new dark ages doesn't seem as inconceivable as it was a few years ago, but it can't be predicted or precluded because we are in uncharted territory. When one equal party is hopelessly addicted to unlimited spending, and it's opponent isn't all the bothered about it, then continued addiction is the only realistic prognosis.

We are truly on our own now because our own government is the cause of the problem and not the solution. It will all boil down to a numbers game as to what path we'll take going forward. And it could be determined by a single precinct in a single state resulting in a single elected representative who'll provide a voting majority for one of the parties. But without a clean sweep of the Congress & White House, crap like the Reid/Pelosis HealthCare bill will not be repealed unless we are saved by at least one vote in the Supreme Court.

As they did with the Dodd-Frank bill, the democrats wrote in provisions where certain elements could not have legal challenge. How this happened or how this could happen is disturbing. Are the liberals the only jerks that can write this into a bill? Apparently, they try anything at least once to see if it sticks.

Maybe BHO can delay the problem by putting a Commerce czar in charge of ship building.