MORE WISHES FOR 2014: THE FINAL SIX!

MAY THE HOLE GROW DEEPER!

Moving forward with yesterday's wish list, here are 6 more, all of which are premised on the hope that Democrats will continue where they left off in 2013, namely in digging a deep, dark hole for themselves:

1.  Hopefully, the 2014 mid-term elections will see a wholesale elimination of leftists from Congress.  This is one wish which has a realistic chance of coming true.  It should be remembered that incumbent presidents in their last term, more often than not, witness a winnowing down of their Congressional support.  Furthermore, Republican voters, owing to their economic and educational backgrounds, are far more regular in their voting habits than are Democrats. Then, too, with more Obamacare woes lurking around the corner, many erstwhile young Democrats just might sit this one out.  In any case, preliminary developments suggest that this may be a very bad year for Democrats.

2.  The U.S. was badly embarrassed internationally in 2013, especially in the Middle East, where phantom red lines gave an impression of impotence and a chance for Vladimir Putin to scoop up Obama's fumble and run for a touchdown.  As a result, countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia were left scratching their heads and considering diplomatic alternatives that did not include the United States.  A return to a sane foreign policy position is certainly to be wished for.  And such a position would obviously not include the likes of John Kerry, Samantha Power and Susan Rice.

3.  Living as we at Two for Texas do along the southern border of the U.S., an obvious wish is one for instituting effective control on who enters our country.  As it exists now, and despite Homeland Security assurances to the contrary, our border with Mexico is nothing short of a farce.  If a nation is incapable of controlling its own borders, it is difficult to imagine how it will provide security for its citizens.  With what for all practical purposes is now an open-border, it is obvious what the leftists are up to.  By failing to secure the border, more and more potential Democrats will enter the country, hungering for government benefits and hand-outs to cement their bonds with a national political machine intent on retaining power indefinitely.   Immigration reform must not go forward until our border with Mexico is made secure.  If this is not a no-brainer, then it escapes us what is!

4.  It is also wished that more people wake up to the fact that a constant diet of progressive pablum makes for a dreary intellectual landscape.  Somehow, the idea of liberals being individuals of the first order has made its way into the national consciousness, when nothing could be further from the truth.  If you want to view conformity at its blatant worst, visit a college campus.  Thought control is very much evident, and those who represent the Academy these days are quick to squelch non-compliance to what are considered acceptable notions.  Coupled with popular obsession with cerebrally-challenged celebrities who spout the leftist mantra, our nation is increasingly populated by human automatons whose limited thought patterns would seem to qualify them for bit-parts in a cinematic production of George Orwell's 1984.  Really, when you get right down to it, the true non-conformists in 2014 may be found within the ranks of conservatives, libertarians and Christians.

5.  This is a tough one, given the fact that the one who was to bring us all together did anything and everything but that.  Nevertheless, it is to be hoped that, eventually, our country will get over the divisiveness of race, gender, creed and false demands for "equality."  When equality is prized over liberty,  the result is invariably despotism.  And despotism thrives when disunity prevails.  How strange it is that strident calls for gender identification and orientation - even for elementary school children - are more frequently heard.  How peculiar it is that even the unity of the Boy Scouts of America has been eclipsed by the issue of homosexuality.  As a Boy Scout, I cannot remember any of us in our troop worrying about sexual identification!  And, as for "racism,"  that tired, old canard has assumed a banality unmatched in our nation's history.  Despite all of the above, Two for Texas wishes fervently that the fallacious and distorted barriers to unity will cease being used as political stratagems to divide Americans.

6.  One final wish is for Texas, and this is one HOPE requiring no CHANGE,  that Republicans will continue their dominant role in the Lone Star State. For 20 years now, Democrats have been locked out of state-wide office, and they have also had few successes in the legislature.  The result has been an economic success that has astounded the rest of the country.  The story of Texas has been so singular in the midst of an ongoing recession, that thousands of denizens of the Rust Belt and the West Coast have packed their bags and, by any transportation available, joined a monumental trek to Houston, San Antonio, Midland, Austin and points in between.  The influx to Austin now accounts for more than 1,000 refugees from Democrat-controlled states arriving each week.  It is hoped, too, that former Californians, for example, will remember why they fled the formerly Golden State and that they will swear off any tendency to import the pathology of leftism, which caused their exodus in the first place.  Finally, we are also expecting that Texas State Senator Wendy Davis will crash and burn in her quest for the Governorship of Texas.

So, dear readers, this concludes the two-part Two for Texas wish list for 2014.  To be sure, we will be keeping score throughout 2014, in an effort to determine which wishes actually come to fruition. Stay tuned!


Deo Vindice!

God bless Texas, and may the Lone Star State remain forever red!