Western Civilization's in big trouble

Maybe you can call this a disparate thought post.  I've had a few of those.  Just trying to tie a few things together into something meaningful.

With respect to the scandals, I read somewhere this morning that it isn't receiving much coverage in the media.  Well, why be surprised at that?  It's par for the course.  If there was a Republican in the White House, there would be wall-to-wall coverage.  All this has been said before, hundreds of times.  It makes no difference.

On Zero Hedge, a short discussion of how Germany has gone into "full retard mode", just like the US has.  He was referring to the total disconnect between the stock market there and the macro economic data which does not support the move.  I mention this because it is so descriptive of where we are as a civilization--- in full retard mode.  Our problems are there like a 800 pound gorilla in the room and the mention of the gorilla gets a response to the effect--- what gorilla?

Romney comes on Leno and they talk politics a bit.  Romney seems like quite a gentleman actually.  So have all the Republican candidates and those who became president.  They were all gentleman.  It struck me while watching him what is wrong.  The Republicans can't afford to be gentlemanly anymore.  We need warriors, not gentleman.  Sure, that will play into the hands of the leftist propagandists that Republicans are mean, but that is false, like all the rest of their propaganda.  You see, Romney referred to conservatism as "severe", but it is the other guys who are severe.  Conservatives and Republicans are the nice guys, who in the words of Leo Durocher, "finish last".  We need warriors.  You don't have to be mean, but you definitely have to be tough and firm.

And so the evidence mounts of problems, but none of them will be addressed because the Republicans are just too gentlemanly to stoop to that.  You're going to have to get your hands dirty.  There's no other way.

There was a scene in War of the Worlds (2001), in which there was a conflict between two men in a basement.  Tom Cruise's character has to fight the other guy, literally fight the other guy who was going to get them all killed.  This scene doesn't show that, but the one I'm thinking of occurs not much later.  Cruise realizes he's going to have to take the guy out before he does indeed get them all killed.  We may be headed towards a scenario like that in our culture.  The left is going to get us all killed if they aren't stopped.  It may take a physical confrontation to do it.  But the Republicans are just happy to use words right now.  It won't be enough.

There's a lot of cheering for Romney's words, and the words of others in Congress yesterday, but my thoughts go back to the way the media is responding to this and the left's idea that it will all be over in a month.  The cheering is hollow because there's nothing behind that scares the left.  They ought to be scared, but they are not.