The morning after...and that dust in the air...near the grainery....

The common theme in the more sensible analysis of the elections I've read thus far are not claiming that the nation has gone suddenly GOP en masse. That there is no Republican mandate. That instead Americans across the land have, for a variety of reasons, rejected the progressive dreams of the dominant faction of the Democratic party...and burst into a new song that may well drown out the political tunes that have grown old and tired...a song celebrating America and all Americans...

With conflicting memes and tunes still struggling towards a new harmony, deep in the rhythm section, I think we can detect an underlying theme that carries the still-gelling symphony...

Oh We're Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore¹

From Michelle Malkin's "Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Democrats" combined declaration of grievances and unremitting political war to Frank Flemings prescient October 20th, 2010 "Republicans Kind of Suck … Which Is Why They Will Win Huge in November" anger on far more than economic issues resonates.

we've Got The Right To Choose And
there Ain't No Way We'll Lose It
this Is Our Life, This Is Our Song
we'll Fight The Powers That Be Just
don't Pick Our Destiny 'cause
you Don't Know Us, You Don't Belong¹

The epic mis-reading of the American mind by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid in ram-rodding through with neither compromise nor naught but contempt for any opposing voice of Cap & Trade, Obamacare, and the Deem & Pass non-budget - combined with record deficits, spending, and promise of vast tax increases - has roused a vast anger in the land even as it has sown the seeds of scathing contempt for both major parties...for whom the next two years may very well serve as a last chance to get it right.

oh We're Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore¹

The acidic contempt of the liberal/progressive faction dominating the current Democratic party for the "bitter clingers" they would consign to "the back of the bus" grates. The revival of the anti-American and anti-liberty theme of Vietnam-era Democrats is nothing less than tearing scabs from old wounds and rubbing salt in them...yet this has been the unstated (and sometimes stated) policy of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid.

And in articles like that cited over at Sipsey Street Irregulars in "A collectivist on "The Tea Party's Gun Problem." we only see the fellow travelers of Obama et al expressing their contempt for the American heartland even more openly.

And it grates on so many, in so very many different ways...so much that even factions of the Democratic left have, shall we say, had enough - as illustrated in the Open Letter from Kevin Dujan of Hillbuzz.org.

oh You're So Condescending
your Gall Is Never Ending
we Don't Want Nothin', Not A Thing From You
your Life Is Trite And Jaded
boring And Confiscated
if That's Your Best, Your Best Won't Do ¹

Stinging after action analysis from the acid-laden laser scalpel wielded as a pen by Labrat in her post "Open Letters" drives home the point FAR better than I might ever hope to - this election is less about a mandate to Republicans than the American public giving the bird emphatically to Obama/Pelosi/Reid while at the same time looking at newly elected and incumbent Republicans with a skeptical and irritated eye - a strong hint of "shape up, or you're next".

oh.....................
oh.....................
we're Right/yeah
we're Free/yeah
we'll Fight/yeah
you'll See/yeah¹

This election is a warning, not a mandate. And the warning isn't exclusively for Democrats, not by the remotest stretch of the imagination. The RINO's, the Old Guard, the Falwellista's, and the fear and hate-mongers of the right and left should, in fact, quiver in their boots - we teeter, as a nation, upon the verge of an awakening...the giant in, if not all of us, enough of us awakening to the potential and the wonder that is America, to the never-to-be-met but worthwhile effort to be the freest, most just, and the wealthiest nation on earth - where "liberty and justice for all" is far more than a catch phrase. They, on the other hand, teeter on the edge of irrelevance as a new political sensibility, drawing from both the right and the left to forge a new center, begins to evolve in an environment where communication is beyond the control of any institution or party.

oh We're Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

oh We're Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore
no Way!

oh.....................
oh.....................
we're Right/yeah
we're Free/yeah
we'll Fight/yeah
you'll See/yeah

we're Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
we're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

we're Not Gonna Take It, No!
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
we're Not Gonna Take It Anymore¹

The seats in the orchestra pit are still filling, and the theme still gelling - but "aren't you elected sorts just dandy" doesn't seem really likely as the eventual tune. Black, white, gay, straight, man, woman and the many variations that make up the beautifully diverse American landscape...are starting to wake up and ask inconvenient questions about whether or not there are only two political paths. Thus far, peacefully...but to my ear, that melody may change as well.

just You Try And Make Us
we're Not Gonna Take It
come On
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
you're All Worthless And Weak
we're Not Gonna Take It Anymore
now Drop And Give Me Twenty
we're Not Gonna Take It
oh Crinch Pin
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
oh You And Your Uniform
we're Not Gonna Take It Anymore ¹

We are a nation founded in rebellion, with our resolve most famously tested in the War Between the States, that little discussion held between 1860 and 1865...a little discussion with a long, spiky, and poison-coated tail that winds through the American body politic to this day.

But that rebellion, what we Americans refer to rather boldly as the Civil War, is far from the only armed discussion we've held amongst ourselves. From the Whiskey Rebellion to the little noted armed resistance of the Deacons For Defense against both authorities and the KKK in Civil rights era, for good or ill, American of all walks of life are prone to not just rebellion...but grimly effective rebellion, restrained primarily by a belief that "the system works". To the extent that belief is undermined, things get a bit dicey...

The relatively cheery "We're Not Gonna Take It" is a warning, with a bow to the boys in Twisted Sister, to both the GOP and the Democrats. There is, after all, another song that America can sing...

The grain dust is in the air... playing with matches? A good idea? Not so much...

¹With Credits to Shrek, Led Zeppelin, and Twisted Sister for all of their works, and no small gratitude for their artistry and allowing folks to think of their songs and works in a diverse array of settings and milieu's.