Posted on 03/01/2017 12:21:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Today's liberals, especially these so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia, Hollywood, and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.
Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a striking resemblance to the players who, though rejected by freedom-loving citizens, simply refuse to leave the stage, as if reality is outside their universe of thought.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
Yes, the pseudointellectuals who just left the White House, are entrenched in the so-called "mainstream" media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seemed to be the goal of the Far Left, which recently had control of the Executive and Legislative branches of the government.
Such politicians rely on what they must believe to be the ignorance of the American people when they make such ridiculous claims. They have been outwitted, however, by an increasingly knowledgeable citizenry who are using the miracles of technology to study for themselves ancient and modern writings on the ideas of liberty versus those of tyranny. As Jefferson wisely observed:
"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."
If the POTUS and entire US Congress wanted to applaud my husbands ultimate sacrifice, I’d not consider myself being “used”
If a candidate and her political party paid me money to campaign for her, to bad mouth the other candidate (who was against the war she supported that killed my son), and shoved a staff-purchased pocket Constitution in my hand, like the Khizmir Khan clan, I’d consider myself being “used”
Id say Maher just ultimately and completely disrespected a Gold Star widow by calling her a chump for accepting the admiration and gratitude of the CinC and Congress a month after she buried her husband
How much time did you spend in service to our country, Bill???
Until you do, STFU......
Do liberals ever have anything nice to say about others that are not their butt kissers?
Remarks such as this one about a woman left with three kids to raise does not deserve his stupid comment...
liberals make me physically ill...worthless a$$ holes.
Did he criticize Hillary for using the Khans as props?
Bill Maher is an anti-American who pretended he was a Libertarian for years. You could say that any politician who introduces someone is using them.
Bill Maher, once a dumba**, always a dumba**.
Uhn huh.
And John McCain’s staff of nurses let themselves be used as props, while being manipulated into wearing those silly costumes of white.
I don’t know any nurses who wear that regalia and they just looked odd.
Well said. Thank you.
Dan Grilo, for Clinton volunteer, got run off the internet and lost his job after his offensive tweet yesterday. Maher deserves the same treatment.
FIRE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does his show actually have any measurable ratings?
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Maher will feed sulfur into the fire for eternity.
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Maher is S-A-W-F-T!
Ah, things are back to normal and the Marxists no longer have to pretend they don’t hate the military.
Dan Grilo, for Clinton volunteer, got run off the internet and lost his job after his offensive tweet yesterday. Maher deserves the same treatment.
*****
I had similar thoughts.
Khizr Khan directly addressed Trump and criticized him. Trump responded to the criticism, though it cost him, since it was to a Gold Star family.
What did Mrs. Owens do to warrant any criticism? She was participating in a honoring of her husband’s brave service by the President of the United States.
By Maher’s and Grilo’s measure, ANY award a POTUS may give to any other American, no matter how well-deserved, is just “using” them for some kind of political gain. Ridiculous idiocy.
CA....
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