Posted on 07/05/2010 3:53:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On Wednesday Gary posted the list “Five Truths that Liberals Hate,” and it proved one of the most popular posts we’ve had in a while. While in total agreement with those ideals, and actually probably the most conservative guy at American Vision, I thought a little Tabasco for the Right was in order as well. So let’s hear it: five truths Republicans hate.
1. Most Republicans are as socialist as the Left. While not as socially liberal as the left—not advocating equality, gay rights, feminism, etc., etc.—Republicans have proven every bit as fiscally liberal with the exception of the last year or so when political convenience has changed their rhetoric. But try to get one to admit that social security and medicare are socialist programs along the lines of Obamacare, and they’ll dance and dodge all day! It was Bush II who created medicare prescription drug coverage at the cost of $550 billion, and only nine Senate republicans opposed.
2. Public schooling is a socialist institution, paid for like a social welfare scheme, where socialist teachers teach socialism to conservatives’ kids. It was designed as an anti-conservative institution and operates openly as an anti-conservative institution. Yet most conservative parents still mock homeschooling and refuse to put their kids in even a private school. Some Christians argue they’re salt and light—”we just need prayer back in schools!” The only prayer any kid should be praying in school is “Mom! Dad! Please! Get me out!”
3. There is no such thing as private property as long as property taxes and the threat of liens exist. Bad-mouthing Obama’s socialism rings hollow until you pressure your state, county, and municipal officials to abolish property taxes. Of course, you’d also have to argue against public schooling as well, for about 75% of property taxes go to pay for public schools.
4. There is nothing inherently or historically conservative about our national standing military. It was a Republican-led effort that ignored everything the American founders wrote about the dangers of standing armies and centralized the state militias into a national army, the outlawed state militias. Shortly after the Militia Act of 1903, in one ten year span before WWI, the military budget rose from $2 million to $53 million—a 2,650% budget increase. The whole program was carried out by Progressives which at that time dominated the Republican Party. These were men whom Republicans generally revere as well, Republicans: William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Elihu Root. Historically, big war has been carried out under progressive Democrats: Wilson got us into WW1, FDR WWII, Truman Korea, and Kennedy/Johnson Vietnam. Progressives love war inherently: it was one aspect that grew directly out of social Darwinism. Conservatives fight when necessary to protect their own land and freedom, except against property taxes, apparently.
5. Republicans were the original spend-and-tax, big-government Progressives, and remain so today. The same Republican men who nationalized the military, in order to fund their progressive ideals, created, promoted, and signed into law the Sixteenth amendment (national income tax) which had the side-effect of rendering the IRS a permanent institution. Taft got the act through Congress in 1909, the last state ratified it in 1913. The intervening presidential election was a contest of three men with the same ideals—Wilson, T. Roosevelt, and Taft—all of whom supported the national income tax. The same Republicans instituted the National Monetary Commission which developed the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which Wilson also signed into law. In modern times, were it not for Obama, Bush II would reign as the spending and deficit king by quite a margin. The biggest spenders in recent decades were all the Republican presidents, including Reagan. Only Clinton in his first term rivaled them before Obama.
So there you have it. These are five truths that Republicans just have to hate! But thankfully, we have a God-given right to change our minds and become truly conservative. See my God versus Socialism for a look at where the Bible stands on such issues, and how the U.S. already has adopted seven of the ten planks of communism straight from Marx’s Manifesto.
Were state militias actually outlawed. I know that the Idaho GOP convention just floated the idea of forming a state militia.
Nice post.
except for: 1. Most Republicans are as socialist as the Left. While not as socially liberal as the left—not advocating equality, gay rights, feminism, etc., etc
Most Republicans think the same laws and Constitutional rights apply to gays and lesbians as much as anyone else. They don't believe in special rights for them is all.
1. Most Republicans are as socialist as the Left.
Bullshit.
These are the kinds of things that make politics interesting. Would I be a sports fan if there wasn’t a human factor? While I disagree with the facts and premise of this article, there are unspoken similarities between parties?
Saying a President is a “big spender” is still odd, especially since Congress writes the budget. We all remember what demonization happens when a President tries to veto it.
“Most Republican politicians are statists too”
would probably be the correct way to write that.
What few ounces of truth are here, are masked by the pounds of liberal swill and BS that surround them.
State militias are the national guard of each state commanded by the governors.
I was nit picking but the overall point: that the GOP itself is not all that conservative, is true.
There are just not enough true conservatives to elect many officials to federal office.
Yeah, I hate the term “most”. And Bush is not my conservative litmus test. There are unpopular things done by Republicans(Bush giving $40 mil to fight AIDS in Africa). I will stand by my ideology BEFORE my political party.
But way too many of them are, and are serving in government.
They are more often Commanded by the President, we send them overseas often. I doubt that National Guard troops in foreign theaters are getting their orders from 50 different Governors. :)
Five Truths that Liberals Hate> (Gary De Mar, American Vision):
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.
5. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
I thought Bush gave $15 Billion to “fight” AIDS in Africa?
The governors have to sign off on placing them under the CIC’s command.
Those 5 things “that liberals hate” are essentially the same.
I would like to see a Governor test that theory
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