Posted on 11/28/2013 11:31:24 AM PST by MelSmith
That's not all they control. Our side really pretty much sucks.
We let the Left take over the education system, from elementary through graduate programs (save for a few individual teachers in any school building).
We let the Left take over the mass media, from news to movies to sitcoms (save for a handful of AM radio programs).
We let the Left take over every level of every Federal Department and Administration and Agency. (Dem presidents fire almost every leftover from a GOP administration, but the GOP winners rarely do the same.)
We let the Left take over the highest levels of the military, so that career politicians are the vast majority of flag officers.
We let the Left further destroy our military by making it a feel-good jobs program, and a disaster relief program, when it's sole proper purpose is to show (and sometimes use) the ability to destroy an opponent's will to fight against us.
We let the Left take over the language of public debate, and even down to the colors of "red state vs blue state" charts.
We let the Left blame us for EVERY one of their major disasters (eg, the Housing Bubble - Barney Frank said "We want to roll the dice", costing the globe $10 Trillion, when he was told that forcing banks to give loans to the underqualified would cause a bubble). "Bush's fault" is our tired old joke, but only the right-most 5% of the voting public realize that it is humor. The LIVs all seem to take it to heart.
We let the Left get away with massive vote fraud, because they'll call us racists for wanting to ensure that the voter rolls are accurate, and that voters show ID at the polls.
We let the Left get away with massive amounts of Justice system failures, pretending that incarceration rates that don't follow proper racial percentages is a clear proof of institutional racism (never once allowing that though that the races actually commit crimes at an unequal rate). If we don't, then they might call us racists.
We let the Left get away with one-sided application of the use of Hate Crime prosecution, as if Blacks are incapable of (or should not be punished for acting on) the emotion of Hatred. If we say otherwise, we are racists.
We let the Left force all Americans to pay for abortions, even though a large percentage of the population find it to be the most morally reprehensible thing in the world, and against their religious faith (yet we give exemptions and passes to non-Christian faiths for things like ObamaCare and being taught in schools).
We let the Left attack the foundations and Sacraments of Christianity like marriage, while allowing them to protect the Sacraments of other faiths.
We let the Left block or slow or delay our production of energy at every turn, even though cheap abundant energy is the best path towards wealth and safety for all.
We let the Left attack Capitalism itself, despite the very clear history that government economic planning and Socialism are policies of slow decay and failure, and we let them say that "Capitalism fails" when it is actually their hundreds of roadblocks to our capitalism that cause virtually all of the problems and issues.
We let the Left pick our presidential candidates, and then complain that we cannot beat even weak contenders like Obama, and can barely beat incompetent candidates like Gore.
We let the Left demonize every one of our good potential candidates, as well as all of our historical heroes, while allowing them to celebrate the most flawed and depraved celebrities and leaders, without one hint of hypocrisy.
We let the Left lie so blatantly, with such chutzpah and impugnity, that lines like "pass it to see what's in it" and "you can keep your healthcare" and "what difference does it make" and "most transparent administration" and " man-made climeate change" (the majority still think it's real, folks), are not daily headlines.
We let the Left run scandal over scandal over scandal, without daily headlines or riots or arrests or repercussions, like Banghazi, IRS bullying, Fast and Furious, ObamaCare lies, institutional racism in banking laws, institutional racism in the Justice Dept, planned failures, etc etc etc
I could go on, but the list is aleady long (feel free to add to it), it's late, and the tryptophan is still flowing through my veins. These are OUR failures, people... OUR fault for not being able to stop their runaway train... and our children and grandchildren are about to pay some heavy prices and bears some horrible burdens for our failures.
Honestly, I'm almost to a point where I want to "go Galt" on the Right, because we haven't been able to post any significant gains in any of these areas for years. The institutions are all against us, and there's little hope on the horizon for making any headway, even just inside the damn national Republican leadership! We all know Alinsky's playbook, and we all know they are using it daily, and we cannot seem to stop them on a single play! It's really getting demoralizing.
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Geez, I didn’t even include illegal immigration, and importing 20 million workers, when there are 20 million Americans without jobs, and when we know that the illegals are sending billions home every month, literally pumping money out of our economy... during a prolonged recession...
Those who favor small government are “right wing” only in the fevered minds of the Bolsheviks.
He will assemble the goats on the LEFT and tell them He knew them not. He will assemble the sheep on the RIGHT and welcome them as good and faithful servants.
That’s why it is a classical model and not modern. The chart describes guys like Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, two men that greatly influenced our Founding Fathers. Today, the political spectrum is a mixed bag of political, economical, religious, and racial agendas.
I don’t disagree with your assessment of today’s “mixed bag” political spectrum. But speaking in relative modern terms... the label “Conservative”, used in context of the American political spectrum, not at all carries the same meaning or connotation within the European political model. At the time of our founding fathers, the proposed US Constitution was a radical grand experiment with its protections and guarantees of individual natural rights and having supreme authority over its object of governance. Embolden with absolutism for the sovereign (the states and the people)and that Government was an artificial construct authorized by the people having enumerated limited powers with vested absolute power held by the states and its people respectively. Specifically the inalienable right to own property (land) which was a 180 degree turnabout from the feudal systems of the single noble(inherent) ruling-class over serfs that existed for centuries in Europe... the noble class otherwise being referred to as the Conservative Ruling Class.
Europe Conservative Right Wing = Ruling classes of the classic European Monarchies, Theocracies and Oligarchies... such as Anarchists, Communists, Progressives, NAZIS, Socialists, Nationalists, Marxists, Fascists, Statists, Islamist and just about anybody that wants to rule the world.
Europe Liberal Left Wing = Self-governing, free-market individualists... or as in the Liberal ideals of Thomas Hobbes I paraphrase Wikipedia... “Champion of absolutism for the sovereign; advocating the right of the individual; the natural equality of all men; the artificial character of the political order (which led to the later distinction between civil society and the state); the view that all legitimate political power must be “representative” and based on the consent of the people; and a liberal interpretation of law which leaves people free to do whatever the law does not explicitly forbid.” - Pierre Manent, An Intellectual History of Liberalism (1994) pp 20–38
So relative to the European political landscape and before the declaration of independence, Articles of Confederation and the US Constitution... our founding fathers and like thinkers were most definitely Left Wing extremists of the classic European liberal.
Indeed the American “Conservative” and right-wing were akin to the like ideals of the European Left like Thomas Hobbes and John Locks. The New American Conservative right is of the old European Liberal left. And the New American Liberal left is of the old European Conservative right, which makes them here in the US the real tyrants and dictators.
Our founding fathers and their radical experiment would go on to define a new political spectrum in America... where Europe left & right were virtually flipped. The ideals of American governance were to be the new standard... the new political RIGHT from which all who deviated LEFTWARD from the principles of Liberty, Freedom, individual rights, self-governance and the rule of law were judged.
Of course the left deliberately and knowingly applies the European model to the modern day Constitutionalist and the advocates of “original intent” to paint them as dictators, theocratic zealots, statists, NAZIS or fascists. And it’s the same spectrum the left uses as propaganda and indoctrination thru the public school systems, MSM Marxist commentary, and Liberal political speech which is successfully labeling conservatives as extremists.
Anyways, my only gripe is that when you invoke/quote the European classic model it just fuels/aids their (the lefties) smear of the American conservative.
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