Posted on 02/16/2005 5:58:47 AM PST by paudio
The evidence of the past two decades is unimpeachable: the political right in America no longer stands for individual rights, limited government and capitalism. The “rightists” now advocate expanding the welfare state, increasing government intrusion into our intimate private affairs, and sacrificing American lives to foreign paupers. They call it “advancing the cause of freedom.”
This is not what the right once stood for. Fifty years ago one could recognize serious problems in their positions, but also that by and large they favored individual liberty, opposed the growth of government beyond necessity, and advocated a strong military defense. In contrast, the left wanted socialism, the welfare state, and, following Vietnam, military humility.
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I simply call it "Selling Out".
Wow! Right on target. He sounds a lot like Ayn Rand.
Well, look at his short bio:
Dr. Lewis holds an Anthem Fellowship for Objectivist Scholarship.
We just love leftwing liberals who pompously place "Phd." after their names and transparently attack their "betters".
File under: More Hate America drivel.
I think you may be wrong . Check this out:http://personal.ashland.edu/~jlewis8/TerrorChronology.htm
Figures. He uses the same terms and analogies she did. He's right on the mark. Ayn Rand pretty much despised the Republican party and things haven't changed much among the Randians.
My sincere wish is that the Democratic party will fail and a new party will replace it that is more in tune with the ideas in this article. The Republicans seem to have moved into the political space occupied by the democratic party of the 50's and 60's.
I know, it's just a pipe dream. We seem headed for Socialism. It's just a question of how long before we declare it openly.
We have a (R) white house and congress and we are spending like a drunken sailor with no end in sight. WTH? When is this country going to wake up and realize that socailism does not work?
If someone would have told me 10 years ago that we would have a Republican congress and white house and have out of control spending, I wouldn't have believed it.
When Bush came into office, the federal budget (FY'01) was $1.8 Trillion (1,800,000,000,000.00) and now nearly $2.6 trillion.
You can't say that the war on terror is the reason for the increase. In FY'01, defense spending was $279 billion. In FY'06 it will be $419 billion (est.). Spending went up $800 billion and only $140 billion of that was a result of increased defense spending.
AMEN in the limited government part. It's sickening. Was the Contract With America just 10 years ago? Seems like a century with today's spend-happy Republican party.
In Ayn Rand's fantasy world businesses were run by magnificently beautiful geniuses with colorful names. In real life they are run by "citizen of the world" bureaucrats with liberal cultural values. That is what makes "Atlas Shrugged" so ridiculous.
And we will leave aside her pagan, Social Darwinist 'intellectual' roots.
Sounds like a lefty view of the Right.
Troll stuff... Dems want us to be the straw man they imagine us to be... We changed. Not the way this piece says, ( this troll piece) but we're not our Daddy's Republican party anymore.
Sounds like a lefty view of the Right.
Sounds like a lefty view of the Right.
"We changed. Not the way this piece says, (this troll piece) but we're not our Daddy's Republican party anymore."
I agree. We're not even a shell of "our Daddy's Republican party anymore." But you seem to approve of the changes.
Would you care to offer a defense of, say, the Medicare drug bill bloodletting from the new and improved republican perspective?
Or maybe the current 1,632-page, $388-billion omnibus bill, with its oinking outlays for such pressing matters as:
the Wild American Shrimp Initiative
"emergency" extension of the Mississippi state duck hunting season,
floriculture research in Hawaii
grasshopper research in Alaska
the Alaskan "minerals at risk" program (combining the pointless, the mysterious, and the expensive in a single appropriation)
the Aleutian World War II National Historic Area
aquaculture research and marketing in West Virginia (the seafood capital of Appalachia!)
etc., etc., etc., etc.
I'd be really fascinated how the new and improved republican perspective justifies this nonsense.
Dems are a one trick pony. Their trick is fear.
Dems scare the old people saying Bush will destroy social security, they scare the blacks -- telling them conservatives are racist, they scare the rich, "intellectual" elites, saying "evangelicals" will take away their freedom to screw everything and everyone on the planet.
The powerful and corrupt don't want values of decency pushed down their throats. If they're hitting up on young girls, they want the ease of abortion -- a few dollars, no responsibility. Big liberal money is fighting for "play without pay": porn, creepy movies, exploitation of cheap immigrant labor etc.
I see. So the new republican justifies fiscal irresponsibility by changing the subject to the evils of greed, power, and fornication.
Won't balance the books, but it makes a pretty good smoke screen.
Of course, this means that the new republican is nothing more than a democrat in Elmer Gantry's knickers. But hey, at least we have the chest-thumping high ground on "porn, creepy movies, and exploitation of cheap immigrant labor."
Republicans don't have to buy votes or voters. We don't have to cheat like the dems do... How do you feel about what I've said? Please answer directly -- stop constantly reframing ( the old term was "changing the subject"). If you won't answer, say so.
I've read some of your other comments and I would like to see if you can trash dems. I suspect it might be difficult for you. Give it a try. I'm waiting for your response.
I see. So the new republican justifies fiscal irresponsibility by changing the subject to the evils of greed, power, and fornication.
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