Liberal Guilt, Public Education, My Clear Conscience

Townhall.com ^ | September 1, 2013 | James Allen

[Tax-chick]

We already knew you were a surly curmudgeon, but we love you anyway.

[Kaslin]

I believe there is a reason he used when, instead of if. When sounds more positive then if

[sauropod]

Don’t just acknowledge your liberal guilt—listen to it.

ROFLMAOPIMPWTIME!!!

[Standing Wolf]

When we restore our lost constitutional republic,
Wouldn't "If" be more accurate?

I chose "when" because I believe it's inevitable the post-constitutional so-called "progressive" oligarchy will collapse. President You Didn't Build That and the uppermost layer of decision-makers in the feral bureaucracy are looters, rapists, armed robbers, extortionists, and the like, not innovators or inventors or creators or builders or managers. They're skillful destroyers, all right, if only because they're haters through and through, but they can't build or manage. I can't say how soon their scheme will collapse, nor how much ancillary damage will be done, but here's what we've seen with every Marxist regime that's come to power: failure, more failure, and more and more failure.

That's not all; in fact, that may be only the smaller half. Off the top of my head, I'd guess about a quarter of all the people in America today are looters. More than that are feral government dependents, but many of those are just taking what's offered. Half or more of us aren't looters of any kind, stripe, or description. We're builders, innovators, creators, ordinary people who've always been independent, upright citizens, and don't want anything to do with the oligarchy and its plans for us. Some people are state serf material, all right, but half and probably more than half of us are sensible, ordinary, old-fashioned Americans. Nobody's ever going to reduce us to serfdom. We've put up with being told how much ethanol needs to be in our gasoline, how many gallons of water we can use to flush our toilets, how much we've got to pay in extra taxes, what kind of so-called "nation building" we've got to do all over the Middle East, but sooner or later, the oligarchy will go an extra-last step too far.

One state or another will secede first, and in short order, one or two or eleven or twelve will follow suit. I don't doubt the "progressive" oligarchs would be delighted to fight a second Civil War and kill millions—mass murder is the ultimate measure of all Marxist dictators, after all—but who's actually going to fly the aircraft and drop the bombs and cross the rivers and close down the highways?

If New York City people and New Jerseyans and Californians want to try to keep the oligarchy afloat, so be it, but most of us aren't going to have a choice other than to restore our lost Constitution, stamp out the "progressive" idiocy, and rebuild the America we've always loved, but lost one regulation and one rule and one ruling at a time.

[workerbee]

Thank you for the thoughtful post.

I hope you realize that some here will read it as follows: “I hate my children and despise the Constitution. I am a communist, child-abusing Obama sycophant.”

[dhs12345]

Yes, there is plenty of that. So be it...

Something we can all agree on. The failure of the education system is in part due to uninvolved parents. This is very clear in inner cities. And throwing billions at the school system will not solve the problem.

[generally]

Well said.

I, too, prefer “when.” I am an eternal optimist.

I believe the main reason we have slid so far and have not yet pushed back is because those of us who are the innovators or inventors or creators or builders or managers are incredibly busy innovating, inventing, creating, building, and managing. In addition we are busy raising children, taking care of parents, helping our friends, neighbors, churches, and schools.

The deadbeats have time on their hands to lobby and march for more “freebies.” We do not. But we have shown on several occasions (tea party rallies, etc.) that we can only be pushed so far. We’re getting pretty close to the last straw. The pushback is going to shock the progressives, the looters, and the deadbeats.

[uncitizen]

How bizarre. They abort their children so that they don’t have to be bothered with them, and then they want to interfere with others’ children’s upbringing.

Good point.