Posted on 07/17/2014 9:33:53 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought, President Kennedy famously asserted before Yales class of 1962.
Denouncing political debates that bear little or no relation to the actual problems the United States faces, Kennedy urged policymakers to Think Again before engaging in false dialogues that distract our attention and divide our efforts.
He believed the very future of freedom depends upon the sensible and clearheaded management of the domestic affairs of the United States and a vigorous economy quaint concerns 52 years hence.
Because todays political discourse is so dishonest and domestic affairs so muddled, were living in an era of manufactured social strife. Creating policy impasses, politicians pick unnecessary fights over our constitutional systems commitment to individual liberty and the rule of law, transforming dissenters into black-hearted villains with sinister agendas.
Faux hysteria and fearmongering especially in an election year are potent tools for squeezing money and outrage from voting blocs whose rights, theyre told, are under assault.
Witness the feverish backlash to the Supreme Courts recent Hobby Lobby decision.
(Excerpt) Read more at aspentimes.com ...
"Like the Hobby Lobby case, the escalating humanitarian crisis on the Southern border would have been avoidable if the government had merely followed the law. After all, what distinguishes America is our healthy respect for the law. Instead, pro-amnesty appeals and the Obama administrations de facto open border policies created powerful magnets for migrating multitudes."
If the government followed the law bureaucrats would be forced to handle things like road maintenance and dog catching. The millions upon millions of useless unemployable idiots that infest the administrative state would be unemployed. Morons like Harry Reid and Nasty Pelosi would have nothing to crow about on the pile of refuse they caused.
Very good column that unfortunately is competing for attention with news of the plane down in Ukraine.
AFSCME is probably one of the biggest political donors period. I parked next to a twit who drives a smart car with leftist stickers plastered all over it. I’ve seen one she has on other cars and it drives me batty “I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one”. I suppose unions aren’t people either since both unions and corporations are made up of people; people who are rowing to the same beat (or mostly they are anyhow).
The is scant difference between a corporate board of directors and union upper echelon. If AFSCME and its dues paying members who don’t have a say in where political contributions go can contribute politically, then corporations should rightly be able to follow suit.
leftist just don’t like corporations because they tend represent free expression, which ironically doesn’t jibe with their real world-view.
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