Posted on 10/09/2019 9:10:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American public servant with characteristics all too rare today -- integrity, intelligence, wisdom.
Moynihan was a Democrat who would find a hard time being at home in today's Democratic Party.
He was a policy adviser in Democratic -- Kennedy -- and Republican -- Nixon -- administrations and went on to serve four terms as a Democratic senator of New York.
Here are two of Moynihan's many famous observations that are particularly relevant in today's chaotic times:
"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change culture and save it from itself."
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts."
As a policy adviser in the early '60s, he opposed and prophetically warned about the mistake made in the welfare law that required no working man present at home in order for the household to receive welfare.
His concerns proved well founded. Black families were devastated. But the thinking that went into welfare touched the whole country. Marriage and family in America since the 1960s has collapsed.
One-third less American adults are married today than were in the 1960s. The percentage of babies born to unwed mothers has gone from less than 10% to over 40%.
A critical moment in the slippery slope of cultural collapse was the legalization of abortion on demand in 1973, opening the door to 60 million-plus unborn children destroyed in the womb.
It is the cultural war that fractures our country today: whether we are a nation of culture, facts and a Constitution that draws the line where government stops and individual freedom begins; or whether America is just about politics, where political power brokers write the script of our lives.
It is now one year since the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. We saw what it means when a country detaches from reality and any sense that there is something called a fact.
In such a world, any individual with an unsubstantiated charge who appeals to someone with political power can wind up sitting as a witness in a Senate hearing and hurl charges that can destroy the reputation of a fine man.
In such a world, little boys and girls can arrive at school and claim their sexual identity is different from the biological reality that defined them at birth.
And the idea that there is law that precedes politics is out the window. Ambitious politicians can claim they know what is just and use their power to expropriate wealth and property from whom they choose and redistribute to whom they choose.
This is what divides America today, not what happened in a conversation between President Trump and the president of Ukraine. It is not President Trump whom Democrats want to impeach but 63 million Americans who voted for him.
President Trump managed to do what two previous Republican candidates failed to do: win back the White House for the GOP and for Americans who want a nation where culture and the Judeo-Christian ethos matters, where facts and law and a constitution exist. It is all this that enables our freedom.
And it is our freedom that is threatened by the left-wing power brokers and fiction writers.
Even some in the president's own party are missing the point -- like Sen. Romney, whose bruised ego from his own political failures is more important to him than the great issues at stake in the culture war. Romney has violated President Reagan's 11th commandment -- thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.
With 150-plus conservative court appointments and an unemployment rate the lowest in half a century, conservatives, under President Trump's leadership, are winning back our country. This is what Democrats hate and want to destroy.
What they want is everything free, paid for by someone else.
Unbridled power to do whatever they want, and to not be held accountable for what they do.
What Democrats Today Really Want..
To fool around with the same sex?
To chop off their privates and say they’re a woman now?
To teach 2 year olds that they don’t want to be the “gender” that they are?
Democrats don’t want anyone (except the elite) to have nice things.
Their idea of “community” is the elites ordering around the deplorables.
he opposed and prophetically warned about the mistake made in the welfare law that required no working man present at home in order for the household to receive welfare...
A liberal, but at least he wasn’t insane.
Is he the one that said clinton was “defining deviancy down”?
I didn’t know what that meant at the time.
But I do now.
[[[[As a policy adviser in the early ‘60s, he opposed and prophetically warned about the mistake made in the welfare law that required no working man present at home in order for the household to receive welfare. ]]]]
This was done intentionally to undermine the father figure and insert government as “the father” among a huge cross-section of society today. Many women receiving welfare or not still view government as “father”.
...When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
...On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
...In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
...Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
...As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
...And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Kipling was right about Humanity
[[What Democrats Today Really Want]]
They want to win even when they lose- they also want to rewrite our constitution
New Tag Line
“Politics is downstream of culture.” Andrew Breitbart.
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A boot to the head? Oops, there I go again, confusing needs with wants.
Democrats manage for what they DON”T WANT, it doesn’t take you any where and destroys everything in the process.
They want the same thing they’ve always wanted.
Sex with kids.
Communism.
Ayn Rand said that the Left wants death.
Back when I read that as a teenager, I thought she was exaggerating.
The rhythm of that phrase sounds like something Hal Blaine what play.
Simple.
POWER.
Power over all of us.
If they have to lie, cheat, steal and murder, some of them, at least, will do so.
The ends justify the means.
So if they promise free tuition, debt forgiveness for student loans, free health care for illegal aliens, closing every coal mine, confiscating every gun, they will do it if it get them the votes to sit in the seat(s) of power.
A lot of what they promise they could not care a flying fig about, but will say to get the votes. Or not say.
A few are true believers, but the vast majority are grifters whoring to get in power.
― George Orwell, 1984
Demon cats are mostly stupid people who I have no idea what they want
Mostly it’s what the media and their puppet masters tell them to think
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