Posted on 06/09/2004 7:06:39 AM PDT by IPWGOP
Why Liberals don’t give upby Roger Wm. Hughes"For many Americans, this was a time best forgotten," said Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP and a longtime civil rights activist. "He was a polarizing figure in black America. He was hostile to the generally accepted remedies for discrimination. His appointments were of people as equally hostile. I can't think of any Reagan policy that African Americans would embrace." President Ronald Reagan is being assailed by the leaders who still believe in socialism as the answer to civilizations problems. Roger Wilkins, George Mason professor of history, quoted Supreme Court Justice Louise Brandeis on NPTV’s The News Hour as having said that taxes are what people pay for civilization. [By the way, the show on Reagan’s legacy was one of the most liberally slanted shows on Reagan during this time of reflection on Reagan’s place in history.] Wilkinson went on to say that Reagan was a racist and that he used racism in his political campaign. He further excoriated Reagan for ending all compassion towards those less fortunate in America and denying benefits to those in need in our society. Why -- after Democrat President Bill Clinton declared the obvious result of Reagan’s legacy, "the era of big government is over,” -- are these liberals still professing that the welfare state is the answer to social problems? Reagan had the courage and the "common man" approach to confront what up until that time were toxic issues for conservatives. He pointed out the obvious fact that the business of welfare social workers was to have more welfare recipients. It was not a system that helped the poor but rather enslaved the poor into a bureaucratic quagmire that pulled them to the bottom of our social structure. This is why Democrat President Bill Clinton announced “the end of welfare as we know it." One of the great legacies of Reagan is the fact that he had the political acumen to translate the fact that state-ism and socialism were the "road to serfdom," as the title of F. A. Hayek’s book explained. Hayek’s book, “The Road to Serfdom,” was first published in 1944. It took until the 1980’s for conservatives to quit being dismissed as out of hand for their premise that the welfare state was harmful to the very individuals it was supposed to help. Conservative intellectuals in academic and other liberal dominated cultures are still looked upon as stupid or at least intellectually inferior. However, since Reagan, it is now allowable for the debate to take place that will challenge the notion of collectivism, rights and wealth transfers. Yet still today, Sen. John Kerry is running ads declaring that it ought to be every American’s right to universal health coverage. Liberals will never lose the intoxication of the temptation to use other peoples’ money to bribe large portions of the population to hear the siren call of ‘something for nothing.’ The dream of the utopia lives in every liberal’s heart -- a dream that would make them tyrants and all of us their serfs and slaves. Liberals will never give up their dream of being Commissars and having the power to be God over us all. God bless Ronald Reagan and America. Let every conservative remember the courage of Ronald Reagan and take up the challenge of debunking the wrong-headed liberal beliefs that the welfare state is more compassionate. |
Great article. It reminds me of WFB describing Elanor Roosevelt. "She believes the entire world is her own personal slum project."
Liberals are like sharks. If they stop moving, they die. Sharks continually move forward to keep the relatively low oxygen content in salt water moving past their gills (which are exposed on the sides of their heads). The consumed CO2 is wafted away, some O2 floats by and is taken up to support the shark's metabolism. If a rope is snagged around the shark's tail and it is dragged backward in the water, it will die of asphyxiation. Same is true of a liberal if ever they have to retreat from a position.
Of course, if they die as a liberal, there is every chance that they shall be reborn as a neo-con. And for some, this is a seriously dreaded fate.
It's amazing how Julian Bond has become a boot-licking lackey for the democrats.
---
because Republicans do.
How about high standards of morality? How about self determination and equal opportunity? The "African Americans" I know value those ideals.
"I can't think of any Reagan policy that African Americans would embrace."
Hmmmm? Is that why we saw so many black people at the Reagan Library - waiting in line to view the casket.
And .. as Kerry leans more and more toward the gays and their agenda, more and more BAPTIST blacks will leave the democrat party.
What sad, bitter, delusional, hate-filled things these lefties are.
Liberals can't give up - the shock of facing reality would cause their heads to explode.
You are really being condescending towards sharks!! :-)
That about sums it up.
Sound like any other group of religious fanatics currently out there in the world right now?
Why would they when they have soo many Republicans (i.e. Orin Hatch) who bend over for them?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.