Posted on 09/24/2004 9:33:32 AM PDT by CHARLITE
TIME TO JUST SAY IT, by JB WILLIAMS
September 22, 2004 - Politicians have successfully divided 290 million individuals into a handful of nice neat little voting blocks easy to pander to. The liberal media (who is rarely fair or balanced about anything), has brain soaked the country into thinking “fair & balanced” reporting is of more value than just plain “truthful” reporting.
In the real world, truth is often unbalanced and rarely fair, especially to those who find themselves standing on the wrong side of truth.
Occasionally, circumstances demand that we set aside congeniality and get right down to calling things by their rightful name. This seems like one of those occasions.
I’m not sure there has ever been more at stake than in this election, but atop the list is the impending extinction of truth.
Political correctness can sometimes serve the worth while purpose of setting an amenable tone for public discourse. But in case you hadn’t noticed, the current tone in America is anything but amenable. So political correctness has lost its luster, and it is no longer of any viable use.
What I’m about to tell you is not something you don’t already know. It’s just stuff you have forgotten because nobody has been allowed to say it around here for a long time.
At one time, liberal was not a dirty word. But many of today’s liberals are better described by the term socialist, and though they seem to not care much for this term, it is no less appropriate.
Here’s another term liberals bristle at, anti-American. This is also the correct term for the behavior I have been witnessing for some years, and that permeates the liberal movement today.
I realize these terms seem harsh in a day when we are not supposed to call things by their rightful name. But sometimes, when we call evil by a more pleasant name, we overlook the fact that it is still evil.
Today’s liberals, today’s Democratic Party leadership, and the handful of billionaires supporting them, are in fact socialists and they are in fact anti-American. Of all the words used to describe what America is, what defines being American, there are none more appropriate than the words written long ago. That every man is “created” equal, with the uniquely American Right and opportunity to become anything we want, including “unequal”.
Of all the Rights we have enjoyed since our nations birth, there are none more precious than our individual Right to Life, personal Liberty, and the Right of each of us, black, white, rich, poor, third generation or immigrant American, to pursue our own unique idea of happiness. America is the richest nation on earth as a direct result of our economic design. America not only produces more millionaires than any country in earth’s history, but everyone fortunate enough to call themselves American, enjoys a lifestyle second to none in the world.
So if you are anti-Capitalism, you are anti-American, because nothing is more American than good old fashion capitalism.
95% of Americans consider themselves to be spiritual, believing in a higher power, a greater good, a life beyond this life, and since the beginning of time, this bedrock belief has served our nation well.
Further, America is predominantly a Christian nation, and because it is, even those who are non-believers enjoy blessings most in the world can’t imagine. Because our nation was built on the foundation of Judeo Christian values, we are all free to worship as we see fit, including not at all.
So if you are anti-religion, you are in fact anti-American. You must realize that there is a difference between being a non-believer, and being an antagonist, a difference between not subscribing to the belief, and belittling others who believe, or who freely express their belief.
America believes first and foremost in our individual Right to Life. Liberty and happiness are unattainable without first obtaining a Right to live.
If you believe its right to deny anyone this most basic Right, you are in fact anti-American. If you deny anyone this Right as a matter of convenience, you are no better than those we condemn around the globe for acts of genocide, or brutality against their own, and you are un-American.
America is the worlds super-power, not only militarily, but also economically, spiritually and in our unparalleled acts of generosity practiced at home and around the globe. We are, because America has always stood tall in the face of evil, always refused to allow ourselves to be divided, especially while confronting an evil.
America is known around the world as the world’s great melting pot. People have come from all corners, of different ethnicities, different talents, different dreams, different individual challenges and different circumstances. And for more than two hundred years, we have melted into one society, as Americans. Those who aim to divide us now, based on our race, our economic status, our Religious beliefs, our individual understanding of the world, particularly in the name of political opportunism, are in fact, un-American.
Thousands gave their lives, their futures, so that we might have the chance to live and grow in this, the greatest nation on earth. They gave everything, so that we might have something worth fighting for. No matter how high minded your intentions, if you are willing to trade this to be a small piece of any one world order, you are in fact un-American.
There is no getting around the truth. The truth doesn’t have a side, it doesn’t belong to any particular political Party, it’s not subject to the eye of the beholder, or negotiable, it just is.
America is more than a piece of land, a geographical spot on the globe. It is a set of ideals, a way of life, a people, free because we are brave. Brave not because we are willing to die for our own freedom, but because we have always been willing to die for the freedom and liberty of others, even when we didn’t have to.
To forget this, to degrade it or belittle it, to play politics with it, is un-American.
Many liberals are not just liberal today, they are socialists, and they are un-American for all the reasons I stated and more. The DNC needs new leadership and they will continue to lose power until they get it.
The simple truth is, that’s how it should be! Contact author: jbw@jb-williams.com
I like that jab against "fair & balanced"
This rant gets two thumbs up.
very kewl .... rave on dude.....
That deserves a "Tell it like it is" bump.
Fantastic post!!!
I'd like to teach the world to ping with this one.
True.
The liberals don't really believe there is such a thing as truth. It's just your opinion or mine.
But truth is just another word for that which is real, that which exists, for reality itself. If you deny the existence of truth, as postmodernists do, you deny the existence of reality. That's how the Supreme Court could confirm the right to kill babies in the Casey decision and go on to invent an extraordinary new "right"--the right of every individual to define his own version of reality.
No, sorry. Reality is reality. If you say you don't believe in the laws of gravity, just step off a cliff and see what happens. If there are Muslim terrorists out there determined to kill you, denying that there is any such threat won't change it one bit. It will just get you killed.
If you know me, you will understand the compliment I just gave you. This was outstanding.
I am a very tiny minority, but love to poke a stick in the eyes of the blind.
bump
In the offing and as a result the TRUTH has been left in the dust and no one is asking WHEN will NEWS REPORTING go back to Who, what, when and where? Rather that everyone's idea of WHY?
It is impossible to have shades of gray, without black and white.
This far I will not go. The conflation of Americanism with religiosity is simply not where the Founders intended to take us, and "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise therof" cuts both ways. While I agree that too many liberals misinterpret this as a freedom from religion, I suspect that a few too many conservatives misinterpret as "if you aren't religious you aren't American" as our author has done. Nor is religiosity a hallmark of virtue - one can be both religious and evil, as we see all to clearly in the Middle East.
Everyone who thinks at all about it has a vision of America that includes aspects that do not currently exist, and that includes the people that the author has rightly labeled "socialist." These are aspirations, and as long as they are pursued within the rules set up by the Constitution there's nothing wrong with it. The ones referenced by the term "socialism" are, in my estimation, mistaken, and are of a vision I do not share. That does not make their holders evil. They become so when they depart from their lawful pursuit and injure others in the process, but not until then.
I sense, and share to a degree, the author's anger. Too much real evil is hidden under the rubric of the pursuit of these aspirations. But socialist, atheist Americans aren't inherently evil, only mistaken. All IMHO and subject to debate, certainly.
bttt
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