Posted on 11/09/2004 4:54:19 AM PST by kattracks
Great!
Calm, sane and reasoned. Will the Democrats read and understand this?
Many thanks to Mr. Prager for this insightful piece.
Amen!!!!!!
The Guv has been in the sun too long. She doesn't know what her party looks like to the majority of America!
They still don't get it. The simple answer is Michael Moore, and hollyweird. End of sentence.
Brilliant. That about sums it up doesn't it.
Great Post - Thanks
At first I thought the democrats had gone insane. As I read and listen to them now, they are proving it.
Ummmmmmmmm...
1. Abortion of the innocent
2. Homosexuality
3. Violation of the commandment: "Thou Shall NOT covet thy neighbors goods."
I could add about 30 more.
'Values' is what sociologists call another society's understanding (or misunderstanding) of virtue. 'Values' can be changed by will or whim: Nietzche wrote of the 'transvaluation of values' and wanted to flip Christian values upside down, to consider charity and self-sacrifice as evil. Multiculturalism and the sort of feminism that blathers about 'women's ways of knowing' don't deny stereotypes, they accept and 'transvalue' them.
We did well this election. But to move decisively toward victory in the culture war, we need to retake the bridge we gave up when we started using 'values' and start forthrightly talking about virtues: the virtue of charity, the virtue of chastity, of humility, of thrift, of self-control, of self-reliance, of temperance, of moderation; of prudence. . .
And start speaking of them in terms which leave no room for confusion with the parodies of the virtue created by extremists on either side (humility is realism about oneself, not self-denigration; charity is an imitation of our Heavenly Father 'who makes the rain fall on the just and the unjust' not a grudging obligation which can be met through taxation and government spending; temperance is not teetotaling but due moderation in use of drink; chastity is celibacy OR confinement of erotic expression to one's spouse; thrift is not miserliness, . . .
As long as we talk about 'values' rather than 'virtues' we're playing backed up against our own goal line.
this is a good one! i think what you mean is that democrats want to tax, tax, tax! and the tax dollars are used to put in place social programs that are a feeble attempt to produce "heaven on earth", a completely impossible concept.
america's values are helping one another, not paying big gov't to provide hand outs through buerocracy. there is joy in helping one another out; there is no joy in a bloated government.
Scratch a Liberal, he'll bleed envy, not blood.
"Americans want a party committed to moral virtues not 'values'."
I agree and came to the same conclusion recently when debating the notion with a unconvinced lefty. Bill Bennett's "Book of Virtues" should be required reading for those of us who want to advance this debate.
To Republicans, values are something we live with every day. They influence our decisions at work, at home, or wherever we may be.
To Democrats, values are like a valuable, antique cars - they don't even see the light of day unless they think it will get them somewhere!
You are compassionate to the poor? How so? With whose money? You want free health care for all? With whose money? You want gays to have the right to marry? How is that compassionate to the other 70% of the population whose religious values are compromised if they are they forced to recognize those marriages by the legal structures that you know full well will result?
What "values" is the governor talking about?
WOW! Dead on.
The Democrats know this but their leaders,the Liberal faction, think they can whip the rest of America into marching in lockstep like they have the rest of their party.
You can bet they will not give up,they will just try and put on another face like it is Halloween and continue to divide America and mold us like they have the moderates and conservatives of their own party.
They are much closer to success than most realize the last two elections should have been a wake up call to America. The Democrats or I should say the Liberals have taken over 90% of our educational facilities,the media,churches,the ABA and they have enough on the bench to legislate until they gain control of the rest of government and this to they will be able to do if we are not careful and when they reach this goal America wakes up with a Communist country and dictator.
Enjoy yourself it is later than you think if we accept this election as a total victory. To me it is just another call to awaken!
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