The author is condemning individuality, while stressing the need for the collective.
And he claims individuality is the reason Americans started voting themselves money from the public treasury?!
Um, excuse me but the painfully obvious fact is ALL the taxes and socialistic entitlements that follow come putting the collective over the individual!
If people kept their own money (gee, maybe that has something to do with individuality) and stopped taxing others for "the common good" NONE of this would have happened to begin with!
And then he has the raw nerve to blame individualists for socialistic behavior!? And if only we stopped thinking for ourselves, socialism would end??????? Now that's ignorant.
The entire message of the piece is built around the idea that we now have something called “voting blocks”, groups intentionally divided for the purpose of calculating and manipulating voters by pandering to their “individual” desires, usually at the expense of the masses in the form of an ever “growing” government. Then we wonder why we are divided as a nation…
I read comments about “alarms” going off over the word “we” the people, as if “we” is a new code word for “communist” principles, supporting my assertion that the Right is a bit overzealous in their thinking today too…maybe even a little paranoid…
I read a call for suspicion, (or two), from people who are supposed to know their history (conservatives), doubting my claim that the founders worried about us killing the goose that laid the golden egg by endlessly voting ourselves money from the treasury, causing an ever increasing need for bigger and bigger government, as a result of involving itself deeper and deeper in the private lives of citizens, as though we all don’t already know this story all too well.
The article takes aim at liberals for their selfish agenda of an ever growing government, needed to supply their never ending demand for free stuff. And it takes aim at those on the Right who think any margin of victory gives them the Right to run roughshod over those who have no power.
Nowhere did I suggest that conservative should compromise their principles for a moral, free, prosperous nation, quite the contrary. Anyone who knows my body of work would consider this suggestion insane. Check www.JB-Williams.com or my archives at www.TheRant.us, or www.AmericanDaily.com, for starters…
But somehow, the message was missed. As I should have been able to predict, neither side is able to see the flaws in their own judgment today. Appropriately, I have received comments from both sides, indicating that I only attacked them, which is a clear indication that I got it just about right in the article. Both sides are only able to understand and support the criticism of the other…
One of the comments had it right; some things are worth “fighting” for. Uniting in our common causes (not the voting block causes) is one of those things. Uniting behind those things we have in common like, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, those things that are the cornerstone of our existence. The federal government was never intended to deal with “voting block” type issues.
This is the point of the article…as a conservative, I don’t need or want anyone fixing my life, I only want a healthy vibrant country, I can take care of my own life…Every American should feel the same, but they don’t…and that is why this article was written."