The Impossible Dream - (seething hatred in marxist liberal Democrats running the party)

NEWSMAX.COM ^ | MAY 11, 2005 | PHIL BRENNAN

[CHARLITE]

In British legend, mysterious lights said to lead travelers from well-trodden paths into treacherous marshes are called the "Will o' the Wisp." The title also describes malevolent spirits who lure their prey into disaster with false promises. They erect symbolic lighthouses which instead of guiding vessels to safety, lead the unwary into destruction on the rocks and shoals.

In his book "The End of Time," David Horowitz writes, "The desire for more than is possible is the cause of greater human misery than any other," which is another way of warning of the dangers of pursuing the political incarnation of the Will o' the Wisp.

Throughout human history the minds of secularists who see life exclusively in worldly terms, to the exclusion of any thought of the existence of a hereafter, have been occupied with pursuing the most elusive of all the Wills o' the Wisp: Utopia, the promised heaven on earth that in all its incarnations has led instead to perdition. Blinded by an almost religious fervor, today's Utopians blithely ignore the lessons of history that prove their quest for a perfect society to be an impossible - and often lethal - dream, and forge ahead in their determination to impose their version of worldly perfection on the American people and ultimately upon the rest of the world.

Imprisoned by their blind faith, they view anyone and anything that stands athwart their road to paradise to be an enemy of what they believe to be inevitable progress - they are progressives and they react to obstacles to what they deem to be progress with an unmatched fury. And to them progress means the triumph of Marxism - of the all-powerful state against the blessing of individual liberty.

We saw it triumph in the Soviet Union, enslaving hundreds of millions and slaughtering tens of millions. We saw it triumph in Nazi Germany under its brand of national socialism, and today we see it in Cuba and increasingly in Venezuela. In each case, for the liberty-loving individual paradise turned out to be hell.

We are witnessing this battle against individual liberty today. Frustrated by the ascendancy of those who value liberty above the empty promises of Marxist safety and cradle-to-grave security, the Marxist left is lashing out with unrestrained rage against the party and its members who they consider to be in the vanguard of the forces standing in the way of the liberation of mankind from the strictures of a senseless morality imposed by an outmoded religious faith.

It is important to follow the biblical injunction to "know thine enemy," and to understand that what we are seeing in this furious and ongoing Democrat assault on the Republican Party and its allies in what they call the religious right is not mere demagoguery arising out of their frustration over their inability to control the levers of power they once held.

Their fury is genuine - they really do believe that the conservative Republican majority and their conservative Christian and Judaic allies are the agents of an evil conspiracy, determined to prevent the American people and all mankind from achieving their rightful destiny.

That rightful destiny is life in a socialist state in a socialist world governed by a Marxist United Nations, and everything they do and everything they say is driven by that impossible - and nightmarish - dream.

Because they are utterly convinced of the rightness of their unholy cause, they enthusiastically embrace the belief that the ends justify the means. Nothing is forbidden them in this cosmic battle between the forces of good, as defined by Karl Marx, and the forces of evil, as personified by conservative Republicans and their allies in what they call the religious right.

They can lie, they can engage in the worst kind of slander against their enemies, they can use the media to spread their distortions of the issues and the characters of their foes, they can ally themselves with the butchers of the unborn, the defenders of sodomy, the promoters of pornography and unrestrained sexual license, convicted criminals whose right to vote they espouse. In their world everything goes as long as it advances their cause, no matter how deeply it is immersed in sleaze and dishonesty.

When they attack conservative Republicans for seeking to rein in an out-of-control judiciary legislating from the bench and usurping the prerogatives of the federal and state legislatures, they are in reality recognizing that their inability to achieve their secularist and Marxist schemes through legislative enactment requires the help of non-elected jurists to implement them by judicial fiat.

When, aided by a compliant mainstream media, they mount an all-out assault on Rep. Tom DeLay, they are not merely attacking a powerful Republican leader they fear but instead are seeking to remove from the scene a man whose grit, talent and determination threaten to undo much of the secular and socialist damage they inflicted on the nation in the years when they dominated Capitol Hill. He is a serious obstacle to their version of progress and he must be driven from power.

When they seek to prevent John Bolton from being confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the corrupt and Marxist-dominated United Nations, they don't oppose him because he is allegedly mean to some of his subordinates or colleagues, but because he represents a threat to the future of an organization dedicated to the same Marxist dreams that motivate them. The president has chosen a Marine to battle for U.N. reform - they want to send a Girl Scout.

In all of these instances their anger is not feigned. They see the ascendancy of the conservative Republicans and what they contemptuously call the "religious far right" as the most serious threat to their impossible dream ever to emerge. Their anger burns red hot and will not die until they have been deprived by the American electorate of any semblance of political influence.

Until that blessed day arrives, hopefully in 2006, they will continue to dream their impossible dream and inflict its misery upon the American people.

* * * * * * Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.

He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com

[CHARLITE]

"Their anger burns red hot and will not die until they have been deprived by the American electorate of any semblance of political influence.

Until that blessed day arrives, hopefully in 2006, they will continue to dream their impossible dream and inflict its misery upon the American people."

[CHARLITE]

QUOTE OF THE DAY from GetLiberty.org

"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
Thomas Sowell

[tet68]

until they have been deprived by the American electorate of any semblance of political influence.

I'll drink to that day!
May it come soon.

[DoctorMichael]

Succinct.

[tet68]

"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it.

Governor Perdue waxed long on the reasons he shouldn't
sign the public smoking ban, and they were GOOD reasons too.
Then he went ahead and signed it.
He's toast now.

[rdb3]

To dream
The Impossible Dream
To fight
The unbeatable foe
To bear
With unbearable sorrow
To run
Where the brave dare not go
To right
The unrightable wrong
To love
Pure and chaste from afar
To try
When your arms are too weary
To reach
The unreachable star
This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into hell
For a heavenly cause
And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star...

Wow. From memory after not hearing that uplifting song in years. Thanx for reminding me, even though you didn't mean to do so.

[Mark]

Dear Dems,

Just one word: "Courage".

[boop]

I thought of smoking bans too.

[CasearianDaoist]

He give them too much credit. Only a portion of the left in the Democratic contain this sort of burning Marxist ideologues. The rest of the lot are a mixture of opportunists, spoiled brats, criminals, useful idiots and lust plain evil people.

Keeping them from power will not be so easy as just one election.

It may take a civil war.

[CHARLITE]

"Only a portion of the left in the Democratic contain this sort of burning Marxist ideologues. The rest of the lot are a mixture of opportunists, spoiled brats, criminals, useful idiots and just plain evil people."

[CasearianDaoist]

and your point is?

[hosepipe]

[ Utopia, the promised heaven on earth that in all its incarnations has led instead to perdition. Blinded by an almost religious fervor, today's Utopians blithely ignore the lessons of history that prove their quest for a perfect society to be an impossible - and often lethal - dream, and forge ahead in their determination to impose their version of worldly perfection on the American people and ultimately upon the rest of the world. ]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.-- C. S. Lewis

[CHARLITE]

My point is that "War Is Not The Answer" was the liberal (marxist) left's mantra against President Bush both for the Afghan and Iraq liberations. Hence, "War is not the answer" unless you're either a militant jihadist or a Che Guevara Marxist guerilla. Then, it's not only the "answer." It's your solemn duty.

Thanks for asking!

Char :)

[nothingnew]

...their secularist and Marxist schemes through legislative enactment requires the help of non-elected jurists to implement them by judicial fiat.

Hi Char...excellent post.

I have updated my FMCDH (From My Cold Dead Hands) sign-off with the addition of (BITS).....Blood In The Streets, which I foresee coming soon, due to the enormous increase of the Marxist progressive movement being shoved down the throat of this failing REPUBLIC through the Judicial tyranny of fiat law, the passing of unconstitutional laws by the Legislative and Executive branches of our government and the enormous tax burden placed upon the average American to support unconstitutional programs put forth by Marxist ideology

. I do not advocate revolution. I only think of what I foresee.

FMCDH(BITS)

[CHARLITE]

Thanks, nothingnew. Nice to hear from you - and it seems to me that you have lots of "fire in the belly," so it'll be a long LONG time before your hands are cold and dead!

Char :)

[Travis McGee]

"That rightful destiny is life in a socialist state in a socialist world governed by a Marxist United Nations, and everything they do and everything they say is driven by that impossible - and nightmarish - dream."

---That's the left's bottom line.

[Travis McGee]

Tell me that's not a real t-shirt?!?!?!

[CHARLITE]

It's a real T-shirt. There is a website which has a lot of them, but I lost the URL to it! Sorry!

Char :)