"What they really want to do is to transfer all of man's accountability to God to accountability to government."
And he nails why Religion & Socialism are natural enemies: one seeks to sublimate the individual to God, the other demands supplication of the individual to the State.
Take America back from whom?? We are all Americans, and things happen as they are supposed to.
Good article, the logical conclusion of which is that all true Americans should join the Liberatarian Party and sing Kumbaya. And if there were that many "true Americans" it would - like any political scheme - work like a charm.But the Libertarian Party gets what - 4% of the vote, tops? Would that it were otherwise.
Please use the original title of a published story. Thank you.
Sounds like al-Qaeda's argument against constitutional government
Is Farah calling for revolution? Perhaps I haven't had enough coffee.
I read a book in 1960 which made this same point (don't recall the title). At that time the national debt was about 300 billion. It is now 25 times as much ... 7.8 trillion. Freedom cannot long endure in a country whose politicians, liberal and conservative alike, recklessly spend our children's future. IMO, therefore, the conservative agenda should first be to reverse this suicide course before we reach the point where everything else is irrelevant.
Good read.
Dear Theodore,
The answer is quite clear. Reduce all agencies to the absolute minimum described in the strict constraints of the Constitution.
As Congressman Crocket said, charity is not the business of government. Thus all programs such as the New Deal and the Great Society are not allowable - so simply obey the Constitution and shut 'em down.
Sell off lands un-Constitutionally owned by government and use the money to pay down the national debt. And while on the subject of the natikonal debt, shut down the Federal Reserve and pay the interest to ourselves rather than the 13 stockholders of "the FED".
Since much, if not all of the IRS annual take is spent paying interst to the FED, taxes could be lowered.
And the last point I'd suggest would be a national sales tax.
Summary: De-regulate, reduce taxation, return to individual responsibility. It worked for a long time once before - it still can. If we insist.
Is this the primary that Bret Schundler is favored to win?
Liberal policies still abound and expand because the sheeple either don't care, or secretly want the changes, ie affirmative action, pornography, abortion, divorce, feminism, drugs, etc. Of course I'm referring to the half of the country that bothers to vote.
God for most Americans is now Hollywood. The temples are the millions of TV's in American homes. Everyday day and night Americans faithfully take their place in front of these Hollywood temples where they are proselytized in every manner of human perversion and degradation, in the comfort and safety of their own homes. Amazing what people will do these days when they think no one is looking. And then they call it all entertainment.
In gratitude for Hollywood's blessings, Americans throw billions of dollars at the feet of their Hollywood gods. From which Hollywood grows stronger and are then able to provide us with even greater perversions every new TV season.
Remember, virtually half of the American voting electorate elected a lying traitorous POS, twice, and almost elected the same kind of men twice - Gore and sKerry.
Perhaps we should accept the fact that America's direction is exactly what the majority of the American people want it to be - a direction that will not interfere with their worship of Hollywood or episodes of the soft porn perversions of Quentin Tarantino's Crime Scene Investigations (CSI) which drew 30 million viewers. Were they all staunch conservatives?
Want to know where the minds and principles of Americans are, check out what they are watching on TV - when they think no one is watching them. Then imagine what they do in the voting booth, when they think no one is watching.
So who is deluded here, them or us?
It took me a long time to understand why the Right here in the US never seemed to develop its own vision to compete with the Left against. Firstly, Leftists are very comfortable with political wonkdom. People who become political scientists are innately academic or non profit in orientation. In order to get their, they typically were indoctrinated early and often to Leftist thinking. The innate supply of Leftist political scientists and wonks far outstrips the supply of Rightist ones. Due to all that, Leftists get an early taste of political street fighting tactics and learn how to articulate political strategies in ways that excite other political scientists and wonks. Meanwhile, the typical Rightist only gets involved in politics out of frustration and at best pursues it as a hobby or a second career. Street fighting skills never get fully developed plus, being a practical minded, business oriented person, the BS tolerance level for political shenanigans is low. Most Rightists who do go into politics tend not to stay in politics, prefering to go back to business.
Secondly, particular to American Rightists, we tend to fail to recognize the sources of our values. We do acknowledge family and in some cases, church. But being of the Whiggish tradition, we tend to write off, in toto, all aspects of European origins of The Western Tradition and Judeo-Christianity. We do not identify with knightly traditions and with pre 1700 martial orientation. This deprives us of a potentially very powerful proactive mission statement and organizational theme. So, we fall back into defending turf, but never really having any sort of future vision. Although our patron visage is Charlemagne, and others of that type, divorced as we are from our real roots, we fail to visualize the sort of unified and activist Rightist structures and behaviors that led someone like a Charlemagne to be so successful. Helping matters not at all is the fact that Hitler overtly idolized Charlemagne and thereby made any such inkling a third rail.
This is not to say that organizing a positive Rightist program that is free of procrustean aspects, or destructive bastardizations of the Western Tradition, is impossible. But it is to say that doing so would be non trivial and would require major out-of-the-box thinking.