The sad truth is that a mere 16 years after an articulate Conservative Republican left office, there is almost no one on Capitol Hill who can make out a true case for much of anything. The level of political debate in America has never been lower at any time in our history. The mere fact that there is an angry debate between those calling themselves "Libertarians" and those calling themselves "Conservatives," involves so many flawed conceptions, that I will not even try to sort them out in detail.
Just a few basics. The Founding Fathers, having accomplished the most Conservative Revolution in History--a Revolution against the experience of having a remote Government too deeply in their affairs--were to a man--whatever their differences--Libertarians as well as Conservatives in the modern sense. Sure, some of them had different priorities. Some of them were non-denominational in their religious outlook; some more concerned with temporal, some spiritual things. But to a man they did not want a remote Government involved in local moral or police issues.
To a man, they never considered the Federal Government fit or morally entitled to assume the role of an individual problem solver. To a man, they understood that the free society they were determined to preserve, depended upon the members of that society; that a free society was not something you could impose on others; nor, frankly, something you had any right to try to impose on others--although many of them hoped that our example might, indeed, be a beacon for other peoples.
But the confused gobblings of those inside the Beltway, today, do not just relate to a confusion as to the roles of man and Government, in a free society. They relate to a confused understanding of the nature of man; to an absolute inability to understand, what works and does not work in the human experience. They prattle on about grandiose schemes that have no chance, whatsoever, of doing more good than harm. Ron Paul and Mike Pence are both good men. But the future of the Republican Party depends upon a reawakening from the grass roots, not simply a choice of a single spokesman.
Americans, sabotaged in their schools by leftist idealogues, who have bought every shibboleth of the Far Left, as a mantra for a "just society'; misled by a media, simply parroting the same nonsense taught in school; lulled away from reflective analysis of what is even within the ken of every individual with an I.Q. over 96, by a plethora of amusing distractions; Americans have lost the tools to wake themselves up. But we have to wake them up, or this whole noble quest is going to be an almost overlooked or forgotten footnote in the pages of a history to be written by those who will pick up the pieces--those who will rule the survivors of the hapless folk, who have lost their country.
William Flax
"Ron Paul and Mike Pence are both good men. But the future of the Republican Party depends upon a reawakening from the grass roots, not simply a choice of a single spokesman. "
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"Americans, sabotaged in their schools by leftist idealogues, who have bought every shibboleth of the Far Left, as a mantra for a "just society'; misled by a media, simply parroting the same nonsense taught in school; lulled away from reflective analysis of what is even within the ken of every individual with an I.Q. over 96, by a plethora of amusing distractions; Americans have lost the tools to wake themselves up. But we have to wake them up, or this whole noble quest is going to be an almost overlooked or forgotten footnote in the pages of a history to be written by those who will pick up the pieces--those who will rule the survivors of the hapless folk, who have lost their country. "
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