Posted on 07/21/2009 3:59:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is only one good thing about the Obama administration's attempts to nationalize most health care and to begin to control Americans' energy consumption through cap-and-trade: clarity about the left. These attempts are enabling more and more Americans to understand the thinking and therefore the danger of the left.
The left has its first president -- with the possible exception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- and for the first time controls the Democratic Party and both houses of Congress. In the name of compassion for the sick and the poor and in the name of preventing worldwide environmental catastrophe, it is attempting to remake America.
In so doing some principals of the left are becoming clearer to more Americans:
Principal One: The left, as distinct from traditional liberals, is not, and has never been, interested in creating wealth. The left is no more interested in creating wealth than Christians are in creating Muslims or Muslims in creating Christians. The left is interested in redistributing wealth, not creating it. The left spends the wealth that private enterprise and entrepreneurial risk-taking individuals create.
The left does not perceive that poverty is the human norm and therefore asks, "Why is there poverty?" instead of asking the economic question that matters: Why is there wealth? And the obvious result of the left's disinterest in why wealth is created is that the left does not know how to create it.
Principal Two: The reason the left asks why there is poverty instead of why there is wealth is that the left's preoccupying ideal is equality -- not economic growth. And those who are preoccupied with equality are more troubled by wealth than by poverty. Ask almost anyone on the left -- not a liberal, but a leftist like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi -- which society they consider more desirable, a society in which all its members were equally lower middle class or one in which some were poor, most were middle class, and some were rich (i.e., America today). And whatever they say, in their hearts, the further left they are the more they would prefer the egalitarian society.
Principal Three: The left everywhere seeks to make as big and powerful a state as possible. It does so because only the state can redistribute society's wealth. And because only a strong and powerful state can impose values on society. The idea of small government, the American ideal since its inception, is the antithesis of the left's ideal.
The cap-and-trade bill's control of American energy and the "ObamaCare" takeover of American health care will mean an unprecedented expansion of the state. Added to increased taxes and the individual becomes less and less significant as the state looms ever larger. Americans will be left to decide little more than what they do with vacation time -- just as Western Europeans do. Other questions are largely left to the state.
Principal Four: The left imposes its values on others whenever possible and to the extent possible. That is why virtually every totalitarian regime in the 20th century was left-wing. Inherent to all left-wing thought is a totalitarian temptation. People on the left know that not only are their values morally superior to conservative values, but that they themselves are morally superior to conservatives. Thus, for example, the former head of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean, could say in all seriousness, “In contradistinction to the Republicans, we don't think children ought to go to bed hungry at night.”
Therefore, the morally superior have the right, indeed the duty, to impose their values on the rest of us: what light bulbs we use, what cars we drive, what we may ask a prospective employee, how we may discipline our children, and, of course, how much of our earnings we may keep.
It is dishonest to argue that the right wants to impose its values to anywhere near the extent the left does. This can be demonstrated to a fifth-grader: Who wants more power -- those who want to govern a big state or those who want to govern a small state?
The president of the United States and the much of the Democratic Party embody these left-wing principals. Right now, America's only hope of staying American rather than becoming European lies in making these principals as clear as possible to as many Americans as possible. The left is so giddy with power right now, we actually have a chance.
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Welcome to the USSA.
It’s a real shame that George W. Bush spent so much effort trying to get leftists to appreciate Republicans by signing the prescription drug benefit, light bulb bans, increased CAFE standards, and other major expansions of government power, spending, and influence. It gave Obama a head start.
I believe Dennis Prager is correct in some ways.
Expose them. Expose whom they are. Expose what is their intent. Expose them for their fraud, their lies, their anti-Americanism.
Our Nation was founded upon specific rules generated by the Founding Fathers with great clarity of thought, and with knowledge of tyranny.
Our Nation has been brought to its knees by self serving radicals narrowly focused upon ascent to power for sake of power using the tool of a false premise of equality.
I believe that no matter what the Left says, or does their internal driving force is to be revered as all powerful, and not unlike a god(s).
I wish the poor, dead GOP were going after these in an organized way, instead of prattling on about "taxes", as if the problem with these proposed laws had to do with how much they cost.
Here's a clue for our "leaders": IT WOULDN'T MATTER IF THEY WERE COST FREE. They are unconstitutional TO THE BONE, and they establish a comprehensive system of central control over every significant aspect of our lives and our property.
Of course, more than half of the GOP sees nothing wrong with Federales coming to your front door at 11pm because the lights are too bright. Most of them believe in the theology of "carbon", or are too stupid to analyze the data and don't care.
I hope Sarah starts a second party soon.
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
“They are unconstitutional...”
They won’t be once Obama gets a bunch of “wise Latina” types on the Supreme Court.
Yeah the left is so open-minded...that their brains have all fallen out...
Not to mention TARP, AIG and the Auto Bailouts.
Bush opened the door for Obama.
I would have hoped that we all would have moved past this mentality of blaming Bush. It’s bad enough that the leftists do it, we don’t need to join their chorus.
Great analogy
She won't. But what WILL happen is that she will do things ‘her way’ and those who think she's ‘got it’ will fall in step in and around her. I think she's a leader, in the true sense of the word, and the thing about leaders is they collect followers like flowers collect bees and butterflies.
Above all else, I believe the verse in the great old hymn “This is my Father's World” that says:
“This is my Father's world,
and let me n’er forget,
that though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the ruler yet!”
Amen. I am convinced that God, in answer to the prayers of people of fatih, HAS blessed America all these years and will continue to do so. He does it by sending us the right person for time. He's done it over and over for 200 plus years. If Sarah Palin is what America needs there will be no stopping her. I don't say that she is, but I don't want to be looking the other way when God sends the next special person to pull us through!
This article, especially his last point,
is consistent with my research over the last few years.
And you, indeed, are infinitely correct.
The way to defeat them is to EXPOSE THEM.
This fact is abundantly clear when you examine how they campaign. They ALWAYS hide their true agenda, their true goals, and their true core values, and act like people who support individual liberty.
The book of Judges is a chronicle of this happening, OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Your timeframe is a bit short - just sayin'.
The Book of Judges is a tragic account of how Yahweh [God] was taken for granted by His children year after year, century after century. Judges is a sad contrast to the book of Joshua which chronicles the blessings God bestowed on the Israelites for their obedience to God in conquering the land. In Judges, they were disobedient and idolatrous, leading to their many defeats. Yet God has never failed to open His arms in love to His people whenever they repent from their wicked ways and call upon His name. (Judges 2:18) Through the 15 judges of Israel, God honored His promise to Abraham to protect and bless his offspring (Genesis 12:2-3).
I am convinced the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were just as inspired by the Holy Spirit as were those who wrote the Bible, just in a different direction.
You will never convince me that a man like Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Adams just ‘happened along’ at a good time for America!
Despite what the Left/MSM cabal would have us believe, there are still millions and millions of Americans who spend time each day in prayer for our country. And I find it impossible to believe that a God who has brought us this far would turn His ear against even a few of His people who are faithful just to punish the many who aren't. He's much too powerful and creative to have to destroy His people to get to Satan's people!
Americans didn’t have a chance against FDR and his sweeping progressive policies. I hope this time there are a few more people that are armed with a thorough knowledge of history and can cut through the smoke and mirrors for the rest of the population.
Thomas Sowell, Victor David Hansen, Walter Williams, Glenn Beck, Rush, Neal Boortz, Ann Coulter. Thank god these men and women are on our side.
Where are the so called “intellectuals” that can match these names on the left? Am I not seeing them or are there no honest to god liberals that can communicate where the liberals and progressives want to lead us?
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bttt
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