“But the worst thing of all, to me, is that this man is a LIAR.”
He is not a liar, but one who furthers the transformation. Any statement that serves the revolution is not a lie but a courageous step toward change. Any violation of the Contstitution is not a violation but just another movement toward the transformation.
These people have no respect for a bourgois code of morality based upon some book that claims to be the word of a mythical god-being that doesn’t exist. (so say the Progressives.)
They’re confusing the daylights out of everyone because they claim they don’t lie, that they don’t confiscate private property and don’t libel or slander while they accuse the other side of it, as they themselves lie, confiscate private property, libel and slander and call it free speech, helping the middle class or applying the frequently-used cachet of “doing it for the children”.
They’re doing their intentionally-confusing revolutionary dance and getting away with it and they’re absolutely maddening.
IMHO
I gather, dear ripley, that you were speaking "tongue-in-check" in your last. But I did not see the /sarcasm tag in the above lines. That being the case, it appears you might be [mis]understood by an unsuspecting reader as possibly endorsing and "legitimating" the Obamanian tactics....
Other than that defect, you explain what Obama is up to, very clearly and concisely. Thank you so very much for that!
I know you "get it": for you wrote, "They’re confusing the daylights out of everyone because they claim they don’t lie, that they don’t confiscate private property and don’t libel or slander while they accuse the other side of it, as they themselves lie, confiscate private property, libel and slander and call it free speech....
But really, no one could be less committed to free speech than this crowd. If you don't agree with them, then you have no free speech, and can be penalized for what you say.
Of course, all of the above is precisely what "they" are doing. Their political philosophy totally inverts universal human understandings WRT human nature and the natural order of things, both of which are God-given from the Beginning, unto the End.
They say our universal God — the Source of Being and Truth — is a fiction of the imaginations of stupid, superstitious, moronic human beings. The very sort of people that the State must protect against their own "bad" decisions.
IOW, we are not created free and rational by nature by a loving and just God — Who evidently wants us to collaborate with Him as His stewards on earth. Rather, we are so stupid and confused about the nature of Reality that the State has to intervene and protect us against the fallout of any and all free decisions we make as human beings under Natural Law.
Obama does not in any way, shape, or form respect Natural Law. It imposes tests that he cannot meet. What Natural Law posits for its Truth is the necessary correspondence between what goes on in the human mind and the facts of the natural world, including the worlds of nature, of specifically human nature, and of human societies.
Romans 1:20 sums up this problem exquisitely:
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.I just don't understand how an entire class of people, who have earned very pricey higher-level degrees from prestigious universities, can understand so little about the nature of universal reality that specifically human people have experienced for some 44 millennia by now....
Are such folks being deliberately trained for amnesia WRT the human story as depicted in cultural and artistic records going back to the very beginning of the human race?
They say God is a fiction.
This would be surprising news to most of the people who ever lived on this planet, from as far back as the historical records go, to the present time.
Talk about "transformation!!!" Bottom line, it seems Obama and his ilk are trying to "transform" man into something he absolutely isn't: a robotic ward of the state, who gives his free consent to being governed by other mortals deemed wiser than he is.
But these theoretically "wiser" people don't even live in the same Reality that the rest of us do. For they deny universal Truth in order to gain the "liberty" necessary to thoroughly trash the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God. [As the Framers of our society/government put it, what is best and most precious in each and every human person. Thus, it cannot be truthfully said that man is simply an interchangeable machine that can be manipulated by "programmers." There is no Natural Law test that can show this result.]
In such a situation, what a squandering of God's gifts of reason and free will!
I'm gladdened by your reply, dear ripley. Thank you so much!