Posted on 09/08/2012 3:57:46 PM PDT by neverdem
Not since the tear gas and mass arrests of Chicago 1968 have the Democrats put...
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But the pinnacle of the week came in two key moments. The first occurred in an opening DNC video that included the jaw-dropping line "Government is the only thing that we all belong to." Who exactly wrote the script for this video? Chairman Mao? As Mitt Romney appropriately tweeted in response, in America, "[w]e don't belong to the government. Government belongs to us." That Democrats see this foundational reality completely backwards is extraordinarily instructive.
Couple that revelation with the Democrats' decision to drop the one reference to God from their platform. Now, in some ways this was a mere formality -- codifying what their public policy agenda has embraced for some time. After all, when the leader of your party and president of the United States shakes his fist at the sky and tells God that His definition of marriage is bigoted, removing His name from the platform shouldn't really be a surprise.
And yes, after public outrage, the Democrats reinserted God -- to much consternation, boos, and hisses from the raucous crowd. But the larger point comes in the context of a convention dedicated to the proposition that government is the new god. It cares for us, provides for us, nurtures us, teaches us, corrects us, props us up, and wipes the tears from our eyes. Without it, we can do nothing -- we are nothing. We are a people of, by, and for the government.
So while we didn't witness SWAT teams and riot gear this time around, we were left to consider this pathetic reality: in 1968, most mainstream Democrats were embarrassed by what happened in Chicago. In 2012, they are thumping their chests with pride over the spectacle in Charlotte.
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“Government is the only thing that we all belong to” has to rank right up there with “You didn’t build that”.
Obama has been TRYING to sabotage himself from away back. Maybe he really DOESN’T want to be re-elected.
There is a very convoluted sort of psychological double-think going on here.
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We are a people of, by, and for the government.
I think of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address - “...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Spinning....spinning...spinning...
“Perhaps nothing better defines or encapsulates the left’s view of government’s appropriate role than having it function as a prophylactic Pez Dispenser.”
Great line....
Obama and his minions can say absolutely anything they want. The MSM will faithfully report it as though it were handed down on clay tablets.
The majority of the hoi polloi will simply accept it, saying, “I seen it in the paper” or, “I heard it on CNN.”
That’s why sh*t like “The only thing we all belong to is the government” even gets off the ground.
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Obama has set the stage for disaster in the next four years and beyond. What better than to have a Republican elected, and then get the blame for the mess DuhWon & Co. built?
Then the Marxists/Muslims/Socialist set would have the next round to cement their totalitarian agenda.
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