Posted on 11/20/2012 1:46:08 PM PST by IbJensen
Here's an excerpt from a letter I received the other day from a college professor: "[T]hroughout this election I discussed with students the differences between ideologies. The majority of them are on federal financial aid. They are fine with more taxes as long as they will be taken care of. It is disturbing to hear that they are willing to spend their own money on tattoos and cell phones but cannot buy the book for class until the financial aid comes in."
For those who see social conservatism as an annoyance and argue that Republicans must purge this agenda from their party in order to survive, I say, "Think again."
If Republicans want revival, we need honest focus on what's really wrong in America and what must be done to assure that a great nation will be standing for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
This kind of thinking is different from polls and focus groups and clever schemes to manage media and voter turnout. Leadership is about identifying the truth, believing it and telling it in a way that people can grasp. Then they will respond and follow.
The professor's letter provides a snapshot, a hint, of what America's most basic problem is today. It's a problem of character and values. Having lectured on more than 180 college campuses over the last 20 years, I have seen exactly what the professor is talking about.
Of course government is too big. But how did it get this way? Americans vote every two years. They voted every two years during the whole period over which government grew to its current unwieldy size. With the majority of the country now on one kind of government program or another, does anybody really think we can change this without talking about the human attitudes and values that produced it?
Democrats have a much easier problem than Republicans. They are not trying to change America. The trends and attitudes that got the whole country on welfare, that produced the moral relativism that is destroying our families and character, is the platform of the Democratic Party. Democrat politicians just have one job: deny that the patient is sick.
Republicans, if they are going to be a real opposition party, have a much tougher job. With all the talk about this last election being driven by demographics and turnout, the most basic point is the party and its candidate did not step up as a serious, principled opposition party. We can't save Medicare and Social Security. They are bankrupt. Did we hear this from the Republican candidate? We heard wishy-washy words about reforming these systems so we can save them.
Did we hear anything about how our public schools -- controlled by unions whose agenda is growing their benefits and promoting moral relativism among our youth -- are destroying our children and our future? No.
When Ronald Reagan was first elected in November 1980, 18 percent of our babies were born to unwed mothers. Today, 42 percent are. Anyone who thinks this is not of crisis of the first order can just as easily vote for a Democrat as a Republican.
Americans just re-elected a president who opposed the Supreme Court decision banning partial-birth abortion. The leader of our nation thinks it should be legal in America to kill a live, fully formed infant. What does this say about America today and our future?
There may be Republicans who think that we can ignore the crisis in character and values that underlies our fiscal crisis. There may be Republicans who think that if we have a better tax system it doesn't matter if we have a country of single mothers, sexually ambiguous and confused men, and abortion and euthanasia on demand. But ignoring these things would mean not just the end of the Republican Party, but the end of our country.
Why you’re sitting in the bar crying in beer you had enough excess money to buy, think of all those before you who froze or had their ass shot off making you safe to drink more suds. Sunshine patriot and future freeloader.
Oh, Really? Bull. Of course they are trying to change it! But "we" are helping them.
I just ran across Bill Whittle's talk. He's right we need to have "virtue" again. Our form of government can't survive without it.
One thing that drives me crazy is that some Republicans actually listen to “progressives” that tell them we need to get rid of our social conservatism.
Like they are trying to help us?? Right. They know that is our strength and if we figure out how to get it across, they are screwed.
And what does it benefit us if we try to imitate them? People will still vote for the bad guys since they will always be better at it (giving away goodies and lying) than we are.
Thank you! That was so cool. It made my evening.
Thank you! That was so cool. It made my evening.
Make it go viral...
Yes, and sadly we need a period of lawlessness also. How else to escape the burden of 100’s of 1000’s of laws, rules, and regulations created to enrich the Ivy League lawyers that rule. While people focus on Obama, they ignore that there are 535 other people equally culpable and deserving a necktie party.
Hmm, I think I just felt an urge to start the Necktie Party. Our secret sign to each other will be a small choking noise.
And don't forget the ladies spending countless dollars every several weeks to get their fingernails, toenails and eyebrows done professionally, just like their lives depended on it, and also mod designer clothes are a must too. But food stamps and every possible government help is deserved and expected. No matter how poor you might be nails are definitely the priority!
Absolutely. We need to start educating people with truth, starting today, in all venues. People can be communicated with about higher standards. They want to be, and this is why the left has made man made global warming be such a big issue, because the young want to be idealistic and they give them this to be idealistic about. We must give them true things to care about, but this cannot come about without effectual communication.
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