Posted on 07/21/2014 4:38:02 AM PDT by servo1969
How far left was I? So far left my beloved uncle was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party in a Communist country. When I returned to his Slovak village to buy him a mass card, the priest refused to sell me one. So far left that a self-identified terrorist proposed marriage to me. So far left I was a two-time Peace Corps volunteer and I have a degree from UC Berkeley. So far left that my Teamster mother used to tell anyone who would listen that she voted for Gus Hall, Communist Party chairman, for president. I wore a button saying "Eat the Rich." To me it wasn't a metaphor.
I voted Republican in the last presidential election.
Below are the top ten reasons I am no longer a leftist. This is not a rigorous comparison of theories. This list is idiosyncratic, impressionistic, and intuitive. It's an accounting of the milestones on my herky-jerky journey.
10) Huffiness.
In the late 1990s I was reading Anatomy of the Spirit, a then recent bestseller by Caroline Myss.
Myss described having lunch with a woman named Mary. A man approached Mary and asked her if she were free to do a favor for him on June 8th. No, Mary replied, I absolutely cannot do anything on June 8th because June 8th is my incest survivors' meeting and we never let each other down! They have suffered so much already! I would never betray incest survivors!
Myss was flabbergasted. Mary could have simply said "Yes" or "No."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Speaker Boehner keeps on writing Blank Checks to Obama to continue his personal pledge to “Fundamentally transform the United States of America” into a single-payer Communist State.
It only take three people to run the US Federal Government: Boehner, (to write the blank checks), Reid, (to shutdown the Federal Government anytime that he doesn’t get his way), and Obama to do whatever he wants to do.
The soft under belly of the USA is to keep a weak, crybaby Speaker of the House in power for years, and years, and years.
The Democrat’s favorite tune might be the old popular that goes: “ - - - - This is so EASY - - - .”
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We do not have a Constitutional Republic anymore, what we have is an Oligarchy, according to Webster’s Dictionary:
“Oligarchy - - - noun. 1.) a form of Government in which the ruling power belongs to a few persons.
2.) a state governed in the way.
3.) the persons ruling such a state.”
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Oligarch Boehner writes the blank checks.
Oligarch Reid pouts and shuts down the Federal Government every time that Boehner refuses to write even one blank check.
Oligarch Obama plays and plays and plays.
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BTW, it is rumored that Oligarch Obama has a bid on a 4.7 Million Dollar House in California.
If this is true, then that house should be known as “The House that Oligarch Boehner Built for Oligarch Obama.”
Most of these points revolve around the assumption that holding the political sentiments of the Left absolves the holder of outrageous behaviors, many of which conflict directly with the principles that are ostensibly held. It isn't hypocrisy so much as a sort of moral nihilism.
And they do hate. Hatred is like a drug: it feels so good you don't realize it's eating you up. If there is a single signal characteristic of the progressive Left it is hatred, hatred of the status quo, hatred of anything it may label "oppression", hatred of any opposition, hatred that is constant, unrelenting, and so ingrained that the hater would have no personal identity without it.
Hatred, and absolution for actions resulting from it - that is a very dangerous, very destructive combination.
I share your angst, Graewoulf. I can see what has happened, and what is still happening, under the administration of this pro forma, ersatz president.
He's like a black hole, that inexorably draws the entire "universe" into its ego-maniacal maw....
We can agree to acknowledge this. But the burning question remains: What are We the People going to do about it? We supposedly are sovereign under our constitutional system. So why are we seemingly so willing to trade our sovereignty for a mess of pottage?
I have no clue what the explanation may be (other than my "bright, shiny object" theory); but this I know for sure: Culture precedes politics.
If the culture is destroyed, do not expect "good government," let alone constitutional government, American-style.
Which is why the progressive Left has devoted so much of its energy to undermining, to wrecking American culture over the past fifty years and more — through the mass media, the public schools and institutions of higher learning, the so-called "charities," and what passes for "the arts" these days....
The American people must have been sleepwalking through all of this....
I don't see any easy answers. What might work would be a restoration of the American public culture. But the elite movers-and-shakers would fight this tooth and nail, down to the last breath.
So, what to do? I figure that all I can personally manage is to (1) Stand on firm ground; and (2) Tell the truth.
If the problem is in the culture, then it almost doesn't matter what party you vote for, what candidates you elect. A deracinated, despiritualized popular culture cannot be expected to produce any kind of good political order.
Plato noticed this problem, roughly five hundred years before the birth of Christ. He was right then, and he's still right now.
Thank you so much for sharing your insights, Graewoulf!
What to do? “Encourage” y’alls US House Rep. to force Boehner to resign as Speaker.
They will be overjoyed to have their ears filled by y’all while they are on their August vacay.
Without the Boehner Blank Checks, the Impeachment of Obama can continue, in Regular Order.
I'm with you there, dear Graewoulf. Boehner seems allergic by nature to any concept of "regular order." Which, by the way in his line of work, is fully specified by the U.S. Constitution as a duty imposed on him as the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
This document turns out to be so perspicacious in its line of thinking, so anticipatory of current breaking events, on matters re: the body politic. And yet, the Framers could not possibly have anticipated such developments in their own time. Notwithstanding it is amazing to me how well their vision anticipates and "mirrors" Truth as it unfolds in the human historical experience that we call America.
And because they realized there were limits to their wisdom, the Framers put into the Constitution itself the very mode of its correction, should correction be needful under the pressure of evolving human events. It is called the Fifth Amendment....
But to me, more important is the reach of Article II. It seems exactly nobody wants to impeach this president (for failure to execute his constitutional oath of office in every respect). Simply put, he will not sign legislation drafted by his soi-dissant political enemies, who merely seek to redress the fundamental disturbances of American order that have increasingly become visible under his tenancy in the Oval Office....
In short, We the People have put the Consummate Thug in charge of the American future that our children and grandchildren will have to live in, and PAY for.....
But it has been said that the Framers did not write for their time alone, but for the ages.
If We the People can live with their wisdom, and propagate it, possibly all might work out "well" in the long run.
But let's give the hard-core Progressive Left its final say here in the matter, as expressed so eloquently by that amazing, notable economist of gay persuasion, John Maynard Keynes: "In the long run, we are all dead."
I gather this means Keynes suggested, in this profound statement, a really good excuse to hold a great, big party. Some sort of human mass bacchanalia, as it were.
This puts him in the party of those who believe the universe will finally expunge itself, destroy itself, in a "BANG," not a in a "WHIMPER."
I leave Keynes up to God.... HE will judge him, not me.
Must run for now. Thank you so very much for writing, dear Graewoulf!
America is Bewitched... bothered.. bewildered...
In love with a genius thats a moron...
Profiting from a man that HATES profit..
Listening to speeches of nonsense..
By a black man that is not black..
and has a white mother that was a skank..
The Affirmative President that is an Uncle Tom..
An Oreo controlled by white traitors..
voted for mostly by black bastards...
with questionable family structures..
I can hear the KKK laughing.. slapping legs... falling down..
It’s a disgusting thing to witness..
And I can't say you've "misreported" anything in what you observed, or wrote.
There is an ancient Chinese proverb: "May you live in interesting times." Chinese who say this sort of thing are not wishing you well....
Indeed, on the Chinese definition here, we Americans are all living in "interesting times." They are "interesting" because they seem to play out from forces beyond our control.
But then, the Chinese, neither philosophically nor politically, have never set great store by the concept of the sacrosanct human individual....
They have no truck with the imago Dei....
Hugs, dear brother in Christ!
Yet this "boy" has been elected president by the majority of the American people not once, but twice. Despite the objective fact that his presidency has worked tirelessly — though overt actions, inactions, or covert ones — to undermine the historical liberties, institutions, and interests, both domestic and foreign, of the American people.
I pray earnestly for our country.
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