Posted on 05/31/2016 4:37:27 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus
For nearly two and a half centuries, Americans have enjoyed the enormous privilege and responsibility of forming our own government—a privilege rarely experienced throughout most of human history. For most of history, humanity has struggled with the question of how to respond to a government that was essentially forced upon them. But Americans have often struggled with a very different reality; how do we rightly respond to the government that we choose?
Thus, the idea of a limited government requires that society uphold and pursue the health of its most basic institutions. When a civil society is weak, government becomes strong. When the family breaks down, government grows stronger. When the essential institutions of society are no longer respected, government demands that respect for itself. That is a recipe for tyranny.
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Those who “demand” respect usually don’t deserve any. We have a criminal-infused government. Thugs.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about gay marriage isn’t about gay marriage.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about homosexuality isn’t about homosexuality.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about teen sexuality isn’t about teen sex.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about promiscuity and marital infidelity isn’t about promiscuity.
The incessant “progressive” leftist promoted debate about no-fault divorce isn’t about divorce.
The NEW “progressive” leftist promoted debate about transgender bathrooms isn’t about transgender bathrooms.
And the NEW “progressive” leftist promoted debate about adult-child sexuality isn’t about pederasty or pedophilia.
The Utopian “progressive” left seeks to replace God with man (or SOME VERY “SPECIAL” MEN!), and God’s universe with one of man’s design.
The “progressive” left seeks to abolish God’s creation of sex, gender, and sexuality.
In another area, the “progressive” left seeks to convince us that man alone controls the universe. When the left claims that man causes climate change and man causes earthquakes (by fracking, water injection, etc.), the “progressive” left is seeking to eliminate God.
“Progressive” leftists believe, or claim to believe, that a junta of wise men – made so by birth to the “right” parents or educated in the “right” universities – can perfect the world. Think utopia or heaven on earth.
To achieve their goal, the “progressive” left must destroy God in the minds of the men they seek to rule.
Ironically, it was the agnostic, humanist, Darwinist commentator H.L.Mencken who summarized the goal of the “progressive” left in these 16 words:
“The urge to save humanity is most often a false front for the urge to rule.”
Taking their cue from George Orwell, they call themselves “progressives”, hoping that the uninformed and ignorant among us would be fooled by this gaggle of Utopian fools who seek to drag us to another of the command societies that have always failed.
Do you remember back the 2008 “election” when the arch “progressive” Obama declared that he would “transform America”? At the time I and many others asked to what would we wish to “transform” – in other words “PROGRESS” – a nation based on these words?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
After nearly 8 years of a “progressive” leftist in the White House, we have our answer: We have been transformed BACKWARD (regressed) from the truths of the Declaration and a “Creator” honoring people to a nation of soon to be slaves ruled by elitist Utopians who, by virtue of their “superiority”, know far better how we should live our lives than we do.
The vernacular for that is TOTALITARIANISM!
There is no room for a “Creator” in such a system.
There is also NO ROOM FOR “..LIFE, LIBERTY OR ...HAPPINESS”.
Albert- I love your insightfulness! Americans need to understand what the progressive/liberal movement has done to destroy our traditional way of life....and only Trump has been able to use the driveby media to expose them and the D.C. establishment for what it really is...a cabal of self-interest insiders who do not give a damn about American citizens.
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