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“…We are not the converts of Rousseau; we are not the disciples of Voltaire... Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers...”

I love Burke. I just read through his "French Revolution" just this past month.

The currently sitting American president seems to be an activist of the French model. He is distinctly a post-modernist thinker, as an analysis of his words vis-à-vis his actions will show. Evidently he has no sympathy for the values, principles, and goals of the American Revolution, and has disparaged the Constitution — to which he freely swore an Oath of fidelity — on grounds that it is a system of negative liberties” that has outlived its usefulness.

Negative liberties are the very key to liberty. The fact that Obama rejects them reveals him as a jacobin, who sees your liberty as something to be overcome as he accumulates the power to implement his vision. Protecting your right to build your vision is for him not the purpose of government, as it was for Locke, it is an impediment to Obama implementing Obama's vision.

You have captured the essence of the current mob of vandals who have captured the congress and the White House. They create nothing, they know only how to overturn. Americans do not know the difference between Locke and Rousseau and it is all the difference in the world. It is the difference between a system based on liberty and a system based on the accumulation of power. The jacobins and obamists know only the accumulation of power. They do not love liberty, they smother it in its crib where ever they find it.

Excellent writing, as usual.

Negative liberties are the very key to liberty. The fact that Obama rejects them reveals him as a jacobin, who sees your liberty as something to be overcome as he accumulates the power to implement his vision.... You have captured the essence of the current mob of vandals who have captured the congress and the White House. They create nothing, they know only how to overturn. Americans do not know the difference between Locke and Rousseau and it is all the difference in the world. It is the difference between a system based on liberty and a system based on the accumulation of power. The jacobins and obamists know only the accumulation of power. They do not love liberty, they smother it in its crib where ever they find it.

Oh so beautifully (and truthfully) said, dear marron!

And they are vandals. They don't know how to build. But surely they know how to destroy.

Thank you oh so very much for writing!

the essence of the current mob of vandals

This is the most important insight we must make.

Obama isn't the problem, but a symptom of it. He can help us focus, but we need a Congress of Constitutionalists serving for decades to restore the promise of the American Revolution.

The American Jacobins must be crushed and forever. We must regain our country, and the minds of our children.

The Left knows this in the way a predator stalks its prey looking for weakness. Conservatives cannot ever quit, ever.