We’re a democratic republic. The people get the politicians they want and deserve. Bashing Obama and the Democrats is pretty meaningless and shortsighted. We should be bashing the people who vote these people in as their representatives.
Moreover, we need to address the larger societal trends that taught these voters their value system. This bad economic trend will not change as long as hedonism remains the driving motivating force of the public. With the decline in religion on the increase with no turnaround in sight, selfish hedonism is likely to continue to rule the day. The move towards socialism and Marxism goes hand-in-hand with selfishness.
People’s personal aspirations increasingly center around substance abuse and sexual perversions. It has been getting worse with each new generation. The latest statistics out for children and teens now on these issues are devastating.
Without religion, people are not taught to seek the deeper self-fulfillment that comes from controlling one’s impulses, creating a family and finding a vocation that contributes to society (and, through capitalism, correspondingly rewards them). As long as people are seeking these selfish and irresponsible pursuits instead of finding a way to CONTRIBUTE to society, they will demand that the rest of society, through the government, meet their needs (and then some) with free food, medical care, education, housing, general welfare, etc. As long as they are demanding that, the government will need to continue to attack wealth creators, businesses and producers in order to get the money to redistribute goodies to the selfish, hedonistic, leeching class.
Only religion has proven able to control people’s worse impulses and instill the values of discipline, responsibility and service to others in them. This is why there can be no such thing as a Republican party that stays conservative on economic issues but goes liberal on social issues. Without social conservatism, there can be no lasting economic conservatism. Unless people are taught moral values, they will attempt to leech off of the rest of society in order to bankroll the pursuit of their own selfish desires.
That is what we’re seeing now. It’s part of a long-term trend to which there is no end in sight. Perhaps the NUMBER ONE issue conservatives should be focused on is ending the government monopoly on the schools. 100% school choice needs to be the law of the land, so that religious schools could be freely chosen by everyone who wants to attend them. Because the private sector is failing on this front more than it ever has before, more drastic measures may need to be taken, such as massively stepped-up anti-drug and anti-alcohol government intervention.
The bottom line is that it’s an uphill battle, so conservatives need to choose their battles wisely. Focusing strictly on these economic issues without looking at the fundamental reasons we got to this point is missing the point. If we successfully address and solve our society’s moral, ethical and social issues, the economic issues will pretty much take care of themselves. If we fail to address where the values of this nation stand, then there will be NO HOPE to escape the downward economic spiral that we’re on.
Well said. We lack what our Framers called virtue. It is a prerequisite for self government. Without it, the once freest people on earth are suited only for despotism.
Wow. I couldn’t possibly add anything to that.
Jesus is the answer.
And I’m 100% serious.
You understand and articulate the problem very well. Thank you.
So long as the gov. subsidizes stupidity we will get increasing stupidity.
I”m going to steal your entire post and put it on Facebook as a note. Thanks in advance.
Nothing I like better than well-reasoned arguments that piss off liberals. I’ve got a handful that follow me.
The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.” — Author Unknown
Thank goodness! Another conservative that “gets it” !
Government K-12 socialist-entitlement schooling is our nation's **most** serious and urgent threat. I doubt that our nation can survive one more generation of voters being indoctrinated in these souless pits of ignorance.
Government owned and run schools are godless! **ALL** of them! Children who attend **will** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must simply to cooperate in the classroom. How could it be otherwise?
Modern government owned and run schools are the very definition of a socialist entitlement. They have **always** been a socialist entitlement. Children who attend these schools risk learning that the voting mob that is powerful enough to give them tuition-free schooling is, indeed, powerful enough to give them **lots** of free stuff. ( Franklin D. Roosevelt wasn't an accident. He was the result of 1 to 3 generations of socialist-entitlement government schooling.)
Modern government schools are run like prisons. Every First Amendment Right of the child and parent and ( indirectly) the taxpayer is crushed. In other words, government schools are training our nation's children to be compliant prisoners of the state. If and when tyranny comes, the oligarchy will not use cattle cards. They will use yellow school buses to haul citizens off to the concentration camps, and citizens will placidly comply!