Like my bumper sticker says, below a picture of Washington, Adams, Madison,and Jefferson: “The Original Right Wing Radicals”.
If those founders were alive today, they would be excoriated by the lib/progressives and the MSM as being right wing extremists.
The sad fact is that we have so few conservatives running for public office that are capable of a common sense political campaign that points out the facts in this article in a cheerful, engaging manner, and does so over and over again.
This is a very, very potent campaign theme, and we conservatives let it lie like an unused weapon.
Meanwhile the MSM and the lib/progressives spew their bizzaro world theme that it’s the private sector’s producers and achievers, who, but for the restraints of all the government public employees, rules and regulations, would rob us all and keep us from having a roaring economy and brighter future.
The libs/progressives completely ignore the voluntary nature of our every day transactions with these producers and achievers, while turning around and MANDATING our compliance with government rules, regulations, procedures.
Much to infrequently do we point out the great products/results of the private sector, or the complete lack of good products and dismal results of the government sector.
Lib/progressives completely miss or ignore the irony of voluntary, free market choices by individuals that enrich the producers/achievers vs. forced compliance/purchases of government fees/licenses/Obama-care-like products. This is another rich vein of political campaign material that is just waiting to be mined by conservatives.
We wait in vain for our conservative politicians and candidates, to use the truth reflected in this article to ridicule and skewer those liberal/progressive themes and the twits that repeat them, so that we can roar our approval.
We need conservative candidates and politicians that fight back much more effectively, damn it.
The burning question of the moment is: why cannot the Republican leadership and its spokesmen/women provide the common sense distinction between the tyrannical plantation mentality of the Democrat/progressive machine and the individual freedom/freedom of individual enterprise philosophy of America's Constitutional foundations?
The moral philosopher, Adam Smith, focused on how the wealth of nations is created by allowing free individuals to pursue their own interests and, thereby, benefit both themselves and their fellows. That was the philosophy America's Founders discovered and set into motion, and America literally became the breadbasket for the world, and the magnet that drew the oppressed bo these shores for a taste of freedom and opportunity.
Then, along came the power-hungry politicians who now identify themselves as being "progressive." They are destroying what has been known as "the American dream" and replacing it with the "Julia nightmare"--dependency and slavery to big government.
One would think that Republicans could wage a campaign of clarity and education which would expose and unmask the counterfeit ideas of Obama and his minions and use the Founders' own words to explain the principles of the Constitution.
Thoughts anyone?