Kudos, bro!
Plain and simple, Obama's world view, derived from the ideas in which he immersed himself earlier, is at odds with and in direct conflict with our written Constitution's strict and severe limits on the power "the People" allow its elected representatives to possess.
"The People," who, according to Justice Story's "Commentaries on the Constitution. . . ," are the "only KEEPERS", of that Constitution must, themselves, understand those limits and bounds on coercive power in government, or they may be hoodwinked into temporarily yielding up their constitutional rights to what George Washington described as a leader "more artful" than the rest.
In this President, we see an "artful" individual who is using every semantic trick and ideological maneuver he can come up with to extend his "reign" and to break the "chains of the Constitution" (Jefferson) on his power.
Thus, the use of that powerful and destructive appeal to the human capacity for "envy" and division of the voters, pitting those who have less against those who have more material possessions, because he understands that the numbers of potential votes among those of the former exceed those of the latter.
All the while he pulls this magic trick in the media, he is, himself, especially enamoured of the very "rich" "millionaires and billionaires" whom he castigates before the general public. Check out his black tie fund-raising parties. They are not conducted among people of ordinary income, even though he also "envies" even the poor people's "contributions" to his power grab attempt.
"Equality before the law" is the great principle underlying America's Constitution.
The President's utopian view is of a forced equality which reduces all to a level of mediocrity well known throughout history and in the modern world.
Americans should hold fast to the Founders' ideas of liberty instead of allowing its leaders to plunge it into European-style socialism. To do that, however, they will have to reclaim their rightful place as the authors and only KEEPERS of the Constitution--a document too sacred and precious to the cause of liberty to be entrusted to elected officials.
Obama is the most successful communist traitor mole in history, bar none.
Compared to Obama, Philby and Walker were toddler spies.
Kudos for and excellent assessment of our current situation.
And thank you for the hilarious mixed metaphor mayhem you started. You made me LOL!
You have a talent for getting right to the point.
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Well, he did just publicly attribute his "Yes We Can" slogan to the chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.
This is your best yet, IMO.
McCarthy was right ... the enemies have been within the gates for decades. 0bama is just the latest and greatest of their destructive achievements.
I have come to understand the threat of socialistic progressivism as far more insidious than its economic system which most Americans know how to detect and have an innate aversion to adopting.
Socialism originally redefined the purpose of the government of a state overall.
Where general order, including protection of property and freedom from arbitrary application of power, i.e., equality under a benign "rule of law" was the governmental outline at the time of our founding, this tradition, handed down by the English/Scottish enlightenment was perverted by the later French imitation. Jumping beyond that minimal Order for freedom to become ordered liberty is where the misstep occurs.
Government became a rationalistic animal with purposes of a rationalistic nature with goals of its own by definition. These goals, whether expressed as Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity or as any of the other utilitarian catch phrases, has been an alluring tool to the mildly educated -- let us have General Will and all the good that shall come of it.
This unlimited, Utopian vision of the purpose of government is the true foe -- not just the economic systems spawned to fund such an infinite engine.
In the USA, this has been facilitated by our history as a ground breaking people. We were first animated by our colonial isolation and freedoms which became enshrined in our animating document, the Declaration. We then had a Founding document, the Constitution. We have always striven to have the later achieve the general principles set forth in the former as political allowable by prudent properly adopted reform -- Burkian Conservatism. When the changes have been drastic, civil war followed or was required.
Our media and academic culture have perverted the vision of the nominal purposes of government, first and foremost. While people know to watch for the socialist economic model as foreign and poisonous, those slip in anyway as inevitable once the general purpose of government has been thwarted with adoption of General Will rationalistic programs.
BTTT