Posted on 08/16/2012 6:34:56 AM PDT by IbJensen
PIERS MORGAN, HOST: I suppose the fundamental debate that’s going to be had, though, will come down to whether the Republicans can sell to the American people that they are really concerned about jobs, about people’s livelihoods, and all the rest of it. If they’re also scratching the backs of their rich and wealthy members, which is clearly I think the flaw in the Ryan plan is that it just does. I mean, if you’re very wealthy, you’re going to be doing a lot better out of Paul Ryan than you would out of Barack Obama who believes fundamentally the rich should pay more tax.
NEWT GINGRICH: You know, I don’t want to sound disrespectful, but I do wonder sometimes if you guys all get off in a little club and learn a brand new mantra and then all repeat it mindlessly. The fact is, these kinds of things were said about Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan’s tax cut – which was developed by Jack Kemp who Paul Ryan worked for – Ronald Reagan’s tax cut raised more people to middle class status, took more people out of poverty, created more jobs.
Because “liberals” aren’t.
They are Marxists and Fascists that have labeled themselves as “liberals”.
Oh libs have their own cannon: Das Kapital, Rules for Radicals, Anything by Keynes, etc. etc.
“Over the last half-century, they have been vital to the conservative movement’s success–and to liberalism’s demise.”
Demise? THAT issue is still in doubt. We are in an ideological Stalingrad right now. There are many things I am willing to call the left, but finished is not one of them just yet.
“Over the last half-century, they have been vital to the conservative movement’s success–and to liberalism’s demise.”
Demise? THAT issue is still in doubt. We are in an ideological Stalingrad right now. There are many things I am willing to call the left, but finished is not one of them just yet.
Das Kapital
The Communist Manifesto
Rules for Radicals
et al...
Das Kapital
The Communist Manifesto
Rules for Radicals
et al...
People, including leftists, simply know that all those writings lead to tyranny, misery, and poverty.
The Left has Marx and Engels and Alinsky, but they are too chicken to cite these as their guiding lights. Then you have the current crop of knuckle-draggers at our universities who are too intellectually vapid to compete with Rand or Hayek.
It should be embarrassing to have Michael Moore, Spike Lee and Barak Obama heading one’s grandiose movement to save the world from capitalism.
For perspective on your thought, one need only remember that not one republican, or conservative for that matter won a state wide race in California. They continue to vote for the destruction of Detroit and we see others where the parasites have taken control of areas for good. Finished? Hardly.
“WHY IS THERE NO LIBERAL AYN RAND: ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW “
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But wasn’t it named inside the cover of Alinsky’s book ?????
We’ll not see the end of “liberalism” until the Lord comes back.
Liberalism is the political expression of the religion of Humanism, which began with the lie “you will be as gods”, and will end only when its author is consigned to the pit forever.
The reason why there cannot be a Rand or a Von Mies at the center of the fascist philosophy is that the core tenet of this philosophy is a lie. They believe (or act as if they believe) that human beings can be molded into anything and made to believe anything. Some perhaps can but the bulk of humanity is resistant, on some level, to such social engineering. One’s own children will always take precedent, in one’s mind, over the good of the collective. That is no doubt true for everyone or at least almost everyone.
Good people and bad have this in common; they have an inherent self-interest which no amount of leftist fascist social engineering can erase. The left tells itself the lie that humans are malleable and can be made to believe anything. This is a lie and no serious intellectualizing based on this lie will stand the test of time. Reading Marx 150 years after he wrote is just intellectually embarrassing.
The reason right wing literature survives is because it's based on natures laws. Leftist can't declare war on natures laws and win. They may win a few small battles, but they always lose the war in the end.
Even the morons that vote for them would stop if they knew the truth about the Marxists they elect and their plans for them.
Liberal canon: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law”.
The operative word being “Do”. If you know what I mean.
Leftists base their worldview on humanism, the belief that starting from the reason of man, all the answers of the particulars and absolutes can be obtained. They might find a few particulars, but you can never obtain the absolute.
You referenced “natural law”, which really is a reference to how God created creation, and the rules and laws inherent in that creation. That’s an absolute outside of the reason of man, so the left rejects it in favor of their own “intellect”.
There’s another most important aspect of socialism and marxim (the two go hand-in-hand and mean the same thing as ‘progressive’ means today as spouted by that famous fat-head, Hillary Rodham Clinton: “I’m proud to be a progressive.”) those who claim that ‘philosophy’ are imbeciles.
Their writings, their speeches, every damned thing about them rings as moronic, beyond sophomoric and displays them as candidates for strait-jackets in a booby hatch.
Instead, they are honored, practically worshipped by a dangerously large portion of this faltering nation. Faltering? Practically destroyed by large segments of both of our political parties.
If America doesn’t wake up we’ll be embracing someone under the order of Benito Mussolini, or more luckily a benevolent despot like Francisco Franco, who I personally admire for what he did the the communists who were destroying his nation.
Bravo!
There are no influential liberal thinkers because liberal 'ideas' have been discredited by the reality of history. They don't work. There are no ideas on the left worth debating.
The left has hunger, greed and grievance. And some old warmed-up Marxism - with enough totalitarian bells and whistles to feed hunger, greed and grievance... In short, in spite of all the academics, in spite of control of almost every college and newspaper in the cournty, liberals are intellectually bankrupt. Sorry Ed Driscoll ...
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