Posted on 04/03/2014 7:27:13 AM PDT by Kenny
I have devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It is those principlesthe principles of a free societythat have shaped my life, my family, our company and America itself.
Unfortunately, the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the law and personal freedom are under attack by the nation's own government. That's why, if we want to restore a free society and create greater well-being and opportunity for all Americans, we have no choice but to fight for those principles. I have been doing so for more than 50 years, primarily through educational efforts. It was only in the past decade that I realized the need to also engage in the political process.
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More than 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson warned that this could happen. "The natural progress of things," Jefferson wrote, "is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." He knew that no government could possibly run citizens' lives for the better. The more government tries to control, the greater the disaster, as shown by the current health-care debacle. Collectivists (those who stand for government control of the means of production and how people live their lives) promise heaven but deliver hell. For them, the promised end justifies the means.
Instead of encouraging free and open debate, collectivists strive to discredit and intimidate opponents. They engage in character assassination. (I should know, as the almost daily target of their attacks.) This is the approach that Arthur Schopenhauer described in the 19th century, that Saul Alinsky famously advocated in the 20th, and that so many despots have infamously practiced. Such tactics are the antithesis of what is required for a free societyand a telltale sign that the collectivists do not have good answers.
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I doubt they are personally enriched by open borders. They support open borders and gay rights because they are libertarian, not because they benefit from those.
I don’t know very much about Koch’s politics and whom he has donated to. A lot of what he says is indeed what we want. We DO want a free country (back), and in free countries there will be strong rich selfish people who want what they want even if it’s against the rules. These types should be proudly voting and donating with us. Opportunists do well in free societies.
Love the Jefferson quote he used, which I didn’t remember. Americans need to be informed that the nature of things is to relax into a controlling government over time. We need to know that freedom must be fought for every second. Frogs and slowly boiling pots.
We would have so many more people voting and caring with us if they only understood human nature and what this government is doing: using human nature against freedom. Enslaving with gifts. Reducing it to fairy tale level, this admin is the witch’s candy house! Eat at your peril.
And we need to not throw out the baby with the bath water. This rich guy has to be pro gay and pro illegal for financial reasons, but close enough - he might be reaching some WSJ readers that would never come here. These are discussions that need to reach the uninformed.
If he’s pushing abortion, etc, to hell with him.
I smell a democRAT disinformation campaign ...
Congrats, you win the “I sound the most like DU or Huffpo or Daily Kos” award for the night. Ain’t you proud?????
Of course it is and besides, Koch Industries is so big, who knows what they’ve swerved into over 50 years of being in business. They get things done ..people who haven’t struck out, haven’t swung the bat.
Besides, if they increase MY freedom, then that makes me THAT MUCH MORE effective for causes I believe in, and some of those might oppose the Kochs on certain issues ..so what? Win/win.
Sunday morning bump. This article needs to flood the internet.
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