Posted on 07/08/2014 6:34:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
Dinesh D'Souza lays it out.
I’ve been inspired by Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie, America: Imagine the World Without Her, to recognize something about the current state of affairs. As Dinesh makes clear, we are in a new war in this nation. It is not a war triggered by a shot heard round the world or by an invasion. Rather, it is a war between two ideas – the idea of America, and the idea of America no more.
And who are the combatants in this war? They are the American patriots vs. the American termites. It is people who love America and believe it is the indispensible nation on the one hand, vs. people who want to eat away at the foundation of America until no one can any longer see it as indispensible.
Dinesh looks at our history and sees this as the fourth in a series of defining wars. The Revolutionary War was the creation of America. The Civil War was the preservation of America. World War II was the protection of America.
This current war he sees as the restoration of America. Our enemies, the termites, are anti-American ideologues disguised as well-meaning people who just want to help the poor and whatever else. But as they have wormed their way into the White House, Congress and the administration, you find that they have very different agendas.
They make all this happen, by the way, by following the strategies of Saul Alinsky – the infamous leftist who urged four steps to the attainment of power:
Clearly all of these are now at play on the part of the termites. They have succeeded at polarizing the nation like never before. They demonize everyone from the Koch brothers to the Tea Party to Ted Cruz, calling those they don’t like anarchists and arsonists. (Do you ever listen to the things Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi say?) They’re well organized and relentless. And whether they’re promising to let you keep your health plan or lower your premium, they don’t care what they have to do to deceive you.
They don’t like the idea of America because the premium we place on individual initiative and limited government means less power for them. So they have to eat away at the structure and foundation of America, just like termites, until the only institution that can stand is government – controlled, of course, by them.
These are the stakes in this war. I know which side I’m on – the side of those who want to restore America to its traditions of greatness. How about you?
Resurrecting an old tagline
No one today is going to defend slavery. We're all glad that slavery has disappeared in America and we wish it had been expunged at the founding; it is our great shame that the Founding Fathers -- who did so much -- were unable to do this last bit of goodness.
But the Civil War was NOT the preservation of America. It was the fist great step in making a tyrannically strong central government and the first great step in destroying the power of the several states.
Until we rightly recognize that the states are the bastion of our freedom and the federal government is the great threat to our freedom, this country can neither be preserved nor restored.
Well said.
It’s all about the legal structure created at that time. The Rats know this, conservatives don’t. That’s the functional difference in America today, the elephant in the living room.
>>It was the fist great step in making a tyrannically strong central government<<
You are so very right!
Sons of Confederate Veterans
http://www.scv.org/
Preserving our Southern heritage.
Is it true that Hillary Rodham did her Masters Thesis on Saul Alinsky?
Termites? I’m insulted.. termites are smarter than Libs...
agree
I’d say they’re much closer to maggots but then why disparage a useful organism?
I'm not surprised that schools no longer want to teach about why our nation's name is the United States. Soon they'll push for changing the name to "One Government" or something like that. States once had great and equal powers in an alliance that has been all but squashed in a push for cookie-cutter areas in our nation that cower in fear of Washington DC.
WASHINGTON’S VISION AND PROPHECY FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
http://www.poorwiseman.com/WASHINGTONSVISION.html
American Revolution 2.0.
Second it!
I think it might be better to recognize that as a more general principle, which is that the more easily people would be able to flee the control of a tyrannical government, the less likely it is that the government will make that necessary.
Another important principle that needs to be recognized is that although what the Court says and what the law is will coincide when the court is legitimately doing its job, such coincidence would be a result of the court following the law, not the law conforming to the court's rulings. In cases where laws are sufficiently ambiguous or contradictory that either party to a case could legitimately prevail, it is right and proper for a court to write its own rules for how such cases should be handled until such time as the law is changed to remove such ambiguity, but the court's role should be recognized as subservient to that of the legislature. In drafting such rules, the Court would basically be seen as saying "We believe the legislature meant to say X"; as long as such belief is reasonable, it is proper for courts to entertain it. On the other hand, if the legislature says "We did not mean X--we meant Y", then courts should regard their previous beliefs as having been mistaken.
Given the number of court decisions which split 5-4 along predictable lines, it is not reasonable to believe that all nine justices are consistently and legitimately doing their jobs. In cases where genuine ambiguities exist, there could be good reasons why justices may disagree about how to solve them, but the fact that decisions are so consistently split strongly suggests that at least some justices are more interested in serving their political master than carrying out their legitimate job. When justices don't do their legitimate job, the relationship that should exist between what they say, and what the law actually is, may cease to exist.
I had a strange feeling when watching the Fourth of July fireworks last Friday. A sadness came over me and a thought settled in my mind, these firework displays may not go on year after year. They may be coming to an end. Don’t get complacent and expect them to be here in the years to come just because this tradition has always been with us. We’ve all enjoyed this holiday tradition celebrating a prosperous America since we were children but we’re arrogant to expect our way of life will always continue this way. That’s the feeling that settled over me out of the blue. For what it’s worth.
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