Another fine "slow clap" moment for Conservatism - at FR, they're doubling down on 22.
Unfortunately we have lost what our Founding Fathers created. The Founders created a LIMITED GOVERNMENT REPUBLIC. Today we have an unlimited government democracy, which if historical trends prevail, will lead us to socialism as it is practiced in most of Europe today.
When the republic was established, only property owning males who could read and write were permitted to vote in federal elections. The republic was set up to protect the interests of property owners, taxpayers, businessmen, and gun owners (Second Amendment). It was not designed to give the property-less urban proletariat the right to ride roughshod over the rest of us.
Unfortunately, the public education establishment in this country has been taken by radical neo-Stalinist social engineers who do not teach the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, or the Declaration of Independence. Instead students are taught all about Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez. Condoms are distributed, and the Bible, prayer, or any mention of God are strictly prohibited. Instead of reading the writings and documents put forward by our Founding Fathers, students read books like Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy's Roomate.
Our legal system has been equally perverted and twisted. The judicial branch was originally designed to interpret the law, not make their own laws. In Iowa, for example,the state supreme court recently ruled, I mean legislated, that same sex couples now have the right to marry. Who gave them that authority? And then you had the U.S. Supreme Court suddenly determine that the "right" to abortion is implicit in the Constitution. Truth is neither abortion or marriage are mentioned in the Constitution, which means these issues are up to state legislatures to decide, not activist judges making their own laws and coming up with their own rights.
Obviously we will never go back to a system where only property owning males can vote in federal elections. But, would be too much to ask that the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Declaration of Independence be taught in our public schools? Could we not insist that voters attain a certain level of literacy (in English!)and education before being allowed to register to vote? And that only taxpayers (with certain exemptions such as military personnel, law enforcement, and retired citizens) be permitted to vote in federal elections.
BHO is a Saul Alinsky-trained community organizer whose chief constituency is the urban proletariat whose main political objective is to transfer wealth, power, and property from the halves to the have nots as Alinsky wrote about in his book Rules For Radicals which is the American version of the Communist Manifesto much as Alinsky himself is the American version of Karl Marx. Of course BHO could never gotten where he is today with just the backing of his urban proletariat base. There were plenty of bourgeois liberals living in upscale suburbs smitten by his vacuous platitudes, metrosexual hipness, and suave presentation largely promoted by the left stream media and depraved Hollyweird celebutards.
That BHO utterly detests traditional American values cannot be in doubt. Why else would this erstwhile Muslim raised youth joined Rev. Wright's racist and hate spewing church? We are talking about a man who is loathe to place his hand over his heart during the singing of the national anthem, is contemptuous of flag lapel pins, a man who bows before Saudi monarchs and listens with rapt attention to vicious anti-American rants delivered by Latin American Marxist dictators. I cannot think of a more foul specimen of a politician than the vacuous, loquacious, ubiquitous, arrogant, elitist, pseudointellectual, phony, vain, narcissistic, pathetic, radical, egotistical, charlatan, empty suit who now occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Unless we get back to basics, free market economics, limited government, rule of law, restrained judiciary, responsible legislators and a commitment to traditional values and secure borders and common sense government, all is lost I'm afraid. I feel a lot Captain von Trapp in the Sound of Music these days as he watched helplessly the Austria he knew and loved so much become part of the Third Reich. But at least he could go to Switzerland. Where can we go to escape this madness?
In 32 posts, nobody has really objected.....