Freedom is the ability of every person to exercise his own free will and conscience rather than be subject to the will of a bureaucrat in the government – ANY government. Our free will is a gift from God – not the government. It cannot be granted or taken away from you by the government. Freedom is exemption from arbitrary restrictions on your civil rights.
Free Speech
The right of free speech does NOT come from the government either! Free speech is an indelible aspect of our humanity. The government cannot require or demand permission, nor can they regulate speech in any way. Big government cannot intimidate speakers or speech of any kind. The government cannot punish speech – no matter what' s in the speech. No one can impose a burden to exercise free speech.
And yet, we see Progressives imposing their will against us every day. Political Correctness is a direct attack on your right of free speech. It is political pressure on individuals or against traditional values. It has been used by Progressives to impose their values on our society. Progressives don't see free speech as a God-given right when they try and eliminate it because they are "offended" or when they just disagree with it. Colleges in the US and Canada disallow free speech when they try and disenfranchise conservative speakers. Case in point, Ann Coulter was just rejected by college protesters in Canada when she was scheduled to speak. Now only was that wrong, but it goes against natural laws as well.
When members of our Congress called Tea Party members "racists," "truthers," "birthers," "teabagger," "Astro Turf," "un-American," "evil-mongers," "Nazis," and "right-Wing Militias", there was an implied threat or effort to infringe on YOUR free speech. When labeled a "racist" or other deleterious name, it is difficult if not impossible to remove that stigma. These examples are also a form of hate speech used to discredit those named.
So when the President tells us to "cool it" and stop criticizing him and his administration, he too is violating our basic freedom of free speech. We will NOT "Shut Up" and we are proud that we have the freedom to speak whatever we want. This is STILL AMERICA! We are disgusted with the attacks against free speech and will NEVER be silenced.
So when Obama says "Shut Up", we will speak louder and more often even if he does not like it! It is our God-given right to do so and he can't stop us. Protest and free speech is the American way.
Obama: Get over it and YOU and your Progressive friends stop whimpering and complaining about it!
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Anarchists Plan of Attack
How Far Are They Willing to Go?
The Internet is a flurry with left-wing agitators who have devised an evil plan to demonise the Tea Party Movement. How? They plan on "Infiltrating and Sabotaging" Tea Party Protests on April 15, 2010. Remember, Saul Alinsky's rule for Radicals? "The ends justify the means." Do whatever it takes to win. Crash the Tea Parties. Make them look like the REAL enemy.
Their Strategy
Make the Tea Party goers look like anti-Semites, fascists, libertarians, racists, constitutionalists, militia men, gun freaks, conspiracy types, and homophobes. How?
1. Organize counter-protests against the Tea Party demonstrations at the same time and place. Force confrontations and make them look bad. Provoke them into violence. Get it on video to share with the main stream media.
2. Plant anti-Tea Party radicals inside. At first blend-in, be polite, and smile to be "one of them." At the appropriate time, bear Inflamatory signs and move to disrupt, cause chaos and provoke fights. Video tape what happens to them. Share it with the Main stream media.
There's more, but you should get the idea. If you can't fight them, then join them. Destroy them from the inside. That's what they're doing in Washington. It works!
Counter Strategy
OK, so how do you stop this attack?
1. Don't be "goated" by any verbal attacks you face. Remain peaceful and avoid shouting matches. Walk away from these confrontations.
2. Pay attention to those who stand out. Video tape them. Point these people out to the local police and say they are NOT part of YOUR group. Exclude them peacefully. Remember, they want to make YOU look bad. Turn it around, and give them a taste of their own medicine.
3. Look for union presence. Purple SEIU tee shirts. Video tape them. See how they react. Cameras are their enemies.
In general. REMAIN PEACEFUL! Catch them at their game and use their strategy against them! It works. Send you videos to FOX News.
The Internet is a flurry with left-wing agitators who have devised an evil plan to demonise the Tea Party Movement. How? They plan on "Infiltrating and Sabotaging" Tea Party Protests on April 15, 2010. Remember, Saul Alinsky's rule for Radicals? "The ends justify the means." Do whatever it takes to win. Crash the Tea Parties. Make them look like the REAL enemy.
Their Strategy
Make the Tea Party goers look like anti-Semites, fascists, libertarians, racists, constitutionalists, militia men, gun freaks, conspiracy types, and homophobes. How?
1. Organize counter-protests against the Tea Party demonstrations at the same time and place. Force confrontations and make them look bad. Provoke them into violence. Get it on video to share with the main stream media.
2. Plant anti-Tea Party radicals inside. At first blend-in, be polite, and smile to be "one of them." At the appropriate time, bear Inflamatory signs and move to disrupt, cause chaos and provoke fights. Video tape what happens to them. Share it with the Main stream media.
There's more, but you should get the idea. If you can't fight them, then join them. Destroy them from the inside. That's what they're doing in Washington. It works!
Counter Strategy
OK, so how do you stop this attack?
1. Don't be "goated" by any verbal attacks you face. Remain peaceful and avoid shouting matches. Walk away from these confrontations.
2. Pay attention to those who stand out. Video tape them. Point these people out to the local police and say they are NOT part of YOUR group. Exclude them peacefully. Remember, they want to make YOU look bad. Turn it around, and give them a taste of their own medicine.
3. Look for union presence. Purple SEIU tee shirts. Video tape them. See how they react. Cameras are their enemies.
In general. REMAIN PEACEFUL! Catch them at their game and use their strategy against them! It works. Send you videos to FOX News.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Featured Article - The Real Anti-Americans
Patrick Buchanan is a former Presidential candidate. He writes a political column on the web.
The Real Anti-Americans
by Patrick J. Buchanan
"As Democrats, after a Sunday rally on the Capitol grounds, marched to the House hand-in-hand to vote health care reform, Tea Partiers reportedly shouted the "n-word" at John Lewis and another black congressman. A third was allegedly spat upon. And Barney Frank was called a nasty name.
Tea Partiers deny it all. And neither audio nor video of this alleged incident has been produced, though TV cameras and voice recorders were everywhere on the Hill.
Other Democrats say their offices were vandalized and they've been threatened. A few received, and eagerly played for cable TV, obscene phone calls they got.
If true, this is crude and inexcusable behavior. And any threat should be investigated. But Democrats are also exploiting these real, imaginary or hoked-up slurs to portray themselves as political martyrs and to smear opponents as racists and bigots.
This is the politics of desperation.
Majority Whip James Clyburn accuses Republicans of "aiding and abetting ... terrorism." New York Times columnist Frank Rich compared the Tea Party treatment of Democrats to Nazi treatment of the Jews during Kristallnacht:
"How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn't recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht."
Kristallnacht, "Crystal Night," the "Night of Broken Glass," was the worst pogrom in Germany since the Middle Ages. Synagogues were torched and hundreds of businesses smashed. Shattered glass covered the streets. Women were assaulted and men beaten and murdered. After that terrible night, half the Jews remaining in Germany fled.
To compare a brick tossed through the window of a congressional office and two shouted slurs to Kristallnacht suggests a growing paranoia on the left about the populist right.
Not since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made "some Americans run off the rails," said Rich, have we seen anything like this.
Was Rich awake in 1964? Because it wasn't the right that went off the rails. The really big riot in 1964 was in Harlem, lasting five days, with 500 injured and as many arrested. The Watts riot in 1965, Detroit and Newark in 1967, Washington, D.C., and 100 other cities in 1968, all bringing troops into American cities, were not the work of George Wallace populists or Barry Goldwater conservatives. They were the work of folks who went "all the way with LBJ."
Nor was it Young Americans for Freedom that burned ROTC buildings, vandalized professors' offices, toted the guns at Cornell or took over Columbia in 1968. And it was not the Birchers who set off that 1970 explosion in the Greenwich Village townhouse that killed three radicals and aborted the terrorist bombing of the NCO club at Fort Dix.
No, this was not the New Right. This was the New Left, and it was Obama not John Boehner who used to "pal around" with one of the boys who did the Pentagon and Capitol Hill bombings.
As for calling Barney Frank a naughty name, that is not nice. But one wonders what Rich thought of the students marching under Viet Cong flags chanting, about the man who signed that Civil Rights Act, "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" and, "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the NLF is going to win," when American boys were dying in the hundreds every week fighting the communist NLF?
The 1967 attack on the Pentagon, where thousands tried to break through military police to get into the building, was the work of left-wing radicals. Did the Tea Party folks who chanted, "Kill the bill," outside the House behave worse than that?
Some of us recall the anarchy of May Day 1971, when 15,000 leftists tried to shut down Washington on a Monday morning by rolling logs onto Canal Road, smashing car windows, blocking traffic circles and wilding in Georgetown. Most wound up behind a chain-link fence at the Armory.
How many were arrested on Capitol Hill Sunday a week ago?
Not one Tea Partier, man or woman.
The "mass hysteria" of the Tea Party right, writes Rich, is at root about race. "By 2012 ... non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority. The Tea Party is virtually all white. ... Their anxieties about a rapidly changing America are well-grounded."
Rich is implying that when America's white majority disappears, in 2042 according to 2008 Census Bureau projections, the day of the white conservative is over.
Given the rise in ethnic consciousness among all Americans, Rich may be right. But it is not just white folks who want illegal aliens deported and legal immigration curtailed, while 25 million of our own are out of work or underemployed.
A Zogby poll for the Center for Immigration Studies found that 56 percent of Hispanics, 57 percent of Asian-Americans and 68 percent of African-Americans think legal immigration is too high.
If the Tea Party folks think it is leftist elites who detest and wish to be rid of the America they grew up in and love, they are right."
The Real Anti-Americans
by Patrick J. Buchanan
"As Democrats, after a Sunday rally on the Capitol grounds, marched to the House hand-in-hand to vote health care reform, Tea Partiers reportedly shouted the "n-word" at John Lewis and another black congressman. A third was allegedly spat upon. And Barney Frank was called a nasty name.
Tea Partiers deny it all. And neither audio nor video of this alleged incident has been produced, though TV cameras and voice recorders were everywhere on the Hill.
Other Democrats say their offices were vandalized and they've been threatened. A few received, and eagerly played for cable TV, obscene phone calls they got.
If true, this is crude and inexcusable behavior. And any threat should be investigated. But Democrats are also exploiting these real, imaginary or hoked-up slurs to portray themselves as political martyrs and to smear opponents as racists and bigots.
This is the politics of desperation.
Majority Whip James Clyburn accuses Republicans of "aiding and abetting ... terrorism." New York Times columnist Frank Rich compared the Tea Party treatment of Democrats to Nazi treatment of the Jews during Kristallnacht:
"How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn't recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht."
Kristallnacht, "Crystal Night," the "Night of Broken Glass," was the worst pogrom in Germany since the Middle Ages. Synagogues were torched and hundreds of businesses smashed. Shattered glass covered the streets. Women were assaulted and men beaten and murdered. After that terrible night, half the Jews remaining in Germany fled.
To compare a brick tossed through the window of a congressional office and two shouted slurs to Kristallnacht suggests a growing paranoia on the left about the populist right.
Not since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made "some Americans run off the rails," said Rich, have we seen anything like this.
Was Rich awake in 1964? Because it wasn't the right that went off the rails. The really big riot in 1964 was in Harlem, lasting five days, with 500 injured and as many arrested. The Watts riot in 1965, Detroit and Newark in 1967, Washington, D.C., and 100 other cities in 1968, all bringing troops into American cities, were not the work of George Wallace populists or Barry Goldwater conservatives. They were the work of folks who went "all the way with LBJ."
Nor was it Young Americans for Freedom that burned ROTC buildings, vandalized professors' offices, toted the guns at Cornell or took over Columbia in 1968. And it was not the Birchers who set off that 1970 explosion in the Greenwich Village townhouse that killed three radicals and aborted the terrorist bombing of the NCO club at Fort Dix.
No, this was not the New Right. This was the New Left, and it was Obama not John Boehner who used to "pal around" with one of the boys who did the Pentagon and Capitol Hill bombings.
As for calling Barney Frank a naughty name, that is not nice. But one wonders what Rich thought of the students marching under Viet Cong flags chanting, about the man who signed that Civil Rights Act, "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" and, "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the NLF is going to win," when American boys were dying in the hundreds every week fighting the communist NLF?
The 1967 attack on the Pentagon, where thousands tried to break through military police to get into the building, was the work of left-wing radicals. Did the Tea Party folks who chanted, "Kill the bill," outside the House behave worse than that?
Some of us recall the anarchy of May Day 1971, when 15,000 leftists tried to shut down Washington on a Monday morning by rolling logs onto Canal Road, smashing car windows, blocking traffic circles and wilding in Georgetown. Most wound up behind a chain-link fence at the Armory.
How many were arrested on Capitol Hill Sunday a week ago?
Not one Tea Partier, man or woman.
The "mass hysteria" of the Tea Party right, writes Rich, is at root about race. "By 2012 ... non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority. The Tea Party is virtually all white. ... Their anxieties about a rapidly changing America are well-grounded."
Rich is implying that when America's white majority disappears, in 2042 according to 2008 Census Bureau projections, the day of the white conservative is over.
Given the rise in ethnic consciousness among all Americans, Rich may be right. But it is not just white folks who want illegal aliens deported and legal immigration curtailed, while 25 million of our own are out of work or underemployed.
A Zogby poll for the Center for Immigration Studies found that 56 percent of Hispanics, 57 percent of Asian-Americans and 68 percent of African-Americans think legal immigration is too high.
If the Tea Party folks think it is leftist elites who detest and wish to be rid of the America they grew up in and love, they are right."
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Obama is No Unifier
Instead of trying to bring this country closer together, Obama continues to flaunt his opposition with snide remarks and insults. He insults legitimate protesters as "teabaggers" and tries to silence any valid opposition to his agenda. After signing the healthcare bill into law he challenged Republicans who want to repeal it to "go for it. Bring it on." Hey, you won. Why is Obama being so antagonistic? That's hardly a conciliatory message. Didn't Obama campaign to end partisan bickering?
He has ignored the will of the American people and is jamming HIS agenda down our throats. If you haven't realized it yet, the government has taken over the following under Obama's presidency:
America is under attack. We have elected a radical Marxist who wants to "fundamentally change America." Americans will not allow this to continue - especially when he tells us to "shut up" so he can fix the problem. He IS the problem.
Action to Take
Become politically active. Do NOT become violent. Register to vote for the mid-term elections. Vote out the corrupt incumbents in Washington. Join a local Tea Party or 912 Project. Don't just sit and complain. TAKE SOME POSITIVE ACTION!
He has ignored the will of the American people and is jamming HIS agenda down our throats. If you haven't realized it yet, the government has taken over the following under Obama's presidency:
- Banks and the banking industry
- Automobile manufacturing
- Credit institutions
- College loans
- Healthcare
- Wall Street
America is under attack. We have elected a radical Marxist who wants to "fundamentally change America." Americans will not allow this to continue - especially when he tells us to "shut up" so he can fix the problem. He IS the problem.
Action to Take
Become politically active. Do NOT become violent. Register to vote for the mid-term elections. Vote out the corrupt incumbents in Washington. Join a local Tea Party or 912 Project. Don't just sit and complain. TAKE SOME POSITIVE ACTION!
Monday, March 29, 2010
Featured Artilcle - "The Silencers"
This article appears on the FreedomWorks web site.
The Silencers
By Rossputin
"Usually it’s the cry of “racist". This week, it’s that plus rhetoric like “inciting violence", “over the top", “uncivil". What do all these descriptions have in common? They’re all used to describe conservatives or Tea Party activists with the sole purpose of silencing political dissent against the tyranny of Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress.
DON’T fall for it.
I just heard a Republican and Democrat Senator being interviewed on Fox News. The Republican (Lamar Alexander of Tennessee) essentially agreed with the Democrat (Barbara Mikulski of Maryland) that too much of the recent anti-Obama and more specifically anti-ObamaCare rhetoric has been “over the top", that we need to restrain ourselves and have “civil” discussions about politics as they do in the oh-so-civil US Senate.
B***S***!!!
This is an utterly appropriate time to be angry. Note that I am not saying it’s an appropriate time to be violent or suggest violence, or to be a moron, meaning hurling epithets or sputum. That sort of behavior does nothing but damage the fight for liberty. But anger, even LOUD anger, is part of the American tradition from time to time.
Do you think the First Continental Congress was kept “civil” by the Nannies who said that we should just talk calmly about whether or not King George III deserved America’s continued loyalty?
Do you think the man in the street in Boston was told not to be “over the top” in their rhetoric when their lives and liberties were being destroyed by tyranny?
Did people tell civil rights leaders in the 1950s or abolitionists in the 1850s to muzzle themselves because people might see them as rude if their voices were a few decibels too loud?
HELL NO!
I will not be silenced by bogus accusations of racism or inciting violence, the utter falseness of which is as plain to those making the accusations as those bearing the brunt of them.
If you, brother fighter for liberty, run into an Obama Zombie (quoting Jason Mattera), who fires their Silencer at you, accusing you of being racist, uncivil, or wanting to provoke violence, call him (or her) on it.
Fight back directly: “You know I’m not a racist". “Of course I’m angry. If you realized what government was doing to your children, you’d be angry, too." “I am not arguing for violence, as you well know. But I am arguing for unelecting every possible Democrat until the day comes when a Democrat can stand for liberty and limited government rather than for increasing union money and power at the expense of everything and everyone else." “I would be angry at these policies if the president were black, white, or green.”
Make up your own response. But DO NOT be silenced.
And let your elected representatives of BOTH PARTIES know that you WILL NOT BE SILENCED, that their condescending tut-tuts over raised voices will only make us raise them lounder, and that we will neither forgive nor forget those who stole our liberty or their unindicted co-conspirators. Don’t forget that only a handful of current Congressional Republicans are true fighters for liberty. Most of the rest are run-of-the-mill politicians who care more for their own re-election than anything else. To the extent that our anger is anti-incumbent and not just anti-Democrat – and it certainly is to a large degree – they want to Silence us too.
To the Silencers: You have indeed wakened a sleeping giant. You cannot put him back to sleep. You cannot silence him. He is about to crush you as you so richly deserve. So keep flapping your worthless gums for the short remaining duration of your political career. Then go home and figure out how to live with yourself.
And for those of you who continue to support the Silencers, the Moochers and the Looters, perhaps in the naive hope that some particular redistribution of other people’s money to you will give you the free lunch you’ve always thought you were entitled to, please keep in mind the words of Samuel Adams:
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
The Silencers
By Rossputin
"Usually it’s the cry of “racist". This week, it’s that plus rhetoric like “inciting violence", “over the top", “uncivil". What do all these descriptions have in common? They’re all used to describe conservatives or Tea Party activists with the sole purpose of silencing political dissent against the tyranny of Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress.
DON’T fall for it.
I just heard a Republican and Democrat Senator being interviewed on Fox News. The Republican (Lamar Alexander of Tennessee) essentially agreed with the Democrat (Barbara Mikulski of Maryland) that too much of the recent anti-Obama and more specifically anti-ObamaCare rhetoric has been “over the top", that we need to restrain ourselves and have “civil” discussions about politics as they do in the oh-so-civil US Senate.
B***S***!!!
This is an utterly appropriate time to be angry. Note that I am not saying it’s an appropriate time to be violent or suggest violence, or to be a moron, meaning hurling epithets or sputum. That sort of behavior does nothing but damage the fight for liberty. But anger, even LOUD anger, is part of the American tradition from time to time.
Do you think the First Continental Congress was kept “civil” by the Nannies who said that we should just talk calmly about whether or not King George III deserved America’s continued loyalty?
Do you think the man in the street in Boston was told not to be “over the top” in their rhetoric when their lives and liberties were being destroyed by tyranny?
Did people tell civil rights leaders in the 1950s or abolitionists in the 1850s to muzzle themselves because people might see them as rude if their voices were a few decibels too loud?
HELL NO!
I will not be silenced by bogus accusations of racism or inciting violence, the utter falseness of which is as plain to those making the accusations as those bearing the brunt of them.
If you, brother fighter for liberty, run into an Obama Zombie (quoting Jason Mattera), who fires their Silencer at you, accusing you of being racist, uncivil, or wanting to provoke violence, call him (or her) on it.
Fight back directly: “You know I’m not a racist". “Of course I’m angry. If you realized what government was doing to your children, you’d be angry, too." “I am not arguing for violence, as you well know. But I am arguing for unelecting every possible Democrat until the day comes when a Democrat can stand for liberty and limited government rather than for increasing union money and power at the expense of everything and everyone else." “I would be angry at these policies if the president were black, white, or green.”
Make up your own response. But DO NOT be silenced.
And let your elected representatives of BOTH PARTIES know that you WILL NOT BE SILENCED, that their condescending tut-tuts over raised voices will only make us raise them lounder, and that we will neither forgive nor forget those who stole our liberty or their unindicted co-conspirators. Don’t forget that only a handful of current Congressional Republicans are true fighters for liberty. Most of the rest are run-of-the-mill politicians who care more for their own re-election than anything else. To the extent that our anger is anti-incumbent and not just anti-Democrat – and it certainly is to a large degree – they want to Silence us too.
To the Silencers: You have indeed wakened a sleeping giant. You cannot put him back to sleep. You cannot silence him. He is about to crush you as you so richly deserve. So keep flapping your worthless gums for the short remaining duration of your political career. Then go home and figure out how to live with yourself.
And for those of you who continue to support the Silencers, the Moochers and the Looters, perhaps in the naive hope that some particular redistribution of other people’s money to you will give you the free lunch you’ve always thought you were entitled to, please keep in mind the words of Samuel Adams:
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Featured Article
The Bigger the Government, the Less You Are Needed
by Dennis Prager on Mar 16th, 2010.
"Among the things left and right, religious and secular, agree on is that one of the few real needs human beings have is to be needed.
When we are not needed, life feels pointless.
The need to be needed is universal. Men need it; women need it. The sexes may feel needed in different ways, but the depth of the need is the same. Many women feel particularly alive when needed by their young children; many men feel worthy when needed by their family and/or their work. That is why most women navigate difficult emotional straits when their adult children leave home and assume independent lives, and why most men find it so crushing to lose their job — not necessarily because of loss of income, but because of the loss of meaning that comes from no longer being needed.
Only when we are needed do we believe we have significance. Give a boy a special task — just about any task — and he blossoms. Give a girl a person — in fact, almost any living being — who depends on her, and she blossoms.
Of course, there are also myriad unhealthy ways of feeling needed. If an unwed teenage girl has a baby in order to feel needed, it is usually a bad thing for her, for the child and for society. If a boy joins a gang to feel needed/significant, it is bad for him and society.
Though not consciously intending to, over time, the left destroys people’s ability to be needed and, therefore, to be or feel significant.
As I regularly note, the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. One can add: The bigger the government, the less significant the citizen — especially men.
This is easy to explain because it is definitional. The more the state does, the less its citizens are needed to do. One well-known example is the way welfare robbed so many men of significance when women and their children came to depend financially on the state.
And it goes further than that. In order to feel significant, men not only need to have others depend on them, they also need to depend on themselves, on their own work and initiative. But that, too, is destroyed as the state gets bigger. Fewer and fewer people work for themselves (which leads to, among other things, the disappearance of that quintessentially American ideal of the risk-taking entrepreneur).
It gets worse. As being needed and significant shifts from the individual to the state, the state increasingly determines who is needed and who has significance.
That means, first of all, politicians. Obviously, whoever controls the ever-expanding government has the most significance in a society.
Another significant group in the leftist state are media people. They are significant in a non-leftist state such as America, as well. But there is a huge difference. Since American media are largely independent of government, there are a far greater number of significant media people in America than in the much smaller world of consolidated state media in Europe or Latin America. There is nothing like the BBC or French Radio and Television in the United States. Therefore, no one in American media is nearly as powerful as are the heads of the BBC or RTF. So the American state cannot anoint who is significant in media.
Another significant group in the leftist state is intellectuals. They, too, are largely determined by the state, which funds nearly all education and intellectual life. One reason intellectuals in America and Europe are so often estranged from American culture is that intellectuals have rarely had the fame or significance here that they have had in Europe. There are no American intellectuals who have had the celebrity or influence that Jean-Paul Sartre did in France, for example.
So, too, artists take on greater prominence as the leftwing state grows. And they, too, are funded and celebrated by the state.
In the ever-expanding state that the left creates, the vast majority of individuals lose significance in that they are simply less needed as the state takes over many of their roles. Fifty years ago, the men of the local Rotary Club had prestige and societal significance. So did fathers. So did clergy. With the ascendance of the left and the expansion of their state, much of their power and societal significance has eroded.
Now, as the state expands further into health care, the same will happen to doctors as power and prestige are transferred from them to the heads of dozens of new government health regulatory agencies. Over time, neither you nor your doctor will fully decide your treatment.
Indeed, over time, if the left has its way and the state keeps expanding, you will also not decide what temperature to keep your house or how to get to work. Nor will you be needed to educate your children (that is already the job of the state, and much of Europe now bans home schooling), or to raise and discipline your children (the state will ensure you are doing it correctly, and spanking is now illegal in 25 countries). Fathers will be needed primarily (and after divorce, only) as providers of child and spousal support.
In short, you will be needed essentially for one thing: to finance the one thing that is truly needed — the state."
by Dennis Prager on Mar 16th, 2010.
"Among the things left and right, religious and secular, agree on is that one of the few real needs human beings have is to be needed.
When we are not needed, life feels pointless.
The need to be needed is universal. Men need it; women need it. The sexes may feel needed in different ways, but the depth of the need is the same. Many women feel particularly alive when needed by their young children; many men feel worthy when needed by their family and/or their work. That is why most women navigate difficult emotional straits when their adult children leave home and assume independent lives, and why most men find it so crushing to lose their job — not necessarily because of loss of income, but because of the loss of meaning that comes from no longer being needed.
Only when we are needed do we believe we have significance. Give a boy a special task — just about any task — and he blossoms. Give a girl a person — in fact, almost any living being — who depends on her, and she blossoms.
Of course, there are also myriad unhealthy ways of feeling needed. If an unwed teenage girl has a baby in order to feel needed, it is usually a bad thing for her, for the child and for society. If a boy joins a gang to feel needed/significant, it is bad for him and society.
Though not consciously intending to, over time, the left destroys people’s ability to be needed and, therefore, to be or feel significant.
As I regularly note, the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. One can add: The bigger the government, the less significant the citizen — especially men.
This is easy to explain because it is definitional. The more the state does, the less its citizens are needed to do. One well-known example is the way welfare robbed so many men of significance when women and their children came to depend financially on the state.
And it goes further than that. In order to feel significant, men not only need to have others depend on them, they also need to depend on themselves, on their own work and initiative. But that, too, is destroyed as the state gets bigger. Fewer and fewer people work for themselves (which leads to, among other things, the disappearance of that quintessentially American ideal of the risk-taking entrepreneur).
It gets worse. As being needed and significant shifts from the individual to the state, the state increasingly determines who is needed and who has significance.
That means, first of all, politicians. Obviously, whoever controls the ever-expanding government has the most significance in a society.
Another significant group in the leftist state are media people. They are significant in a non-leftist state such as America, as well. But there is a huge difference. Since American media are largely independent of government, there are a far greater number of significant media people in America than in the much smaller world of consolidated state media in Europe or Latin America. There is nothing like the BBC or French Radio and Television in the United States. Therefore, no one in American media is nearly as powerful as are the heads of the BBC or RTF. So the American state cannot anoint who is significant in media.
Another significant group in the leftist state is intellectuals. They, too, are largely determined by the state, which funds nearly all education and intellectual life. One reason intellectuals in America and Europe are so often estranged from American culture is that intellectuals have rarely had the fame or significance here that they have had in Europe. There are no American intellectuals who have had the celebrity or influence that Jean-Paul Sartre did in France, for example.
So, too, artists take on greater prominence as the leftwing state grows. And they, too, are funded and celebrated by the state.
In the ever-expanding state that the left creates, the vast majority of individuals lose significance in that they are simply less needed as the state takes over many of their roles. Fifty years ago, the men of the local Rotary Club had prestige and societal significance. So did fathers. So did clergy. With the ascendance of the left and the expansion of their state, much of their power and societal significance has eroded.
Now, as the state expands further into health care, the same will happen to doctors as power and prestige are transferred from them to the heads of dozens of new government health regulatory agencies. Over time, neither you nor your doctor will fully decide your treatment.
Indeed, over time, if the left has its way and the state keeps expanding, you will also not decide what temperature to keep your house or how to get to work. Nor will you be needed to educate your children (that is already the job of the state, and much of Europe now bans home schooling), or to raise and discipline your children (the state will ensure you are doing it correctly, and spanking is now illegal in 25 countries). Fathers will be needed primarily (and after divorce, only) as providers of child and spousal support.
In short, you will be needed essentially for one thing: to finance the one thing that is truly needed — the state."
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