Of turd blossoms
…. and bullsh*t artists
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Why Has Politics Broken? America has long opposed evils, but they have waited patiently, setting their revenges behind logs. Trying to be fair, Americans have bought too much into slants of those who would crook us. Thus, our youth are much schooled and entertained in interpretations of past treacheries, being always led towards the worst of views of America.
Blame is the message, of which the meta-message to “the progeny of our sins” is that their blame cannot be expunged without America’s confessing responsibility and passing around of flagellants and recompense, even to the point of sinking America. News media and Hollywood glory in profits to be made from sensationalizing lingering grievances.
To unfortunate extent, we have lost faith: each in the good will of the other; in the worth of our country; and in the nobility of our civilization. Our youth blame our country. Our Libertarians blame excessive taxation, overregulation, and foreign adventures. Our Liberals blame inequality. Our Democrats blame poverty and restrictions on access to labor on account of unfair enforcement of borders. Our Conservatives blame loss of traditional family values. Our Republicans blame poverty pimping and restrictions on access to illegal (servile) labor on account of “unfair” enforcement of borders.
Each blames the other; few feel gratitude to their country; most mainly seek private advantage; and few consider what is required for a civilization, which prizes freedom and dignity, to sustain itself, to be sustainable, and to plan for its surpassage.
We need a new, grown-up estate --- one that appreciates the delicate rarity and wondrous value of the American experience; one with insight to see what needs to be done to sustain America, to keep her sustainable, and to plan for her surpassage.
For this, we have had enough of Libertarians, Democrats, and Republicans. Enough! Our times now call for some justifiably Red Assed Moderates (RAMs), with love for America, but impatience with professors of Marxism and bullsh*t apologists for selfish interests. (The "Green Party" is no less run on stupidity. The best strategy for "going green" is to get population under control, not to ruin individual freedom and dignity! Greenies --- grow up, already!)
Bullsh*t must be called to account, if America is to meet her higher calling. Roy Bean must dispatch Bad Bob the (Whackjob) Albino!
4 comments:
DINO’S — Democrats In Name Only:
From http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/why_do_we_call_them_democrats.html :
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
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Socialism bleeds the vitality from a nation; it dilutes the national will, and lulls the citizenry into a stupor that makes it ill suited to survival. Existential threats are ignored as social programs and entitlements consume ever larger and larger portions of the national budget. Communism, Socialisms most virulent strain, has been so spectacular a failure it is hard to fathom how anyone could continue to be seduced by its false promises. Yet, we see Marxist autocrats such a Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega idolized with the same adolescent naiveté that made Pol Pot and Fidel Castro palatable to liberal elites in the West. As is always the case, when their inevitable depredations shock and embarrass their western apologists, they quickly disappear from our newspapers and television sets, filtered out by the ideology that erases unpleasant truths by pretending they are not there.
See http://newsmax.com/bill_oreilly/moveon_ad/2008/06/20/106203.html
Campaign Finance Reform? ---
See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/washington/27money.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1214587554-+mNKkAZDNaX6oHV/rJg7Bg :
“The law was a response to Supreme Court rulings that forbid limits on the amount that candidates can spend on their own behalf. But Justice Alito wrote that the legislative response was unconstitutional because it “imposes an unprecedented penalty on any candidate who robustly exercises” free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. Rich candidates, Justice Alito said, must “choose between the First Amendment right to engage in unfettered political speech and subjection to discriminatory fund-raising limitations.”
In the case, Davis v. Federal Election Commission, No. 07-320, Mr. Davis’s lawyer argued that the law had an ulterior motive, that of protecting incumbents against rich challengers. The court did not address that point, but the majority did express skepticism about allowing Congress to decide how to level the political landscape.”
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“More broadly, he said, “the opinion is written in a way that portends an unsympathetic response to campaign finance regulations to go anywhere beyond the existing structure.””
“Grand New Party”? ---
From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/opinion/27brooks.html?th&emc=th :
“Ross Douthat and my former assistant, Reihan Salam, are two of the most promising. This pair has just come out with a book called “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream.””
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“Liberals have a way to address these inequalities — the creation of a Denmark-style welfare state. Conservatives have offered almost nothing. The G.O.P. has lost contact with its own working-class base. This is the intellectual vacuum that “Grand New Party” seeks to fill.
The heart of the book is the last third, where Douthat and Salam lay out a series of policy ideas to help working-class families cope with economic, health care, neighborhood and family insecurity.
“What all these ideas, from the sober to the speculative, have in common is a vision of working-class independence — from bosses, from bureaucracy, from entrenched interests of all kinds,” Douthat and Salam write. This is not compassionate conservatism (which flattered the mind of the compassionate donor), it’s hard-work conservatism, which uses government to increase the odds that self-discipline and effort will pay off.
I’m not sure how quickly the G.O.P. can swing behind this working-class focus and this vision of government-enhanced social mobility. But the McCain campaign really needs to. So far, McCain’s platform is like an omnibus spending bill — lots of decent ideas thrown together with no larger social vision.”
On Blogswarming:
From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/opinion/27aamodt.html?th&emc=th :
Consumers of news, for their part, are prone to selectively accept and remember statements that reinforce beliefs they already hold. In a replication of the study of students’ impressions of evidence about the death penalty, researchers found that even when subjects were given a specific instruction to be objective, they were still inclined to reject evidence that disagreed with their beliefs.
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In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the Supreme Court wrote that “the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.” Holmes erroneously assumed that ideas are more likely to spread if they are honest. Our brains do not naturally obey this admirable dictum, but by better understanding the mechanisms of memory perhaps we can move closer to Holmes’s ideal.
Faking Freedom:
See http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/justice_anthony_kennedy_and_ou.html :
“Make no mistake, Justice Kennedy is running the Supreme Court. It is his vote and his decisions that are making or breaking (mostly breaking) our constitutional rights and our protection as citizens under the law.
What is driving Kennedy's reasoning in these cases? It is not the meaning of the Constitution; it is not an effort to enforce the law and protect Americans; it is his one-man attempt to ensure that the Constitution and the law conform to his "evolving standards of decency."
There is no questioning his integrity. In all of these cases Justice Kennedy was trying to do the "right" thing. The problem is "doing the right thing" is not his job. We know that the four liberals on the court are going to be, well, liberal; but Anthony Kennedy is just trying to be decent.”
Comment: Liberals, seeking to substitute their own notions of decency in place of the Constitution, are accelerating their attacks on the Bill of Rights. Free Speech is being lassoed by political correctness, corralled by liberal blogswarmers, and, if so called liberals have their way, will be hanged by the fairness doctrine. The U.S. may have beat the Soviets in the Cold War, but is about to lose at home to its own internal 5th Column. Do Liberals even notice?
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