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MOLLYPATHS ALLIED WITH SOCIOPATHS:
"To the Memory of Capt. Nathan Hale" by Eneas Munson, Sr. :
Hate of oppression’s arbitrary plan, The love of freedom, and the rights of man; A strong desire to save from slavery’s chain The future millions of the western main, And hand down safe, from men’s invention cleared, The sacred truths which all the just revered; For ends like these, I wish to draw my breath,’ He bravely cried, ‘or dare encounter death.’ And when a cruel wretch pronounced his doom, Replied, ‘Tis well, —for all is peace to come; The sacred cause for which I drew my sword Shall yet prevail, and peace shall be restored. I’ve served with zeal the land that gave me birth, Fulfilled my course, and done my work on earth; Have ever aimed to tread that shining road That leads a mortal to the blessed God. I die resigned, and quit life’s empty stage, For brighter worlds my every wish engage; And while my body slumbers in the dust, My soul shall join the assemblies of the just.
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The great success of Western Civilization (freedom of thought and enterprise) has brought us to unsustainable levels of Political Correctness, Entitlement Theory, and Religion of Victim-Mongering. We are become a great herd of “mollypaths,” i.e., easy prey for psychopaths, who are gathering quickly to thin our herds.
If we wish to sustain Western Civilization, we must surpass our vision-less mollypathism.
We must define and enforce defensible borders --- in geography, language, and culture.
We must not allow ourselves to be overrun by unassimilable faux-immigrants. Cultural Creep: Beyond a tipping point, illegal immigration by massing Hispanics will sink American culture and common language and turn our meanings upside down, turning indolence into merit, unfairness into fairness, and p.c. mind control into education.
We must not allow ourselves to be overrun by unassimilable faux-religion. Sharia Creep: Beyond a tipping point, seditious preaching by massing religious fascists will sink American ethos and turn our morality upside down, turning dictate into justice, rote regurgitation into wisdom, and mind enslavement into charity.
We must not allow ourselves to be overrun by unassimilable faux-equality. Socialist Creep: Beyond a tipping point, socialistic indoctrination by powerfully connected and wealthy pirates and henchmen bent on farming the proletariat will sink our Bill of Rights and turn American laws upside down, turning disloyalty into loyalty, regulated graft into free markets, and enforced equality into liberty.
Presently, liberals, libertarians, and bluebloods promote the irreversible empowering of all three forms of Creep --- Cultural, Sharia, and Socialistic. Those who will take the most fascistic advantage of such Creepism are Race-Bigots, Religion-Intolerants, and Economy-Dictators. The only defenders against such Creepism tend to be Extreme Moderates and Social Conservatives. But, allied against them are both the mollypaths and the fascists they enable.
If Extreme Moderates and Social Conservatives wish to make common cause to sustain Western freedom of thought and enterprise, we must surpass mollypathism. Simply put, mollypaths are not on the side of sustainable freedom of thought and enterprise. The path America is presently on, i.e., “reaching across the aisle” to mollypaths, cannot suffice.
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Comment at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/bloodless_sunday.html:
"The refusal of Bush critics to acknowledge the historic and barbaric cruelty of President Bush's adversaries raises serious questions about their own moral commitments"
These people are mollycoddling dangerous psychopaths and sociopaths. There must be some genetic or cultural explanation for why we find ourselves so top heavy with mollycoddlers. Call them "MOLLYPATHS," because their efforts may as well be allied with the efforts of psychopaths and sociopaths.
When we get our next 9-11, we must not allow the country to go back to the mollycoddling mall. Rather, we must get in the faces of mollypaths and shame them as never before, as Neville Chamberlain was shamed.
Europe took an insane chance, disarming before Hitler. But Europe had America to re-arm it. America does not have a New-America to re-arm it. If we go down, we will have done it to ourselves. And the way we will have done it is by whimpering out to mollypaths. We need better insight into the mollypath mind, and soon!
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/whatever_happened_to_the_law_a.html:
HMHaanpaa ("I do not follow this topic because it has been out of control for so long. Avoiding situations is the only hope a person has so as not to become a statistic. We keep building more and bigger facilities for more and more law avoiders with no end in sight.")
We have more criminals for the same reason we have more terrorists: Liberals, Libertines, and Bluebloods mollycoddle and support them. They would rather a named killer or terrorist be paroled than that his unnamed future victims be protected. They would rather play an Inside Game than reform the Chicago Way. They would rather enable stupendous chasms in wealth and power than bring billionaire pirates to justice.
Support criminals, get rap crap, get more criminals. Support terrorists, get movies romanticizing Che, get more terrorists. Support unlimited power to purchase political influence, get Soros' "Open Society," reap the whirlwind.
When we are trying to defend society against sociopaths, this pattern of behavior becomes simply stupid. Libs, Libertines, and Bluebloods are "molly-paths." Its time to stop mollycoddling molly-paths. Get in their faces!
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/whatever_happened_to_the_law_a.html:
True Grit ---"What a maroon you are - we have suffered thru 8 years of a rogue administration who hAS lied us into war, caused countless deaths, betrayed the Constitution and Bill of Rights, not to mention betrayed a CIA officer, instituted torture as part of national policy...."
Have you served in the military? I don't get your "lied us into war." Please define lie (use your own definition) and then explain how Bush lied us into war.
Re --- "caused countless deaths": Have you considered how many deaths Bush has likely saved, in respect of our not having been attacked since 9-11?
Re --- "betrayed the Constitution": I may give this one to you, but only in the sense that Bush, and every other President for the past 40 years (especially Dems!) has failed to enforce our borders and to lead us to a sane energy policy. Unlike what I suspect of Dems, I am not aware of Bush's having sold out military secrets.
Re --- "betrayed a CIA officer": Surely you do not mean Valerie Plame, the desk jockey with the self-inflated husband who was "outed" by Armitage (Dem). Come on, man!
Re: "instituted torture": Are you quite sure no Dem ever authorized waterboarding? Are you quite sure Obama will not authorize it, should stakes become high enough? Are you quite sure your giving aid and comfort to our enemy is not inciting them to engage in real torture, Daniel Pearl style? Did you read what the goons of Mumbai did? Do you not see any connection in their real torture and your undermining of American efforts?
If "torture" concerns your "true grittiness" so much, what are you doing to bat it down where it is most heinous? And why are you helping to encourage our enemies to engage in it? Given your unsupported laundry list, I recommend you get treatment for BDS, asap. Good luck with that.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/the_left_and_nukes.html:
True Grit, Were you to constrict Franklin to his time and place, you may be right. But Federalists among the Founders supported the Alien and Sedition Act. Nor are Dems immune from modifying ideals to fit facts on the ground: FDR encamped many Japanese citizens.
Regardless, none of our leaders of yore lived in a time of WMD mixed with suicide-bombing, mind-dead creed-fascists. The plain fact is, psychopaths and their twisted true believers are unlikely candidates for rehabilitation, yet often have superior skills for positioning themselves to inflict maximum pain and destruction. Psychopaths' skills are exploding, while mollypaths sing pollyanna slogans from the past.
Mollypaths may as well be cheerleaders for psychopaths. (Give me a "b". Give me a "u".... What's that spell? Bush Is Evil. Gooooo .... Mollypaths!)
Frankin, perhaps the smartest man of his age, is not for us to shrink to tying himself to a never-changing position, notwithstanding great changes in facts on the ground.
Let's see what your Obama guy does. If he fails to protect the country, he is toast.
Better slogans for a new age (?): Freedom within law, liberty with order, autonomy subject to defensible borders! Don't be a mollypath --- you're just empowering psychopaths, )
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/the_left_and_nukes.html:
There must be some sort of "brain freezing virus" or susceptibility to "mommy-overindulgence" to which Leftists minds are more exposed than most. Otherwise, what could possibly explain the hysterical handwringing by Leftists: about Israeli settlers vs. Palestinian bomb throwers; or about waterboarding of captured sources of high level enemy information, while at the same time losing no sleep whatsoever about abortions gone wild? What could explain Leftists' tremulous angst about the incarceration of captured enemy combatants vs. oblivious unconcern for safety of persons in whose neighborhoods such enemies would otherwise be released? What could explain Leftists' fascination with appearance, yet ignorance of reality?
Can we please just open up a big free room for vice and video games, to entice and divert all Pinnochio-Leftists so they can be led to devote themselves entirely to make-believe lands they know best?
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/worshipping_the_weather.html:
Manning ("I favor the things Larrey Anderson identifies as religious rituals (higher fuel efficiency, pollution controls, etc.). I think limiting the freedom of some people to pollute is fair if it causes a cleaner environment for everyone. Moderation, of course, is important. Now, am I a religious fanatic?"):
Well, one man's religious fanaticism is another man's respect for God and Country.
I think Government should lead when it can lead responsibly. After all, who else can provide leadership when we otherwise would sink to "the tragedy of the commons"? Problem: Our Government has morphed to become less like a Responsible Adult than a Sociopathic or Narcissistic Child, launched from simple religious fealty, on to psychogenic addiction, on to towards full blown lunacy.
Ideally, Government could help us not just avoid calamities, but could also gently steer or inspire us to greater appreciation of common values, such as: clear skies, more varied environment, less monopolization of environment by human beings, more energy independence from sociopathic countries, more protection from special interest influence over legislators, and more protection for Constitutional integrity and national borders.
Responsible Government could gently steer us with better tax policies, such as in respect of: fuel taxes, sales taxes, and progressive taxes on political contributions.
The problem is, our Culture has allowed our Government to become so removed and so embedded with corruption that it cannot be trusted. Our Government, in many respects, is NOT RESPONSIBLE! Rather, Beltway Government is in bed with Big-Time Ponzi and Market-Cornering Opportunists. To turn over great gobs of money to such people is to invite electoral masochism on a grand scale.
What parent should trust a child who behaved as our Government, which has: Failed to respect or protect our borders, enriched our enemies, enabled Ponzi schemes for friends, and undermined common decency?
Our "child" (Government) needs tough love and intervention. We simply can no longer trust its fear mongering or feed its habits and fellow addicts. We need "The Dog Whisperer," to help show us how to put this Government on a much shorter leash.
Problem: The addicts are gone wild, off their leashes, and the adults will not regain control until the antics of the addicts brings them down and they can be re-fitted with appropriate standards of decency or shorter leashes (i.e., Atlas Shrugs).
Meantime, don't mollycoddle or unduly feed the monster! To do so is not especially supported by science, but only in faith, which, by now, is to approach religious lunacy.
We won't reclaim our "child" until we get him off his addictions.
Simply put: Do not believe the addict's schemes.
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Equal Is As Equal Does --- http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/parties_of_corruption_ii.html :
Well, look to root causes, for crying out loud! Dems would not be so corrupt if Repubs were not so mean! Repubs make such a thing about working hard, looking good, and being a success. But, you know whut? Not everyone is born with energy, looks, or talent. So, why should Dems be penalized just because of accidents of birth? To compete, fairness requires that Dems not be held to the same standards. Dems should be entitled to lie, cheat, and steal, sort of as a class form of affirmative action, or reparations. Aren't Dems as good as Repubs? Shouldn't they have as much? How else they gonna get it? Criticizing Dems for being corrupt is like making fun of old people for being wrinkled. All people are equally entitled! You must be stupid! Haven't you ever read Marcuse?
If we wish to sustain Western Civilization, we must surpass our vision-less mollypathism.
We must define and enforce defensible borders --- in geography, language, and culture.
We must not allow ourselves to be overrun by unassimilable faux-immigrants. Cultural Creep: Beyond a tipping point, illegal immigration by massing Hispanics will sink American culture and common language and turn our meanings upside down, turning indolence into merit, unfairness into fairness, and p.c. mind control into education.
We must not allow ourselves to be overrun by unassimilable faux-religion. Sharia Creep: Beyond a tipping point, seditious preaching by massing religious fascists will sink American ethos and turn our morality upside down, turning dictate into justice, rote regurgitation into wisdom, and mind enslavement into charity.
We must not allow ourselves to be overrun by unassimilable faux-equality. Socialist Creep: Beyond a tipping point, socialistic indoctrination by powerfully connected and wealthy pirates and henchmen bent on farming the proletariat will sink our Bill of Rights and turn American laws upside down, turning disloyalty into loyalty, regulated graft into free markets, and enforced equality into liberty.
Presently, liberals, libertarians, and bluebloods promote the irreversible empowering of all three forms of Creep --- Cultural, Sharia, and Socialistic. Those who will take the most fascistic advantage of such Creepism are Race-Bigots, Religion-Intolerants, and Economy-Dictators. The only defenders against such Creepism tend to be Extreme Moderates and Social Conservatives. But, allied against them are both the mollypaths and the fascists they enable.
If Extreme Moderates and Social Conservatives wish to make common cause to sustain Western freedom of thought and enterprise, we must surpass mollypathism. Simply put, mollypaths are not on the side of sustainable freedom of thought and enterprise. The path America is presently on, i.e., “reaching across the aisle” to mollypaths, cannot suffice.
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Comment at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/bloodless_sunday.html:
"The refusal of Bush critics to acknowledge the historic and barbaric cruelty of President Bush's adversaries raises serious questions about their own moral commitments"
These people are mollycoddling dangerous psychopaths and sociopaths. There must be some genetic or cultural explanation for why we find ourselves so top heavy with mollycoddlers. Call them "MOLLYPATHS," because their efforts may as well be allied with the efforts of psychopaths and sociopaths.
When we get our next 9-11, we must not allow the country to go back to the mollycoddling mall. Rather, we must get in the faces of mollypaths and shame them as never before, as Neville Chamberlain was shamed.
Europe took an insane chance, disarming before Hitler. But Europe had America to re-arm it. America does not have a New-America to re-arm it. If we go down, we will have done it to ourselves. And the way we will have done it is by whimpering out to mollypaths. We need better insight into the mollypath mind, and soon!
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/whatever_happened_to_the_law_a.html:
HMHaanpaa ("I do not follow this topic because it has been out of control for so long. Avoiding situations is the only hope a person has so as not to become a statistic. We keep building more and bigger facilities for more and more law avoiders with no end in sight.")
We have more criminals for the same reason we have more terrorists: Liberals, Libertines, and Bluebloods mollycoddle and support them. They would rather a named killer or terrorist be paroled than that his unnamed future victims be protected. They would rather play an Inside Game than reform the Chicago Way. They would rather enable stupendous chasms in wealth and power than bring billionaire pirates to justice.
Support criminals, get rap crap, get more criminals. Support terrorists, get movies romanticizing Che, get more terrorists. Support unlimited power to purchase political influence, get Soros' "Open Society," reap the whirlwind.
When we are trying to defend society against sociopaths, this pattern of behavior becomes simply stupid. Libs, Libertines, and Bluebloods are "molly-paths." Its time to stop mollycoddling molly-paths. Get in their faces!
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/whatever_happened_to_the_law_a.html:
True Grit ---"What a maroon you are - we have suffered thru 8 years of a rogue administration who hAS lied us into war, caused countless deaths, betrayed the Constitution and Bill of Rights, not to mention betrayed a CIA officer, instituted torture as part of national policy...."
Have you served in the military? I don't get your "lied us into war." Please define lie (use your own definition) and then explain how Bush lied us into war.
Re --- "caused countless deaths": Have you considered how many deaths Bush has likely saved, in respect of our not having been attacked since 9-11?
Re --- "betrayed the Constitution": I may give this one to you, but only in the sense that Bush, and every other President for the past 40 years (especially Dems!) has failed to enforce our borders and to lead us to a sane energy policy. Unlike what I suspect of Dems, I am not aware of Bush's having sold out military secrets.
Re --- "betrayed a CIA officer": Surely you do not mean Valerie Plame, the desk jockey with the self-inflated husband who was "outed" by Armitage (Dem). Come on, man!
Re: "instituted torture": Are you quite sure no Dem ever authorized waterboarding? Are you quite sure Obama will not authorize it, should stakes become high enough? Are you quite sure your giving aid and comfort to our enemy is not inciting them to engage in real torture, Daniel Pearl style? Did you read what the goons of Mumbai did? Do you not see any connection in their real torture and your undermining of American efforts?
If "torture" concerns your "true grittiness" so much, what are you doing to bat it down where it is most heinous? And why are you helping to encourage our enemies to engage in it? Given your unsupported laundry list, I recommend you get treatment for BDS, asap. Good luck with that.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/the_left_and_nukes.html:
True Grit, Were you to constrict Franklin to his time and place, you may be right. But Federalists among the Founders supported the Alien and Sedition Act. Nor are Dems immune from modifying ideals to fit facts on the ground: FDR encamped many Japanese citizens.
Regardless, none of our leaders of yore lived in a time of WMD mixed with suicide-bombing, mind-dead creed-fascists. The plain fact is, psychopaths and their twisted true believers are unlikely candidates for rehabilitation, yet often have superior skills for positioning themselves to inflict maximum pain and destruction. Psychopaths' skills are exploding, while mollypaths sing pollyanna slogans from the past.
Mollypaths may as well be cheerleaders for psychopaths. (Give me a "b". Give me a "u".... What's that spell? Bush Is Evil. Gooooo .... Mollypaths!)
Frankin, perhaps the smartest man of his age, is not for us to shrink to tying himself to a never-changing position, notwithstanding great changes in facts on the ground.
Let's see what your Obama guy does. If he fails to protect the country, he is toast.
Better slogans for a new age (?): Freedom within law, liberty with order, autonomy subject to defensible borders! Don't be a mollypath --- you're just empowering psychopaths, )
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/the_left_and_nukes.html:
There must be some sort of "brain freezing virus" or susceptibility to "mommy-overindulgence" to which Leftists minds are more exposed than most. Otherwise, what could possibly explain the hysterical handwringing by Leftists: about Israeli settlers vs. Palestinian bomb throwers; or about waterboarding of captured sources of high level enemy information, while at the same time losing no sleep whatsoever about abortions gone wild? What could explain Leftists' tremulous angst about the incarceration of captured enemy combatants vs. oblivious unconcern for safety of persons in whose neighborhoods such enemies would otherwise be released? What could explain Leftists' fascination with appearance, yet ignorance of reality?
Can we please just open up a big free room for vice and video games, to entice and divert all Pinnochio-Leftists so they can be led to devote themselves entirely to make-believe lands they know best?
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/worshipping_the_weather.html:
Manning ("I favor the things Larrey Anderson identifies as religious rituals (higher fuel efficiency, pollution controls, etc.). I think limiting the freedom of some people to pollute is fair if it causes a cleaner environment for everyone. Moderation, of course, is important. Now, am I a religious fanatic?"):
Well, one man's religious fanaticism is another man's respect for God and Country.
I think Government should lead when it can lead responsibly. After all, who else can provide leadership when we otherwise would sink to "the tragedy of the commons"? Problem: Our Government has morphed to become less like a Responsible Adult than a Sociopathic or Narcissistic Child, launched from simple religious fealty, on to psychogenic addiction, on to towards full blown lunacy.
Ideally, Government could help us not just avoid calamities, but could also gently steer or inspire us to greater appreciation of common values, such as: clear skies, more varied environment, less monopolization of environment by human beings, more energy independence from sociopathic countries, more protection from special interest influence over legislators, and more protection for Constitutional integrity and national borders.
Responsible Government could gently steer us with better tax policies, such as in respect of: fuel taxes, sales taxes, and progressive taxes on political contributions.
The problem is, our Culture has allowed our Government to become so removed and so embedded with corruption that it cannot be trusted. Our Government, in many respects, is NOT RESPONSIBLE! Rather, Beltway Government is in bed with Big-Time Ponzi and Market-Cornering Opportunists. To turn over great gobs of money to such people is to invite electoral masochism on a grand scale.
What parent should trust a child who behaved as our Government, which has: Failed to respect or protect our borders, enriched our enemies, enabled Ponzi schemes for friends, and undermined common decency?
Our "child" (Government) needs tough love and intervention. We simply can no longer trust its fear mongering or feed its habits and fellow addicts. We need "The Dog Whisperer," to help show us how to put this Government on a much shorter leash.
Problem: The addicts are gone wild, off their leashes, and the adults will not regain control until the antics of the addicts brings them down and they can be re-fitted with appropriate standards of decency or shorter leashes (i.e., Atlas Shrugs).
Meantime, don't mollycoddle or unduly feed the monster! To do so is not especially supported by science, but only in faith, which, by now, is to approach religious lunacy.
We won't reclaim our "child" until we get him off his addictions.
Simply put: Do not believe the addict's schemes.
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Equal Is As Equal Does --- http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/parties_of_corruption_ii.html :
Well, look to root causes, for crying out loud! Dems would not be so corrupt if Repubs were not so mean! Repubs make such a thing about working hard, looking good, and being a success. But, you know whut? Not everyone is born with energy, looks, or talent. So, why should Dems be penalized just because of accidents of birth? To compete, fairness requires that Dems not be held to the same standards. Dems should be entitled to lie, cheat, and steal, sort of as a class form of affirmative action, or reparations. Aren't Dems as good as Repubs? Shouldn't they have as much? How else they gonna get it? Criticizing Dems for being corrupt is like making fun of old people for being wrinkled. All people are equally entitled! You must be stupid! Haven't you ever read Marcuse?
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Mollypaths, being the natural prey and useful idiots of psychopaths, tend natrually to ally with psychopaths against responsible society. Because mollypaths tend to have disproportionately less practical experience than booklearning, their “knowledge” tends not to be grounded in reality. Once brainwashed in respect of their unbalanced conditioning, few seem to escape the mollypathic worldview. David Horowitz is an exception.
9 comments:
Comments at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/a_conservative_vision_statemen.html:
Marshallgill ("government should promote the Liberty to practice religion"):
I think we should humbly seek and be receptive to the light of justice and rightness, howsoever the Source of lightness may avail it to us.
I care not whether one prefers to label such Source as "God," Altruistic Gene," or "Key to Meaningful Civilization."
But maybe we should say, "one nation, under the Source ...." :)
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If you don't believe or think in respect of any Source for meaningfulness, then, why then, should it be of any meaningful concern to you?
Non-Shakespeare: tis nothing either meaningful or not but that thinking makes it so ....
(BTW: Being raised in a religious tradition in an enlightened family carries advantages by giving one a background of meaningful metaphors. How else can society meaningfully assimilate or communicate?)
Comment at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/a_conservative_vision_statemen.html:
David H (" I do believe that the author was talking about a vision statement for conservatives in the United States of America."):
Well, yes, that is the concern.
What we take to be the soul of the American Ideal consists in freedom of expression and enterprise --- not in porous borders being overrun by unassimilable cultures that prefer mind regimentation and/or forced equality in substitution for human freedom and dignity.
But, pray tell, what is the "vision" statement of Libs, Libertarians, and Bluebloods ("LLB's")?
Or, lacking a formal vision statement, how would such a statement read, were it to summarize implications from the acts of LLB's?
Do not LLB's show obvious, immediate, and/or tending desires for:
1) harnessing government sanctions and guarantees for the public expression of every possible form for gratifying pleasure;
2) harnessing government to ensure entitlements as rights to equalities relating to all sorts of group desires;
3) harnessing government to protect all conceivable feelings from being hurt by politically incorrect speech;
4) harnessing government to undermine fair competiton by protecting current enterprises with massive bailouts in exchange for invasive governmental regulations and unionized collectivization of labor, designed to forever preclude competition;
5) harnessing government to make common cause with Islam to make war on traditional American values that have evolved from Christian roots;
6) and harnessing government to mis-educate youth to keep them in adolescent misappreciation of relative threats in respect of gathering dangers to Western Civilization?
I quite suspect those are the effects of your ideal for America.
I would say you've got that program working quite nicely for you.
But I would not say your program does not have much to do with loyalty to the American Ideal I believe in.
Regardless, let's see how long your ideal lasts.
GOODNESS:
Is “goodness” in a “gene of altruism” or is it in that which such gene physically expresses? Or is goodness in that which expresses both? May that which expresses both act both through the gene and in dimensions beyond such gene’s fathom? If goodness may reside in or be expressed in respect of Something more than any mere, particular gene, than by what label may we refer to IT? As Source, God, Father, The Beginning and The End, The Alpha and The Omega?
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LEFTISTS’ FALLACY OF SAVING THE HYPOTHESIS VS. DOCTRINE OF INDEFINITE PERFECTIBILITY:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/whatever_happened_to_the_law_a.html:
Impedimenta ("The Rinos got control of the party and they aren't people with core convicions, just people who want power")
BINGO!
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FEMINIZED CHRISTIANITY:
See http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/the_evil_of_good_deeds_and_goo.html:
“Being tough has come to mean cruel and, hence, evil. A feminized Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and secularism can no longer conceive what courage, honor and pride of civilization even means. We relegate the military and police to some social corner to do the dirty work that we don't want to think about, but criticize.”
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NEW AGE MOLLYPATHS:
New Agey Love And Peace Types (mollycoddlers) imagine evil will go away if we just put our heads under pillows and think happy thoughts. They lack real world experience to be able to identify or suspect sociopathy or to appreciate how much of history has been the story of irredeemable sociopaths. We must identify mollycoddlers for what they are and then not entrust our security or freedom to them any longer than can be avoided.
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BE NICERS:
The "nice people" are those who are smart enough to appreciate police who eat donuts.
The "mean people" are those coppers who catch crooks.
The "nice people" are those who are smart enough to ask terrorists to please release our captured citizens.
The "mean people" are those who actually rescue our captured citizens.
The "nice people" are those who are smart enough compare Bush to Hitler.
The "mean people" are those who think about how many lives Bush may well have saved.
So, as a nice president, will Obama eat donuts while he asks terrorists to please give up their WMD and then blame Bush when they instead use their WMD on a major metropolitan area?
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TBTL:
The "be nice philosophy" is handmaiden for our culture of p.c., entitlement theory, and religion of victim-mongering for equality. It leads us to be happy faces on sticks. It is bound to get a lot of people needlessly killed --- TBTL (thanks be to leftists).
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LAST MAN STANDING:
America is the Last Man Standing --- see http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022867.php#more.
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AGENTS OF MOLLYCODDLING:
Comment at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/bloodless_sunday.html:
To Agent of Chaos:
Please.
Like many other Agents of Mollycoddling, you're cherrypicking your facts to make a strained analogy.
If Saddam had been President for Life of America and had done here what he did in Iraq, he would have: continuously murdered his competition; run torture prisons (compare the mutilations imposed under Saddam with Gitmo “torture”); funded depredations of Chemical Ali; belligerantly resisted the no-fly-zone; financed widows of suicide bombers bent on undermining Western Civilization; and violated terms imposed for peace after Desert Storm.
In that case, were I lacking education in history, philosophy, and morality (IOW, were I a “mollypath”), and were I conditioned to be a beneficiary of totalitarian, Saddam-style government or to to believe it be “good,” then I may have taken the “shoe throwing” action you suggest.
Otherwise, no. But, if you want to help foster a world filled with Saddams, just keep being an enabling “mollypath” for psychopaths.
I do not know whether history should honor Bush for invading Iraq, yet second guess his subsequent prosecution of the invasion. But I expect more educated and thoughtful Iraqis appreciate that they now have a chance to make a better country than they did under Saddam.
The reverse, however, cannot very well be said were Saddam to have invaded and overthrown the U.S.
If you can equate Saddam’s Iraq with Bush’s U.S. , what can you not equate? If you can fall for that, what won’t you fall for? Stated another way: What, actually, can you stand for?
So far, you merely cherry-pick to imagine an equivalency that does not exist.
Be happy that, in Bush's U.S., you can do that.
Were we ruled by Saddam, I do not think you would be questioning any actions taken by Saddam --- ever.
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HAPPY FACES ON STICKS:
Comment at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/past_tense_pretense.html:
LDC:
"Bureaucracies don't usually confront by disputation, Ms. Feldman. They isolate."
OK. Don't rock the boat. Go along and get along. "KUSD" --- Kiss up, S*it down. Don't stand for anything. Be a happy face on a stick.
Is there a critical mass of people such that these tendencies begin to prevail, in all fields --- public and private?
Has this now become a cultural thing, brought on by our environment of litigation, entitlement, and p.c.?
Is p.c. killing our culture?
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GOVERNMENT CREEP:
Comment from http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/what_is_american_business_afra.html:
HMHaanpaa ("Let the MSM do the best it can to tell us how bad this one individual is and how one person can do so much damage. The pols get up and scream for more regulation. The public buys the whole process and we start over again."):
QUITE WELL SAID!
Although I think there is some good in nearly everyone, the evil that confronts us tends to make addicts, quitters, or cowards of us. A cynic watches the ignorance and evil all around and soon begins to wonder: What is the point to resisting rather than joining? After all, look at our MSM, Government Dependent Academia, Big Collective Union Bosses, and Big Corporate Hogs. They are all united about one thing: More governmental regulation!
Why? Not to secure earth, or our progeny, or even to sustain civilization, but to "get before the gettings gone." Greed or ignorance --- either way, it ain't pretty.
Who can resist? It's not easy for a young couple just starting out. Not for a college kid needing to get decent grades from some ignorant or sold-out college instructor. Not for a corporate employee whose future depends on going along with whatever corporate president he may help advance.
So, who can stand up and call B.S. on this ignorance, short-sighted greed, corruption, and evil? Who can protect individual freedom of expression and enterprise from the ever-increasing encroachments of the Big Government that doles out to those who play along to get along? (Iacocca asks, where have our leaders gone? Indeed, I look around and mainly what I see in government, business, media, and academia are "happy faces on sticks.")
Those of us who are reasonably secure financially and who fail to call B.S. on these Big Government tendencies should be ashamed to face our children or to try to excuse what we have left for them.
It is not enlightened tolerance to tolerate governance that leads to the destruction of one's freedom and dignity; rather, it is stupid and weak.
The only good form of domestic government is that form which will not tolerate those forms of domestic government that try to undermine markets or some reasonable substitute therefor.
The only good form of religion is that form which will not tolerate those forms of faux religions that are intolerant of most other religions.
The only good form of academy is that form which will not tolerate those instructors who are intolerant of opposing viewpoints.
The only good form of media is that form which is not owned by persons using media to seek bubble-bursting opportunities elsewhere, rather than to seek profit in media's own sphere.
Ronald Reagan was right --- more often than not, Government is the problem.
Thanks for your insight --- I think you're dead on target!
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OPENING DOORS FOR BIG GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION:
Comment at A.T.-- http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/climate_crisis_logic_crisis.html:
Taking a ride on Gore's environmental express by committing capitalistic suicide is beginning to look a lot like taking a ride on a comet by committing bodily suicide.
Larrey is right: Al is asking followers to slip the bonds of faith to rocket into full blown, Bull Goose Looneyism --- and Media are shilling for this.
Didn't Gore's family get its original foothold in wealth and power out of the tobacco scam ("like, its not really bad for you")? AlGore looks like an incorrigible, high-rent, time-share salesman. Is there a Nobel Prize category for that? Audacious? Indeed!
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Comment at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/climate_crisis_logic_crisis.html:
gmoney ("Al Gore ("inventor of the internet", which was merely a quote taken completely out of context) has developed a major worldwide conspiracy to promote global warming so that he could enrich himself? (and others?). "):
When one has self interests at stake, why suppose it to be any harder to delude oneself than to delude one's marks?
I would be hard pressed to say which kind of huckster was more dangerous.
Whether Gore is an intentional huckster or an opportunistic huckster, he is still a huckster.
There is a difference between wanting an opportunity to compete vs. wanting the government to tip or stack one's emerging opportunities (something that welfare Libs and corporate welfare Bluebloods have in common).
Compare what was said by the current Chicago Mayor's Pa, something to the effect of, "I saw my opportunities and I took them."
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/what_is_american_business_afra.html:
Raf from Florida (“I can’t help but believe that the Madoff scheme should be viewed as an example of what’s happening to our government and financial institutions”):
Hear hear! Well said.
If Madoff is the canary in the coal mine among Ponzi scammers, he is still just a little tweeter compared to Congress.
Given our Congress, we’re all Madoff investors now.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/the_gop_needs_a_colincleansing.html:
durga:
("This present patchwork of massive amounts of tax dollars going to support outrageous and ineffective private health plans for the millions of government workers has to end and Obama should never get credit for doing this. Republicans in the prudent fiscal interests of the United States need to be the first to the plate.
I recommend the Republicans co-opt Michael Moore and bring him into the tent and get going on this before Obama steals your thunder one more time. He again is not showing leadership, he is just getting out in front of the crowd that is already moving and getting enough media hacks to keep him posing as the head of the pack.
Republicans, get in their faces on an issue of national importance, and get out of peoples bedrooms where you don't belong in the first place. McCain did lose many, many strategic advantages in this campaign. He nearly did it but he bogged down at the very end. He did deserve to lose but we did not deserve to be taken down with him.")
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Ditto on health care, sans Michael Moore.
Re Bedrooms:
I'm not seeing Republicans in people's "bedrooms."
So I don't quite get what you're talking about.
If you mean roll over for "gay marriage": No.
If you mean "right to abort" by neglecting to care for babies born after botched abortions: No.
If you mean substituting the State for the civilizing role of traditional family values: No.
Government ought not idly stand by and let its laws be remade to undermine all that sustains civilization.
For my money, "let-the-good-times-roll" Libertine-Republicans are far too complacent and lacking in vision when it comes to appreciating how civilization easily slides into non-sustainability.
When riding high on social irresponsibility becomes one's main priority, one should team with the party for which that predilection is made to order --- Dems.
Comment at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/a_scheme_with_no_off_button_1.html:
Brian ("They top 1% of tax payers already pay 40% of the income taxes in America.")
Look, I loathe entitlement theory --- both on the left and the right.
But don't forget the contributions to maintaining an orderly society, such as made in blood, sweat and tears by firemen, police, and our troops.
Sorry, but play me the world's smallest violin while I shed a few tears about how those most opportuned are also expected to provide the most financing.
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Alliance of Obama and Bush:
Perpetual Check or Checkmate?
Our problem is to design and preserve systemic checks that will tend to optimize the accumulation of capital for use in investment by those with civilizing vision, without undermining representative civilization.
The answer to every economic problem is not merely, as the Obama-left would say, (1) to spread the wealth, nor as the Bush-right would say, (2) to proportionately lower taxes on the investing class.
Overemphasis on (1) kills incentive to work harder or to create much that is new, while overindulgence on (2) tends to create work more of ostentation than of substance.
Only with an optimizing mix of (1) and (2) is civilization pulled to new heights and greater skills for confronting unavoidable challenges. But, we are not getting an optimizing mix or check of (1) and (2). Rather, we are getting their unholy alliance, now materializing in an Unholy Emperor and His Train of Cohorts.
While our society (1) promotes Obama-equality by stagnating any work ethic and stifling creativity, how shall we hope to propagate civilization beyond a narrow and short eclipse of space and time?
While our society (2) promotes Bush-investment by decreasing representative governance while increasing ostentatious aristocracy, what of worth shall we have accomplished or created?
While we turn all effective political power over to an unholy alliance of (1) Socialistic Leftists (Obama) and (2) Blueblood Aristocrats (Bush), what will become of government of free people?
Presently, our politics is monopolized by (1) Obama Leftists seeking to equally spread wealth among the working class (even as they kill free expression with p.c. speech codes) and by (2) Bush Bluebloods seeking aristocratic control over the politics that rules the working class (even as they kill competitive markets needed for free enterprise).
ENTER UNHOLY EMPEROR, GEORGE SOROS --- (1) propagandizing socialism, while (2) expecting to rule it.
In Soros’ train slavishly follow MSM, academia, Socialistic Leftists, and Blueblood Rinos. His “Christmas gift”: Curtailment of freedom, both of expression and of enterprise. This is the gift of the present unholy alliance among Socialistic Leftists and Aristocratic Bluebloods. Caught in the vise of this unholy alliance are Moderates and Conservatives.
For government of free people to survive, Moderates and Conservatives must get "the royal mad" and unite:
To restore toleration for freedom of expression and religion (hint: one-way speech codes and intolerant religion need not be tolerated);
To restore some semblance of equality of opportunity and representation (hint: stifle favoritism by regulation);
To restore some semblance of competitive markets (hint: stop regulating minutia of small businesses);
To reduce the power of centrally removed government (hint: central government is grossly overinfluenced by specially empowered interests);
To check against excessive political influence by aristocrats of wealth (hint: end income tax, while progressively taxing individual yearly consumption); and
To restore the nation as a viable entity with defensible boundaries (hint: don’t tolerate one-sided, hate-America versions of history).
Bottom line: If you don't like Obama enforced equality, stop feeding Bush Bluebloods.
Comment at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/the_response_to_bill_ayers_the.html:
Who wins the wars writes the history; who wins the elections writes what is fair.
We ought not pretend that a "general law," like "the fairness doctrine" is any kind of intelligible guide apart from a general license for powers-that-be to rationalize their every whim.
Rather, to propagate "The Fairness Doctrine" is to surrender rule-of-law to rule-of-fronted-elect.
We are being porcupine-quilled with all manner of such general licenses for (Bush Blueblood) rulers to rationalize their one-way rule for rewarding their (Obama Socialist) enforcers and reducing and ending the freedom and enterprise of their subjects (Moderates and Conservatives).
All these sorts of general homilies sought to be enacted as prescriptions of "law" should be rooted out.
More examples: p.c.; profiling; hate speech; affirmative action.
One does not very well fight an unidentified enemy; identify him, and he becomes less invisible.
I would not blame human nature. Human nature is what it is. I would identify the enemy. The enemy is a Tsunami of Short-Term-Sharks that wants to rule humanity as Shrimp, deceived to believe they are progressing along a path towards socialistic heaven on earth.
Excepting Ron Paul and perhaps Mitt Romney, all our main politicians appear to be financed, enticed, and whipped to stay true to this path. The Tsunami controls energy, media, and academia. Youth and academia trained elites lack real world experience to appreciate how much of media and academia is rife with lies and misdirection. By the time their experience catches up with their "education" (conditioning), they are either cynically coopted and invested in the deceit or powerless to right it.
Swimming out of this tsunami may require a confluence of two things: An alert counter-elite, believing in human freedom of expression and enterprise, and a triggering event, of which they are ready to take advantage.
Nothing short of a grand scale "intervention" will suffice, to revive enough brain-soaked youth back to reality.
Until then, keep the faith and shame the Sharks at every opportunity.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/so_thats_why_the_kgb_lost_the.html:
Sadly, John Adams eventually found it unavoidably necessary to renounce his son, Charles, who fell into an abyss.
What Charles became heralds that to which much of American civilization is being reduced: A landscape of morally blind Socialistic Rulers controlling crab-in-bucket academics mis-educating woefully mis-conceited (“tolerant”) youths.
Rulers of faux socialism are leading their innocently socialistic charges beyond redemption and into an orgiastic abyss of moral disrespect, drunkenness, and academic decadence.
Do Ruling Leftists want an open border with Mexico out of neighborly love, sympathy or respect? Do they want replenishment with new blood of independent stock? No! They want a constant supply of easily harvested humans.
Democrats (with their Blueblood financiers), the historical party of cynical slavery, have morphed into the party of cynical harvesters of the perpetually undereducated and easily abused. You think our Ruling Socialists are looking out for you? You think Dem and Repub Socialists are not cynical slavers and harvesters? You think Mexican elites are not in on the deal? Wise up!
And so, Responsible Society comes to a quickening realization: Much of America must soon be renounced. That we must cast away lapsed Americans redeems them to at least one service: That they help the rest of us define what we refuse to become.
The strong bonds among independent countrymen and between parents and children are no match for the constant, collective fraying of degenerate debauchery and debilitating dependency. If the bonds between lovers of freedom and lovers of collective enslavement are not cut or do not snap, America itself will be pulled into an abyss. God’s talent for imposing mathematical choices among unfolding morphologies is fearsomely awesome, indeed!
Assuming a remnant of responsible lovers of freedom can cut bonds with derelicts of collectivism, we may yet forge or split a new beginning. If so, it would seem apropos to call it “Neo-America” — the Collectivists be damned!
This is not a matter of Conservative Purity. It is a matter of survival for human freedom and dignity, i.e., freedom of expression and of market based enterprise. It is a matter of survival of Western Civilization.
The glue for any civilization consists either in tyranny or in mutual, familial trust, faith, and credit, acculturated in respect of something like the Ten commandments and the Golden Rule — even if only availed within competing tribes, races, cultures, or boundaries. To dissolve family values in respect of something like the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule is to dissolve the glue of Civilized Decency. Those who will not see and who instead seek not to tolerate freedom but to impose degenerate and tyrannical Collectivism must either be reduced to safer impotency or cast off.
There is simply no glue by which Useful Idiots can be allowed to rule Responsible Adults.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/proportionality_in_context.html:
H Hazell ("Proportionality is a concept from the Law of Armed Conflict and it is not defined as meeting enemy action with commensurate force, it is defined as applying military force in a manner and at levels to meet military objectives."):
Regarding military objectives: There is considerable asymmetry in the competing military objectives and tactics. Hamas is in a state of comprehensive war against Israel, seeking its annihilation. Thus, Hamas: indoctrinates the entire "civilian" population under its control on all levels to feverishly and mindlessly hate Israel and to seek martyrdom in Israel's destruction; recruits and broadcasts among usefully idiotic media throughout the U.N. and worldwide; coordinates efforts, supplies, and logistics with religiously and culturally sympathetic allies; and continuously seeks to destroy and terrorize Israeli infrastructure.
So long as Israel refrains from pursuing a military objective for dismantling the system that sustains comprehensive warfare against it, Israel has little hope of achieving stability, apart from technologically and chronically increasing cycles of violence.
Given the geography, demographics, and history, Israel's tactics and future are unsustainable -- under present objectives and notions of proportionality.
Sustainable tactics will require more insightful military objectives. Perhaps, objectives must come to include the dismantling of the Palestinian system for re-populating and for disseminating information and "education." As things stand, "innocent Palestinian civilians" are military auxiliaries for continuously re-educating and replacing fighters bent on the elimination of Israel. As commitments stand, there are few innocents. And little hope for sustaining Israel.
This is not a battle that can be tipped by coming together "to reason." Simply put, the opposition lacks institutions conducive to reason, even as it fortifies institutions adamantly opposed to reason. In this sad state of affairs, there may be no return to reason until there is first a reduction to rubble.
Compounding the sadness and desperation of the situation: If Israel falls, the injection of energy into worldwide forces bent on forcing surrender to mindless collectivism will skyrocket.
Further compounding the situation: Similar forces of collectivism are already well under way in the West, where control has nearly been consolidated in media, academia, entertainment, and corruption of politics.
Conditions conducive to volcanic eruptions secondary to accumulating forces of mind-freedom vs. mind-collectivism are quickening. Delay in resolution will render the inevitable eruption increasingly awesome. Responsibility for increasing the extent of the eventual eruption will reside mainly with those "liberals" who are most partial to negotiations with the devil. A boil waits to be lanced.
P.C. LAND:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/is_religion_necessary.html:
In P.C. Land, any principled opposition to a minority viewpoint comes quickly to be labeled as hate speech. In other words, if your political position is in the "progressive" minority, you, according to MSM and academia, no longer have the burden of proof to justify changing the status quo. Rather, the burden of proof is up-ended, and anyone opposing your position becomes a "hater."
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In P.C. Land, only Leftists have moral right to hate --- as well as to lie, cheat, and steal --- in order to make fair and even out the odds. Sort of like self-help reparation and affirmative action.
Leftists’ Translation: By whatever means necessary, USA style freedom as it presently exists must be changed, collectivized, and eliminated.
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