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June 25, 2008
change you can believe in... the same old crap!
"It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
George Orwell, 1984
Barack Obama's soaring rhetoric about change and our wondrous Utopian future has certainly stirred the masses and the bozos in the media with its vision of a brighter future, a future where all of our problems and worries will have been magically whisked away.
While to the converted, Obama's vision brings Heaven that much closer to earth, to me, the ever skeptical cynic, Obama's vision sounds more like an impending apocalypse. I can think of nothing worse than change driven from the top down by a corrupt and inefficient government.
As has been echoed in many a Club Soda post, the Constitution was framed in such a way as to significantly limit the powers and reach of the federal government. Anyone who gives lip service to the genius of the founders and their vision should be shocked and appalled by the "vision" of one Barack Obama.
In Obama's vision, government's job is to provide for every need and to "save the planet" in the process. To level the playing field, so to speak. In the founders' vision, government's job was to get the heck out of the way for the American people to make their own future.
The success of that original vision speaks volumes based on the loads of objective and undeniable evidence it has left behind. What these dead white men accomplished is absolutely unique in the history of mankind, leading to the wealthiest, most technologically progressive nation ever seen in the history of the planet.
On the other hand, the vision of the modern era's self-proclaimed planet-savers and social justice warriors has led to the exact opposite of the "progression" they claimed. Crisis after crisis that was not actually a crisis in the first place has been sold to a mass media eager to buy and spread the propaganda about the fake crises.
So, the progression, if you will, of the progressive crisis monger is as follows:
1. Create crisis, though one does not really exist, though in your mind, it does
2. Declare an emergency, which requires expensive emergency measures and more governmental control and regulation
3. Implement emergency procedures, which create a plethora of related bonus crises
4. Implement further expensive emergency procedures to supposedly mitigate the additional crises created by the measures meant to combat the original crisis; begin at Step 1: wash, rinse, repeat
And thus, 70 years after the New Deal our beloved leaders are at the helm of an ever-expanding behemoth built to ensure their livelihoods in perpetuity, just like Castro and Ted Kennedy!
This, once again, is exactly why the founders built the government as they did; to avoid the unencumbered excess of public works gone mad. Though these excesses are not relegated to just one political party, in the Democratic Party they are not only exercised without restraint (Tom Harkin!), but are boasted of loudly before the American people as Constitutional guarantees.
Apparently, the Constitution doesn't really say what it says, and all of that stuff about "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people," is just... words! And we all know that words don't mean really mean much or do anything.
The only words of worth self-styled progressives can find unquestionably enshrined in the Constitution, though there's no mention of them therein, are abortion on demand and obscenity. But even their lax standards here have their limits, as "hate speech," for instance, is not to be tolerated and should be prosecuted, just like it is in the progressive dreamland, Canada.
George Orwell would have a field day with America's progressive liberal, or whatever you prefer to call them (fascist Marxists!). The modern "liberal" (the term liberal here being placed in scare quotes since today's liberal is anything but), has brought newspeak to a whole new level.
So, next time you happen upon a speech by the messiah, Barack Obama, listen closely for his updated version of newspeak. Also listen closely for shades of Che, Lenin, Trotsky, H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Angela Davies, William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Huey Newton, Margaret Sanger, and yes, even the good Rev. Wright! Then, compare his words and the words of his mentors to the writings of the founders for a fun game of "which of these doesn't fit?" I believe you'll find the answer to be, "All of them!"
Posted by clubsoda at June 25, 2008 7:28 PM
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