Posted by
Ed Hardiman on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:48:13 PM
Our founding fathers dealt with a monolithic bureaucracy hopelessly corrupted by special interests that brushed aside the will of the people for the whim of a privileged class. They fought the Revolutionary War to restore individual liberty unfettered by the tyranny of the minority, the template they left remains an eloquent device to insure lex majoris partis remains a bulwark against the vicissitudes of history.
They rejected the notion government has any standing in our homes, speech, churches or wallets. Their bedrock assumption that government that governs least governs best echoes sentiments echoed throughout history and resonate today. Liberty isn't platitude or boilerplate it's a living breathing birth right born of blood spilled on countless fields throughout our history. Liberty, a doctrine nourished and guaranteed for all by the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights, supercedes all others.
Conservatives today face the same monolithic bureaucracy unleashed by a government where the tyranny of the minority trumps the will of the people. Where special interests shove the individual aside and corrupt every representative in every office. A government that spends without limit and a bureaucracy that replicates in breadth and scope unimagined by our founding fathers, uninvited by those strangling under its yoke, cannot and will not endure. Conservatives cannot stand idle while the false idol of liberalism consumes our democracy and excretes the very socialism, fascism and Marxism we spilled the blood of patriots to defeat since our founding.
Audacity of hope with a paucity of content is no substitute for our conservative core beliefs assailed at every turn by a leftist media driven to replace our democracy with a godless, amoral, secular pollacracy that panders to the lowest denominator and expectation of our great people. A media that prefers the electorate vote for an American Idol than the American ideal. It is the wolf in sheep's clothing that permeates and pollutes every election leaving a disgusted electorate the choice of two rotten evils rather than the best and brightest 300 million people can offer.
Thucydides wrote 2500 years ago states are better governed by the man in the streets because intellectuals want to appear smarter than the law and are more impressed with mere cleverness and a desire to show off their intelligence than abide with just laws. Conservatives must understand government takes it does not make. Big government is a hinderance to individual liberty. The expectation welfare trumps self reliance, socialism trumps individual initiative and needless intrusion in all areas of life provides a better outcome than hard work, is delusional at best and treasonous at worst. Individuals must be allowed to fail, and rise from the ashes, a government that pads every corner creates a nation of risk averse people unsuited to face the hard consequences of equally driven adversaries who seek our utter destruction.
We must fight to restore one man and one vote as the core of our democracy. We must drive special interests and lobbyists from the Halls of Congress as ruthlessly as Jesus drove money lenders from the Temple. We must demand a return to governance that means the protection of our borders, peoples and states not a welfare state that allows our homeland to fall to twenty million illegal aliens without firing a shot in defense of our democracy. We must repudiate government for special interests and commercial ventures. The government is not a charity. It cannot be all things to all people without bankrupting itself. Corporations are not citizens, they should pay their own way as surely as any individual does, no governement should build stadiums, pay subsidies or condemn private property for commercial gain. They should pay their taxes in full, why should taxpayers pay for their tax loopholes and deductions?
Government must cease spending for spendings sake. Earmarks, pork and needless bureacracies must be eliminated. Let the marketplace that demands such goods and services from the government to pay for them in full without fail. Stop all indirect taxation like federal tire excise taxes from World War Two that are still collected. Gas, cigarette and other hidden taxes should be repealed. Limit government spending to what it collects.
Eliminate the Federal Reserve. The United States should not pay interest to a private corporation controlled by banks to print its own currency. No bailouts. Period. Succeed or fail, nature abhors a vacuum even in a capitalist structure. The right to succeed must be balanced with an equal right to fail.
Social Security and Medicare funds happily looted by Congress for the past half century must be restored in full, those collected currently and in the future must be seperate and untouchable by elected officials. They cannot be trusted as stewards of finance given their overwhelming evidence of the short-sighted pigheaded greed in wasting trillions of dollars looted from taxpayers on the promise to repay in retirement. Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements they are obligations to the people who paid them. The same with trying to artificially raise the life expectancy of ouyr citizenry to delay paying those benefits.
Restrict government funding of education to reading, writing, arithmetic and science, if a school wants to teach anything else let the local school district and its taxpayers bear the entire expense. Teach those four things well and the literacy as well intellect of our nation will thrive. Unrestricted governement funds for every hairbrained scheme cooked up by tenure corrupted teachers unions are not guaranteed in the Constitution nor should they be borne by the taxpayers.
Conservatives face their finest hour. President Obama is not a failure of our ideals he is a symptom of sytemic collapse, a collapse that is reversible. These are the times that will try the conservative soul. A clarion call to action against those who worship a failed ideology, who stand on the slippery slope of moral relativity.
We must redefine our opposition to their policies for what they are, abortion isn't about a right to choose, it's an African American holocaust. While only 16% of the country, African Americans account for 35% of all abortions, 455,000 dead each and every year.
Define climate change for what it is, Chicken Little-ism, the sky isn't falling, nor is it superheated, no science, studies or facts support any of the climate change nonsense pedalled by liberals.
Contact your elected officials frequently, remind them of their debt to represent your view and the steps you'll take when they fail in their elected obligation. Hold them accountable for spending.
Take a stand before liberal fascism, political correctness defines your opposition as divisiveness, hate speech and partisanship. Do not temper your values to accomodate liberals.
Contact your newspaper, radio and TV stations when they espouse a liberal ideology or bias. Make them respond to their constituency. We are the majority, we will prevail and in time tell our grandchildren we did not shirk our patriotic duty.