The Far Left On the Cusp of Total Success
The century-long quest of liberals to impose a vision out of step with our Founders is almost achieved.
The gap between the Progressive Era and the 1960s was bridged by people like Margaret Sanger and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sanger gave us Planned Parenthood to speed up the move toward enlightenment by getting rid of the unwanted members of society, and Roosevelt gave us a government that dwarfed Wilson’s to such a degree that its shadow still covers us today.
In 1947 the left received a decisive victory from the Supreme Court in Everson vs. Board of Education, when Justice Hugo Black and company somehow discovered the separation of church and state in the Constitution a full 160 years after the document had been written.
With the 1960s came not only the promise of “free love” but also Democrat President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s promise of a free lunch through his push for a Great Society. The most expensive war in our nation’s history, the War on Poverty, was launched and has since been used as a justification for the pursuit of the redistribution of wealth by every Democrat president since Johnson.
The late 1960s and early 70s witnessed the rise of radicals like Tom Hayden and Bill Ayers. They sided with our enemy in the Vietnam War, and Ayers openly warred against the U.S. with homemade bombs. And while comrades like Hayden and Ayers were spitting on our troops and carrying on like terrorists, a myriad of other Leftists began entrenching themselves in academia. The goal of these academicians was to push for a multicultural society capable of supporting the left’s socialistic, mono-cultural dream at some future date.
In 1973 alone, the left succeeded in striking a deadly blow against the traditional family via Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that nationalized abortion and legalized today’s ubiquitous practice of abortion on demand.
During the 1980s, the left ratcheted up their anti-American efforts in education by replacing courses grounded in Western civilization with others based on a world history perspective. This tactic drew the ire of William Bennett and Lynn Cheney, both of whom argued that “the core of the American college curriculum — its heart and soul — should be the civilization of the West.” And Allan Bloom, author The Closing of the American Mind, reacted by pointing out that “feminists and leftists” were dead-set on “infusing into undergraduate education a cultural relativism” aimed at destroying the West’s rich intellectual heritage.
But the left kept rolling and now enjoy the fact that their posterity holds tenured positions at universities around the country. They hold political offices, lucrative journalistic positions, and public policy posts. In the tradition of Hayden and Ayers, many of them also take part in environmental activism and anti-war protests.
And all these past successes aside, the left may just now be poised to accomplish their greatest feats. For they have one of their own in the White House. He’s a real flesh and blood radical who has far more in common with Margaret Sanger and Bill Ayers than with George Washington or Thomas Jefferson.
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1. GA Knight:So…we’re screwed.
Jul 8, 2009 - 3:14 am 2. David Thomson:I’m 44 a 2-war veteran of my country and wow…the enemy has been in America all along.
Damn shame we come back, go to a institution of “higher” learning only to be taught we were wrong all along.
I can’t stand it any longer.
America’s last saving Grace, and I mean as in God’s Grace will be her military.
“Foreign AND Domestic” comes to mind.
Yeah, just about time.
“choice of humanism over Christianity”
One should also include the abandonment of traditional religious values of countless American Jews. Scholars like Will Herberg tried to stem the tide in the 1960s. It may be fair to describe most Jews today as Unitarian-Universalists who occasionally attend temple services on Jewish holidays. The secularist agenda has been adopted by many supposed adherents of the two dominant religious traditions comprising Western Civilization.
Naive Catholics like John Courtney Murray dropped their guard in the late 1950s. They assumed that an unassailable religious consensus existed in the United States. The situation worsened when American Catholics were conned into believing that one of their own had become president of the United States. John F. Kennedy was actually a committed secularist who paid mere lip service to Catholic values. Left-wing Democrats Arthur M. Schlesinger and John Kenneth Galbraith informed their fellow secularists that Kennedy was not a threat to them. I always get a laugh when reading how JFK convinced Protestant ministers that he was not going to impose a Catholic dictatorship on America. These clerics should have been far more concerned about Kennedy’s secularism.
Jul 8, 2009 - 3:17 am 3. scooby:AWR, I am glad that I had a up bringing that just taught me wrong from right and my parents learned from their parents. In the 60’s it all went to rat and I was born in 57 and I know. Family values went out the door because of the the liberal people who are now in control and they do not care about values or much less the Constitution or the American way of life.
Jul 8, 2009 - 3:43 am 4. Another Chuck:This tells half the awful tale. The other is the rise of the “company”, an entity to which Americans gave their loyalty in exchange for a job for life. Sounded like a good deal but there generations of Americans learned “not to rock the boat”, that whoever is higher on the org chart is better and wiser, and to prefer security to liberty. Additionally, we became consumers and ceased being citizens, which made the left’s work so much easier.
Jul 8, 2009 - 4:00 am 5. sodacrackers:A good start would be for all of us to begin home schooling. At least save the youngest among us.
One good thing about Obama being president is that many of us are becoming aware of what is going on in Washington, in education, and in “journalism,” and we are not going to take it lying down.
Jul 8, 2009 - 4:27 am 6. vivo:Some Pajamers don’t understand that the World is dynamic. People strive to be better. But many humans have limiting constraints, that’s why progress can be slow. Fortunately, knowledge can be spread faster now in the age of electronics.
Where are we going to be 10 years from now? 20?
We shouldn’t be thinking in terms of Left and Right. I rather think of Quality, Peace and Happiness.
Jul 8, 2009 - 5:01 am 7. elvis:So what’s left? Another civil war?
Jul 8, 2009 - 5:04 am 8. Tam:I see that even if we manage to beat back the leftists, I will continue to need to rub blue mud in my belly button so as to blend in with (and avoid the pogroms of) the people who seem to think that the U.S. Constitution is found somewhere between Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
Jul 8, 2009 - 5:21 am 9. RE:Tam,
‘I will continue to need to rub blue mud in my belly button so as to blend in with (and avoid the pogroms of) the people who seem to think that the U.S. Constitution is found somewhere between Leviticus and Deuteronomy.’
That’s a pretty stupid statement.
It’s more likely that you are held prisoner by the bogeymen of your own imagination. It’s only when you try to disrepectfully rub your crap in their faces that you are going to run into difficulties.
Jul 8, 2009 - 5:42 am 10. DaveinPhoenix:And they’ve succeeded with no role model. Even those on the left would be hard pressed to name one successful leftist entity anywhere on Earth. Americans deserve the government which they’ve chosen.
Jul 8, 2009 - 5:49 am 11. Mike2:Mr. Hawkins, you did well to point out how the Progressive Era led to what we have now. But, you missed what came before and that was the deliberate deconstruction of the Bible by the so-called “Higher Criticism” movement beginning in the late 1700’s. The first attack was on faith and then came the attack on freedom. The battle is still being fought.
Jul 8, 2009 - 5:57 am 12. Fred Beloit:One takes hope from the occasional news story hinting at the fall in Obama’s popularity, such as the story of this fall in Ohio.
Jul 8, 2009 - 6:05 am 13. COL. SEBASTIAN MORAN:However, onward Democrats. You elected Franken to the Senate through court activism and the favorable interpretation of mismarked ballots, like the bone readers of old who predicted the future by flipping bones. Let’s get some more show folk involved too: Babs Streisand, Bill Maher, J. Garofalo, Lewis Black, and Matt Damon would all make fine members of the world’s greatest deliberative body, the U.S. Senate. All it takes is a rented room in any Northeastern state. Heck, the thespians can carry on with their present careers at the same time because the Democrats keep demonstrating how they can vote for bills they don’t understand and haven’t even read.
GA KNIGHT.
Jul 8, 2009 - 6:13 am 14. Ed Wallis:#1
You , sir, are sooo right ! Thanks for your service.
S.M.
P.S. – If you’d like to see just where the Ursurper-in-
Chief is leading us, you might want to Google Cloward-Piven….quite an eye opener !
A nice ad on the topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI3QM_p73oI&feature=player_embedded
from : http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/08/video-nrsc-60/
Jul 8, 2009 - 6:25 am 15. Tam:RE:
“That’s a pretty stupid statement.
It’s more likely that you are held prisoner by the bogeymen of your own imagination. It’s only when you try to disrepectfully rub your crap in their faces that you are going to run into difficulties.”
I’ll remember that when I want to buy some beer this Sunday. I’ll ask the bogeyman of my imagination if he’d please just unlock the store and ring up my purchases, or I’ll rub my “crap” in his face.
Jul 8, 2009 - 6:34 am 16. 1MPTomb:Mike 2- Yes, that battle is still being faught, and will never end. The Bible says Christians will be persecuted until He comes back to earth. It’s only just beginning. “Buckle up, brothers and sisters, it’s going to be a bumpy ride”!
Jul 8, 2009 - 6:39 am 17. AThinkingPerson:Nice article but me thinks you give way too much credit to the Left actually having enough brain cells to actively plan this out. As shown by our current hot mess George W. Obama, he randomly swings from moderate to liberal and back again with his finger in the wind waiting for the next polling numbers. Besides, does anyone really think the likes of Pelosi, Reid and Frank actually think about 10 years down the road let alone next week? Nope. It’s all instant gratification and kickbacks with the unthinking Left.
The problem lies in that whenever a decision is to be made, the Left always makes the wrong choice because they never put country before party. Shame for all of us who have to toil under their tax and spend leadership.
Jul 8, 2009 - 6:45 am 18. WR Jonas:What happens is we become a socialist Nation populated by an ever increasing number of people who believe that secular /humanist thought and pragmatism prevail at all times. Their failure will never be exposed. All of our children are now nearly indoctrinated and opposition will be outlawed .
Jul 8, 2009 - 6:46 am 19. WhyamInotsurprised?:Those who believe in God will continue to be trivialized and ignored.
Our economic destruction is assured. We become a defeated nation that refused to recognize the termite problem in our foundation for the last fifty years.
But ,have heart. God will not be mocked . He made all of this and at some point he will deal with it. Our individual responsibility is to remain true to God and believe that Satan will be destroyed and man will be redeemed through Jesus Christ.
#15 tam – WTF? You are an idiot! Sounds like you’ve already had a case too many brewski’s. Cut him off, don’t open the store, don’t sell him any more alcohol, he might hurt himself.
Jul 8, 2009 - 6:59 am 20. William:This is one of your best pieces Hawkins. Thanks for showing the evolution of this mess we’re currently in. I feel a little relieved to know that it’s not just the current crop of conservatives who have failed – we’ve been failing for a century.
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:00 am 21. WhyamInotsurprised?:The libtards fail to recognize that all civilizations pass into history, including those run by dictators, tyrants, communists, socialists, marxists, nazi’s, facists, etc. Their glory too, should they achieve it, will also pass.
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:01 am 22. Trainwreck:I am not sure if it was Kruschev or Stalin who said that (I paraphrase): all we need is a generation or two of America’s youth and we will destroy her system of capitalist democracy. We are now on the cusp of that destruction. Since the 1960’s, the left has been doing the long march through our entertainment industry and educational institutions, while conservatives have essentially given up on these, and provided little resistance to such profound changes.
In the past week, participation in the Michael Jackson funeral was much greater than participation in any tea party, and MJ’s death and subsequent memorial service gained infinitely more media attention than the deaths of our soldiers in afghanistan, the passage of a massive tax bill under the guise of junk science (”climate change”), or any tea party.
The socialist revolution is complete, and most Americans will be satieted by endless government handouts and mindless entertainment, and could care less about what is happening to this country. Just think of the Roman Empire in its last days, with barbarians at the gate and citizens kept happy with bread and circuses.
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:06 am 23. Bonner:This is sickening stuff. It’s embarassing to see how we’ve sat on the sidelines while the Left has systematically progressed. It’s only gonna get worse if we fail to stand now. I am forwarding this piece to my Senator so they can see that the push for universal healthcare did not arise from a vacuum.
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:07 am 24. RandyChandler:The irony is that their total success must necessarily end in complete collapse and utter failure because their flawed system contains the seeds of its own destruction.
Shocking as it may seem, the typical American has no idea what’s going on. Afraid of missing a single beat of the Michael Jackson Funeral Show of race hustlers and ego ghouls, John and Jane Q. Citizen would think you should be wearing a tinfoil hat if you tried to tell them of the systematic dismantling of American democracy. Call them John and Jane Clueless.
We’re in the endgame now. Whichever way things fall, they will shatter when they hit. Who will pick up the pieces?
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:10 am 25. Middleman:Sky is falling rubbish.
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:22 am 26. HLH:The concerted push to destroy this country has long been evident to even the casual observer, but the details here still shake me up a bit. And like the post by “Bonner” I am sickened at our failure to stand strong enough against it to stop it. I hope we will stand now. It seems we must.
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:26 am 27. Stevemmn:There is one saving grace to this mess, it is the bankruptcy and incompetence of the liberal agenda and liberals themselves. Whenever liberals attain the power to make massive changes they create such a disaster that they are quickly kicked out of office. The last 3 times Democrats had full control of government, 1992-1994, 1976-1980, and 1964-1968 (the 1960-1964 congress was democrat in name only) they lost it within 4 years or less. With the most ultra hard-left government in history spending the country into oblivion this time promises to be no different.
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:42 am 28. Saltherring:vivo @ 6 sataes, “But many humans have limiting constraints..” True. An example would be leftists, who lack brains.
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:46 am 29. Oldguy:The success of the left insures their failure. The USSR didn’t last a century. China is already moving away from hard socialist control. The pilgrim experiment with collectivism in America lasted one year(Of Plymouth Plantation).
Jul 8, 2009 - 8:03 am 30. Professor Guvinoff:Most of these socialist schemes come and go within a single lifetime and the quicker they come, the quicker they go. Let your heart not be troubled, this country is armed so it will be over quickly
A civilization rises against probability, and falls with it. To be on the left is to have chosen to milk the fall, and therefore willfully accelerate the mindless momentum, to get even more propulsion out of it.
Bottom line, doing the work of the devil is only chasing cheap thrills, and by the way, yes!, it works, as far as that goes. But, what a coincidence, the surfers of the downward spiral are precisely those who are lost and petrified whenever a real challenge is in front of them. Just think of Maureen Dowd’s chronic inability to find a husband if you are looking for a concrete example.
This is why today’s military men and women will be tomorrow’s leaders: They have learned to confront challenges instead of running away from them. This is also why Sarah Palin is so energizing to the concerned citizenry: They recognize a real fighter when they see one! By stepping down from the “throne”, she outmaneuvers the fanatics of destruction.
The supreme leader of the left is today’s POTUS, the fanatic who undertook to destroy everything American, whith all the “support” (words, only words) of the misbegotten elite. Are you sure he cannot fall? Did you notice he systematically shrinks from all the challenges? How long can he keeps this “up”?
Jul 8, 2009 - 8:10 am 31. Mike W.:AWR Hawkins: “In a precursor to the current smoking and trans-fat bans sweeping through our nation, Prohibition was passed, outlawing the manufacture and sale of all alcohol. The government that could limit income through taxation was proving it could also limit beverage choices — for the good of the public, of course.”
Nice try, chief, but Prohibition was a conservative Christian movement not a leftist one. Either you’re ignorant of this or are just throwing out bull**** on the wall and hoping that your ignorant readership doesn’t know the history, which is a pretty safe bet. Either way, you just proved that in most cases conservative Christians are just as anti-freedom and pro-State control as leftists. Nice job.
Jul 8, 2009 - 8:15 am 32. skydiver:Funny, how all the people forgot the story and lessons of USSR. Those of us, who were born there, lived there and know what is at states, and were lucky enough to get free and come to US, would never believed that this horror can happen here.
That is why former Russians vote republicans, but we are so few.No one wants to hear the story.
I guess, people deserve these kings.
Jul 8, 2009 - 8:25 am 33. Concealed Carry Carol:Aren’t we tired of being the silent majority yet? We should be protesting (peacefully) in the streets all the way to Washington, D. C.
Jul 8, 2009 - 8:31 am 34. WR Jonas:I am tired of having to be “politically correct”. Are you with me? We all need to take responsibilty and flood our senators and congressmen with letters, e-mails and phone calls and tell them we will vote them out of office if they don’t change their voting habits.
While the temperance movement found a home in Christian churches its moralistic foundation actually planted the seeds of “progressiveism “in our national political consciousness. All of the zealotry and anger women brought to the temperance movement culminated in the 18th amendment.
Jul 8, 2009 - 8:49 am 35. seeker:When that failed the progressive attitude fostered legislative reform as a political tool through populism in the early 20th century. From that beginning we have the Liberal/Socialist movement thouroughly in control of the Democratic Party today. There were many other pivotal points along the way but in short review thats were we are today.
we gripe, and gripe, and gripe…and then go elect the SAME people to office year after year after year after……
Jul 8, 2009 - 8:53 am 36. Saltherring:Carol @ 33: The groundswell is growing as Americans wake up to realize what they’ve done. We have stood by and watched as extreme leftists have taken over academia, our education system, the news media, and now the federal government. The next few months could be interesting indeed, as (hopefully) public concern turns into outrage.
Jul 8, 2009 - 8:55 am 37. blotto:MikeW: No the movement was supported by the Anti-Saloon League which,”The League was a non-partisan organization that focused on the single issue of prohibition. http://prohibition.osu.edu/asl/default.cfm
The WTCU was led by Frances Willard: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/temperance/p/frances_willard.htm
For from being a, …conservative Christian movement…” it was a woman’s movement-sort of a precursor to NOW.
I could go to further rebut your inane post as I have done in the past, but it is fruitless and frustrating. You have not the intellectual capacity nor a lucid brain willing to see and believe truth. Truth means little to you on the left; it is all about power.
Oh, and forget the “peace” sign off. It really is quite childish. As if you really believe in peace and fought for it.
Jul 8, 2009 - 9:00 am 38. Moogie:Here I go again, leaving resources for those who simply cannot see what is happening here.
The History of Political Correctness
The Cloward-Piven Strategy
Bezmenov and the Demoralization of America
And last, but certainly NOT least: The Shadow Party
It is my fervent wish that people would take the time to educate themselves about what is actually happening in our country.
Thank you AWR Hawkins for providing this information. What was once the fodder for conspiracy theorists is now actual fact – the steps being taken are no longer covert as the operatives are now emboldened by their win in the White House. Yes, middleman, the sky really is falling.
Jul 8, 2009 - 9:08 am 39. RE:It seems that the Obama approach is to avoid a direct assault on freedom, liberty, and choice by spending us into a form of economic slavery in which our freedom, liberty, and choice will be lost just the same.
And the Obamabot kiddies seem quite willing to sell their souls for the false promise of ‘free stuff’.
Jul 8, 2009 - 9:12 am 40. Toronto Girl:#2 David Thomson:
It may be fair to describe most Jews today as Unitarian-Universalists who occasionally attend temple services on Jewish holidays.
REALLY? That kind of broad statement is fair? Do you have the stats to back up thatup?
Jul 8, 2009 - 9:18 am 41. Dabo:A very well writen article. Historically informative. Dr. Hawkins has shown us that our arrivial at this zenith of socialistic incompetence started almost 100 years ago. However we have seen an dramatic escalation since the occupation of the White House and the two houses of congress.
Jul 8, 2009 - 9:42 am 42. sheesh:Gary, the Conservative. Gabe, the liberal. Together, the reason liberals are in power and will stay in power.
http://strangerthaneviction.tumblr.com/
Jul 8, 2009 - 9:47 am 43. Ink:I thought the Book of Numbers was between Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Tam must have gone to public school
Jul 8, 2009 - 9:49 am 44. Frank:Prohibition was a pre-cursor to the current authoritarian war on drugs.
The difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals seek to force the people into a servile state in which they are forced to work toward what they arbitrarily decide is the greater good, while conservatives simply seek to stop the people from engaging in self destructive behaviours that the they arbitrarily decide are bad for society.
Liberals are totalitarian, Conservatives are authoritarian
Jul 8, 2009 - 9:54 am 45. Carol/la:We went from Obama hates the US economy to Israel..huh??
We agree..the sky really is falling..
#38 thanks!!
Jul 8, 2009 - 9:57 am 46. maak:17. AThinkingPerson: “Nice article but me thinks you give way too much credit to the Left actually having enough brain cells to actively plan this out.”
Please don’t think they are stupid and will eventually mess up. Those in power know exactly what they’re doing and the American Idol watching sheeple have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the public schools and liberal universities. They absolutely adore Obama and are very proud they put him in office. They will overlook his mistakes. We can’t wait in dreary resignation for the Liberals to mess up. 2010 2012
Jul 8, 2009 - 10:12 am 47. blotto:Frank: Too simplistic but I’ll play. So we conservatives think homosexuality is bad and want people to not engage in this. Okay, it is still one of the three best ways to transmit HIV. I could care less if you want to be homosexual, but I should not have to suffer the unintended or intended consequences of your damaging lifestyle. Want to do drugs; fine but again when it affects me, I should have a say so on its legality… Believe in abortion fine but I should not have to pay for it, nor the damage it does to a woman afterwards. Believe in open borders and multiculturalism, fine, but I should not have to pay the increased taxes it takes for their education, welfare, hospitalization and crime.
So it seems to me that being a conservative, even using your simple terms, is a much better path to living a good life and helping America be the best nation it can be.
By the way there is no real difference between authoritarian and totalitarian. Both seek to govern by force. So nice try on the play with words game. But not relevant to the topic.
Toronto Girl: Do you have stats to disprove his statement? Do you not think American Jews are not the most screwed up sub group in America based on their voting patterns. They vote for a party that continually and increasingly shows contempt for them especially on college campuses. They vote for a party that actively seeks the vote of another sub group that wants to see them eradicated from the earth-Muslims. They vote against a party that seeks at its core to protect Israel and sees Israel and Judiasm as the foundation for American Catholicism and Christianity. Can you answer these paradoxical machinations of the American Jews?
Jul 8, 2009 - 10:21 am 48. maak:44. Frank: “…while conservatives simply seek to stop the people from engaging in self destructive behaviours that the they arbitrarily decide are bad for society. Liberals are totalitarian, Conservatives are authoritarian.”
There are different kinds of conservatives and different factions of the Republican Party. I don’t think this applies to libertarian leaning conservatives or Libertarians. I do think Bush had an authoritarian way about him (which drove Liberals nuts) but he didn’t represent the whole Republican Party and besides, Bush… is… gone.
Jul 8, 2009 - 10:25 am 49. Joe Bison:All that socialism is good at is destruction.
Once in power it fails and fails totally
because it is built on lies and nonsense.
The American socialists are like those who
criticize an apple with some blemishes on it
(many the result of their policies) while
promising a perfectly shiny one. As
history shows all that they will do is
turn the blemished apple into a rotten
one waiting to fall off the tree.
A dedicated communist professor once
Jul 8, 2009 - 10:25 am 50. Eric:told the class that the ground for
revolution becomes fertile when the rising
expectations of the populace is met with a
serious setback. I guess this setback
could be psychological as much as economic
and manufactured as much as natural.
I’m armed and ready for a civil war. Not kidding. No hyperbole. I’m not a redneck with a HS diploma.
I’m a US Navy vet with a BS in engineering and an MBA.
I will not, I repeat, I will not become a slave to the government nor to the unproductive leeches our government has produced through decades of social programs. I will fight them in the streets first.
Liberals are by and large unarmed cowards so crushing them shouldn’t take long.
The alternative is an amicable splitting of the country into two halves, with Leftists to one side and those of us that demand small government, liberty, capitalism, and strong defense to the other.
It won’t take long for the Left’s country to collapse under its own weight. Their ideology is simply unsustainable.
Conservatives don’t need Liberals but Liberals need Conservatives. Without us they wouldn’t have the money to support their ideology.
Jul 8, 2009 - 10:35 am 51. GA Knight:@ #13 Col. Moran,
Thank you sir, and thank you too for your own service.
I’ve read up on the Cloward-Piven strategy here:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6967
All too plausible, and were I strategy guy, I’d say it’s fully been implemented, we have only to see the initial phase.
Jul 8, 2009 - 10:37 am 52. Mongoose:I’m a simple guy though. Take an oath, and mean it.
I don’t really have a problem separating BS from truth. The other side’s problem is that they truly believe their own BS.
I’ll pray for them AND keep the powder dry.
Sheeeh: You have no idea what this means to you. You think that you are in the Socialist elite. You are not. You are one of the peons. When the people have been stripped of their rights, you will be naked before these tyrants. You think that they care about you. They do not. They hate you to the bone. You are just a slave to them. Subhuman. You will be enslaved. In a few years time when your childishness blows away and you are forced into adulthood you will see this. When that day comes you are look straight in the mirror at what your foolishness has brought on yourself and your country and you will detest yourself.
All of these programs–energy, health care—they are not about what you think they are. They are about stealing people’s wealth and enslaving them. Once they have totally destroyed the rule of law and seized all that wealth and frittered it away. You will not get health care, you will not get energy. You will end up in poverty and suffering. You very seriously need to talk to someone who lived in E. Europe during the Soviet years. They will tell what happened, These things are inevitable under a socialist system.
You can scoff all you want, but in time that will become so bitter in your mouth.
Conservatives are right. Stick to limited government and the Constitution and roll back the Socialist State. You mock conservatives but they are one who wish to aave the Republic. Yuu do not understand what you are mocking. You think that this is some sort of game. It is not a game. One day you will see that but it will be to late for all of us when you do. You will have to live with your part in the destruction of your country and civilization. It will be pure barbarity.
You are headed for a bitter life. You narcissism is hiding it from you now, but one day that narcissism will vanish. Get control of it now before it is too late.
Jul 8, 2009 - 11:23 am 53. Mike W.:47. blotto: “Toronto Girl: Do you have stats to disprove his statement? Do you not think American Jews are not the most screwed up sub group in America based on their voting patterns. They vote for a party that continually and increasingly shows contempt for them especially on college campuses. They vote for a party that actively seeks the vote of another sub group that wants to see them eradicated from the earth-Muslims. They vote against a party that seeks at its core to protect Israel and sees Israel and Judiasm as the foundation for American Catholicism and Christianity. Can you answer these paradoxical machinations of the American Jews?
As Ayn Rand and many more intelligent people have claimed throughout history, Jews are the canary in the coal mine of civilization. Jews have survived thousands of years of oppression and hatred at the hands of people like yourself who are always trying to view them as “screwed up”. And they have survived, and thrived, in spite of this bigotry, by being shrewd observers of the social and political changes in the wind, and by always knowing who their real friends are.
You look at a Republican party devoid of Jews and in typical right-wing fashion assume that this means that there is something wrong with the Jews.
A rational person would look at this situation and assume that because a 6,000 year-old nation of shrewd and industrious survivors wants nothing to do with the GOP, this means there is something wrong with the GOP.
Israel is not the only issue that is important to the Jews. Oppressing and hating Muslims is certainly not a value that most Jews share with southern conservative Christians. By continuing to believe that your party should be able to lockdown Jewish votes by waving the Israeli flag and torturing Muslims, you not only insult the Jews, but you answer your own stupid question:
There are no “paradoxical machinations” besides those perpetrated by the GOP. The GOP stupidly thinks they can win Jewish votes by constantly threatening to bomb Iran, as if starting WWIII in the Middle East would benefit Israel. They think they can win Jewish votes by saying they fly an Israeli flag in their congressional offices. But the truth is, the real reason that the GOP supports Israel is because the evolution-denying knuckle draggers who lead the GOP believe that Israel must be held by the Jews in order for Super Jesus to come down and start the Pay Per View Armageddon Cage Match.
To put it in simpler terms, the Jews are generally an intelligent people with a knack for seeing through duplicitous bull****. And the GOP in its current state is generally full of duplicitous bull****.
The canary has fled the toxic coal mine that is the GOP, and instead of wondering what poisonous fumes have compelled the canary to flee, you’re castigating the bird as ungrateful and “screwed up”. Keep your judgments to yourself. The Jews will continue to survive and thrive, as they have for the last 6,000 years. You, on the other hand, ought to get yourself a gas mask.
Jul 8, 2009 - 12:05 pm 54. Roderick Reilly:“”"”"”Nice try, chief, but Prohibition was a conservative Christian movement not a leftist one. “”"”"”
No, nice try for YOU, Mike W. as you only got it half right. The progressives were very much a part of the Prohibition effort, and tied prohibition in with the effort to get women the vote. As for the Christian activists, they were involved with the suffragist movement as well. Also, was the Christian activism back then really “conservative?” Prohibition was the perfect storm of American social policy, with statist busybodies from both the right and left joining forces to impose their will on the general public.
Mike, you do inadvertently raise a valid point about the authors interpretation of which side of the ideological divide (as defined today) progressivism lies in our past history. The underlying issue — even below ideology — is the greed for power and the need for control, coupled with a delusion that man is perfectable. The early 20th century was a roiling stew of activism drawing its adherents from Christian social crusades (NOT to be confused with fundamentalist Christianity as defined today, by the way), and Marxist-inspired social activism from progressives. Has anyone here ever heard of “Chritian Socialists?” Sounds bizzare, but there was such a movement a 100 years ago. A Christian Socialist gave us the pledge of allegiance, complete with the fascist salute later borrowed by Mussolini. In the meanwhile, out-and-out socialists like John Dewey and others gave us our public (”government”) schools system, and he had utter contempt for the average American. Leftists like Margaret Sanger and progressives like Woodrow Wilson were virulent racists. Sanger was even a murderous one.
The greed for power and control of the social, political and economic agenda are the enemies of freedom. It just so happens that the American Left as it has evolved is the most succesful practitioner of this travesty.
Jul 8, 2009 - 12:21 pm 55. Fairbanks99:#50, Eric, I’m with you. Also a Navy vet, armed and ready. Molon Labe!
Jul 8, 2009 - 12:29 pm 56. cheryl:#38 Thanks for directing me to those websites. I am educating myself on what’s going down in this country as we speak. My son has read these sites and he’s also put it on My Space for his friends to read. I think if more and more people become informed, we may be able to turn the tide.
Jul 8, 2009 - 12:36 pm 57. William:First off, after reading through the posts here let me say “thanks” to all you vets. We appreciate your service. Let me also say that reading your posts makes me even more ashamed of my country right now, as we have a president who has no respect for the sacrifice our military men and women have made throughout the years. This piece by Hawkins makes it clear that that the Left’s agenda has been so successful thus far. I hope we have the courage to stand now; to stand and stop the onslaught.
Jul 8, 2009 - 12:40 pm 58. naftali:The fact is, the left has been working hard at this 24/7. Really, that’s all we are seeing, the results of hard work.
But conservatism hasn’t been as clearly and simply defined as–for instance, The Communist Manifesto. Another reason for the Left’s success is because for many years, until the widespread use of the internet and other such technology that made the power of factories available to just about everyone and could fit in one room of a house, the cost of producing goods to sell was prohibitive. For Marx, there had to be a revolution to take the means of production, now the means can be bought at Radio Shack.
All that is needed is a formulation of conservative principles, a desire to teach economics properly, and the kind of networking and organization building that the Left has done so well. Look at how many people walking around who have virtually no knowledge of economics–that isn’t the fault of the Left.
Marx made his bones showing that Adam Smith was wrong–that’s what Das Kapital was about. Now someone has to teach that Marx was wrong and Milton Friedman was correct. But it’s a matter of creating the organizations, getting the funding, and hiring the legs on the ground.
And, besides Marx and Friedman, why are and other Jews even relevant to this discussion?
You want to say we’re slow on the uptake? Fine. We’ve always been slow on the uptake. I mean since Moses, a little slow on the uptake. But it works for us in a very ironic way. That, however, is a spiritual discussion, not a political/economic discussion.
Jul 8, 2009 - 12:45 pm 59. ricpic:Do not for one moment think that the achievement of their statist dream will satisfy leftists. The closer they come to full realization the more enraged they will become. Then the killing will begin in earnest. Think it can’t happen here? Human nature is universal and the thirst for control only masks the thirst for human blood. Abortion is just a warm up. Watch and learn. The hard way.
Jul 8, 2009 - 1:09 pm 60. Mike W.:50. Eric: “Liberals are by and large unarmed cowards so crushing them shouldn’t take long.”
What kind of scumbag shoots unarmed civilians?
This is exactly why they put nutcases like you on homeland security watch lists.
You’re no patriot. You’re just a psychopath with violent fantasies. I’m sure Stalin would get a kick out of you.
Jul 8, 2009 - 1:12 pm 61. NC Mountain Girl:I very much doubt a certain chamoole knows much about the South, Republicans or religious fundamentalists from all the nonsense he spouts. The fact is that a great many bible thumpers have been Democrats for generations now for the same reason so many Jews are Democrats: From the time they were dandled on their grandparents’ knees they were fed the story that Republicans treat people like them as shtik drek. The only difference is the bubbeh’s told them the Republicans were all rich, stuck up WASPs while the grannies told then they were rich, stuck up Yankees.
I know because I was surrounded by such Jews in Chicago and I am surrounded by bible thumpers here.
Jul 8, 2009 - 1:22 pm 62. Jeffrey:We’ve already seen the Devils final solution and it’s results. Germany will never go down that road again no matter what may come neither will Japan. The socialists in this country have never personally learned that lesson, able to live in denial all of these years somehow thinking they could still do socialism right if only they could tweak this or tweak that. (They have always wanted the power of mans government to replace God) This time the results will be the same but only for the leftists in this country and their buddies around the world. They will be wiped off the face of the Earth forever along with their master, destroyed in their confusion by own their own hand as a result of their deeds to date.
Jul 8, 2009 - 1:24 pm 63. steeple:We have finally come to this place in the good old USA;
“All of us growl like bears,
And moan sadly like doves;
We hope for justice, but there is none,
For salvation, but it is far from us.
For our transgressions are multiplied before You,
And our sins testify against us;
For our transgressions are with us,
And we know our iniquities:
Transgressing and denying the LORD,
And turning away from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.
Justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands far away;
For truth has stumbled in the street,
And uprightness cannot enter.
Yes truth is lacking;
And he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey
Now the LORD saw,
And it was displeasing in His sight that there was no justice.
And He saw that there was no man,
And was astonished that there was no one to intercede;”
Which of these things can be denied? This is where we are and it was expected that we would end up this way.
There is provision set in place which is aready in motion and it will be even harder to bear then the pain we have already suffered.
Lord have mercy on the innocent and those that are His.
Let me second William 57’s honoring of our vets.
Mongoose 1 Sheesh 0 and Mongoose is still at bat.
Jul 8, 2009 - 1:31 pm 64. Marc Malone:#52 Mongoose – Excellent post. It was very much an adult speaking to a teenager. I use that no-nonsense, this-is-not-a-game tone when calling my kids on the carpet. Well done!
As for it being all on the Left, it is true that many on the Right do some of these things… because they don’t know they belong on the Left. Look at McCain. He doesn’t even know he’s actually a Conservative Democrat. He and Lieberman are two peas in a pod. Of course, Lieberman is an Independent now, because the Socialists have driven him out. That’s what the Conservatives mean by RINO’s: Dems who think they’re Republicans. They’re here, because there’s no room for them in the Dem Party anymore.
As for the Jews, they are not survivors. After thousands of years, their numbers are still miniscule. They are always finding themselves enslaved and powerless, and even slaughtered. God has to intervene to save their raggedy behinds. The moment they get a little freedom and prosperity, they turn their backs on God and their belief systems, and soon find themselves in shackles again, or worse.
Look at Israel. Surrounded by active enemies who actually shell them. Targeted by terrorists. Yet many of them never learn. Leftist thinking is stronger there than here! Jews somehow manage to grow old without learning and becoming more Conservative. They are just as Leftist and naive as in their youth… a seeming impossibility. (It happens with the Gentiles, too, but the Gentiles have no avowed enemy as do the Jews.)
Fortunately, there does exist a hard core of believers, and they are on the Right. Without that core, Israel would have disappeared some time ago. The way for the Muslims to destroy Israel is to leave Israel alone for a generation; not one attack. The Leftists will dominate, and they’ll be ripe for the plucking.
Jul 8, 2009 - 1:36 pm 65. Marc Malone:#60 Mike W – Where did you see him advocate for shooting unarmed civilians? He simply stated that crushing the Leftists wouldn’t take long. Basically, they will cower back from the guns, being unwilling to wield one themselves in the face of armed opposition. (Some butt-strokes might be in order, however.)
Jul 8, 2009 - 1:56 pm 66. Arius:36. Saltherring:
You are right that we have stood by and watched the long march of the Left through all American cultural institutions. Note that once the Left has seized complete control it protects its control by any and all means. It has now seized complete control of the US government, and therefore the entire US economy. Before Obama was elected there were stories coming out of Democrat circles that they intended this time to cut off the legs of the opposition so that no opposition recovery could take place for decades. This is their main agenda – complete control and complete destruction of the opposition.
Dark days are ahead.
Jul 8, 2009 - 1:59 pm 67. chris in Toronto:Here’s another name for those who want to educate themselves: Antonio Gramsci
Jul 8, 2009 - 2:11 pm 68. Scooby:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramsci
The originator of “the long march through the institutions.”
I will raise the alarm again: REAL attention and objection to ACORN being involved in the census needs to happen now.
If ACORN succeeds in its objectives of counting “those in the shadows”, ie: making up numbers that favor liberals, our congressional districts will fall to redistricting and our election process will no longer reflect the American people.
This is an extremely critical issue and I hope people pay attention to it and start voicing their concerns.
Jul 8, 2009 - 2:28 pm 69. tom:And best of all a landslide in elections thanks to the utter ineptness of W. Time to look in the mirror, boys and girls.
#50 I’m armed and ready too. Bring it on, biatch!
Jul 8, 2009 - 2:36 pm 70. Moogie:#56 cheryl: You’re welcome! Please spread those videos and the articles around. The more who know, the more power we have.
#58 naftali: We DO have a “Conservative Manifesto” – it’s called The Constitution of the United States. A nice commentary to the Constitution can be found in Mark Levin’s book “Libery and Tyranny – a Conservative Manifesto.” Here’s an old Friedman gem that you’ve likely seen before.
Jul 8, 2009 - 2:45 pm 71. Joshua:OK, time for me to put on my devil’s advocate hat one more time.
Suppose that the American people somehow manage to (1) muster up enough will to revolt against the Left, (2) actually defeat the Left, and (3) avoid the fate of numerous other countries that have had revolutions, only to discover that the new boss is the same or worse than the old one. All three of these are tall orders to say the least, but for argument’s sake let’s say America manages to pull them all off.
How, then, do we prevent future generations from repeating the same cycle, thereby rendering moot everything we will have fought for? The Constitutional system designed by the Founding Fathers was supposed to solve that problem. We all know how that’s turned out. It did make it harder for the Left to triumph, and took them decades as opposed to years, but in the end they still triumphed.
A wise man once said that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Well, it seems to me the Left has triumphed in no small part because no one’s bothered to ask, just what is the price of eternal vigilance? That is, how much blood, treasure, hard work, stains on our consciences, and other sacrifices must we endure to keep tyranny at bay? If even a supposedly freedom-loving people like ours finds that price to be too damned high, is it any wonder that we find ourselves where we are today – and is there any real hope at all that lasting liberty can ever be resurrected?
I ask all of this because if there is to be another American revolution, I’d hate to think its ultimate effect would be merely to kick the can down the road another 200-odd years, if not much sooner, before a third one becomes necessary.
Jul 8, 2009 - 2:46 pm 72. Moogie:Scooby – I’m not a law professor or anything sophisticated like that, but isn’t it kind of unconstitutional for Obama to have delegated the management of the census to a political organization?
Jul 8, 2009 - 2:50 pm 73. sheesh:50 Eric . . . “I will not become a slave to the government nor to the unproductive leeches our government has produced”
What does that mean, exactly? What is it going to take for you to arm yourself and storm the neighborhood? And what does THAT mean, exactly? Are you going to run down the street firing indiscriminately? Are you going to crouch on a highway overpass and shoot at cars? Are you going to climb a tower on some college campus? Assemble a crack squad of black-faced commandoes to creep through Hollywood and pick off movie stars?
Yeah, answer those two questions hotshot . . . . what’s it going to take and what are you going to do? When you actually start to think about it, you can’t answer those questions. Just more “Chuck Norris stars in Tea Party Part Deux” fantasy bullshit. Save that crap for your fishing buddies.
Jul 8, 2009 - 3:31 pm 74. naftali:#64 Marc Malone–you’re right. What a loser incompetent God. It’s not like God’s omniscient or anything. Are you lobbying for the job? Good luck.
#70 Moogie–Okay. I think I have a rudimentary understanding of Friedman. Believe me, I am in a small minority, very small. The question is how are you going to teach this to many. I am not the target audience.
Jul 8, 2009 - 3:33 pm 75. Conservative Mom:6 Vivo
“Some Pajamers don’t understand that the World is dynamic. People strive to be better. But many humans have limiting constraints, that’s why progress can be slow. Fortunately, knowledge can be spread faster now in the age of electronics.
Where are we going to be 10 years from now? 20?
We shouldn’t be thinking in terms of Left and Right. I rather think of Quality, Peace and Happiness.”
Yes, you can tell throughout history how wonderful mankind is, there is no misuse of power or corruption in all the old societies of the world. And now in the US. Oh I forgot, your shining leader from Chicago is “different”. Vivo is the classic example of our socially educated youth who will one day learn all he needs to about “limiting constraints”.
Jul 8, 2009 - 3:44 pm 76. abi:#70 sent your references out to other postings..thanks!!
Jul 8, 2009 - 4:14 pm 77. RE:73. sheesh:
What does that mean, exactly? What is it going to take for you to arm yourself and storm the neighborhood? And what does THAT mean, exactly?
It probably means that – like for a great many other Americans – Eric will go back and read our founding documents and Constitution, contrast it to out current abomination of a government and discover there’s a solid basis for going Jeffersonian on the like the likes of you anti-constitutional control freaks.
Or he just might might go John Galt and help starve the parasites of your ilk.
Time will tell.
But the natives are getting restless. No doubt about that.
Jul 8, 2009 - 5:21 pm 78. venividivici:50. Eric:
I’m armed and ready for a civil war. Not kidding. No hyperbole. I’m not a redneck with a HS diploma.
I’m a US Navy vet with a BS in engineering and an MBA.
I will not, I repeat, I will not become a slave to the government nor to the unproductive leeches our government has produced through decades of social programs. I will fight them in the streets first.
Liberals are by and large unarmed cowards so crushing them shouldn’t take long.
The alternative is an amicable splitting of the country into two halves, with Leftists to one side and those of us that demand small government, liberty, capitalism, and strong defense to the other.
It won’t take long for the Left’s country to collapse under its own weight. Their ideology is simply unsustainable.
Conservatives don’t need Liberals but Liberals need Conservatives. Without us they wouldn’t have the money to support their ideology.
With the exception of vet status (I applied to an officers’ program but wasn’t accepted), I could have written this exact post, even down to the money part (ever ask a lefty why, if they’re so right and we’re so wrong, they don’t just agree to split the country? Their silence is f*cking deafening). Agree 100%.
Jul 8, 2009 - 5:23 pm 79. Dr Strangelove:1. GA Knight:
BRAVO! – ‘against all enemies, foreign and domestic.’ Retired Air Force myself and I’m hoping the JCS are taking note of what is transpiring.
Jul 8, 2009 - 5:30 pm 80. Butterfly Mornings and Wildflower Afternoons:Here I am in the fly over country as you all like to call it, and I am here to tell you that the conservatives here are behind Sarah Palin. I know she is respected and loved, and I am here to tell you that Obama is over, he is over, and you cannot have so many showing up for these tea parties and have a Democratic Congress in 2010. It is over for them. Will it be too late in 2010 when the Republicans win seats? I do not think so; the Republicans will just have to fix things once again. It will not be long now, because time flies and the Republican Party will have control in 2010.
Jul 8, 2009 - 6:03 pm 81. venividivici:Here I am a conservative in my little conservative town I love and I am listening to Michael Jackson, because like it or not many conservatives loved his music. I have not listened to his music in years, and I have not followed his shenanigans, but I was sad to hear of his death.
The Republican Party needs to stop being so judgmental. It is a sin to judge people and that is not my place. I know we will have our judgment before God one day.
I agree with this article. Why are you so sad today? I have not watched the American Communist news today, so has something happen today?
We do not have long before Republicans control congress, if I was a gambler I would make a bet, but I am not.
I am quoting Stillwell Darling on “A League of Their Own” today to the Democrats, “YOUR GONNA LOSE, YOUR GONNA LOSE”, because they are going to lose.
Shorter version of sheesh @73:
“Let me just put one more straw on this camel’s back. It can’t hurt.”
First of all, like anyone’s going to tell you their plans, if they have any. You are clearly “the enemy”. Secondly, 90% of preparation is mental. If you’d ever done anything competitive you’d know that. Only, this sort of thing isn’t a game with a set schedule. It’s not like in Ancient Greece where they’d have mano-a-mano combats to decide wars. It’s a game of cat and mouse, probing and retreating, strategizing and acting, all happening on a new type of terrain, where the “sides” are almost entirely defined by worldviews, rather than any external marker or geographic boundaries.
BTW, wanna give this question a crack?
Why, if you’re so right and we’re so wrong, don’t you just agree to split the country?
If you choose to answer it, don’t rely on any vague generalities like “treason” or “patriotism” because I know that those concepts mean nothing to you except as weapons in ideological argumentation. You know as well as I do that it comes down to money. I’ve got it and you need it for your retarded schemes. Period.
Jul 8, 2009 - 6:57 pm 82. sheesh:77. RE: . .. “Read the Constitution . . . Go jeffersonian . . . Go Galt”
Wow, I didn’t think the threats could get any more vague. I was wrong. Long live Walker: Texas Ranger!
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:11 pm 83. tom:78
Split the country? I’m all for it. You can have the south back starting with Texas going back to Mexico where it rightfully belongs.
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:20 pm 84. venividivici:Long live Walker: Texas Ranger!
Think more along the lines of “Long live Tyler Durden”.
Jul 8, 2009 - 7:32 pm 85. Moogie:#76 abi: You’re welcome! Keep spreading them around.
To my conservative bedfellows: we really need to cease engaging sheesh, et al, in pointless debate on OUR forum. Pajamas is here for US, not for them. They barge in here, like uninvited guests at a dinner party, then proceed to monopolize the conversation, throwing out one distracting bit of bullshit after another. They engage in outright lies when they can’t think of anything else, and when really pressed against the wall, they start calling us names.
Why do we waste our time trying to reason with these troglodites? They are incapable of understanding reason, logic, and truth. They are completely enmeshed in their own version of reality – aka “wishful thinking” (”quality, peace and happiness” – does it get any groovier than that?). Is it any wonder that a campaign lodged by an infantile meglomaniac based on the fluffy premise of “hope and change” sans any discernable policy was able to convince them that he was their savior?
Like Muldur said, “The truth is out there,” but you won’t find our enemies actively seeking it. They are content to be led like cows to the milking pen – or cows to the slaughter. They truly believe they are going to receive “free” things… and perhaps they will, because it will be the tax paying American citizen who will fund all of their nanny social programs while they sit around in their diapers and bibs, sucking their thumbs and bawling for more, more, more.
They are the ants at the picnic, taking what isn’t theirs out of their own sense of skewed “fairness” – despite the fact that envy and lust are as deplorable as greed and selfishness. They are the flies at our campout – content to constantly buzz around our ears as we try to converse, causing annoyance and distraction. They aren’t really trying to make a point, since there is no actual point to their ideology, which is based on a failed belief system that just won’t die a decent death and go away forever.
Because THIS time, socialism will work – because THIS time, THEY are the ones in charge of things, and they know so much more than everyone else, past, present, and future. And they know what’s best for everyone; and they know better how to spend other people’s money; and they are so much more in touch with their tender little feelings than the rest of us.
Because, ultimately, isn’t feeling good about yourself the most important thing in the world?
So, let’s stop wasting our precious time debating, arguing, and otherwise engaging in these interruptions. They are inconsequential little nobodies with inconsequential, unimportant little lives.
Jul 8, 2009 - 8:11 pm 86. joe camel:To take down a government is really not that hard if one focuses on the how’s of it. All it takes is those with the backbone to take it to the next level and follow through. It would then fall under it’s own weight. And, one does not even have to do anything with the Executive branch to achieve this.
Jul 8, 2009 - 11:00 pm 87. RE:Once one understands “who” the government is, really easy to see how to pull it off.
I for one would sure hate to see it come to that, as the country would take a long time to regroup again, which would leave us vulnerable to “outside” influences; who would love to see nothing more. Quiet a pickle we are in.
82. sheesh
It’s unrealistic to think that anyone is going to engage you in open, candid, and honest discussion, sheesh. It’s obvious that you are a bad faith operator.
So go ahead and project and jump to conclusions and indulge your caricature fantasies. It matters little. People see your character type for what it is – the perpetually adolescent self important gadfly. For all the cleverness you fancy yourself having there’s nothing original, unique, or fresh coming from your direction. It’s so old, so tiresome, and so juvenile.
Jul 9, 2009 - 3:32 am 88. joseph:The points posited by this article are precisely those that I outlined in a blog a few weeks ago.
I went further and noted the following.
It has actually been a godsend that Obama came along and won the Presidency on Nov 4th, 2008. The reason being that for the past 100 years it has been “One step forward and two steps backward” for conservative values and the vision of America’s Founding Fathers. Had a Hillary Clinton beaten Mr. Obama and went on to the Presidency we would have continued on the same trajectory for the next 4 or 8 years.
As it is the acendancy of Mr. Obama has brought to the fore the creaping forward movement of liberalism/socialism and in fact accelerated it to an alarming degree. This madness that the immature Mr. Obama sees as progress has mow forced conservatives and those that are conservatives in the Republican Party to come to grips with the reality that consrvatism has slowly been losing the battle for 100 years and has to change tactics, become more vociforeous in outlining its positions and take a stand for the good of the country. The acendancy of Mr. Obama has exposed the turncoats and Trojan Horses such as Colin Powell and Arlene Specter. Nothing about Colin Powell’s so called steller performance in the military makes up for how his weak kneed support of liberal positions from within the conservative party of choice for most Americans , has caused America to come to it’s knees. I do not have the fear of most whites of castigating and calling this man for what he is because I happen to be of part African heritage and grew up in a black Third World country.
The points posited by this article are precisely those that I outlined in a blog a few weeks ago.
I went further and noted the following.
It has actually been a godsend that Obama came along and won the Presidency on Nov 4th, 2008. The reason being that for the past 100 years it has been “One step forward and two steps backward” for conservative values and the vision of America’s Founding Fathers. Had a Hillary Clinton beaten Mr. Obama and went on to the Presidency we would have continued on the same trajectory for the next 4 or 8 years.
As it is the ascendancy of Mr. Obama and his fact tracking of his destructive, immature and anti American policies has brought to the fore the creeping forward movement of liberalism/socialism and in fact accelerated it to an alarming degree. This madness that the immature Mr. Obama sees as progress has now forced conservatives and those that are conservatives in the Republican Party to come to grips with the reality that conservatism has slowly been losing the battle for 100 years and has to change tactics, become more vociferous in outlining its positions and take a stand for the good of the country.
The ascendancy of Mr. Obama has exposed the turncoats and Trojan Horses such as Colin Powell and Arlene Specter. Nothing about Colin Powell’s so called stellar performance in the military makes up for how his weak kneed support of liberal positions from within the conservative party of choice for most Americans, has caused America to come to its knees. I do not have the fear of most whites of castigating and calling this man for what he is because I happen to be of part African heritage and grew up in a black Third World country.
This also brings to the fore that there are huge numbers of pseudo conservative in the Republican Party which is the largest vehicles with the possibility of effecting change in this unfortunate trend in American life. If Obama falls too soon will they, cloaked in conservative garb but essentially Beltway denizens with liberal tendencies, come to the fore masquerading as conservatives? That is a clear possibility and the most likely path that any change will take. See the vicious and vile attacks on Governor Sarah Palin to understand what I mean.
As Mr. Hawkins clearly outlined the battle has been taking place on many fronts and conservatives have been losing ALL. The issue therefore is not only about winning back Congress or the Presidency but also about righting the wrongs in the Main Stream Media, academia, the judicial arena and even in the liberal destructive Hollywood which daily undermines morality and poisons the minds of our youth.
How do you win any of these battles?
The most important is that conservatives have to start calling a spade a spade. If we think that continually hiding our philosophy and policies under a rock will get us anywhere we are dead wrong. Call President Obama for what he is and outline how he is destroying American and related it to liberal policies and the MSM and academia. WhenMr. Obama falls (sooner or later) the MSM will simply go onto the side of the winner and act as if they have never supported him and vigorously begin the process of undermining the conservative position soon after (one step forward, two steps back). If Mr. Obama and the liberal congress prove to be a disaster economically, socially and in foreign policy that the academic world will keep quiet for awhile while still printing liberal garbage that they will force their students to read and continue to preach anti –American tirades in their classrooms. So what will change? We may end up with a conservative in the White House but the overall battle will still be lost.
Roe v Wade which is nothing more than the culmination of the policies and writing of a racist white woman (Sanger) and which destroys black families should be reversed and exposed for what it is –nothing more than the tool for a Holocaust taking place within women’s wombs and an excuse for self centered “me” entitlement generations to take no responsibility for their actions.
The liberal pandering and developing of class and race warfare has to be exposed for what it is. Nothing more than a tool to develop mendicancy on the part of whole races so as to bring them under the control of an elite liberal political and academic class than uses taxpayers money (as if it was created by politicians) to entrench and enrich themselves to the detriment of hard working Americans. To compound the problem this liberal academic and political class is all around the world from Europe, to Africa, South America, the Caribbean, etc.
Jul 9, 2009 - 5:53 am 89. steveg:The blue print for the destruction of America has already been drawn up and it is called California. It will be interesting to see if America has the foresight to see how deep the rot in America has gone and if there are a sufficiency of persons with enough of an idea of what America faces to begin the change.
An abbreviated list of far-left groups/organizations, and agenda:
Jul 9, 2009 - 7:19 am 90. Butterfly Mornings and Wildflower Afternoons:1)ACORN (Dem’s Taxpayer funded election fraud unit)
2)ACLU (Anti-Christian Lawyers Guild)
3)ALF (Animal Rights Extremist)
4)Code Pink (Anti-War Extremist)
5)Dailykos (Marxist Blog)
6)ELF (Domestic Terrorist)
7)PETA (Animal Rights Extremist)
8)Communist Party of America (Big supporters of Obama)
9)New York Times (Main media attack dog for Dem’s)
10)Moveon.org (Guilt-tripped white socialist org.)
To all Liberals; you’re gonna lose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWQ8UIFNVI&NR=1
Please cheer up and take the winning position, because the spending and the apologies will stop soon, and it is not too late.
Jul 9, 2009 - 7:23 am 91. Butterfly Mornings and Wildflower Afternoons:There is no crying in baseball or politics and the Conservatives are going to win in 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWoD2sQ9LiU&NR=1
I cannot help it, I love this movie.
Cheer up, because we are winning.
There is no crying in baseball or politics.
Jul 9, 2009 - 7:41 am 92. sheesh:Sheesh and the rest of them will be crying in 2010.
Sheesh are you a girl?
87. RE . . . “Judge not., lest ye be judged, oh tiresome and archaic moralizer.
As for “original, unique, or fresh” should I pick one or try all three? Or maybe I should just pick one and repeat it twice using other words that mean the same thing. I don’t want to sound like Hannity in any way, shape, matter or form.
Jul 9, 2009 - 8:07 am 93. Pat J:I think this article is total drivel. WARHawkins seems content to remain static in a dynamic world. I love how his first poke is against “academia.” This coming from someone with a Ph.D. in “War History” no less. Probably some armchair warmonger who’s never set foot in the real world, nor served in the military.
And talk about misinformed. Prohibition was a white Conservative religious movement, not leftist. Maybe he needs to reread some history books? And he obviously fears a multicultural society, the civil rights movement, doesn’t understand what Planned Parenthood is really about and was probably playing with toy soldiers during the summer of love.
I’m sure he’d prefer the gorvernment dictating how women should control their bodies. No wait. He’s against “big government” right? Well take away Roe Vs. Wade and what do you have? Gvernment intrusion into the lives of all women. Talk about a mysoginist.
And the usual tripe about Obama being some sort of leftist/Marxist/Socialist/Communist radical. I’m suprised he dodn’t bring up his birth certificate. It’s sad the author has such a jaded view of history. Maybe he needs to go back to school.
Jul 9, 2009 - 9:13 am 94. joseph:“Pat J” has answered none of the points relevant in Hawkins’ article but just parrots the failed ideas of her liberal religion..
That clown writes: “I’m sure he’d prefer the gorvernment dictating how women should control their bodies. No wait. He’s against “big government” right? Well take away Roe Vs. Wade and what do you have? Gvernment intrusion into the lives of all women. Talk about a mysoginist.”
Wuould you rather be a mysoginist (at least according to the liberal religion of Pat J) or a murdered of over 20,000,000 children in and out of their mother’s wombs in the name of a world based on me, myself and I.
Jul 9, 2009 - 10:05 am 95. Pat J:There are so many of these decitful jokers in the liberal world that you have liberal gods like Biden and Pelosi who say they believe that life begins at conception yet are willing to deny this human life its human rights so that you do not affect the “quality of life” of the mother. This quality of life for some women has meant that find it too hard to go to University while taking care of a baby.
This clown “pat J” probably knows any number of persons who have lost and will loose their jobs because of the misguided policies of Obama and the political liberal elitists on Capitol Hill. But don’t worry because Obama will just take the money from hardworking Americans and direct it to others including his unions and party hacks.
Hey Joe.
First of all I’m a he. My God doesn’t have a name but he has a Son. I would prefer there not be any abortions. But I respect a woman’s right to have that choice. You talk about 20,000,000 murdered fetuses. Well, how about the once that are actually born? Don’t you think they deserve a world free from pollution, disease, hunger and war?. Yeah, the womb is a nice safe place, but I kind of wish more people would stick up for children from prenatal until the grave. So I guess that makes me a liberal. Why not. I had a good role model. His nme was Jesus.
Jul 9, 2009 - 12:10 pm 96. Ruebacca:To GA Knight
We are a Banana Republic and will soon need the officer corp to preserve the consition. None of our other instuitions will.
Jul 9, 2009 - 1:07 pm 97. Marc Malone:#95 Pat J – Usual Dem trope: I’d prefer less abortions, but I respect a woman’s right to make that choice.
My response: I’d prefer less murders, but I respect a person’s right to make that choice.
Ask anyone if they wish they’d been aborted. Unless they are depressed, the answer is no. Abortion for others is okay, though. It’s the ultimate hypocrisy. “I got mine: to hell with you!”, but applied to the very basic of sheer existence. Incredible. Indefensible.
Jul 9, 2009 - 2:45 pm 98. Richard:Well, you got half of it.
You missed the other half.
The other half is what so-called “conservatives” and so-called “republicans” have done to help this gravy train of State Power hum along smoothly. People think that someone like Orrin Hatch is a defender of liberty as a “staunch conservative”, but he’s a Statist of the right just as much as Obama is a Statist of the left.
Its funny how all the conservatives and republicans have suddenly discovered the virtues of liberty and freedom since Obama got put in charge. Where the hell were you over the past 60 years? Republicans and democrats alike have gotten us to where we are. Until the republicans/conservatives start owning up to their part in getting us into this mess, their cries of liberty and freedom will ring hollow.
Jul 9, 2009 - 2:49 pm 99. vivo:75. Conservative Mom:
“6 Vivo is the classic example of our socially educated youth who will one day learn all he needs to about “limiting constraints”.”
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Jul 10, 2009 - 4:49 am 100. sheesh:91. Butterfly Mornings and Wildflower Afternoons . . . “Sheesh are you a girl?”
No, but i know a lot of lesbians. Is that why you were asking?
Jul 10, 2009 - 5:41 am 101. Banned by Huffpo:#38 Moogie:
The Cloward-Piven Strategy
The sad part is, it worked! Up to a point, anyway.
Thanks for the links. . . .
Jul 10, 2009 - 1:26 pm 102. Marc Malone:#98 Richard – Great point.
Jul 10, 2009 - 2:23 pm 103. Robert O. Lopez:Good article. You’re right to focus immediately on the academy. As a professor and Army reservist, I am pursuing a dual career in the academy and military. One tragedy is that scholarship and military service parted ways in Western life, beginning in the Romantic Era (William Blake had a crazy idea that art could not go hand in hand with soldiering), but accelerating in the US after the 1960s. The problem is that universities did a lot of expansion and hiring in the 1960s and 1970s, right around the time that many pacifists stayed in grad programs to avoid going to Vietnam… The original sin was that 1960s generation, which took control of academic departments all over the country, then got tenure and controlled who else could get into the professoriate. They picked other liberals, of course.
But I do not share the dreary pessimism in all this. As a young professor, yet an older Army recruit, I can tell you, both the military and the academy are evolving. The schism of the 1960s is, I think, abating somewhat, especially because many young academics today are not as rabidly leftist while lots of Soldiers are more moderate in their views.
Give it time, there will be a common ground. When there is common ground, conservative values tend to win. That’s because conservative values are common sense values, if they are truly conservative. Best wishes to all!
Jul 11, 2009 - 8:44 pm 104. usafirst:What is it with you bible thumpers? You are no more an American than a Jew, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Atheist, agnostic, etc.
Jul 11, 2009 - 10:10 pmWe are NOT a “Christian” country. We are secular. The Constitution grants us freedom of religion, clearly stating that no particular religion is to be sanctioned by the state. It is the only way to guaranty that everyone has the right to worship or not as they choose. So there you go, a SECULAR country.
You have the right to read your bible, I have the right not to have it shoved down my throat. This is just as much MY country as it is YOURS.
Deal with it.