Interestingly, another thread contains Star Parker's commentary on that very subject, to which I added the following post, which includes Parker's Lincoln quotation:
"Abraham Lincoln summed up American politics over 150 years ago that is as accurate and relevant today as it was then: 'In this age, and in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.'”
And America's Founders identified the public sentiment at the time of the nation's founding as being a passion for liberty. John Adams stated:
"The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people."
Of the Declaration of Independence, its writer, Thomas Jefferson said it represented the American mind."
The so-called "progressives" never have represented "the American mind." What they represent are regressive ideas that are as old as the history of civilization. Their ideas were present in the feudal lords, the Kings, and the Slave Masters: that is, that some imperfect people in positions of power over other people are able to make better decisions than all the other imperfect people.
What Americans understood in 1776 and 1787, and were taught to believe until the "progressives" censored their school books and public places was that individual liberty was preferable to slavery, whether it was to a monarch or to a group of people in government.
A passion for liberty must be restored to its rightful place in "the American mind" of 2010. Else, American liberty, as provided and protected by the U. S. Constitution, may vanish from the earth, and, with it, the hopes of enslaved persons all over the world.
The "progressives" may claim they can provide a utopian existence, but they cannot point to a single instance where their policies have provided liberty, opportunity, and prosperity. As Joseph Sobran wrote in a column back in the 1990's:
"The other side (the Left) may argue that the country has improved over the last 40 years. But termites always think what they are doing to the house is "progress." The people who have to live in it may see it differently."
That statement explains the wide gap between today's "public sentiment" and the sentiment of the "termites" who are eroding the great "house" of liberty known as the Constitution of the United States of America.
Corn represents the "termites" who can't even see the house they are destroying bite by bite.
Yes...this is a great example of the coastal intellectual elite...and those of us who live in flyover country. It shows why the liberals will lose the House in November and perhaps the Senate too.
These people not only do not understand us...they hate us for believing in our constitutional republic. What amazes me about people like Corn is that when their kind come into power...think Stalin, Castro, or Chavez...they are the first ones taken out and shot.
They never learn.