Yeah, it's a great mission statement. Now all we need is a new president who really believes it, a new Congress who really believes it, a new Supreme Court who really believes it, and Americans checking in somewhere for a socialist lobotomy so we could really pursue the mission to restore the Republic. As it stands now, it's all meaningless. I mean, check out post #49. Good grief.
Bush OKs Medicaid money for condoms
The following should ring loud and clear now, even for the deaf, dumb, and blind:
REPUBLICAN CRYPTO-SOCIALISM - Alan Keyes - February 26, 1999
"What do I mean by "crypto-socialist"? It's actually quite simple. I mean hidden socialism. The basic principle of socialism is government control and domination of society. Things which tend in that direction are socialist by nature. Things which tend to return power, responsibility and control to people themselves -- as individuals, in their businesses, and in their families and communities -- are what oppose socialism and promote the agenda of self-government.
Many so-called conservatives today put forth policies which, when examined, turn out to contribute to the consolidation of government control and domination of the society. Whether it be targeted tax cuts, educational approaches that emphasize government dictation of standards, or other encroachments on our liberty, these policies are socialist in principle even when "conservatives" or "Republicans" propose them.
...The Republican crypto-socialists are more devious. They pretend that they actually want to give us something. Who wouldn't want a tax cut? But then when we examine the real body of the policy, it turns out to be socialist in nature because it serves the socialist objective, which is government control. And to that extent, "conservative" proponents of such policies are misleading us. They are hiding a socialist agenda in what they hope will be the appealing guise of tax cut language that will fool us into giving it our support.
One of the questions that I fear faces us in American politics these days is the possibility that both parties, or at least the leadership in both parties, serves the agenda of government control and domination. It appears that to the extent the Republicans professed for a long time not to serve that agenda, it was because they did not feel they had sufficient control of the key elements of the apparatus of power. When they got control of the Congress, they started to identify more with the interests of government itself. And now, for instance, they are doing things like proposing big boosts in federal education spending over the next five years, thereby consolidating the role of the federal establishment in education. Such moves totally repudiate the agenda that they professed to stand for as they courted our votes and we moved them into majority status in the Congress.
The true opposition in American politics appears to be between the socialists and the crypto-socialists. And this isn't much of a choice, is it? It is between the socialists who are open about their espousal of government control and power, and the socialists who are hidden in their allegiance to that principle, and try to put some other face on it. They are serving the socialist principle, but they are putting conservative clothes on the grotesque body of socialism to try to hide from us what is really going on."