Posted on 05/07/2009 3:29:34 PM PDT by ReformationFan
For the past few years, I’ve been arguing that those who like to be called “liberals” should instead be called statists. You know these people. They are the ones who, full of righteous indignation, speak incessantly of injustice and oppression in America. They also speak, in sentences full of smug self-assurance, as if they and only they possess the empathy and intellectual fortitude necessary to provide “solutions” to a host of social “problems” thrust upon a good people by a bad “society.”
Edmund Burke was talking about these statists when he said “by (their) unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. Men would become little better than the flies of summer.”
The American conservative today finds himself in a position of fighting a form of progressivism, which seems to have taken on a life of its own. When confronted with the myriad of changes occurring with such rapidity it is hard to see the common thread linking them all together. But if there is one theme, it is this: Equality.
Mark Levin is correct in saying that this passion for equality is driven by the statist’s deep sense of inferiority. For the passion for equality is, at its core, a passion for anonymity. When the fabric of society is woven together in such a way that one thread cannot be distinguished from another, no judgment is possible. That is why the economic Marxist prefers a guaranteed average outcome. And it is why the cultural Marxist is receptive to the religion of moral relativism.
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That’d be a good title for a book.
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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
http://rightbias.com/News/video23.aspx
50 Year-Old Cartoon Eerily Predicts The Future
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RightBias.com
May 4, 2009
The more things change, the more they remain the same, as shown by this video produced 50 years ago. Dr. Utopia promises the world - just give away your freedom and the government will take care of you forever.
It didn’t work then but learning from history is not allowed in our new ‘Dr. Utopia’s’ prescription for changing America.
Last portion of cartoon is especially prescient.
Damn, I thought somebody posted Levin’s book.
MARK LEVIN PING!!
Mike Adams is good too! Especially when he’s talking about Mark Levin.
Yhello, Mark...
Loved your book..
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Thanks for the ping, More word out on TGO!
Excellent cartoon. And very prophetic.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
Terrific Jefferson quote. And so true. I’m ready for the government to start fearing us for a change.
Thanks for the ping. This is an excellent piece.
I’m getting Mark’s book for one of my Mother’s Day presents! : )
Great post; cartoon; ping; thread. Thanks.
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Ditto That
Did anyone who read Levin’s book think it would be suitable as a gift for a high school person, or would it be too dry for them?
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