" I would be banned until the spring if I posted anyone of the many examples I just preselected"
Posted on 12/16/2018 4:00:34 PM PST by simpson96
Spare us....
" I would be banned until the spring if I posted anyone of the many examples I just preselected"
Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid conversion from Constitutionalism to the doctrine of unlimited government is an oft-told story. But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of states’ rights by the national Democratic Party — an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement — as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course. […] Thus, the cornerstone of the Republic, our chief bulwark against the encroachment (on) individual freedom by Big Government, is fast disappearing under the piling sands of absolutism.If the Dems were openly like that during FDR’s tenure and obviously so afterwards, how are they different today from what they were then? (FTR, Dean Acheson was once investigated for his ties to the USSR.)
The Republican Party, to be sure, gives lip service to states’ rights. We often talk about “returning to the states their rightful powers”; the Administration has even gone so far as to sponsor a federal-state conference on the problem. But deeds are what count, and I regret to say that in actual practice, the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, summons the coercive power of the federal government whenever national leaders conclude that the states are not performing satisfactorily. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), pp. 24-25
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”And Arthur Larson was one of Ike’s cabinet members.
Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …
— Ibid., page 15
lee martell wrote:
>>It would have be just terrible if she had bent over and loudly ripped her tax payer paid pantaloons.<<
I didn’t know those were pantaloons, I though they were MC Hammer ‘parachute’ pants...
You’re probably correct.
Pantaloons sounded closer to the phrase ‘Pants like Balloons’ which was what I was really seeing.
Well, they weren't the party of abortion, or unlimited immigration/open border back then. My father only went to the 4th grade so we were told, and worked on the NY Central Railroad for most of his life, which means he was a Union member. And Union members voted Democrat lock-step back then. I doubt my father ever thought much about the real politics involved, or the effect the policies implemented at the time would have on Americans in the future. He always told us that the Democrat Party was the party of the working man, so he bought into the Kool Aid. He didn't know any better. He wasn't illiterate by any means, but I never saw him read a book. He read the newspaper (Rochester, NY Democrat & Chronicle, and Times Union), and watched the TV news (Huntley/Brinkley, and probably Cronkite). He was very patriotic, and loved this country, so he'd be totally surprised at the anti-America, globalist liberals of today. I'd like to think if he was alive today, he'd think twice about voting for a Democrat. He's been gone for 40 years.
It IS all about her, isn’t it?
… The thesis of the states socialist is that no line can be drawn between private and public affairs which the state may not cross at will; that omnipotence of legislation is the first postulate of all just political theory. Applied in a democratic state, such doctrine sounds radical, but not revolutionary. It is only an acceptance of the extremest logical conclusions deducible from democratic principles long ago received as respectable. For it is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. […]The Democrats did not hide the fact that they were pushing this manner of transformation of society, even in Wilson’s day.
Corporations grow on every hand, and on every hand not only swallow and overawe individuals but also compete with governments. The contest is no longer between government and individuals; it is now between government and dangerous combinations and individuals. Here is a monstrously changed aspect of the social world. In face of such circumstances, must not government lay aside all timid scruple and boldly make itself an agency for social reform as well as for political control? “Yes,” says the democrat, “perhaps it must.” …
— Woodrow Wilson, Socialism and Democracy, 1887
So, did Mike let it swing freely?
LMAO!!
Thanks for the antidote. :)
Manspreading?
hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Perfect! hahahahahahahahha
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