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Like many political junkies, I followed the Brown/Coakley race with much interest. The crashing political support for the policies of the Collectivist-Utopians – wait, let’s stop right here for a moment, because that term isn’t just part of my polemic; it’s a much more accurate description of the social science of the left. They aren’t “Liberal”, because that term means favoring individual freedom and sovereignty over the power of government (or God for that matter). I refuse to use the term “Progressive” because most people calling themselves such don’t know the history of that term, and it makes their actual politics sound far too nice. If they were honest in saying that their legacy was one of foreign interventions, “prohibition”, rigged banking, unsound money, the welfare state and eugenics (which in part gave rise to the ultimate social engineers – the Nazis), well then okay, then they can use that term. But unfortunately, political-correct-speak makes it bad form to actually use facts anymore, making the term “Progressive” actually sound like something you might want to happen to you. No, these folks want to use the power of government to impose their vision of a “perfect” society upon us, one much better than we would create left to our own devices (that’s the Utopian part). They have no problem with breaching our natural rights to serve societies rights, as they define them. So that’s who they are, Collectivist-Utopians, and every time they are revealed for what they are their support fades to the 20% of Americans who actually want socialism in this country.
Okay, back to the fray. It’s great to see that the ignorant, independent “moderates” have actually woken up and realized that they gave a group of people with a radical ideology a majority, and that their policies may just ruin what’s left of our already weakened country. But just as they were rolled by Obama, I suspect they are now being rolled by the Republicans. I cringed as I listened to Brown’s acceptance speech last night. He really just seemed happy to be part of the Senate, to have a seat in the ‘big game’. He took time to be particularly complimentary about Ted Kennedy and trying to live up to his legacy, which immediately disqualifies him from being a sentient human being. Let’s be clear – Ted Kennedy was a drunken lecher who killed a young woman due to his irresponsibility and craven love of power. The “lion of the Senate” stuff is laughable – in fact, Ted’s rise to power reveals what is wrong with the institution itself. The Senate dispenses power based on seniority solely (not unlike a ‘union shop’), so just by being around for a while gives one power and Ted Kennedy exercised this power loudly and regularly to support many dip-shit ‘progressive’ causes such as “Head Start”, which in a recent study by the Dept of Education was shown to confer absolutely no lasting advantage on children who participate in it. The only advantage was observable in the first year of school, after that, participants were undistinguishable from non-participants. None. Didn’t see that in the press did you?It’s only been in place for 45 years, but hey, we’ve got to give it a chance! This and many other bad welfare-state government programs are his legacy. It deserves to be criticized and dismissed, not praised by someone who supposedly opposes what Ted stood for.
What Scott Brown should have been talking about was what he will do. If he really represented those who reject the vision of the Collectivist-Utopians, what are his alternative ideas? Cut taxes, don’t proscute terrorists in court and oppose health care reform? That’s it? It’s this kind of insipid thinking by the Republicans that made me leave them. They have no big ideas, they can’t even speak up to defend free markets or the importance of individual liberty and sovereignty effectively! Don’t be fooled, he’s just another cog in the political machine of the Republicans, and if you want more of what George Bush and Tom Delay gave this country, go right ahead and cheer for him but don’t kid yourself, you are cheering for the destruction of our country – just by different means.
Great logo!
Is there a way to make it go viral?
Best.
Glenn, you are my hero. Well written and on the money observations. Its unfortunate that our society does not value truth so much as the ”feel good’ rhetoric we hear almost every day and, which, is driving our civilization to its own destruction.
Thanks Paul. I hope you liked the pic – it’s a modified logo from the Republican 2008 convention, note what the elephant is doing to the country.