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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Boldy Go!

I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther! And I will make them pay for what they've done!

Jean-Luc Picard tersely bit out these words when confronted with the Borg. I can understand what he meant and how he felt, because there is nothing in this world quite as "Prepare to be assimilated" and "Resistance is futile" than the Progressive Liberal agenda. This could also be the mission statement of the Tea Party.

I will admit, I love what the Tea Party folks are doing. I've always agreed with their sentiments. I'm not a joiner by nature, but even something beyond that held me back when my husband became one of the organizers for the first Tea Party rally here in Waco. Basically my Objectivist philosophy held me back. I firmly believe that we should do nothing, whatsoever and let them fall, topple over, kill themselves, so that the producers, the minds can come back and rebuild on the rubble they caused. Does this mean I believe in anarchy? No. I am intelligent enough to realize that some small government is necessary. Anarchists are really just toddlers in a grocery store being denied a candy bar. I defy anyone to show me the psyche of the beast is any different.

However, as flash in the pan as I thought the Modern Day Tea Party would be, I have been delighted to see them grow and thrive and become a major force in the body politic. They are not a political party. To me they appear to be a watchdog group, in a very literal way. They are the Conservative purity test. And, if they stay where they are, endorsing conservative candidates, then I think they will do just fine. They'll be like that softball league in San Francisco that decides if one is gay enough to play on their team. I do not, however, encourage their becoming a political party. Let me 'splain.

Since the very inception of this country we have shown a decided preference for a two party system. It all hearkens back to my belief in black and white, right and wrong, Republican and Democrat. Our minds can easily filter out the noise of fringe when presented with two choices. For almost two hundred years we understood what our party was for and the other fella's party was for. We made our choices out of the lesser evil within those parameters.

I blame Woodrow Wilson. Progressive Liberals began using language that did not say exactly what they meant, so that they could beguile the populace into believing that their policies were good. I mean, let's face it, would you really vote for a man who said he wanted to keep all the blacks and browns in ghettos and only let them out to come work in your houses and yards? Even back then, who would have voted for him? No, they began the euphemisms, the obfuscation of purpose, and half-said, tacit understanding of the liberal body politic. They knew, even then, that they could not come right out and say what they were about, not even to themselves. Everything was perpetrated on a wink and a nudge. Suddenly, it became OK to do business that way. A man's word was no longer his bond because who knew what the hell he was saying.

Let me say this now, anytime you have to come up with new words to say something ugly, then you have an agenda that needs to hide. Welcome the Politically Correct Crowd. Everyone of them a progressive liberal. Take your financially disinclined, your other-abled, your sanitation engineers, your undocumented workers (who is really just an unregistered democrat!). And in their typical GOTCHA! manner, they would pillory anyone who did not hoe their row. From 1992 to 2001 it was unbearable. Conservatives champed under the bit, and then some began drinking the Kool-Aid. We could no longer depend on Republicans being conservative, and as a result, we stopped voting, stopped caring and became callous to all things political.

With the campaign and election of George W. Bush, we began to hope, began to care again, but then the turned out to be even more of a tax and spend politician than the Clintons. We began to notice that several Republicans were acting more like Democrats than most Democrats. That's when the Libertarian Party began to appeal to many of us. I know I listened to a Larouche person in an airport once, until he noticed I was carrying an Ayn Rand novel and called me an animal. I have listened to the Libertarian folk over the past 30 or so years and realized, they may have some loons and fringe people (who doesn't?) but all in all, their message of smaller government, more free-market capitalism, Laissez-faire capitalism, set better with me than anything the Republicans had spouted over the years.

But you know what? I still like Sarah Palin. I won't apologize for it or give any conditional, apologetic language for my choice. I like here, so there.

If conservatives are going to carry the day in November 2010 and in November 2012, we need to remember where the hell we came from. We come from the Founding Fathers of this country. We are Jean-Luc Picard saying, "This far! No farther!" and meaning it. We have to mean what the hell we say and stand for those words. If we don't we are no better than John McCain and his today I am a Democrat ways.

However, sometimes we need someone outside the mainstream to come along and jar us out of the sleep our politicians hope to keep us in so that we won't notice how brutally they are raping our country.

And the Libertarians have put forth a viable candidate for the Senate seat from Kentucky. Mr. Rand Paul, son of Presidential Candidate Ron Paul. The Republicans evidently couldn't field a viable candidate. He is an up and comer of the Libertarian Party. I like him. He says what he means, and means what he says.

So, I am going to encourage every single one of my readers to do something. Boldy speak out against a media who is mudslinging at Rand Paul. He need not explain his response to Rachel Madcow. His explanation was in his response to her question. They can't understand such plain speaking and it scares them when someone says exactly what they mean. It confuses them because they are so used to parsing the hidden meaning of any politicians message. Mr. Paul said exactly what he means, AND HE WAS NOT WRONG!

Call or e-mail your local TV stations and newspapers that run the story, demanding they get it right. Demand they "parse the meaning" of his response and you will see, he is not racist. Doesn't have a racist atom in his body. In fact, if they persist, demand they prove he's a racist, leaving out that clip. They can't because no proof exists. Hound them. Do not give up until they are exposed for the partisan hacks they are. Do not give up. This far. No farther.

Do this for every story they get wrong. Make them accountable for all of the lies they put forth. Hoist them on their own petard. Use their own words against them and make it hurt. Make it visible so that never again can they go into public and be believed.

For if you sit in your chair and do nothing, expecting someone like me to fight the battle for you, you will find that I was not fighting for you and will not assist you in any way. If you are not willing to fight for yourself, why should anyone else bother?

This far. No farther. Do not allow them assimilate you.

3 comments:

M.G. said...

Well spoken. We must draw the line **HERE**. NO FARTHER.

Alas, are we too late? My fondest wish at this point is that true conservatives (from whatever party they might rise) would gain a super majority in both houses of Congress, impeach the morons in office who have us where we are now, and install someone who could turn this idiocy around.

But, I think we're too late.

As Europe slides into an abyss, with our southern border leaking like a sieve, will we be able to close the doors to the very idiots whose socialist philosophy is now bearing fruit? I'm afraid not.

I'm concerned that we are on the edge of an abyss ourselves, and if we fall, who will save the world? I don't think we'll be strong enough to do it.

Severine said...

I am still of the firm belief that we must allow the Progressive Liberal Agenda to go as far as it can, and fail as badly as it will, or they will keep trying to forward it. If we allow them to bring the world crashing down around their ears, they can never, ever speak up again, for they will be silenced by scorn and disregard. We must make it impossible for them to ever try again. the only way to do that is to make sure everyone sees it for the nihilistic crapfest that it is.

Unknown said...

I agree, we need to give the progressives all of the rope they need to hang themselves, preferably in as dramatic and public a fashion as possible.