Posted by
davecatbone on Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:41:27 AM
I'm astounded by the words and actions of our fellow Americans who think the United States is an evil force in the world because it embraces
Capitalism. There are teachers in our school systems from kindergarten to grad school who openly proclaim to captive minds that capitalism is evil, they don't believe in it. I worked in Michigan with a really nice guy, who was a NY Times liberal, and who with complete innocence, one day asked me,
"what's wrong with socialism?" as if he couldn't understand any objections. He subscribed to the global corporation conspiracy theory.
It occurs to me that there is now an entire generation removed from the horrors of the gulags, from the wall, from the ethnic cleansing of the Ukraine, who never read Ayn Rand, who don' t know who
Solzhenitsyn is, who can't tell you what happened during the Boxer Rebellion, who can't even tell you what happened after the fall of Saigon.
History bores the Moderate Middle, they don't have time for it. Too much work. So let me try to put it in a few sentences that they would be forced to wrap their sound bite minds around.
God had you born onto this planet free to do with your life as you wished. This is fundamental.
No one has the right to take away your freedom to create the tools and amass the possessions for survival and happiness.
All there is for us all to do, is to band together to protect each other's freedom.
Socialism says Man is above God, and has the right to take away man's freedom if it's in his own best judgement.
Our Modern Progressive Secular Socialists who:
Think it's unfair to win.
Think Morality is relative, there is no clear right and wrong and thus don't believe in personal responsibility, people are incapable of deciding their own fates
Choose emotion over reason
Believe wealth and resources should be taken from those who have and given to those who don't, even if it's at the point of a gun, held by the State
are pursuing a course, that if implemented, would mean the end of Western Civilization. The very scenario played out in "Atlas Shrugged". The weak minded Liberal would surrender his freedom and future to a society that would impose upon him not the Utopia he was promised, but a regimented austere and sterile life under a totalitarian State. In short, our fellow Americans wish we were the Soviet Union, where everyone pretended to work, while the government pretended to pay them.
We sit on the brink of war. Forces are coming into alignment in the world that will bring
a point of fight or flight. The British are fleeing. Europe has surrendered. A very large number of our fellow Americans would surrender.
What will the rest of us do?