In a May 5th Business Insider article, the Obama administration was described by a Chrysler creditors representative as “the most shocking “end justifies the means” group they have ever encountered”. Obama himself was described by another as “the most dangerous smooth talker on the planet- and I knew Kissinger.” (According to the article, both of these individuals voter for Obama.)
But here’s the thing - all anyone has to do is take the time to really look at what Obama has done already (quadrupled the budget deficit, given the country’s #3 automaker to the UAW, taken control of the 2010 census and enlisted ACORN to help with the count, etc…), what he has on deck (socialized medicine, massive carbon/environmental taxes, amnesty for illegals), and who he has installed or is in the process of installing into key cabinet positions throughout the administration (Hilda Solis, Harold Koh, Janet Napolitano, Gary Locke, Sonia Sotomayer, etc…) and the picture that will emerge is that of our country’s horrifying free fall into socialism under what many - myself included - view as an increasingly fascist regime, and marked by an escalating disregard for the rule of law at national, state and local levels by this administration and its loyalists.
There’s an element of society who now sees this as ‘their time’. It’s no longer about pursuing the American Dream, about taking advantage of the opportunities provided all of us - by virtue of living in the greatest country in the world - to pull ourselves up and make something of ourselves and our lives. No, it’s now about ’social justice’, about robbing the rich to give to the poor like some sort of half-assed government robin hood, about tearing down those among us who create wealth and prosperity, about attacking industry, and ultimately, the destruction of the free market and our capitalist society
In a Canada Free Press article the other day, Daniel Greenfield wrote “Even now when banks are being nationalized and major automakers turned over to union ownership, it is mainly people over 40 who are even noticing that anything is wrong”. My own observations and experiences in daily life suggest that he is correct. Part of the problem, I think, is that the younger generation lacks any meaningful frame of reference from which to gauge the sweeping changes that are overtaking us and marking our decline. They certainly have no personal experience, and they’re sure as hell not learning about it in school anymore, so where does that leave us?
Just yesterday, a comment posted to an anti-illegal-immigration post of mine from a a week or two ago suggested that I “Go Die!”. The commenter, it turns out, was a 17-year-old girl from Spokane who’s position, I’ll have to assume, is the result of 11-12 years of public education from which love of God and Country have been all but stricken from the curriculum and replaced by “King and King”, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and promotion of ‘diversity’ and ‘multiculturalism’ over American unity and sovereignty.
I’ve invited her back in an attempt at something approaching a discussion, and I hope she returns even though I know she won’t. They never do.
There’s a lot of talk these days about Republicans taking congress in 2010 and possibly even the white house in 2012. Well….that remains to be seen, but there is another wildcard in this whole thing that I don’t see being discussed nearly as much as it needs to be.
The left-leaning demographic in this country is growing by the hour through several means:
- The public school system, which is overwhelmingly liberal both in the classrooms and at the administrative levels
- Unchecked illegal immigration
- Expanding entitlement/handout programs
- Preferential treatment being given by our White House to unions.
On points 3 & 4, there’s a saying something to the effect of “A system that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul’s support”. In Obama’s Amerika, the producers in our country are Peter, while the rapidly-approaching-50-percent of Americans who pay no federal taxes at all are Paul. Michelle Malkin today has a piece on the SEIU’s influence on the White House that I urge you to read.
On point 2, there is a reason why our borders have not been secured and work site enforcement has been halted. For republicans, it’s been about cheap labor. For democrats, it’s been about votes. For Obama, it’s about establishing a permanent democrat majority.
Which brings us to point 1, and probably the liberal left’s biggest coup, the public educational system.
Ever since we first went into Iraq and tried to train a government, an army, and a police force, my position has been that in order to establish any real stability, we need to stay long enough to educate the next generation of Iraqi children from kindergarten through young adulthood; only then could we be certain that they actually understood democracy enough to run their country, but also - and more importantly - only then could we be sure that they would renounce the ways of Sadaam Hussein and the Baath party.
Why? because he who controls the educational system controls the direction of the country.
We, as conservatives, have dropped the ball in a huge way in the education arena. Liberals own it lock, stock and barrel, and we are seeing first-hand the results: legitimate dissent is seen as ‘hate’, Christians are seen as ‘religious bigots’ (see Carrie Prejean), Americans who believe in the rule of law and the Constitution are viewed as ‘right wing extremists’, capitalism andthe free market system are being seen as ‘bad’, while socialism - although not explicitly being called that, is gradually being embraced.
The educational system is where we need to take the fight. We may or may not take back congress and the white house over the next several years, but even if we do, our victory will be short-lived if we don’t start getting re-involved in education, and I mean right now! It will take at least another generation to unravel the damage done by 40 years of liberal dominance in the schools, and I’m afraid we still haven’t seen the worst of it.
I’m on my lunch break and wrote this very quickly, I hope it makes sense.
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-Cnation