I’ve been watching quite a bit of Christopher Hitchens on Youtube since he got sick, and in one of the clips he talked about the American Revolution and how after more than 200 years, the ideas and founding principles it originated are still in effect and the Republic it created is still standing, thriving and functioning as originally intended. He mentioned the Chinese Revolution and how it has morphed into something quite unlike the original plan. He asked where the Russian Revolution is now. What became of the Cuban Revolution and other Latin American revolutions, and so forth. They have all failed or had to change into something other than what was originally intended.
He went on to say that the principles and ideas the country was founded on - individual rights vs. group or state’s rights, supported by a Bill of Rights that describes and empowers them and makes them legible and available to everyone; separation of church and state; the separation of the Executive, the Judicial and the Congressional branches of government, etc. - are still in effect and functioning just as they were set up to do at the start.
And he went on to say further that there’s hardly a country in the world that wouldn’t benefit by adopting these principles, and I agree wholeheartedly. For all its faults and rough-and-tumble politics and seeming difficulties, the U.S. system of government has been the one that has stood the test of time and provided the greatest amount of personal freedom for its citizens of any modern country.
Thus it comes as no surprise to hear people such as yourself and certain others of a leftward political bent want to do away with it in favor of a more dictatorial or authoritarian type of government which will force people to live according to your wishes rather than their own. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - liberalism, for all its alleged support of individual freedoms - is the greatest threat to individual freedoms that this country faces today. And your words, and those of Blalron and others who presume to take the position that common citizens are incompetent of self-determination and must or should therefore be governed by an elite which knows better than they do what’s best for them, are the best evidence that this is so.
Therefore I’ve come to the conclusion that Rush Limbaugh is largely correct when he says that Republicans must not give an inch to the left in this country and that liberals and Democrats must be opposed and defeated at all costs, even if in the short term the populace benefits from their programs (this last is from me, not Limbaugh).
We have a situation now where government is taking over more and more of our businesses, our income, our health care and general welfare, and how much of someone else’s money we get. Eventually we’ll find our individual freedoms subsumed to those dictated by a government whose functionaries think like Blalron and Commissar and others who think they know better than the average man what is best for him and/or what he should receive and how he should live.
Power To The People! Vote Republican!!!
~ Che Artist