In my blog Principled Conservatism Will Save This Country-not Liberalism,
I recently tried to capture the essence of principled conservatism by
trying to describe it and contrast it with "liberalism" or
"progressivism.." Now is the time to focus on Liberalism. I've already
written some blogs about Liberalism called Why the Left Is Wrong and the Angry Left.
I recently read a transcript of a Rush Limbaugh radio show talking about the nature of "Liberals." I'm drawing heavily on his words (his words are in quotation marks).
Liberals Want to Turn America Into Something Different
America
is THE MOST SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT IN GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL IDEAS IN THE
HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Don't forget that. But rather than draw on and
return to the very things that led to this long lasting success,
Liberals want to change America AWAY from many of those things. As if they have a
better idea? Liberal's ideas have been tried in places like Eastern
Europe, Russia, the UK, and "Old" Europe. The result is stagnation,
inflation, human misery, environmental damage and even collapse.
More Government is Liberal's Tired and Failed Idea
Liberals
want more and more government---which is something relatively new in
American history. Historically and Constitutionally the Federal
Government has been, and is supposed to be, small. The Federal
government took less than 1% of the nation's GDP prior to 1913 (prior to
the advent of Federal Income taxes) and less than 10% of GDP in 1940 even after FDR's administration. Gov't spending was in the 18 to
19% of GDP area as recently as year 2000. Under Obama (and Bush), it's rocketed to
25% of GDP due to an orgy of government spending. The Republicans in the
House aren't helping either.
Big government brings
corruption, cronyism, waste, inefficiency, over-reach, over-spending,
power-grabs, infringements on our guaranteed individual rights,
infringements on States Rights, slower growth/high taxation, less
freedom, less economic freedom, inflation, income inequality, and
ultimately financial crises. Socialism hasn't worked in 'old" Europe. In
fact, in eastern European countries, after having endured suppressive
communism during the post WW II era, they are embracing a purer
capitalism and enjoying higher economic freedom than in the US. And
correspondingly, they have higher economic and income growth. See my
blog Economic Freedom Declining in the US.
We in the US have a long history of limited government. The Founding Fathers of the US were all about limiting Federal power. Now Obama wants to change all that? He's an idiot.
Liberalism Doesn't Work
Worse,
big government doesn't even accomplish the very goals that Liberals say
they want to achieve. The Liberal claims are actually lies then. Are blacks
much wealthier than 40 years ago? Yes, somewhat, but the gap between black and whites is the same as it was 53 years ago.
Are black high school dropout rates any better in the past 40 years?
Are housing projects any less "slum-like?" Has throwing more and more
money at education worked? Is the black community any healthier now compared
to 50 years ago? The answer is mostly 'no' to all of these questions.
Are
black families more intact compared to 50 years ago? Not if you
consider the fact that 72% of black kids are born without a father in
the house: compared to 25% in the 1960s. But "helping" those at the
lower end of the economic spectrum is Liberalism's big mantra!
Politicians aren't helping, they're only helping themselves. Do you
think those 1000's of politicians in Detroit did any good except line
their own pockets?
More examples of the failure of Big
Gov't: Medicare is rife with fraud and is in the middle of a
demographic crisis that Democrats refuse to address or even acknowledge.
Even Medicaid's results are suspect. Recent articles looking at medical outcomes of the Medicaid program
show that the outcomes of that program are the same as those uninsured,
ie, it doesn't work. And ObamaCare builds on this failed program. I've stated
that it might be cheaper to send vouchers to the uninsured to buy
policies rather than implement the ObamaCare bureaucracy. See ObamaCare Doubles Down On a Broken System.
Liberals Advance Their Agenda By Tricks and Lies
Liberals
must use tricks to fool the submissive, complacent and ill-informed
into their big government "solutions," Look at ObamaCare. Nearly all of
the promises that were used to pass it have been proved to be false.
Those promises were lies all along. ObamaCare amounts a huge power grab
by the Federal Government. It won't even work. But that's OK because
then Obama can justify a more complete takeover of this portion of the
economy when chaos ensues.
Obama is quite the
"trickster." Nearly everything he says is the opposite of what his
bureaucracy is doing. He's all lies and tricks! "That's why he's
appearing to be opposed to everything that's happened and happening, and
trying to fix it. He is trying to create jobs when his policies are
destroying them, shrinking job opportunities for people, on purpose, to
make government necessary in people's lives." Obama wants more crises so
that government can come "help"----when it's the government itself that
causes the problems. Wake up people!
The ultimate
examples of liberals are the socialists and communists who turn their
economies into basket cases, take away any freedoms from their citizens
and cause human, economic and environmental crises. It will happen here
too if we allow it. We are well on the way now.
The Constitution is Just Something "In the Way"
The
Constitution is about freedom (and responsibility), not about control
and regulation! That's why the Left has problems with The Constitution
and often pooh-pooh it's meaning (gun control for instance). Why do you
think that the Obama Administration keeps getting slapped by Federal Courts
and the Supreme Court? See my blog Federal Courts Uphold Constitution and Spank Obama. Also see here, here, here, and here.
"Liberals
don't believe in the Constitution, as founded, the country as founded.
They don't believe in the concept of individual liberty. They don't
trust it. They don't trust that people will do what they want them to do
if left alone. So they must control everything or as much of everyone's
life as possible in order to create what they want. That leads to an
all-out assault on individual liberty and freedom. And that's the battle
that has been waging in this country since the day it was founded."
"But
it's not in our Constitution to force anybody to do anything, to punish
anybody for the way they believe, think or live, but it's not that way
with them. Any person or thing that they perceive as a threat, and they
perceive me this way, must be destroyed, my reputation (Rush's),
character, must be impugned, credibility."
Liberalism
Becomes coercive and overbearing."Because it's about bureaucrats
"imposing" things on people. It's all about forcing people to do things:
pay more taxes, must buy government specified health insurance." Why do
you think the Obama admin is pumping out regulations? What about NLRB,
What about EPA? It's all over-reaching and over-controlling by a seemingly ever-expanding bureaucracy and huge deficit spending.
Liberalism is About Imposing Their Beliefs On You
From Rush,
"Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way
they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people, otherwise
they won't do it on their own. It's taken them 50, 60 years to get to
this point of conditioning people, of taking hold of the education
system, the university, academia system, the media. It's taken a long
time to condition people not to stand up for themselves, not to exercise
freedom, not to speak outside the acceptable norms. What is political
correctness but speech censorship, is all it is."
Liberalism is Not About Liberty
"Liberalism
is the denial of liberty. It's the denial of freedom. It is the
imposition of restrictions on people. And they are not content to
simply live the way they want to. You must do everything they want,
think the way they think, and if you don't, you're either gonna be
punished or they'll try to relegate you to insignificance because you
represent an enemy, you represent a threat to them."
"You
and I are content for everybody to live the life they want to live and
we'll enter the arena of ideas and we'll try to persuade them to join us
in the way we view life and the way we view liberty and freedom. But
it's not in our Constitution to force anybody to do anything, to punish
anybody for the way they believe, think or live, but it's not that way
with them."
Liberalism is Not About Free Debate Either
"Liberals
cannot survive in an unrigged contest in the arena of ideas. They are
not about ideas. Liberals are not about choice; they are about
imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on
people, otherwise they won't do it on their own. What is political correctness but speech censorship, is all it is."
"They
don't want competition for your mind. They don't want anybody
convincing you that they're wrong. They don't want anybody telling you
who they really are. And when anybody pops up that effectively does
that, here come the long knives."
In a Free Country Like The USA, People Will Not Choose Liberalism.
"If
they want to eat salt, they'll eat it. If they want to eat trans fats,
they'll eat it. If they want to eat beef, they'll eat it. The only
way liberals can get you to live the way they want you to is to deny you
freedom to do what you want to do. And they're not happy with you
living and thinking in ways other than the way they live and think. You
must conform. If you dare speak outside the acceptable liberal norms,
they're gonna come after you. They're gonna do their best to destroy
whoever does that so that that person or group of people will not
persuade others"
"Liberals don't believe in individual
liberty, that people can't shoulder the responsibility for themselves."
Sometimes, that may be true. But can an anonymous bureaucrats ever
really help? How can you foster personal responsibility outside of
family, friends and community?
"What liberals want
will never happen on its own. People will not live the way liberals
want if left to their own devices, because people will not build walls
to keep themselves in places that they don't want to be, such as the
Soviet Union, such as China, such as Cuba. Those places are all run by
liberals. You can call 'em communists or socialists or whatever. "
Liberalism is About Big Government, Big Brother and Ultimately Financial Calamity
"Liberalism spawns, sponsors, promotes class envy. Liberalism promotes and sponsors the division of people."
"Liberalism
pits groups of people against each other. Liberalism promises certain
people that others are going to be punished, that the brute force of
government is gonna get even with people. It's a hideous, hideous
thing. It is destructive. You look at any city in this country or any
country in this world that has been run for years unchecked by liberals,
and you're gonna see total destruction. You're going to see poverty."
"You're
going to see economic distress; people enraged, angry, depending on
somebody else to get through the day. It is an ugly, ugly picture, and
it all happens under the guys of compassion! It all happens under the
false promise that you're being taken care of, that you're being cared
for, and that people doing this to you care about you and the other guys
(i.e., Republicans) don't. It is a series of some of the most amazing
lies, and that's what's breathtaking about it."
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