Yesiree. Hope is an amazing thing. It is what allowed people to survive something as horrible as the Holocaust (all denials of it by some, in particular some of Charles Freeman, Jr.’s Middle Eastern buddies, aside).
Hope is, in fact, what created this country.
And it was the deliberate, well-considered, experiential-based actions of those hopeful few 222 years ago that allowed that international man of mystery, Barack Hussein Obama, to become President, too.
Yet it is a truth that hope can be misplaced. And that the drivers of even the most audacious hope can be, at best, misguided. One definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over but continue to expect different results.
This, then, explains the current Democratic mindset. Can’t pay the bills? Spend more. If that doesn’t work, spend even more. And when questioned about the continuing failure, blow smoke & rhetoric in an attempt to align yourself with a Republican (Reagan) who took the opposite tack that succeeded.
What it doesn’t explain, however, is when the spending sprees are accompanied by more and more laws that snare the public in a net of more and more indebtedness (dependence) on bigger and bigger government. All created in direct contrast to the deliberate, well-considered, experiental-based hope foundation upon which this country was based.
That’s where the opposite definition of insanity comes in. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
This, then, explains in part the so-called “liberal” mindset. Needing to feel important but unable to see through some strange and self-created sense of inadequacy, the only way to accomplish this is not through individual efforts but by that most childish game of tearing down others to their level. Claiming superiority through some nebulous advantage of “higher” education (sic) that in the end provides little more than weasel words designed to confuse the average person who has been trained to believe what they see and read in a so-called “free press”, without any real-world experience these self-perceived superiors must turn the real world into a nothing more than a science lab where “models” are tested over and over, despite their continuing failure. At best, their purpose is wheel-spinning “creation” for the sake of “creation”, at worst, it is an attempt to “fix” something that doesn’t need their insulated bubble-grown help in the first place.
Such Democratic, liberal “hope” really can be called audacity. In fact, it is the height of audacity. I don’t believe that Americans are, in general, so stupid as to believe that we can actually spend our way out of this toxic, phantom money mess but I don’t believe that enough Americans have yet reached the set-point of understanding that it is their failure to participate fully in the foundational elements of our government that has allowed things to stray so far from the original intent of our Founding Fathers.
There is no such thing as being too “busy” to take the time to actually read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and to read the Federalist papers that made perfectly clear the intentions of the Founding Fathers. From such reading would come a realization that “conservative” is not a party, but instead a mindset. One of independence, one of individualism, one where those who can are allowed to do, thereby helping everyone. You don’t need to be a “Constitutional law professor” to understand that this Republic was not founded on any principle of big government. Those who would tell you otherwise are in it hoping solely for their own gain.
All at your expense, of course.
And that is, indeed, the audacity of hope.