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The More Things Change

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“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

While doing a bit of research, I came across this little gem from Norman Thomas, six-time Presidential candidate of the Socialist Party Of America:

“The old keenness of political discussion in the party has almost died, at least in so far as policy is concerned. (Criticism of administration is still allowed). A quotation from Stalin is a final answer to all argument. He receives the same sort of exaggerated veneration in public appearances, in the display of his picture, and in written references to him that is accorded to a Mussolini or a Hitler.” (Democracy versus Dictatorship pamphlet, 1937)

Substitute “Obama” for “Stalin” and remember that this is the man who tried to get the communists to join hands with his group.

 

 

 

The Ghost Of Christmas Future

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America, I’d like you to have a tour of my own old home town.  A town that is the poster child of the progressive liberal Democrat “Model Cities” program, which was started as part of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” and a utopia that is still being promised by the liberal, progressive Democrats today.

This is your very own Ghost of Christmas Future.  So come on.  Grab a cuppa joe, kick back, and see what is being planned for you by those boys from Chicago and their bitterly rabid hench & wench, Reid and Pelosi.

  

And then remember, my beloved America, that Ebenezer Scrooge saw the Ghost of Christmas Future, too, and found it within himself to change it.

The Most Important Thing Is Your Social Life?

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Victor Davis Hanson continues his thoughtful look at current trends in “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part II“.  This one focuses on the “Ugly” ones; in particulare the corruption of the (free) press, university education versus “entitlement indocrination”, and the Europeanization of America.  While reading anything written by Dr. Hanson is illuminating, it is one comment on this particular piece that quite readily sums up the problems that created all this ugliness in the first place.

While poo-pooing Dr. Hanson’s conclusions, calling them “reductionist and counterproductive”, one poster states (in part):  “As a young twentysomething year old college educated and politically aware student of life…A university education is not an indoctrination.  My professors were brilliant PhDs who confirmed most of what I already knew from high school.  The most important thing to concentrate on is your SOCIAL life.  My professors gave me ample time to explore this philosophical precept.”

This is a perfect example that youth is wasted on the young.

And it is the crux of the ugliness we face today.  Navel-gazing while ASS-U-ME-ing that someone else is going to take care of you, just like Mommy and Daddy and your teachers coddled you no matter what, is 180 degrees from independent thinking, decisive action, and hard work; the very tenets upon which this country was founded.  The very same country that will allow you to gaze at your navel and envy your European “social network” for living a life of perceived entitlement without any understanding of how all that money being spent to take care of you is created in the first place, but that will eventually tell you it’s time to grow up, put on your big boy or big girl underpants and go make yourself useful to society.

It’s difficult to have any kind of enlightening dialogue with those who so obviously chugged the Obamanation Kool-Aid straight from the bottle.  But let me stand up and be counted among those who believe that THE UNITED STATES OWES YOU NOTHING.  Indeed, you owe this country your life for nowhere else on Earth (at least for a little while longer) can you choose what you will do and how you will do it.  Nowhere else on Earth can you blather idiotic ideas without consequences any more severe than being ostracized from your precious “social life”.  Certainly our actions must respect the same rights of others that we claim for ourselves, but otherwise, that’s it.  Your rights end where mine begin. 

So if you choose to do nothing, then don’t come crying to me when you end up living under a bridge.  I don’t owe you one single cent out of my paycheck.  My success is not measured by your failure, nor is your failure measured by my success.  Equality resides in opportunity only; your results may vary and that, boys and girls, is the beauty of diversity.  To each comes the measure of their efforts and competence.

I suggest that any college student who thinks that socialism is an ideal for which this country should strive dare to try doing something different than what Barack Obama chose to do.  Go out into the real world, get a real job and then come back and tell us just how much better you would feel about living a life without the freedoms under attack by this administration.

Otherwise, please feel free to exercise the right to use your passport and go live somewhere else.  Just be careful Lady Liberty doesn’t kick you in the ass on your way out.