What Makes Obama Tick.
It’s been a while since I did a “must read”. The one I have today is one of those pieces that restates what we all on the right understand while being beyond the comprehension of the oh so intelligent left.
The piece in question is ‘Fully Invested in Your Misery’ by Bruce Walker at American Thinker, a site that should be on everyone’s daily read.
Americans ought to ponder that before electing a man who thrives politically — the sphere of his life that really matter to him — on the unhappiness, helplessness, and hopelessness of his fellow citizens. When his voice promises “hope,” as it so often does, we should recall that what he is promising is communal “hope.” Our experiences, our lives, our souls, to Obama, belong to society. We cannot have hope by ourselves. We can only have hope as part of a vast mass of humanity.
The “change” he promises is also collective change, enforced by the rod of government. Hope and change, in a free world, are the private possessions of motivated individuals. Political leaders bring benefits like honest government, national security, sensible and moderate programs to accomplish the broad purposes of the Constitution, and blind justice. But in a free world, in a free country, politicians do not complete our personal dreams or our private hopes.
It takes much to separate Americans from ownership of their lives. The means of rendering people from their lives is misery. Let the mortgage giants collapse. Let refineries and oil exploration stop. Let food prices spike. Let individual lives drown in worries and in troubles created by the state. Then make those individuals turn to the state for release from pain. Long ago, the formula was written: “The worse, the better.”
Existence ordered by free hearts and minds is chaos to the Left. We cannot find happiness in our own, unorganized and unregulated pursuits. We cannot have meaningful lives separate from the dogma of the Party and, as Obama put in it the closed doors of San Francisco elites, “clinging to our religion.”
Good luck getting any lefty to see the wisdom in that.
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"Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate. It's the sand of the Coliseum. He'll bring them death... and they will love him for it."
ligneus1 September 22nd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Yeah, you’d think the poor would have figured that out by now, or maybe they have and like the government teat more than they like independence. Which, to complete the circle, is why they’re poor.