It seems like everywhere you look these days, someone’s trying to spread...The Fear.
All around us...in every town...on every corner...a massive Army Of Fear is standing by, according to the Messengers, ready at a moment’s notice to obey the dictates of some unappointed Czar or another.
Just ask Glenn Beck: concentration camps for the white people, jackbooted stormtroopers ready to snatch the guns from your cold dead fingers...Socialist Government-Controlled Healthcare That Threatens Your Not Socialist Medicare...it’s all coming, my friends—and unless we organize, as a community, to return to the values of the Founding Fathers, The Government, meaning that awful Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and George Soros and all the other Evil Community Organizers, will win.
There’s no government, we’re told, like no government.
You know who would find all of this fear of self-government just entirely bizarre?
The Founding Fathers.
In today’s conversation we’ll consider the fundamentals of American patriotism, we’ll ask one of those Founding Fathers how he saw the role of Government—and we’ll toss in a few words from Abraham Lincoln, just for good measure.
What do you do when you are the party of no?? The Party of no new ideas, no vision, and no compassion?? Since you know you have absolutely nothing to offer in the way of policy for the future besides the failures of the past, you get desperate. Instead of even trying to come up with a workable vision of the future, you insult your own donors and the American people by acting like spoiled rotten children who are not getting their way.
There has been a lot of dissent by Progressives on some of the decisions made by President Obama and rightfully so. Starting with the retaining of Bush's Defense Secretary and the attempt to put Judd Gregg as Commerce Secretary, Obama has done much to perplex true Progressives. From dropping his former support for single-payer, to attempting "bi-partisan" healthcare reform, on down to appointing a Kentucky Neo-Con to protect China's interests on our Consumer protection panel many decisions Obama has made need to be opposed.
