There is a long discussion going on at Gates of Vienna about the divisions in our society. The Left seems intent on multiplying those differences in a divide and conquer strategy. One of the participants said that the answer to what the left is doing is for people of European ancestry to band together to form a countervailing pressure group. The participant cites a number of race and ethnic blogs to prove his point. I have an answer for that.
I have no doubt that what you say exists and it has always existed. I was fortunate to live in MLKs "I have a dream" America growing up.
All the things you decry, what a friend of mine called "Angry Studies", are part and parcel and in total Gramscian Marxism/Socialism. The idea was to destroy social cohesion so that Marxists could rule.
It is apparent that even if you are not a Marxist that they have won you over. It follows the Stalinist line of dividing the country along ethnic lines to make rule easier.
Fortunately some of us are not so easily fooled.
As I keep saying - the core of the problem is socialism and it is the socialists who are pushing this crap.
You are following the Marxist script. You are a dupe.
You really need to educate yourself. The Church was a unifying force because it was based on the brotherhood of all men in Christ. The first object of the Gramscians was the destruction of the Church. Not that they cared about religion much one way or the other. It was the brotherhood of man that was the critical element. To destroy that they went after the particulars of the Church. Their real aim was the brotherhood of man. Divide and conquer.
I will not be divided. I refuse to join in.
I wish to celebrate American Multiculturalism in which all men are brothers and destroy Gramscian Multiculturalism where all men are enemies.
Can we take on the Socialists who have increased U.S. defense spending from $286 billion a year to over $700 billion a year over the past 7 years first?
Just to show we're really anti-Socialistist...not just partisans fighting over the government teat.
Defense spending is no more "Constitutional" than Welfare spending, farm subsidies, Social Security, or a national health care system, if American voters elect politicians to put one in place.
You meant to tell me that when Congress voted money for ships to fight the Barbary pirates under the Jefferson and Madison administrations that it was unConstitutional?
Alphie, military spending may be be big government, but it's not socialist, which proposes to support some by depriving others of their property rights and liberty. Defense spending is a concession to government in order to protect the rights to life of the citizens who are paying for it. There is a reason the political philosophy the nation was founded under is called *limited* government. Socialists see no limits.
Further, Alphie, just because the Supreme Court arbitrarily declares a practice Constitutional does not make it Constitutional in fact. Marbury vs. Madison was just such a grave error.
Brett · January 21, 2008 12:17 PM
Wall Street bankers, Oil company executives, defense contractors, corn farmers, etc. all have plausible arguments why their government pork is vital to a functioning America.
Either you're against all Socialism...or you're just an unpaid shill for a particular government-funded industry.
So this is where alphie ran off to....
He'll tire of being ridiculed and spanked and eventually go somewhere else I suppose.
TBinSTL · January 21, 2008 9:52 PM
I do want government to stop subsidizing industries and Big Agriculture: we are a grown up Nation now and don't need those. When I see millions going to 'farmers' living in Key West, then I see something that is not just socialism, but rampant corruption. And as the founders put down that limited government is the best government and that representative democracy needs to highly representative to work, I support a Maximum House at 1:30,000 so that the 'many eyes driving out bad code' can be put to the test in running government. And eliminate the staff for Representatives so they actually have to manage their lives just like ordinary citizens.
Then defend the Nation starting at the border and heading outwards... and enforce every single solitary law to the max that Congress has passed and then hand the bill over to Congress so they can see what their lovely ideas of profligate lawmaking has done to change this from a nation where the rule of law is supreme to one where the law of rules renders everything that can be done illegal and worthy of having money, goods or one's life confiscated. And particularly enforce them *on* Congress.
This Nation had fair warning in the 1787-89 timeframe by the discussion amongst the citizenry about what the end of republics and democracies looked like... and those that warned about certain unchecked powers of government have been demonstrated to be prescient in forecasting factionalization, disenchantment and the slow loss of liberty while those in power gather more power to themselves over time. This is *not* a socialist phenomena, but an artifact of what happens when the quest for power over-rides the idea of governing for the common good. America is not only *not* immune, but only now hitting the testing period of some of the longer republics and democracies that cracked up due to the slow sucking of power into the larger government and out of the hands of local government and the people.
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Can we take on the Socialists who have increased U.S. defense spending from $286 billion a year to over $700 billion a year over the past 7 years first?
Just to show we're really anti-Socialistist...not just partisans fighting over the government teat.