Posted by
Hunter S on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:12:34 AM
This was supposed to be a new era in American politics; an era of change and fresh ideas that transcended party affiliations. A quick review of Obama’s first 100 days, however, seems eerily familiar to me. It reminds me of a time in my not so distant past when I sat inside several college classrooms and endured several of the left’s leading propagandists (read: college professors) highlight the benefits of big government, judicial activism, and socialism while simultaneously dismissing the concept of American exceptionalism as foolish. One enlightened professor told me I was too smart to watch Fox News and vehemently attacked the history of American foreign policies, while defending those of European and Middle Eastern countries. Another lauded what he perceived to be the triumphs of wealth redistribution and spoke of capitalism to our class as inherently flawed.
Unfortunately for all of us, this distorted worldview taught to a relatively small group of college students is now shared by the leader of the free world, and he’s not the least bit ashamed to shout it from the mountaintops. Don’t believe me? In his first 100 days in office, President Obama has paraded around the world apologizing for the history of American foreign policy (sorry about that WWII deal, western Europe), promoting economic policies that include spending the wealth of Americans who are yet to be born, and promoting environmental policies and healthcare policies that favor an unprecedented level of federal government control of our daily lives (it’s worked for Obama’s buddies in Cuba and Venezuela, right?). Did I mention he nominated 5 tax cheats to positions in his administration (or is it 6, I can’t keep up)?
Regardless of what we’ve been told by the media, these policies are not really new (other than the number of tax cheats – that’s got to be a record). These are the same tired liberal policies that we’ve seen fail in our world since the beginning of government intervention in the lives of free people. In America, we’ve seen it since FDR radically transferred power from private citizens to federal government in the form of public works projects, the appointment of radical supreme court justices, his unprecedented run for more than two consecutive terms, and his brilliant government-run programs like Social Security. Everyone reading this under 35 who believes you’ll see Social Security say “I”…that’s what I thought! Then, in case Americans forgot how damaging unbridled liberalism can be, we got another dose of it from Jimmy Carter, which nearly crippled our economy and set the groundwork for the modern economic collapse (see the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977). It took a truly transcendent figure in Reagan to come in and clean up that catastrophe. The only difference back in the Carter years was that we were all going to freeze to death from global cooling right after we ran out of oil, now it’s global warming, but we’ll be back to global cooling in a couple decades, blah, blah, blah. The end result is government wants more control, and convincing us that the sky is going to fall if we don’t immediately forfeit more of our rights to them is the best way they know how to take those rights from us. When is enough enough?
The dirty little secret about the course this administration is charting for our country is this – it’s not new, it’s not change, and it’s not going to work. It’s all been tried before and it has a 100% failure rate in the course of human history. Free people will only tolerate an overbearing government stripping away our rights for so long. As evidenced by last week’s tea parties, one of which I proudly attended, I’d say we’re starting to reach our threshold for tyranny. Now is the time in which we must stand for liberty and demand our government treat us with reverence rather than ridicule and with courtesy rather than contempt. Got that Secretary Napolitano?
Soooo…when’s the next tea party?