I have been scared for a while now – for our Constitutional Republic built on our Constitution and its Classical Western Liberal values (not to be confused by the very illiberal Liberals who absconded with yet another word, placing their own definition on it (like gay)).  It has been under assault for decades but from what we have seen over the last five years, over the last eight months, over the last week, the pace has only increased.  Obama said just before his first inauguration that his goal was to fundamentally transform the United States.  From Wilson to FDR to LBJ, and now to Obama.

Each is tied to each other by their hatred of the US Constitution.  Wilson was very open about it, and wrote about it.  FDR wanted his Second Bill of Rights that would change, forever, the Founders Vision that the best government was the least government.  Instead, it would have become that “positive rights” that would have had Government give Rights to people instead of the “negative Rights” that keeps Government from doing things TO you.  FDR set the table with his New Deal that helped to start that transformation.  Face it, look at the uncoupling of the nuclear family to its intergenerational extended one – no longer did the children affirm their bonds to their parents once the latter become unable to provide or care for themselves – Government would and did step in.  Parents could be “independent” for years with Social Security.

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