Tag: communitarianism

Notable Quote – It’s always the “well, the right people haven’t implemented it” excuse

August 30, 2020

by Skip

Yet while socialists distance themselves from contemporary and historical examples of socialism, they usually struggle to explain what exactly they would do differently. Socialists tend to escape into abstraction, and talk of lofty aspirations rather than tangible institutional characteristics. -Kristian Niemietz ( Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies) That’s all we keep hearing – … Read more

Isn’t he just a SPECIAL sort of Stupid: Jim Morgan

May 10, 2020May 10, 2020

by Skip

Yes, we get tips from time to time (actually, more and more often) and this one is a special sort of amusing. However, to set the stage and remind you of some important history, let’s start with these:

You are responsible for me so I can control you (as I like)

May 4, 2020

by Skip

Alternative title 1: Community above the Individual

Alternative title 2: the government has made us all our brothers’ keepers.

That is a political philosophy called Communitarianism. The short definition is a feeling of community but on steroids with the control clamps being brought out of the secret drawers.

The Mafioso tone of NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo

April 3, 2020

by Skip

I watch Fredo’s brother’s, NY Gov. Cuomo, presser today on Fox (turning what should have been a State level event into a national one). It basically was a smaller copy of the daily Presidential / Coronavirus Task Force presser generally held at 5:30pm (Steve is doing the yeoman’s work at having posts up where you … Read more

DISQUS Doodlings – It ain’t your money, Treehuggers! Part 2

March 15, 2019

by Skip

Part 1 is here of me trying to defend your Right to Private Property (e.g., money) to use as you wish instead of the greedy Politicians, Socialists, and Communitarians (on steroids) believing that is is OUR money to do with “we” wish. Like NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio saying in his latest State of the … Read more

DISQUS Doodlings – It ain’t your money, Treehuggers! Part 1

March 15, 2019March 14, 2019

by Skip

Yet again, TreeHuggers show their true colors with Honcho Lloyd complaining about $80 billion being wasted on autonomous vehicles. At this point, start remembering about Crazy Bernie (the self-described Socialist from Vermont that honeymooned in Moscow during the height of the Cold War) who complained that we don’t “need” 23 different types of underarm deodorant … Read more

NH HB0411 – Where the NH House Democrats are about to make boat owners financial victims – of the Democrats!

September 26, 2018March 10, 2013

by Skip

You see, this is the main problem that Democrats have – in their all so Orwellian manner sense of “we all in this together – whether you like it or not” – Sidenote: like that old phrase of “can’t win, can’t lose, can’t get out of the game”, we “can’t get out of their enforced … Read more

Facebook Doodlings – in which I may have called out Lloyd over at TreeHugger

September 26, 2018February 19, 2013

by Skip

Well, I do go over to TH from time to time, and even leave comments. Well, there was a post by Lloyd (“90 by 50 plan could reduce New York City’s emissions by 90% by 2050“), someone that doesn’t always take kindly to Conservative or Libertarians assaulting what seems to be an Environmental Communitarian mantra. The Urban Green Council wants to make it mandatory that buildings meet their standard of reducing their carbon footprint by 90% by 2050. This will absolutely require massive expenditures by private owners – probably enough to bankrupt more than a small percentage. And knowing how this works, they will use Government to make it happen.

Private Property?

So, I could not help myself – I left a comment for the author, Lloyd:

” there is no need for floor-to-ceiling glass” – Ah yes, THE phrase that marks a Liberal. We so declare that in our eyes, you should not want to “need” it, so we’ll pull a Bloomberg and just regulate it out of existence.

If you are looking for a firm foundation, when you see such a phrase, ask yourself: Since when did someone’s Freedom become limited by someone else’s selfish sense of “it has to be needed first”?

Freedom should always. just. be. “Need” need not apply when talking about Freedom. Thus, I was surprised, he actually responded – but the nuance did not surprise:

A Fourth of July message to my fellow Groksters – and to our readers. And especially to those that just might be stopping by.

September 26, 2018July 4, 2012

by Skip

“I also wanted to mention the strange feeling that I awoke with today….and I share your sense of – not unease necessarily, but maybe – resolve..?“

Words from my fellow Groksters that stirred me to write a message back:

My fellow Groksters,

There was a reason why each and everyone of you was chosen and asked to write for GraniteGrok. I also believe that there was a reason why each and everyone of you said yes – you all realized that we ARE in a Cold Civil War, that “the strange feeling that I awoke with today” one that is “instinctive” and “palpable” are real. I started this blogging schtick with Doug back in 2005 when it was just a novel way to get our rather opinionated opinions out there. Now, I see that there was a Higher Purpose that yanked us into this place, and what we do now as the ‘Grok is probably far more important than what I ever thought. Liberty and Freedom.

This July Fourth, we realize we are at a tipping point – a very important one. We are in a fight for our Country’s future; the line has been drawn, and we either are those that just drift along or we respond that that “instinctive” and internal sense that something is awry. If not us, then who? Who will run to the ramparts to defend our Shining City on a Hill? Who will stir themselves from the easy life and the easy way? Who will say “I will put away the couch, the tv, the toys, and my family” and look deeper into their core to say “There is more; I am a descendent of our Minutemen – if not by blood but by that same love of country and Ideals”. I will stand, not for the Old World based failed reasons that motivated my ancestors to leave the Old Country, but for the Rights given to me by my Creator. I am that new Minuteman that refuses to give in to the Progressives that not only defend the Statism of that Old World but wish to entrench it here. Millions have died to defend the philosophy expressed in the Declaration of Independence – yet, Progressives are fighting to redefine those words and ideas, turn them upside down, and say that they are the Patriots and we are the extremists. They are the Fifth Column, the Trojan Horse, spreading rot within all of our institutions and Society.

But all of you Groksters and others that join with us in spirit (TEA Party, 9-12, constitutionally aware), are now are saying “You have gone far enough – and we will stop you”. Some of you have already done your part; you took the oath, did the training, did the hard work, and literally fought for us. We who stayed home did other things, vaguely aware that you were on the parapets standing guard and keeping us safe. Yet, even with your tours long over, have come back to the fight once more. Not with a gun (though you have such at the ready, with the spirit to lift it) but with keyboards, voices, and heart. We who did not wear the uniform now join you in this different fight, side by side with you, ready to now do our part.