Obama

I’ve been wanting to put this post up, but it just keeps being one of those that just slips away each evening.  Certainly it is clear that there is a divide, nay, a chasm between those of the Left and those on the Right.  That chasm is for the future direction of the United States.

• Liberal / Statists / Progressives / Socialists want the country to move forward – to a utopia that holds the Collective as the highest ideal
• They also want self annointed experts to make the major decisions for everyone else.

• Conservatives / Constitutionalists / Libertarians wish to move the country forward – but know that to do so, we must first go back to Constitutional values as elucidated by the Founders.
• We want you to be able to make your own decisions.

Obama famously said that “we are five days from fundamentally transforming the United States”.  His vision is clear:  unlike all of US History, he wishes to completely subsume all of Society under the thumb of Government.  Why is this a fundamental transformation?  Remember your history – the Declaration and the Constitution were all about protecting Individual Rights against an encroaching Government.  Society was to have a Government that served it and not the other way  around.

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Obama:

“And I confess the progress didn’t come quickly, and it did not come easily,” President Obama said about his time as a community organizer in Chicago. “Sometimes it didn’t come at all. There were times where I thought about giving up and moving on. But what kept me going day in and day out was the same thing that has sustained the Urban League all these years. The same thing that sustains all of you. And that is the belief that in America, change is always possible. That our union may not be perfect, but it is perfectible.”

“That we can strive over time, through effort and sweat and blood and tears until it is the place we imagine. It may come in fits and starts, at a pace that can be slow and frustrating, but if we are willing to push through all the doubt and the cynicism and the weariness, then yes, we can form that more perfect union,” Obama said.

A more perfect union.  The problem is that this lies at the heart of Progressivism – they keep believing that THEY have the ability, that THEY should have the power, to form that more perfect union. A more perfect union – and what would that be?  In a nutshell, it is a collective utopia – that everyone shares the same values, that all share goals, and that all share an equality of outcomes.

In essence, it is the antithesis of  why and how our Founders wanted or designed for our Republic.  Equality for them was for equality before the law and opportunity; Progressives want equality in all areas along with a libertine culture.  Yes, circumstances can prevent the Founders vision from happening but a Law is a law – judges and juries should be slicing a case according to meeting or violating that law.  Unfortunately, it has becomes a “win at any cost” – it seemingly has lost sight of “the truth and nothing but the truth”.  Still, the State was to be a neutral observer in all this and its primary role was to protect our individual freedoms, liberties, and Rights.  Sadly, we seemingly have lost sight of this as Progressives have morphed government from being an umpire to that of being one that determines what behaviors are correct and which are wrong.

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