Sound and Fury?
I have a different quote.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune:
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
(Julius Caesar IV.iii. 216-222)
I just look at where the money goes. And I look at who signed on. Action speaks louder than words, doesn't it?
So true. The dems are attempting to walk the line of a drunken man. On the one hand, they want to cautiously avoid being perceived as anti-American, or pro-terrorist. But they also don't want to support the president as he guides an unstable mideast nation to an elected government that could be the first domino of democracy in an area of theocracies and despots. It is a tale told by an idiot, and yes, it signifies nothing, except perhaps their waning political power.
So this Lover of Citations starts a thread called "Liberal Hypocrisy" as if hypocrisy is a side-effect of Liberal thinking.
Not a side effect, but evidence of the basic premise.
When I was a liberal democrat, I was so because I felt that I, and my like thinking friends had a more progressive, more highly developed intellect, and a more insightful view of the world and humanity than an "average" person. This is clearly an elitist view, and it is part and parcel to the liberal democrat belief that the future of this nation should be guided by this "ruling class". As I grew older and, IMHO, more wise, I began to realize that the real genius of this country comes from the idea that our fundamental freedoms are granted by God, and not agreed to by the likes of a Schumer or a Clinton.
The basic hypocracy is the liberal democrat is always talking about the rights of Americans, but everything they do tends to take those rights away. Your right to smoke a legal cigarette. Your right to private property. Your right to bear arms. You right to choose your employees. Your right to send your children to a better school. Your right to an up or down vote on your appointment to the judiciary. Your right to craft the future of your nation through legislation, and not see that right subrogaterd to the federal bench.
In tuth, the liberal democrat sees Americans as
unqualified to chart the course of their own country. They believe that only they, the political aristocracy, should influence policy and law. This is hypocricy raised to the highest exponent: deceit.
I want to hear a Conservative say that Bush is bad for the Republicans in the same way I, as a Liberal, say that Clinton was bad for the Democrats.
In the same way? No. But I do often disagree with him.
He should not have waited so long to go into Iraq. He gave our enemies time to flee, move weapons of mass destruction, and to arrange opposition in the UN, which was never a friend of freedom.
He is a proponent of allowing illegal workers to remain in our country, and he is against the control of our borders that is crucial to maintaining control of our country. I, on the other hand, believe that our existing laws should be enforced, and that every person entering our country follow the procedures for working, learning, and becoming a citizen. Every person who is not authorized to be here should leave here. Period. My dad followed the rules, as did the vast majority of people who have come here looking for a better life. To allow anyone to ignore those rules is a slap in the face to those who worked hard and achieved the goal of citizenship.
He let Ted Kennedy write an education act for him. Ted Kennedy! The idea is so absurd that I can only compare it to the fact that Ted's father was allowed to write the insider training regulations after he had raped and pillaged the financial markets.
There are other points, but I grow weary of the typing. I am currently teaching myself about putting up websites so I can save money on one for my business. HTML is a cruel misstress, a friend told me. Now I know why.
I agree with you on this: we have seen our government become a mechanism for the redistribution of wealth. I can find no idea that is more the antithesis of the American Dream. Our tax system is being used for social engineering and repeated attempts to make life "fair". It isn't fair because it is not designed to be "fair". It is designed to be
challenging.
How we respond to the challenges, including charity on an individual basis, is the hallmark of a society. Making charity a faceless government body, an entitlement, is the first giant step toward our doom, and we must do everything we can to reduce those entitlements. If that means reducing taxes and starving the beast, then so be it. Unfortunately, we now have millions of people who are blissfully content to suck at the government teat, and will vote out anyone who tries to change that. Prescription drugs and other social programs are a slow poison. Just look at europe and canada. Everyone wants to come here. Why? We have not become a fully developed socialist country, like the ones they are coming from.
It's all shadows cast on a wall. Turn around to discover who's playing with shapes and form.
I don't have to. The Bible has already identified the prince of this world. But his time is short, and his followers will be lost with him. We are directed to struggle against him, and his ways. His ways sound good when Hillary and Katie talk about them, but they lead to "government becoming god", and there is a high price to pay for that substitution.
When we replace the true God with a false god, like a government, we can lose our fredom and our eternal lives. God does not want enforced worship, as the ACLU thinks that Christians want. He wants us to be free to choose, based on faith. When you have a socialist state, God is banned, and the decision is made
for us. The supreme court has refused to even hear a case where a state constitution mandates the observation of the ten commandments as the basis of law, allowing a lower court to subvert that constitution.
God help the USA. May we continue to struggle against evil, and the weakes parts of ourselves that the evil one seeks to exploit.