The final paragraphs of David Limbaugh's article today on Townhall.com pretty much state the case for this blog's existence!
Should we conservatives, for example, place such a high priority on Republican and Democratic politicians making nice with each other that we agree to adopt growth-smothering tax increases? Socialized health care? Retreat-and-defeat in Iraq? Payoffs to trial lawyers instead of monitoring terrorist communications? Civil rights for terrorists? Abandonment of protection for the unborn? Acquiescence to the ongoing assault on Christians in the public square? Continued surrender of academia to America-bashing, atheistic, feminist-preoccupied, history revisionist, liberal indoctrinators? Unbridled open borders with a guaranteed transformation of our culture? The appointment of appellate judges who will continue to make, rather than interpret, laws and amend the Constitution by judicial fiat? Selective suppression of free speech? Imposition of the Fairness Doctrine to eradicate conservative talk radio and restore monolithic media dominance? The surrendering of American sovereignty to the United Nations or to other foreign bodies? Deferential reverence to the false gods of global warming with the guaranteed destruction of capitalism that would ensue? The refusal, for political reasons, to address our entitlement crisis that will otherwise inevitably bankrupt this nation?
We can, if we choose to, delude ourselves into being swept up in false promises of hope and change and in the idolatry of today's politically correct but grossly distorted notions of tolerance and bipartisanship. But if we do, we ignore at our peril the inescapable reality that we are engaged in a war of worldviews whose outcome will determine the future of this nation.
We should all be civil toward one another, including our political opponents, but we must never forget that getting along and feel-goodism should not be purchased at the expense of our liberties, our security and our culture. Be extremely wary of and vigilant against those who promise or imply otherwise.
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Today I got into at least two arguments with my nieces, home from college, over some of these ideas, and one or two left out. They agree in part that laws for safety deprive us of freedom, but that's ok with them. Another idea is that zero tolerance rules deprive us the use of our God given brains. We see examples every week in the news of brain free decisions. From expelling a 7 year old for drawing a picture of his soldier uncle in Iraq with his M-16, to making women drink their own breast milk to prove it's not a bomb, to expelling a good h.s. girl for buying candy from another student selling for fund raising. Those rules say we can not tell someone we know's motivations and therefore always assume the worst. I believe our brains and experience give us valuable judgement and discrimination abilities. We need to trust and use those talents to make us better.
I think it is ok with young people to be deprived of freedoms because they haven't had much freedom in their lives. From the moment they were born, these kids in their early 20's have had to sit in a restraining car seat every time they got in the car, they have had to watch everyone get a trophy-just for effort, they have had to give everyone in their class a valentine-even if they didn't want to, they have had to invite everyone in their class to their birthday party, they cannot go out of their yard to play, their cell phone guarantees they stay in constant contact with their parents, they eat at the same restaurant as every teen in America, they buy the same tennis shoes, they get put in detention for chewing gum in school, their school district tells them if their BMI is too high, they cannot walk door-to-door to sell their girl scout cookies...don't you all see...the kids today don't know what freedom is because they have already had so much of it taken away. The kids today wouldn't be able to handle the freedom that kids of the 60's had. Can you imagine a child today transported back to the 60's? There weren't latchkey kids in the 60's - because the doors weren't locked. You didn't need a cell phone in the 60's because no one needed to call you - they just yelled for you to come home. You didn't need an afternoon chauffeur to drive you to all your sporting practices because the neighborhood was your sportsground. I could ramble on and on about the differences between kids of the 80's and 90's and kids of the 60's but I'll end here with a last thought: these young kids today are easily led to believe in a socialistic system because that's what they are already used to in most of America. Some of you older folks just don't realize it yet.
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