PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
Which candidate will bring policies that support individualism and your right to think and behave as you wish, even in opposition to the orthodoxy of the government?
And which one will make you be very careful as to what you say or think?
You know the answer.
1.While the Declaration of Independence prefaced heretofore unknown changes in the structure of a society, the most important word in the Declaration of Independence is found here:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”
The word is ‘secure.’
That means that the most important function of government is to maintain pre-existing rights, not to create them, nor to dispense them. They are known and self-evident prior to the founding of our nation, are inalienable, whether one chooses to use them or not. They are that men are created equal, and enjoy the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They come from our Creator by virtue of our simply being human beings.
The prime mission of Militant Secularism is to reverse, to 'undo,' this foundational view of America.
2. This is the basis for the battle, one that must be won generationally, and fought against an enemy that lives within our nation, an enemy that is tireless in the attempt to reverse our founding. It is Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, Militant Secularism. The Democrat Party.
Democrat Woodrow Wilson presaged the battle of the individual vs the collective, here:
“Well, we are architects in our time, and our architects are also engineers. …we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house… accommodated to all the modern knowledge of structural strength and elasticity, and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, let in the light through new apertures, improve the ventilation; until finally, a generation or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a single community, co-operative as in a perfected, co-ordinated beehive,…”
Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1912
“…and there will be the family…”
The irony, of course, is that this mode of thought gave birth to today’s Democrats, who openly plan to abolish the family and concepts like marriage and individuality....and freedom.
3. Well, which is it, the Founders view of inalienable rights from our Creator, or rights lent out by an all-powerful Progressive government administration? Are we sovereign individuals, or simply cogs in one massive collective, subject to rule that government churns out at its whim?
Central to this question is whether Americans have free speech, freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of religion, or these can be restricted, as Justice Kagan has written. Whether the American created at conception has the right to life, or whether government can award the ability kill that individual to another. Whether we own the fruits of our individual labor, or, as a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration claimed, “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”
This is the battle fought in every election….but the actual stakes are hidden from all but the most astute: it’s not about a particular candidate….it’s the policies that candidate will bring.
And which one will make you be very careful as to what you say or think?
You know the answer.
1.While the Declaration of Independence prefaced heretofore unknown changes in the structure of a society, the most important word in the Declaration of Independence is found here:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”
The word is ‘secure.’
That means that the most important function of government is to maintain pre-existing rights, not to create them, nor to dispense them. They are known and self-evident prior to the founding of our nation, are inalienable, whether one chooses to use them or not. They are that men are created equal, and enjoy the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They come from our Creator by virtue of our simply being human beings.
The prime mission of Militant Secularism is to reverse, to 'undo,' this foundational view of America.
2. This is the basis for the battle, one that must be won generationally, and fought against an enemy that lives within our nation, an enemy that is tireless in the attempt to reverse our founding. It is Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, Militant Secularism. The Democrat Party.
Democrat Woodrow Wilson presaged the battle of the individual vs the collective, here:
“Well, we are architects in our time, and our architects are also engineers. …we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house… accommodated to all the modern knowledge of structural strength and elasticity, and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, let in the light through new apertures, improve the ventilation; until finally, a generation or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a single community, co-operative as in a perfected, co-ordinated beehive,…”
Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1912
“…and there will be the family…”
The irony, of course, is that this mode of thought gave birth to today’s Democrats, who openly plan to abolish the family and concepts like marriage and individuality....and freedom.
3. Well, which is it, the Founders view of inalienable rights from our Creator, or rights lent out by an all-powerful Progressive government administration? Are we sovereign individuals, or simply cogs in one massive collective, subject to rule that government churns out at its whim?
Central to this question is whether Americans have free speech, freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of religion, or these can be restricted, as Justice Kagan has written. Whether the American created at conception has the right to life, or whether government can award the ability kill that individual to another. Whether we own the fruits of our individual labor, or, as a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration claimed, “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”
This is the battle fought in every election….but the actual stakes are hidden from all but the most astute: it’s not about a particular candidate….it’s the policies that candidate will bring.