ToDaZeD Why I HOPE ∏eh ∅ne Fails
EPIC
”...It was these ideals that led us to declare independence, and craft our constitution, producing documents that were imperfect but had within them, like our nation itself, the capacity to be made more perfect.
We are here today not simply to pay tribute to our first patriots but to take up the work that they began.
And yet while our problems may be new, what is required to overcome them is not. What is required is the same perseverance and idealism that our founders displayed. What is required is a new declaration of independence not just in our nation, but in our own lives...independence from ideology…"
Let’s look at that again…
ideology [n]
1. the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
2. such a body of doctrine, myth, etc., with reference to some political and social plan, as that of fascism, along with the devices for putting it into operation.
Ignoring quietly the iron in #2, what is described as ideology is Values; the things at the very basis of the decision-making process. How do ya know what choice to make? What are your Values?
That is the major beef folks have with ∏eh ∅ne—his Values. We disagree that gubbmint is Teh Answer to every question. We disagree that the individual ought to be subservient to the gubbmint. We disagree that the gubbmint has the vaguest clue how to run the economy [’xcept into the ground], our healthcare [’xcept by rationing care], or our personal lives [hands off my bacon, Jugears.]
We Value free speech, unconstrained by whatever political correctness is en vogue; we Value our right to defend ourselves, our families and our country; we Value equality for every man before the law, not some being more special; we Value Life, Liberty, Private Property, independence and our ability to make our own choices and support ourselves to the best of our ability.
∏eh ∅ne? Not so much…
"…the American Revolution was and remains an ongoing struggle in the minds and hearts of the people…so starting now, let’s take up in our own lives, the work of perfecting our Union. Let’s build a government…let all of us do our part to rebuild this country , let’s make sure this election is not the end of what we do to change America, but just the beginning.”
What is that if not ideology, just a very different one than that Valued by the Founding Fathers—and me?
I say it is time to heed this call and to come together in the defense of those Values cherished by the Original Revolutionaries. Fight against ignorance and closed-mindedness and group-think. Fight against gubbmint intrusion and overreach into areas it was never designed to enter and at which it is designed to fail. It is time, again to fight for our Independence; for our Freedom.
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