J. Matt Barber
Liberalism is terminally ill
By J. Matt Barber
It's been a pitiful sight — a sad week for progressives and "Big Union" Democrat-shilling thugs. In the wake of Tuesday night's devastating recall smackdown in Wisconsin, tens of thousands of "Occupy" hippies across the nation have simply been too depressed to get stoned and not look for work.
On Wednesday the White House released President Obama's detailed itinerary through October:
1. Worry
2. Lie
3. Obfuscate
4. Golf
5. Fundraise
6. Worry
Indeed, the president has much to worry about. No honest politico can deny that liberals' Wisconsin debacle likely represents a shadow of things to come — a precursor to November.
Recall DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz's admission on CNN. In a rare moment of candor, she said Wisconsin was a "dry run" — a "test run" for the 2012 election. (A bit like the Titanic's test run, as it turns out.)
Tuesday night Sarah Palin took to Fox News where she said that Scott Walker's humiliating defeat of Tom Barrett, the DNC and heretofore-excessively-coddled-labor-union-leaders spells big trouble for little Barry. "Obama's goose is cooked," she said. "It's the union leaders who need to be recalled."
Does this mean the Democratic Party is not long for the world? That our two-party system is on its way out?
Of course not.
As long as there are voters who really, really want lots of free stuff from other people, there will be Democrats and Democratic politicians.
Still, what it does mean is that beyond the short-term political reality that Wisconsin presents a bleak forecast for Democrats in 2012 — liberalism itself (or "progressivism," as the left euphemistically prefers) is terminally ill.
On Tuesday night, blogger David Burge of the Iowa Hawk blog "tweeted: "The principal delusion of liberals is that liberalism is popular. The principal delusion of conservatives is that liberalism is popular."
Simple, yet profound.
Liberals should be afraid. They should be very afraid. The jig is up. Polls consistently show that Americans identify as conservative over liberal by a two-to-one margin. Wisconsin was an earthshaking manifestation of this reality.
But it was only a tremor.
There's a distinct probability a massive quake awaits liberals when, later this month, the U.S. Supreme Court releases its decision on Obamacare. If this, both Obama's and Democrats' signature accomplishment, goes down, so too do the obtusely utopian, neo-Marxist dreams of the Democratic Party's progressive base.
And in November? The tsunami.
Indeed, the political tectonic plates are shifting. Unsurprisingly, so-called "progressives" pretend it ain't so.
Problem is, so do conservatives.
Stop it, both of you!
This is about worldview. This is about an epic clash between two irreconcilable, diametrically opposed socio-political philosophies. It's a zero-sum game. Somebody wins and somebody loses.
On the one hand, we have secular-socialism, a cultural and political philosophy embraced by labor unions, Barack Obama, the base of the Democratic Party, the mainstream media and many of those controlling the reins of our elitist institutions. It is "progressivism."
This is a philosophy that, throughout history, has proven to be a serial failure. One need only look to Europe for the latest example. This secularist worldview is based loosely on the unattainable, redistributionist ramblings of Karl Marx, the father of communism.
It hates Christianity. It hates constitutionalism. It hates the precepts of individual liberty and responsibility codified throughout our nation's founding documents. It embraces moral relativism and says there are no clear lines of demarcation between right and wrong.
It says that government is God and that as government giveth, government taketh away.
In sum: It's garbage.
On the other hand we have the Judeo-Christian worldview. This is the socio-political philosophy embraced by our Founding Fathers. The historical record is unequivocal. It was within this framework that our U.S. Constitution was created. It is conservatism.
It says that we are endowed by our "Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
It embraces the virtues of fiscal responsibility, individual liberty and personal charity. It says there is black and white — right and wrong. It strives for less government and more freedom.
It acknowledges that there is a sovereign God — to whom we are all accountable — including both government and those whom "we the people" place in government.
It holds that as God giveth, God taketh away, and that you lying, cheating, ungodly snakes in Washington, D.C., better just take a step back and quick.
In sum: It is truth.
On Tuesday night, as the election returns came in and it became clear that Scott Walker was landsliding liberals and their union thugocracy, some progressive nut broke down, sobbing on camera and cried: "Democracy died tonight!"
Progressives, get this straight: On Tuesday night democracy didn't die. Democracy was fulfilled in a powerful and transformative way.
And it's only the beginning.
Liberals went to Wisconsin for a recall vote and a revolution broke out. We the people have spoken. Tea party? Yes. "Occupy"? Not so much.
Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote, "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."
On Tuesday America hit Wisconsin and did an about-turn.
© J. Matt Barber
June 11, 2012
It's been a pitiful sight — a sad week for progressives and "Big Union" Democrat-shilling thugs. In the wake of Tuesday night's devastating recall smackdown in Wisconsin, tens of thousands of "Occupy" hippies across the nation have simply been too depressed to get stoned and not look for work.
On Wednesday the White House released President Obama's detailed itinerary through October:
1. Worry
2. Lie
3. Obfuscate
4. Golf
5. Fundraise
6. Worry
Indeed, the president has much to worry about. No honest politico can deny that liberals' Wisconsin debacle likely represents a shadow of things to come — a precursor to November.
Recall DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz's admission on CNN. In a rare moment of candor, she said Wisconsin was a "dry run" — a "test run" for the 2012 election. (A bit like the Titanic's test run, as it turns out.)
Tuesday night Sarah Palin took to Fox News where she said that Scott Walker's humiliating defeat of Tom Barrett, the DNC and heretofore-excessively-coddled-labor-union-leaders spells big trouble for little Barry. "Obama's goose is cooked," she said. "It's the union leaders who need to be recalled."
Does this mean the Democratic Party is not long for the world? That our two-party system is on its way out?
Of course not.
As long as there are voters who really, really want lots of free stuff from other people, there will be Democrats and Democratic politicians.
Still, what it does mean is that beyond the short-term political reality that Wisconsin presents a bleak forecast for Democrats in 2012 — liberalism itself (or "progressivism," as the left euphemistically prefers) is terminally ill.
On Tuesday night, blogger David Burge of the Iowa Hawk blog "tweeted: "The principal delusion of liberals is that liberalism is popular. The principal delusion of conservatives is that liberalism is popular."
Simple, yet profound.
Liberals should be afraid. They should be very afraid. The jig is up. Polls consistently show that Americans identify as conservative over liberal by a two-to-one margin. Wisconsin was an earthshaking manifestation of this reality.
But it was only a tremor.
There's a distinct probability a massive quake awaits liberals when, later this month, the U.S. Supreme Court releases its decision on Obamacare. If this, both Obama's and Democrats' signature accomplishment, goes down, so too do the obtusely utopian, neo-Marxist dreams of the Democratic Party's progressive base.
And in November? The tsunami.
Indeed, the political tectonic plates are shifting. Unsurprisingly, so-called "progressives" pretend it ain't so.
Problem is, so do conservatives.
Stop it, both of you!
This is about worldview. This is about an epic clash between two irreconcilable, diametrically opposed socio-political philosophies. It's a zero-sum game. Somebody wins and somebody loses.
On the one hand, we have secular-socialism, a cultural and political philosophy embraced by labor unions, Barack Obama, the base of the Democratic Party, the mainstream media and many of those controlling the reins of our elitist institutions. It is "progressivism."
This is a philosophy that, throughout history, has proven to be a serial failure. One need only look to Europe for the latest example. This secularist worldview is based loosely on the unattainable, redistributionist ramblings of Karl Marx, the father of communism.
It hates Christianity. It hates constitutionalism. It hates the precepts of individual liberty and responsibility codified throughout our nation's founding documents. It embraces moral relativism and says there are no clear lines of demarcation between right and wrong.
It says that government is God and that as government giveth, government taketh away.
In sum: It's garbage.
On the other hand we have the Judeo-Christian worldview. This is the socio-political philosophy embraced by our Founding Fathers. The historical record is unequivocal. It was within this framework that our U.S. Constitution was created. It is conservatism.
It says that we are endowed by our "Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
It embraces the virtues of fiscal responsibility, individual liberty and personal charity. It says there is black and white — right and wrong. It strives for less government and more freedom.
It acknowledges that there is a sovereign God — to whom we are all accountable — including both government and those whom "we the people" place in government.
It holds that as God giveth, God taketh away, and that you lying, cheating, ungodly snakes in Washington, D.C., better just take a step back and quick.
In sum: It is truth.
On Tuesday night, as the election returns came in and it became clear that Scott Walker was landsliding liberals and their union thugocracy, some progressive nut broke down, sobbing on camera and cried: "Democracy died tonight!"
Progressives, get this straight: On Tuesday night democracy didn't die. Democracy was fulfilled in a powerful and transformative way.
And it's only the beginning.
Liberals went to Wisconsin for a recall vote and a revolution broke out. We the people have spoken. Tea party? Yes. "Occupy"? Not so much.
Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote, "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."
On Tuesday America hit Wisconsin and did an about-turn.
© J. Matt Barber
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