Ruben Navarrette recently wrote an article titled "Republicans Should Nurture Diversity of Opinion" (Page C9 Sunday Edition, Riverside Press Enterprise - Article also known as "Infighting in the Wilderness" in the San Diego Union/Tribune). He contends that the Republican Party should stick to Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, and speak no ill of another Republican - even if that Republican, like Colin Powell, endorsed Obama, or the Republican in question holds positions more in line with members of the Democratic Party rather than the GOP.Navarrette's argument runs in line with most of the attitude regarding the future of the Republican Party held by folks on the Left, as well as many members of the Republican Leadership and party moderates. Build a big tent, they proclaim, and include everyone in there by watering down the positions of the party, and just give everyone a big, fat "we can coexist" hug. After all, infighting over issues like social values is childish, and is part of the reason for the Republican Party losing in 2008, right?
Ruben Navarrette goes on to argue that the GOP needs to re-brand itself, and market itself to the country in a style similar to the Democrats. After all, the Republican Party doesn't exactly excel at diversity, and the GOP's intolerance for diversity of opinion is what blew a hole in the side of the ship in the first place.
The Democrats have begun to call the GOP the "Party of No," and the Republican Leadership is encouraging setting aside some values and principles so that the GOP can appeal to other voting blocks. Some of these politicians, specifically Mitt Romney, Eric Cantor, and Jeb Bush, have formed a "listening tour" in the hopes of pulling together the diversity of the Republican Party under one great big tent so that everyone can feel included.
Sounds good, doesn't it? After all, we all just want to get along. Surely, getting along, and embracing the variety of views of everyone is much more preferable than doing what is right.
Doing what is right. The statement of an absolutist if ever you heard one, right? After all, what is right and wrong? What one person considers to be wrong may be right to another, so how is it right for anyone to demand that one is right and one is wrong?
That is the worldview. That is the argument of those who wish to blur the lines of morality, reality, common sense, and Godliness.
Anymore, the Republican Party is becoming more and more like the Democratic Party. The politicians are more interested in power than they are in being statesmen that find it to be a privilege to serve America. Social views have changed as well, allowing the ten planks of communism, and the pluralistic relativism of secular humanism, to dictate to American society which way to "progress." In the journey, morality, and those that support Judeo-Christian values and standards, have become the enemy, and are being chastised for standing up for what is right.
Don't get me wrong, I am one of the few remaining conservatives that believes the GOP is savable - but it is still heading into very perilous waters under its current leadership.
The secular humanists, and allies, desire that folks who draw their beliefs from a Godly belief, or those of us that consider ourselves staunch conservatives, will remain complacent, and just sit down and be quiet. After all, it is much easier to gain power if the opposition lays down and plays opossum.
The battle has evolved into something that Scripture declared it would become. Right has become wrong, and wrong has become right. Popular culture has taken a destructive, and radical, departure from the founding fathers, and justifies this change as being the natural result of an evolving society. Americans that hold to the original intent of the U.S. Constitution are being portrayed as backward, foolish people who are bitterly clinging to their silly individual liberty, private property, concepts of family and Biblical faith. As far as the rising liberal left is concerned, man seeking God's guidance through faith and prayer is no different than a child waiting for the Santa Claus on Christmas Morning. Liberty does not, according to the growing proponents of liberalism, belong to the individual. Liberty is something that must be regulated, taxed, and rationed. Humanity does not exist for personal freedom, but for the state, and it is up to centralized government to ration those freedoms.
I believe the opposite is true. The world of liberty, and a prosperous nation anchored in capitalism and a free market economy, is not a world that is dead and gone. Freedom through personal responsibility, and the unalienable rights granted to us by our creator, is something that needs to be fought for. The reality of America is that the Left offers false promises of utopianism by taking control of the individual's right to private property, and liberty to make decisions for one's self. And in this, the Left, and anyone that allies with them, is wrong.
The battle before us is no longer simply a matter of "this" political party and "that" political party. What transpired in South Bend, Indiana at the Notre Dame graduation ceremony is a great example of that. A Catholic institution of higher learning, Notre Dame, invited Barack Obama to speak at the commencement ceremony, and honored the president with an honorary doctorate degree. They honored a pro-abortion politician at a faith-based institution whose leadership has declared the official position of The Church is pro-life. Some call it a great opportunity to open up dialogue. I call it compromising your principles and values.
Alan Keyes calls abortion by its true name, "Child Killing." After all, that is what abortion is. Abortion is the killing of children at the earliest stages of life. The proponents of abortion knew that it is child killing, and that is why they used "science" and the medical community to rename unborn children "fetuses." That way, if they could fool themselves into believing that the child inside the mother with a beating heart; arms, legs, fingers, and toes; and the innocent face of a baby was nothing more than a lifeless glob of tissue, they would feel much less guilty when justifying murder. This is not a Republican issue, or a Democrat issue. Abortion is an issue of right and wrong, and the last time I checked, it is wrong to murder a human life out of cold blood, and in this case, an innocent life that never even had the opportunity to take their first breath of air.
Abortion is a battle between right and wrong.
Environmentalism is a case of right an wrong, as well. I agree that we should be good stewards of the planet. But let's not fool ourselves about the perceived destructive capabilities of industrial progress, and let's not jump on board environmental programs that cause more damage than good, and is intended to line the pockets of people like Al Gore, rather than "save the planet." Environmental agendas are more about power, than truth. Science has been misrepresented, and coupled with fear-mongering through the promotion of public health and environmental scares, which are designed to frighten the populace into particular behaviors, and for individual behaviors to fall under the watchful and controlling eye of an ever-present governmental agency.
DDT is one of the best examples of the environmentalist scam that is more about power, than saving lives, or saving the planet. DDT was developed in 1939 for use as an insecticide, and its use combated malaria, and other insect-borne diseases, more efficiently than any ever poison created. With the use of DDT, by 1959, the United States, Europe, parts of the USSR, Chile, and a number of Caribbean islands were nearly malaria free. In the twenty year period following World War II DDT saved millions, possibly tens of millions, of lives around the world. However, a bleeding heart environmentalist, Rachel Carson, determined falsely that DDT has hazardous effects on wildlife and children, and created a widespread hysteria decrying the use of DDT that eventually led to DDT being banned by the newly formed EPA in 1972. Worldwide use of the chemical had already been dropping up to that point, and the final nail in the coffin for DDT was driven into place when the United Nation's World Health Organization stopped providing support for the use of the chemical.
The facts didn't matter. The agenda was more important than the facts. DDT was never directly linked to a single human death, and the result of the ban of DDT was the deaths of millions. In 2006 the World Health Organization reversed its decision on DDT, but by then the damage had been done. As has been recently accomplished with "Clean Energy" and "Man-made Global Warming," environmentalists and their allies conspired to deliberately distort science. In the name of saving wildlife and children, millions of lives were needlessly sacrificed. That is not an issue regarding political parties, or right versus left. This is a matter of right and wrong, and the right answer was not the one pursued - or at least not until millions of lives were wasted.
Right and wrong.
Congress has determined that incandescent bulbs should be banned by 2014, because the environmentalists say that is what must be done. The bulbs replacing them will be fluorescent lightbulbs, which are costlier, and of which contain highly toxic mercury.
Right and wrong.
Universal Health Care is the crowning jewel of Barack Obama's hopes and dreams. But a national health program is a liberty killer. Once the government is paying for all health costs in the U.S. (and it will eventually come to that, no matter how much the politicians promise otherwise), because the system will eventually kill off the private system, users of the government plan will have little incentive to act cost-efficiently, and the government will be spending more on the program than it will be raising. Health care, to control costs, will need to be rationed, and the choice of private care will not only be eliminated, but anyone daring to attempt to gain private care will be charged with heresy for moving against the government. The programs being put into place by the Democrats are unsustainable by Obama's own admission, and is pillaging the pockets of future generations. The inefficiencies of the system will then be addressed by the government passing more laws to try to control the problems, and the government-run system will not be cured by any of the laws crammed into place. Waiting times for procedures will become a disaster, and the medical industry will cease to attract the greatest minds as they eventually deteriorate into government employees expected to meet quotas for pay, but will receive no more pay for any work beyond the quotas, which will result in doctors turning away patients because any additional work will not be paid for, so why perform the work? And as health care becomes rationed, those who are no longer considered to be beneficial to the workings of the state will be denied care. After all, why should the state spend money they don't have on citizens that no longer contribute to the common good?
An issue of right and wrong.
Every issue is about what is right and wrong. The politician's arguments no longer hold water. The accusations by the left and the right are no longer applicable. Republicans should not nurture diversity if they wish to survive as a party. The GOP needs to return to the values and principles that built the party, and take stances on the issues based on what is the right thing to do - and then stand steadfastly on that position, regardless of what the idiot left says. The Republican Party must become the "Party of what is right," if it is to survive, come back, and flourish again.
The liberal left has become the ideology of wrong. The Right must not join them. We must stand on what is Right.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Navarrette: Infighting in the wilderness
Data regarding DDT, light bulbs, and some of the data in the argument against universal health care was retrieved or influenced by "Liberty and Tyranny" by Mark R. Levin.
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