Unacceptable Politics

By Douglas V. Gibbs

"You know what is wrong with you?" Fred said to me as he practically poked his finger through my sternum.  "You aren't inclusive.  You alienate people.  You use words like 'liberal,' and it alienates people."

"The 'liberals,'" I responded, "believe in concepts foreign to the founding of this nation, and we have nothing in common.  Why would I try to include them in a movement that they can't understand, and refuse to understand."

Thus, began a terse conversation with an old friend of mine earlier this week.

He tried to explain to me that I don't get it because I think there is a right-left paradigm.  "You've bought into the idea of a two-party system."

I hate it when people just assume what is in my head.  Actually, his statements were too simplistic, and doesn't really show the full depth of the problem.

The right-left paradigm exists, but not necessarily in the Republican versus Democrat manner that most people think.  It goes deeper than how JASmius even explains it when he calls it the "Right Tribe versus the Wrong Tribe."

The Political Spectrum places 100% government to the far left, and 0% government to the far right.  The United States Constitution, taking a left-side concept of a central government, and then limiting its authorities with constitutional republicanism (a right-side concept), is actually dead-center.  When we study the notes taken by James Madison during the Constitutional Convention, and subsequent writings by some of the various Founding Fathers, we realize that they understood that dynamic, and they were trying to create a balancing act that incorporated just the right amount of both sides in order to establish a system that fostered freedom, protected the rights of the individual, and would stand the test of time.  However, without informed participation by the people, even a governmental system as exceptional as America's would eventually succumb to tyranny.

Throughout history the forces of tyranny have taken various forms, and have called themselves by many names, but in the end, despite the arguments about red versus blue, or big government versus small government, the reality of it all is that what we are fighting is something much more basic than the complex political war we seem to be steeped in.

We have a President not being held accountable for his unconstitutional policies that are designed to limit choice, and place more power in the hands of the federal government. . . and that is unacceptable.

The powerful elites in Washington have ended their budget battle temporarily so that they may raise the debt limit and can go another trillion dollars in debt. . . and that is unacceptable.

In violation of Article II, Section 3, the President of the United States has been picking and choosing what laws, or what parts of the law, to enforce, rather than taking "care that the Laws be faithfully executed." . . . and that is unacceptable.

In violation of Article I, Section 1, which gives all legislative powers to the Congress, the President of the United States has been issuing executive orders to modify laws. . . and that is unacceptable.

We have a President scolding the House of Representatives, which is the voice of the people, for using their Constitutional authority to challenge his statist policies, and then President Barack Obama taking actions "with or without Congress". . . and that is unacceptable.

We have a political party, and President, arming drug cartels, and groups in the Middle East that are sworn enemies of the United States. . . and that is unacceptable.

We have a political party, and President, that is working to grow the power of the government, targeting the destruction of liberty, choice, and individuality. . . and that is unacceptable.

This is no longer a political skirmish over a difference in policies.  This is no longer red versus blue, or republican versus democrat.  What we are experiencing under the onslaught of unacceptable infringements by the federal government is an age old war.  It is as old as mankind.  It is the struggle between individualism versus collectivism.

Throughout history ruling elites have emerged, determined to control the populations, claiming they are engineering society for its own good.  Rulers are the rule, not the exception. . . until America.  That is why the United States is exception.  We are the exception to the rule.

In the United States the individual could own property, and plant whatever crop he wanted on it.  It was not the king's realm.

In the United States the individual could choose his own faith, and practice it in the manner he so chose.  There was no state religion.

In the United States the individual could be self-reliant, keeping more of what he produced, and build wealth for himself, his loved ones, and his community through is own success.  There was no redistribution of wealth through heavy direct taxation.

Now, through farm subsidies and heavy regulations, property owners must act in the manner allowed by the powerful federal government.

Now, the state religion of progressivism is in place, and those who dare disagree become targets of political correctness, are accused of being one kind of phobe or another, and are silenced and prohibited to practice their own religion by societal ridicule - via political correctness.

Now, through a growing welfare system that boasts, for example, the rapid increase of food stamp program participants, and through a system of the redistribution of wealth, success is being squashed, the rich are being targeted, and it is becoming a stigma to be successful.  Wealth is being stolen by the government, and is being redistributed to those that are not producers, and the takers cheer when the producers in America suffer under the heavy weight of government..

The solution is simple.  The solution is the principles contained within the pages of the United States Constitution, and the wise writings of the founding fathers that supported the concept of republicanism.  Individualism is the key.  God-given individualism is the foundation upon which our system must be rebuilt.  If we continue down the road to national collectivism, and ultimately global collectivism, we will lose our identity as individuals, we will lose our freedom, and we will lose our power of choice.

We have an instruction manual on how to do what needs to be done, but the Constitution is only ink and paper if we are unwilling to learn it, apply it, and fight for it.

This can be turned around. . . but it is up to you to do it.

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