Dissent will not be tolerated. Political Correctness has become the mechanism to ensure you stay in line, and act like an acceptable citizen. Refusal to agree with Leftist policies results in ridicule, and verbal attacks. Labels are used. You must conform, or else you are an extremist, or a radical, or a homophobe, or an Islamiphobe, or an anti-government domestic terrorist. Conformity has reached into all nooks and crannies of our society.
The solutions by the liberal left democrats are radical, but to call them such would subject the dissenter to being silenced through verbal attacks, and the rules of political correctness. In the warped minds of the progressives, the solution to poverty is not to encourage people to lift themselves out of poverty through self-reliance and pursuing the opportunities a free society offers, but to force the wealthy to give up more of their "riches," in a form of wealth redistribution - to essentially drag down to the lower levels those that have been productive, and have achieved success. The solution to a drug trade regarding items like marijuana is not to enforce the law, and target the dealers and drug gangs, but to decriminalize the use of the drug, and then tax it. The solution to a massive onslaught of illegal immigrants is not to enforce the laws on the books, and seal the border for the sake of national security, but to open the border, and to force the taxpayers to give and give and give some more in the form of free entitlement programs for the new arrivals. The solution to the fact that cigarette smoking, and other tobacco use, offends a handful of people is not to instruct those whining people to then not frequent places where smokers gather, but to force the smokers into giving up their tobacco activity, including E-Cigs (which do not produce second-hand smoke) - while relaxing regulations against marijuana. The solution to Christians not baking cakes for gay couples at a bakery because the lifestyle offends their religious faith is not to point at the sign that reads "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone," but to force the bakers to act contrary to their religious beliefs. The solution to the homosexuals working to change the definition of marriage, and use government to force their beliefs upon everyone else is not to leave the issue to the culture, but to inject government and force everyone to accept gay marriage. .. whether you like it, or not. The solution to Christians wanting to pray, and gather in associations, on public school campuses is not to abide by the Constitution where it states that government will not prohibit the free exercise of religion, but to deny those Christians from engaging in prayer, wearing clothing that displays symbols or language of their faith, and to outlaw Christian Clubs or Christian signage on campus, while passing laws requiring teachers to teach the gay lifestyle in a positive manner, and to build prayer rooms for Muslim students so that they are not offended. The solution to a struggling health care system where costs have skyrocketed as a result of a third party (insurance companies) being involved in the transactions is not to encourage free market principles that will move us back towards a patient/provider relationship, but to replace the private third party payer with government, while increasing government intrusion into the industry, and working to destroy the private insurance presence in the industry. The solution to bad guys shooting people in public places is not to ensure that law-abiding citizens are armed so as to deter the gunmen from engaging in such madness, but to take firearms away from law-abiding citizens, or at least making the accumulation of ammunition more difficult, and accusing anyone that disagrees with liberal philosophies mentally unstable, and then confiscating their guns. The solution to verbal dissent against liberal policies is not to debate those issues in the political arena, but to try to silence the opposition, and make statements like Senator Diane Feinstein did, where she articulated that she believed the freedom of speech is not a right, but a special privilege. And now, with all of the calls for conformity, and believing in a manner as expected by the liberal left, or risk being ridiculed and bullied into silence, the solution for children being bullied at school for not fitting the rigid social structure created by a liberal left mentality where deviation is not tolerated, and individuality is considered sedition, is surgery.
The leftists of the "Today Show" are celebrating what they consider to be the courage of 15-year-old Renata, who, in order to resolve her lifelong problem of being bullied because her nose did not fit the bill, underwent plastic surgery, which was paid for by an organization called Little Baby Face Foundation. The organization was created to help low-income children born with facial birth defects. Renata had surgery to fix her deviated septum as well as some cosmetic procedures. The article about this concluded, "She now has the confidence to return to public school for the first time in three years."
The leftists teach that confidence is not something from within, is not something we can place into God's hands, and is not something that you create by overcoming adversity, but is something achieved by doctors cutting on you, to make you the same as everyone else.
The celebration by the liberal left would have been even louder if the child had allowed the doctors to mutilate her genitals so that she could make herself a surgically altered transsexual.
Do not misunderstand my opinion regarding young Renata. The opportunity to alter a defect is a wonderful thing. It is not the action that bothers me as much as the motive behind why it was done, and the motive behind the liberal left's celebration of the girl's decision. It is like the offerings to God by Cain and Abel in the Bible.
Cain was an angry young man, and became angrier when he, and his brother Abel, brought offerings to the Lord. God was pleased with Abel's offering, but not with Cain's.
After seeing Cain's anger over the rejection of his sacrifice, God said to him, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it."
Both brothers knew what God expected when it came to offerings, but there was more to it than "what" was offered. God's rejection was not as much a result of "what" was offered, but the motive, and attitude, contained within the heart of Cain. Cain knew that he had given an unacceptable offering, laced with a wrong attitude of heart. God still offered Cain a chance to make things right, but also warned him that the sin of his excessive anger would destroy him if left to its own devices. He must master his sin, or it would master him.
Cain's attitude, and wrong motive, is what led him to be rejected, and ultimately led him to a condition where his anger engulfed him, and led him to murder his brother.
As with Cain, the motive of the liberal left is fueled by anger against any opposition, and disobedience to the Creator. Theirs is a downward spiral fueled by wrong motives, and a dangerous faith in large government. Big government, when left unchecked, ultimately becomes larger, and more intrusive, until finally, in order to ensure its expectations are carried out, becomes a totalitarian system, where the murder of billions have historically been committed.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Teen Gets Surgery to Stop Bullying - Yahoo! TV
The Fantasy of Wealth Redistribution - Ludwig von Mises Institute
Entitlement Encourages Illegal Immigration and Worse - Patriot Update
Government Puffery - Mike Huckabee, Facebook
Complete Shock: University Staffer Tells College Student She Must Remove Christian Cross Necklace - The Blaze
University of Michigan Kicks Christian Club Off Campus - Religion Today
Cheerleaders told no more Bible Verses on Signs - Fox News Radio
Barred From Field, Religious Signs Move to Stands - New York Times
The Nazi Roots of U.S. Gun Control Laws - World Net Daily
New York City confiscating rifles and shotguns - The Daily Caller
Forceful Gun Confiscation in California - MRConservative
Feinstein: First Amendment is a Special Privilege, Not a Right - The Western Center for Journalism
Wow Doug! And I thought I went off the deep end on this very subject on my site. Fabulous post and dead on in every instance!! I really could not have said it better.
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