A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be. Thomas Jefferson
George Rebane
Spontaneous truth can damage your political health. Gov Romney’s remarks about who gets government bennies and who is likely to vote for him are now echoing around the world. His core message may be lost if he attempts to walk back what he said. The data part of all the percentages getting this and that are well covered in the media – here is the WSJ’s report on it which is worth perusing before getting our undies in a bundle about the whole thing.
The bottom line though is that socialism’s encroachment, especially under the current brand of obamunism, has brought the country to the condition that our Founders (and political philosophers before them) warned us about. Once you get enough people on the government’s tits, each hoping to suck out more than they put in, you have entered into a downward spiral from which democracy has historically had a hard time recovering.
For the strategic collectivist – most certainly our current obamunist – this is a surefire approach to the vaunted sustainable future inhabited by the Perfected Man. Anyone who disparages a single tit in the array is immediately branded as an out-of-touch elitist at best, and an evil and greedy money grubber at worst. Yet there is no way back from our decline save the medicine that Romney and others are urging us to take.
Being clear to his backers about the propensity of those voters who have become over-dependent on transfer payments may be an unrecoverable electioneering ‘sin’. But I agree that the watchword of today should be ‘carpe diem!’ – expand the message, and let those voters who still think make their choice. Obama can lie about delivering unending benefits paid for by ‘the rich’, but like the autocrats and dictators that surround and preceded him, he cannot deliver and can only enslave in the attempt.
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