And another splendid essay, Doctor Zero.

No one on the Left even bothers pretending their agenda consists of selfless dedication to the poor any longer.

I simply must take issue with this statement.

The charade of ‘caring for the poor’* is still a gigantic asset in passing all manner of freedom-destroying and money-wasting programs even today.

*(in liberal terminology, that means ‘blindly throwing taxpayer monies at anyone with their hand out and making the right noises, while requiring nothing in return besides their bought-and-paid-for vote.’)

most voters are not eager to view themselves as living off the government dole.

Just look at the violent reactions you get from social security recipients.

MarkTheGreat on October 28, 2009 at 7:02 AM

Social Security recipients most emphatically do not believe they are living off the government dole. They paid into the program for those benefits. I live in an area with a high population of retirees, and I can say from experience they become very angry at the suggestion Social Security is some kind of welfare program. Whether it actually is one is a separate question. Its beneficiaries don’t see it that way.

The new coin of the realm will be control. A swarm of czars is already hard at work, minting these coins… and behind them, the momentum of history pushes a pendulum that has become a wrecking ball.

What a powerful statement! It made me catch my breath and reread…
I always have to sit down and reread your words, like a good meal–I have to make myself slow down and savor them.
Then I have to shake my head at how you put the feeings of most of us, into your words.
I totally agree that we need to stick to our “core” values, and allow for some deviation of other viewpoints. We need to learn to pick our battles, and to consider the effects. We need to stop being the proverbial frog, swimming around in the slowly heating water…
You really need to be Sarah’s speech writer…

fullogas on October 28, 2009 at 1:01 AM

RE: Hesistancy by some to spell out “God” in posts. I’ve wondered that also. It may be a case of reverence for surely it is not a non-believer who states, “God Bless America.”

most voters are not eager to view themselves as living off the government dole.

Just look at the violent reactions you get from social security recipients.

Good points too, Dark Horse.

The answer? Money. Lots and lots of money devoted solely to countering the influence of the MSM. An amount of money so vast it makes what Soros spends look like pocket change. So where would this mountain of gold come from? I don’t know. That’s another problem.

troyriser_gopftw on October 28, 2009 at 1:23 AM

You’re dead right Troy.. Money? Hmm. How about if we all only paid STATE taxes and not our Federal taxes? Starve the beast, so to speak. Well, I guess thats impracticable, being that most folks have it taken out of their pay check. And I know we still have to pay the military, plus I could probably get in trouble suggesting things like it. But, since I’ve become aware of our political situation, that’s been my major question – how do we do it?

Is it time to form a new political party? You know, with lawyers who represent anyone who stands up and gets slammed/skewered/smeared by the democrats. I think a lot of people might like to stand up and represent the conservatives, but they have families and jobs and responsiblities and they don’t want to put all that on the line. I mean, look what happened to Joe the Plummer, just for asking one question.

Its late and I’m tired and probably making no sense at all, so forgive me. But dammit you have a good point here… blogging back and forth won’t get this show on the road. Here at HA, there are a lot of really intelligent, knowledgeable people – a huge talent pool, but it all goes nowhere at the end of the day – its simply shuffled down in order to give way to the next day’s news and issues.

I always love reading your pieces, Doc, but it isn’t enough to state the problem, no matter how eloquently or creatively. It’s like an officer firing up the troops. We need to take a seemingly impregnable fortress, sure. The what isn’t at issue here. It’s always the how that makes things problematic.

The problem you state is the problem of communication: how do we initiate the Great Awakening you describe when the Left has a stranglehold on most major means of mass communication? Sarah Palin’s use of Facebook as a political messaging device was an innovative start, I think, but not nearly enough to beat the pervasive access to public consciousness and culture commanded by the opposition.

The answer? Money. Lots and lots of money devoted solely to countering the influence of the MSM. An amount of money so vast it makes what Soros spends look like pocket change. So where would this mountain of gold come from? I don’t know. That’s another problem.

G-d help us and G-d bless America!

J.J. Sefton on October 27, 2009 at 8:20 PM

Why is it that people can’t spell out GOD? Why the dash? I’ve seen this several times and wonder, do you think its offensive? If its that you don’t believe in God, I don’t think you should mention him at all.

while the latest out-of-control progressive spending program is quietly extracted from their paycheck…

Great point there. I’m a self employed independent contractor and don’t have income taxes withheld – have to pay quarterly SE taxes. I think if most tax paying citizens had to do it like me, they’d soon come to understand just how much they are being milked — it kind of hurts to write that big fat check each quarter.

I’m an Australian citizen living here in the US so I can’t vote. Have lived here 30+ years. Always abhorred politics, I’m ashamed to say kind of asleep/in denial. My fiance has never voted. Since waking up last year, I’m working on becoming a citizen so I can vote and my fiancee has told me he will be voting in any upcoming elections. So, take heart, people are waking up – we are angry about the way things are and we want change; just not the kind of change that was promised in 2008.

The Republican party needs to seriously be shaken up. I cannot take them seriously, havent seen too many people I’d want to vote for. They are a disgrace really. They just seem like more of the same. I hope that Hoffman guy wins his election.

I’m not as smart about politics as many posters here are. Just my 2 cents worth.

Step 2: Accept that there WILL be pain, and it will be borne by US – the hard working, educated (still paying off student loans), productive citizen. Why will we pay? Because the leech will continue to live as he or she always has. Only WE, the actual working class, will suffer. Why do we have to suffer? Because it was the middle class that voted for the One. And only in PAIN can stupid people be educated. And WE, the non-stupid, will suffer along with them.

Step 3: And I’ve been posting this for years on this site: We must GET INVOLVED. We cannot sit on our collective a$$es and type comments in blogs and expect ANYTHING to change. THE LIBERALS HAVE THE SCHOOLS AND THE MEDIA. Fox is doing its part in the media, we HAVE to take back the schools. How? Start by going to the PTA meeting, being elected to the school board, finding out who is running in YOUR district for state and local offices and get involved.

This all takes time and effort, and we freaking work, unlike the leeches that just want “Obama money” but the pain we will endure for continued apathy is just starting to hit home…and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

It’s worth the time to go to a tea party protest, go to the school baord, find out who’s running and campaign for them. Get involved if you care about your child or grandchild’s future.

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL. Get out there.

I seriously doubt that everyone has been “given” access to the Internet by Al Gore’s tax. Herein lies the rub: the liberal left wants, in theory, everyone in the US to have access to everything. In and of its idealism, that notion is something.

Please follow the money trail: Jackson’s sons hijacked a distributorship in Chicago, Andy Stern’s personal coffers (how very nice for him) are large and he meets with the President once a week, Rangel’s ridiculous mpnetary/tax situation, Sharpton again getting behind another false rape charge, Barney Frank’s crusade to shore up Freddie and Fannie, and Dodd’s wink and a nudge as a friend of Countrywide.

Then, show me, how the actions of the above, have ever benefitted one homeless, destitute, or struggling family. I mean, really, prove it.

They may talk a great game – but what they have actually delivered is criminal. Listen to the radio interview of a lovely woman in Detroit who stood in line to get a free money check from either the city of Detroit or from President Obama.

The elected who claim to advance the causes of the poor have not improved the poor’s lives. Instead, they maintain their office by oppressing their constituents and then promise them wealth redistribution with a wink of hope and a nod of change.

Finally, Republican office holders must recognize that they will be held accountable for all of their actions and votes. This is no longer a them versus us situation. Party, egos, and elections, will be met at the polling place beginning next week. I expect that principle will win over party affiliation.

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If the Right can get the voters on board, most of the squishier politicians will begin sliding to starboard.

I fear that you are correct. “Fear” because the last time a large body of squishies jumped on that bandwagon we got to see Newt & Co. revert to form quicker’n a beloved rattlesnake goin’ for your ankles. We don’t need moderates passing themselves off as conservatives, we need worried, stalked, and abused for their beliefs conservatives who yet stand up and say, “I’m a conservative. I live it, I believe it.”
Few reformed squishies in office, none at all in leadership, or the revolution will last every bit as long as the 1994 one did.

Thanks!

“Every available dollar has been taxed and spent, and not one single problem the Left demanded the sacrifice of our wealth and freedom to address has been resolved. Not one of their programs has worked, and none of their cost estimates have been accurate, to within an order of magnitude.”

Let that sink in for a while…

Great post Doc, time for the front page!

Absolutely brilliant! This is exactly what wwe all must be saying today and tomorrow and until we wake up and storm the gates of hell team -1 wants us to believe hopelessly erected before us. Those in hell abandon hope. We can choose something else if we will.

But I think we have to address a major problem that I think lies at the heart of this.

We must take back the schools and the family. The former have been co-opted by communists/socialists for nearly 50 years. Just look at your childrens’ textbooks. William Ayers and his minions dropped their molotov cocktails and picked up the chalk and erasers years ago. Several generations of children have been taught to hate America, our values and our history.

Then there are the minorities and the poor – how many of them have been used as tools of the Democrats and liberals to advance their hidden commie agenda?

We can take back parties and we can even win elections and majorities. But until we re-establish the family and the rights of the individual, and the exceptional nature that is our country’s proud history and what we stand for, then we will have to keep fighting this battle ever decade or so.

G-d help us and G-d bless America!

Dr. Zero you absolutely dissect the socialist mind so well. I love this quote

” it has been possible for the Left to play its game without causing sudden or radical damage to the middle class it hates ”

The Left indeed hates the middle class and has hijacked the Democratic party that once stood for middle class prosperity. These people are all out for power and want everyone not in their class to be their subjects. We rejected this type of thinking at our founding. As Beck has advocated, we need a refounding of this Country. A return to the conservative ideals that founded this country. Limited national government, local control, strong defense, and energy independence. What is at stake is our prosperity, our superpower status, our currency, and our values. We need to address the very structure of government from a conservatives point of view and lock in a mechanism that ensures conservative government, much as the New Deal entitlements currently ensure liberal ascendent governance. Doc, ponder about a permanent fund devoted to paying off our national debt, along the lines of the fund in Alaska. Let’s make the cause of energy independence, where we build nuclear power plants and open up our oil and natural gas reserves for production, the very source of our financial independence. A permanent fund would ensure good government finances as it would work to pay our debt off, as well as pay back dividends to the people out of the revenue from the resources we produce to bring us energy independence. Add to this private accounts for social security and we can begin to take back our financial desting. We need to start saving and stop borrowing.

It was liberal Republicans and wayward Conservatives who spent like drunken sailors during the Bush Administration. Is it possible that the tea parties will make them think? I doubt it so, the districts where the big spenders live, should vote them out also. I think some of them are gone already and the remainder should be called out.

Finally, the Republicans have to recognize that we do have problems with our health care system and they need to be fixed. They’ve been shown the path to governing by the Democrats and perhaps our illustrious press just might be willing to call out a few of the wayward Democrats that are constantly stopping Republican contributions to the debate. Anyway, the Republicans need to play the game the way the Democrats do, call them out when they filibuster a drilling bill, so we can become more energy independent. Call them out, when we come up with a health care bill that allows the employee to get his own insurance and get a tax break for it. Call them out, when you propose fixes for Social Security and they stop it. IF the press doesn’t help, enlist Fox News, who will become more powerful because of the lamestream medias perceived love fest with the Democrats. Let 2009 become the beginning of the end of liberal democrats (who can’t even call themselves liberal and have to change the name to “progressive”).

Why haven’t I found him before?

He writes like Dr. Thomas Sowell (frankly) used to, always getting to the heart of the matter with a unique eloquence and an economy of words.

No one on the Left even bothers pretending their agenda consists of selfless dedication to the poor any longer. It’s all about desperate grabs for gigantic amounts of power

Outstanding.

But I’d add that it has never been about the poor, it’s always been about grabbing more and more power. The “helping the poor” thing is just a marketing ploy designed to get more votes.

The left doesn’t understand reason, and they don’t know how to deal with reality in a rational manner. The result is a vast junkyard of failed leftist projects. That junkyard keeps expanding because, again, the irrational left thinks “We’ll make it work this time! We just need more power!“.

What are you or I or anyone going to tell them? We can talk good and write good, but what’s going to overcome a vicious Double-shot of self-interest and indifference?

We HAVE the message–and several messengers–but too many people ain’t listening.

. The problem with this approach is that it focuses too much energy on compelling politicians, instead of persuading voters.

Money line!
Nailed it!

Now we must focus on the indoctrination system…without this, short term gains are phyrric victories. We need to take advantage of the massive disrepute the Left is going to come into in Europe in the next decade or two and focus on putting the Left out to pasture in the K-12 ciricula and in Academia at Uni.

We also cannot afford to let any more socialists walk away with elections, just to teach the clueless GOP, and errant American voters, another painful lesson. We don’t have enough blood left to endure those kinds of lessons.

We don’t have enough blood because we spent it all on supporting RINOs rather than candidates that might make a difference. All of the big spending liberalism you speak of, has been joined by the GOP for that is where the votes are. There are more votes to be bought by spending, than there are votes to be bought by thrift. Thus, the GOP raids the public coffers, too. The biggest giveaway in raw dollars in America’s history was Bush’s prescription drug bill. Remember compassionate conservatism? That was Orwell speak for big government socialist from Texas.

This is not about Dem vs GOP. That is a battle from 50 years ago. Today it is about the tax payer vs the socialist. And there are just as many big spending socialists in the GOP as in the other party, so party affiliation is meaningless now. Spilling our blood to support another socialist is pointless.

Get thee to the front page.

So how long until I don’t have to click Green Room to read Doc’s page?

True indeed that the luxuries of the past have hit an expiration date – we now must fight for our way of life or see it lost forever.