Liberalism did not a country make!

The day is fast approaching when we will all have to go to the polls and elect a new president. For many of us there is a need for change. But how many of us really know just what kind of change that may be. Statistically very few citizens know much about anything their government is doing...and that happens in a free society. Oh, I'm sure many of you will stick to party lines and go with the family tradition. But the rules have changed. We now have an emerging politic elite that crosses both parties; the Democrats and the Republicans. And their goals are identical. A New World Order !
Yes, my friends, there has been a movement for a number of years for the politic elite to rule the world. Many of the elite think their time is now. And they think their candidate is ready.
Many of you have been blindly led into the beliefs you now hold because you have trusted the same media that your parents and grandparents trusted. And yet, that very same media has been working diligently to gain your trust even though they had to lie to attain it. And, and you believed those lies; although unknowingly.
A few of us believe in an ideology that is pure American; neither Democrat nor Republican but truly conservative. For those of you old enough to remember President John F. Kennedy he was a Democrat but in today's world he would be a Republican Conservative...it's the ideology and not the party - remember that!
As we get closer to election day you should think very hard about your choice; it may be your last.
Remember too, from whence we came. Hard working, independent, capitalists that for the most part were very conservative. Liberalism did not a country make!
With that said, I would make this last request of you. A good friend and solid American friend by the cyber space name of Snooper has written a very thoughtful commentary What Do You Tell The Demons at the link provided below. Please read without your political party looking over your shoulder.
Thank you. Norman E. Hooben

RADARSITE: What Do You Tell the Demons?

And let this be a reminder...
The day socialism comes to America

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Posted: February 17, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

Norman Thomas, American socialist

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."

– Norman Thomas, American socialist

I've been thinking deeply about those famously prophetic words spoken by America's premier socialist thinker and leader.

They didn't resonate in the 1940s when Franklin Roosevelt, in the name of ending the Depression, exceeded all constitutional authority by approving new federal assistance programs.

They seemed a bit far-fetched to most of us in the 1960s when Lyndon Johnson vastly expanded the welfare state in his failed bid to end poverty in America.

They still didn't connect in the 1970s when Richard Nixon, in a bid to ingratiate himself with Democrats in Congress and stave off an impeachment, greatly increased spending on wealth-redistribution schemes.

And by the 1980s, with Ronald Reagan in power, it seemed this 40-year trend had finally been reversed.

But with the initiatives being proposed by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential campaign, it appears Norman Thomas was right all along. Americans will, indeed, embrace every fragment of the socialist program in the name of liberalism.

Both of the leading Democrats call for nationalized health care – for a power grab by Washington in which the federal government will seize full control of another one-seventh of the U.S. economy.

This would, of course, be the most dramatic and irreversible step toward U.S. socialism in the nation's history.

Even today, however, the architects of these plans conceal from the public the centralized, command-and-control nature of the new system they devise.

They are not asked by the press to show the American people even one successful program government has run. Yet the American people seem ready to put the lives of their children and grandchildren in the hands of Washington bureaucrats.

Now comes an even grander proposal by Barack Obama. It's called the Global Poverty Act, that would, in the next decade, transfer at least $845 billion of U.S. taxpayer money overseas. Think of Johnson's failed war on poverty going international – directed not by Americans but by the United Nations.

How we could even be debating ideas like this in the 21st century, after all of the climactic failures of socialism around the world, is amazing to me. But we're not really debating them. It seems we're not even capable as a people of debating them, reasoning over them, using our brains to consider them.

Americans may simply be too far gone spiritually, morally and intellectually to reject the temptations of socialism.

Socialism is antithetical to human nature, yet it has great appeal to the human mind.

It's one of the great lies of all time – similar to the one told by the deceiver in the Garden of Eden. You can be like God! You can have it all right here on Earth. You can live in utopia, and you don't have to obey the laws of the universe to achieve it.

That's the essence of socialism. And it is finally seducing America as it has seduced much of the rest of the world over the last century.

Unfortunately, Americans don't even have a party representing clear, unequivocal opposition to socialism. The Republicans dare not even speak its name. John McCain admits publicly he doesn't know much or care much about economics.

And so, Americans don't even have a reason or a mechanism to say no to the socialism that is coming to their country under the guise of liberalism – just the way Norman Thomas predicted it would come.

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