A Few Shiny Pebbles

One of my favorite thinkers, the brilliant Thomas Sowell, writes in “Random thoughts on the passing scene”:

Over the years, slowly but surely, we have painted ourselves into a corner on a whole range of issues, where we can no longer say or do what makes the most sense to us, but only what is considered to be politically correct.

In a profound way, the Democrats, with their Leftist, PC encroachments into our American life have been a disaster. In the battle between the ideas of “the Left” and “the Right” in America there has been a Leftist, PC disaster moving in slow motion, a Hurricane Democrat leaving legal and social damage and debris around in all aspects of our life.

What does this mean? I’ve spent a lot of space in several posts on this blog going into this in detail, but fundamentally, as a summary, here is part of what I said in my post “World at War: In Depth Part Two”:

Just as humans explore the physical world and its inhabitants, they also explore ideas . . . . These explorations take place in words, in writing, in reading, in the education of the classroom, the lecture halls of the university, in the office and shop, in conversations on the street, in the home, and so on. People live, run their lives, have their lives run, and even die because of words on a piece of paper, because of complex and difficult arguments in books and in classrooms and in dimly lit rooms late at night in obscure government office buildings. Words on paper guide people when they fight wars and make peace, build bombs and jet planes and medical operating rooms, send people to prisons and to gulags and to death camps, when they do any of the billions of purposeful, skilled, and structured activities of the human world.

These words find themselves combining and becoming forces in religion, philosophy, law, government, music, art, literature, education, science, technology, hobbies, recreation, social usage, vows and curses and every other activity the human brain and body gets involved with. There are “territorial wars” in these arenas, too. We need to recognize the fact that the world is a vast battleground in which great philosophies struggle for the minds and souls of men.

In every one of these battles between the ideologies of the Left and Right, the Left has been winning over the past five decades. Consider these articles, all well worth reading in their entirety: the Thomas Sowell article already mentioned, “Random thoughts on the passing scene”; J.R. Dunn, “Is 2008 to be a Transformational Election?”; John Hawkins, “The End of America As We Know It”; Selwyn Duke, “The Race for the American Mind”; and Dick Lamm, “How To Destroy America”.

This election year is a major battle in that war of ideas. At every level—Presidential, Senate, House, and State and Local ballots—the battle is joined. And it is fierce and unusually bizarre. It is also imperative that our side wins as many of these individual battles as possible, especially on the presidential and congressional ballots.

As Thomas Sowell points out, again from his random thoughts:

Even if you think our presidential choices this election year are between disgust and disaster, anyone who has ever been through a real disaster can tell you that this difference is not small. It is big enough to go vote on election day.

This is an excellent way to view our position and choices in this election year. If the Democrats win the Presidency, it will be a monumental disaster, one that we will pay for for years. We will pay not only monetarily, by higher taxes and even higher spending than the Right has been doing recently, but also in the areas of Supreme Court and other judges, social policy, law, the Bill of Rights, hate crimes, thought crimes, the military, foreign policy, etc. Even in the arenas where McCain might frustrate and anger us, such as health, environmental, and immigration policies, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton would be like a Category 5 Hurricane compared to John McCain’s Gale Force winds. And even there, McCain might actually listen to us if we come up with cogent arguments and there are vast numbers of us demanding to be heard. A Democrat president and Congressional majority would be a 8.9 earthquake!

If you think I exaggerate, remember things like Hillary Clinton wanting to make it a felony for both doctor and patient, for a person to pay a doctor in cash. Read Rick Moran’s, “52 Seconds of Obama Unilaterally Disarming America”. Think about the articles I linked to above, and reread Dick Lamm’s piece.

Then get to work for John McCain and other Republican candidates.

And pray. At least that hasn’t been outlawed yet.

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