A TRUE CAUSE FOR ALARM
Carlo Morelli
While watching the debate last evening between the nine candidates for the nomination
for the Democratic party, I was struck by the differences between those people on the TV
and the people that I interact with everyday. It wasn't just the level of rhetoric spoken
by the participants, one expects that the parties in a contest must clarify the divisions
separating each, but it was the level of unmitigated bias and hatred loaded in the
questions posed by the supposed news journalist, the answers given, and the audience
responses. It was not only shocking, but very sad.
There seemed to be a visceral hatred, and a deep gulf between what we think of America
in general and what they think of Americans in particular.
They have honed the art of fear, knowing if they keep an uninformed populous in
constant fear, and demonize the other side with lies and falsehoods, unharnessed by a
willing accomplice in the free press, they know that in the minds of far too many, Fear
wins. Healthcare, Social Security, War, Recession, Race..THEY ARE COMING!
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the
populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-H. L. Mencken
Now please don't get me wrong, I am not a Milquetoast kind of guy on any issue, (HA!)
but I am an eternal optimist by nature. It wasn't at all a surprise that I wouldn't agree
with most, if any of the positions taken by every candidate on the Democrat ticket. Nor am
I suggesting that all Democrats are un-American or anti-American because they disagree
with me. I am afraid that we disagree on what are the most fundamental tenants of our form
of government, natural law and a moral culture. They cloak their insidious message in a
controlled dialogue, and feeding empty platitudes, like fairness, equality, inclusion, and
diversity. When it is the very opposite that they practice.
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in
action."
-Johann von Goethe
There was an absence of pride in the tone of every speaker. There were no words of
optimism, no claim of greatness on their part. Only lesser degrees of despair. At one
point they argued over which one would take back the Bush tax refund money quicker, that
the viewers had just received in the mail. Much to my shock, to the rousing applause of
the audience. They couldn't articulate enough their utter disgust of our victory in Iraq,
and their love of an international control of our sovereignty.
"The politicians don't just want your money. They want
your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.
When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both."
-James Dale Davidson
They fed the illusion, that we must take more from the Americans that produce, and give
more domestically, and world wide, to whom they define as those in need.
"From each, according to his ability; to each,
according to his need."
-Karl Marx
They mocked our morals, and spat out the hatred of their President and
Commander-in-Chief, knowing full well that our enemy combatants are watching and that
their words were going to bolster their resolve. They would rather do nothing than fight
for our safety, peace through passivity, appeasement, and swords into plowshares. Abandon
the war, and de-fund the military. That is now, as it has always been, the recipe for war.
They are a ship of hope that seems bound to be sunk by the enemy of opportunism. No
matter how earnestly we seek world peace there is always some war bent person, who's
ideology and ambition that will kill peace in its infancy.
"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual
means of preserving peace."
-President George Washington
We must ask ourselves, all Americans, the single most important question defining our
most crucial national interest. If Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong II,
Adolf Hitler, or Joseph Stalin, had a choice of whom they wished would win the next
presidential election, which would the choose? Any of the nine candidates vying for the
Democratic nomination, or President George W Bush?
The bottom line is I believe we are at a crossroads in this great country, and the two
party system is at least working better than we even imagined. The divide is crystal
clear. The Democrats have figured out that the more they make us dependent, the more power
they have to keep feeding the insatiable beast, more taxes from the hard workers, less
payers to object. In the end game, everyone is a victim, and socialism, as it always has,
will fail miserably, and so will we all.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves
largess out of the public treasury.
Alexander Tytler
The Republicans, for the most part, believe in the power of the people. However, to be
elected, one must start with getting elected, and staying in power long enough to make the
incremental changes to the betterment of all. But you have to get elected, and that
sometimes is the Achilles heal of politics. Whom is saying what, to get in a position to
do well, for the most, and which is a wolf in sheep's clothing? That dilemma is
fraught with danger, and we are more often sodomized that satisfied. Trust your instincts,
but verify your conclusions.
Trust, but Verify
-President Ronald Reagan
But you must vote, and hope!
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in
politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
-Plato
When we look at the results of every pole, and most elections.. it has a clear and
defined separation between the givers and the takers, the can do, and the won't try. So
far, we are winning, but only by a razor thin plurality.
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some
turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
-Sam Ewig
And I, for the first time in my life, believe that I understand the pre War mentality.
Stop it early, or suffer the regret, forever. I think I can see road signs, red flags,
omens of history, beckoning us to beware of the danger ahead.
"History is a vast early warning system."
-Norman Cousins
The only thing that can bring the masses of those that will not educate themselves to
the issues, or the consequences, is guidance and insistence. In that endeavor we can not
be dissuaded. But should that fail, the only alternative is to out maneuver, overwhelm,
and ultimately overtake. Nothing short of the future of our Republic is at stake.
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to
repeat it."
-George Santayana
We must be stronger in our resolve, quicker in our responses, definite in our purpose.
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change
the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
-Margaret Mead
It is we, who must bring this country together, sooner rather than later. It is we, who
must take control of events before we, and all of America, have events control our
destiny. Our country is divided, and it is we, who must bring it together before it is too
far gone and much too late to repair.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I
believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not
expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it
will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other."
-President Lincoln
For those with the power of persuasion, must persuade! For those with the knack of
organization, must organize! For those with the power of the purse, must spend for the
cause.. donate!. And for all of us, VOTE, and VOTE, and VOTE, and VOTE!
"Live free or die."
-New Hampshire State Motto
Carlo Morelli is an accomplished Dad, Chef, Author,
Restaurateur, Designer, Actor, and Speaker. and can be
found at his web site Cooking with Carlo |
