I recently saw a comment on Facebook under a Tea Party announcement about why can't the Tea Party meet in the middle. This person complained that the lack of compromise was causing America pain and suffering and compromise was the only way to solve problems. She couldn't understand why the Tea Party wanted to run politicians out of office in 2014 and why we stand firm against the left. This commenter was both complaining about and upbraiding the Tea Party for its beliefs.
I was shocked and dismayed, to say the least, at the blinding ignorance of her post.
Whenever the left wants something from America, they ask for compromise. They claim compromise is the only way to get things done. Compromise is how polite society functions. Compromise is the nice thing to do when you don't disagree. Compromise will make the independent voters happy. For the left, everything is compromise is the name of the game.
What compromise really means is that the left gets at least half of what it wants. They browbeat, scream, yell, demean, insult, and pillory anyone who doesn't want to negotiate. If there is disagreement, the left calls those who do every word they can think of that ends with "-ist". They drag out the straw-men arguments about how heartless the other side is, inevitably getting those independent voters to side with their purely emotional arguments. Compromise really means giving into at least half of the left's demands.
The left has traditionally set the bar so far left, that compromise almost always means they get just what they wanted to begin with. This is the ploy of the child who wants half a dozen cookies and screams and yells for a whole bag until you give him half a bag to shut him up. The child now has more than he wanted and knows how to get the other half a bag later. For claiming to be such understanding and enlightened people, liberals are actually completely inflexible but they are cunning. They realize that if they set up a "compromise" that gets them most of what they want, they can get the rest later.
As for the independent, these people are so ignorant as to be dangerous. These people are the third of the country that would've sat out the American Revolution and then thrown in at the last minute to be on the winning team. These people are the type that vote left so no one thinks they are "mean" or "heartless" or simply because they want to be seen as hip or part of the popular crowd. They have no principles, no real opinion, and no backbone. In other words, independent voters are sheep.
The Tea Party is right of center and is determined to stand on law and principle. The law is the Constitution, that ingenious document that is still relevant today and is not meant to be reinterpreted to fit the current political climate. The principle the Tea Party stands for is no more compromise unless the left is willing to give up just as much. The Tea Party realizes the current climate of compromise is ruining the nation through ever more destructive policies that are destroying the middle class in favor of feel-good policies that bring the left ever more power over daily life. So the Tea Party stands on principle and the Constitution without compromising those beliefs.
This principled stand drives the left into paroxysms of hate since they cannot get what they want. Like the child wanting cookies, they've had a tantrum and instead of getting half a bag, they get a spanking for being brats. The independent sees this and think the Tea Party parent is being cruel and pushes for compromise. This time, the Tea Party should ignore the independent or explaining the situation better, which will result in the independent favoring the punishment. The left hates principle since it destroys their childlike tantrums every time, as long those standing on principle continue to do so.
Not compromising isn't a bad thing, it is simply standing up for one's beliefs. What ever happened to saying no? Compromise is the act of caving in to at least part of another's wants if they also give into yours. The left never gives any, so why should we. Sometimes a principled stand is what is required to truly effect a change in the world. It was principled stands that brought us this country and gave us our freedoms. It was principled stands that freed slaves and liberated Europe and Asia. It was principled stands that defeated the Eastern Block. So why is a principled stand and an unwillingness to compromise bad things?
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Time to Blog Some More
It has been a while since my last posting and I thought I'd post something new.
I have been reading about the American Revolution, intrigued by the men and women who put everything on the line for a chance at self-government. These patriots were willing to die for the off-chance that they could beat one of the most powerful Empires of the time. The odds were not good and the Colonials suffered more defeats than they won victories but they knew they had to outlast their foes to win. They knew Britain could not afford to keep so many troops in the field for year after year, so they decided to fight a war of attrition (probably the bloodiest form of warfare out there where one side simply tries to wear the other down). The patriots knew that if they lost, their lot would be similar to the Scots and Irish but these Americans wouldn't quit.
History often paints the colonists as monolithic but this is far from the truth. Around a third of the colonists were loyalists who actively supported the British. Another third sat on the fence and tried to ignore what was going on and often playing to both sides. The patriots were the last third but many never actively participated with only 5-10% of them engaged in the fighting. This lack of support often left the American armies woefully undermanned and under-equipped but they persevered. The colonies were anything but the united front of patriots that the uninformed believe.
What kept these patriots together was their belief in their cause. They honestly believed their cause was just and that Providence was with them. These ragged patriots knew in their hearts that they were in the right while the enemy was a corrupt aristocracy without blessings by the Almighty. This faith kept them going through the horrors of Valley Forge and Morristown; the defeats at Long Island, Brandywine, Ticonderoga, and Camden; and the "Country Dance" of the Southern Campaign. This faith led to herculean efforts at Trenton, Quebec, Vincennes, and the Mohawk Valley where victory was pulled from defeat. Thomas Paine often voiced this faith and his pamphlets kept half-starved Continentals going as around him all seemed lost.
Now we face constant verbal assault by those who vilify us for our patriotism, faith in God, and our determination that this nation is a nation of laws and not emotions. We are called every vile named in the book when we stand our ground and even physically assaulted. The so-called press makes us out to be lunatics and monsters while hiding the true monsters among their own. Many claim all is lost.
I disagree.
These people are nothing but unintelligent bullies and fools who live in ivory towers led by narcissists whose thirst for power and acceptance knows no bounds. Their beliefs are confusing and contradictory and are based around a corrupt Marxist theory that has collapsed under its own weight throughout the world. The leaders are corrupt, self-serving red-diaper babies bred in the treason of the 1960s counterculture and have become the same kind of despots they accuse patriotic Americans of being. Their followers have been spoiled in a world where they do not have to take responsibility for their actions and have swallowed the lies that government is there to help them. These pawns react with vicious rhetoric and personal (often physical) attacks on those who use fact and logic to debate their ideas while their leaders encourage them with one hand while enslaving them with the other.
If George Washington and his Continentals could endure the defeats and trials they suffered, then we can carry the day against these spoiled-rotten, blind fools. God is with us.
I have been reading about the American Revolution, intrigued by the men and women who put everything on the line for a chance at self-government. These patriots were willing to die for the off-chance that they could beat one of the most powerful Empires of the time. The odds were not good and the Colonials suffered more defeats than they won victories but they knew they had to outlast their foes to win. They knew Britain could not afford to keep so many troops in the field for year after year, so they decided to fight a war of attrition (probably the bloodiest form of warfare out there where one side simply tries to wear the other down). The patriots knew that if they lost, their lot would be similar to the Scots and Irish but these Americans wouldn't quit.
History often paints the colonists as monolithic but this is far from the truth. Around a third of the colonists were loyalists who actively supported the British. Another third sat on the fence and tried to ignore what was going on and often playing to both sides. The patriots were the last third but many never actively participated with only 5-10% of them engaged in the fighting. This lack of support often left the American armies woefully undermanned and under-equipped but they persevered. The colonies were anything but the united front of patriots that the uninformed believe.
What kept these patriots together was their belief in their cause. They honestly believed their cause was just and that Providence was with them. These ragged patriots knew in their hearts that they were in the right while the enemy was a corrupt aristocracy without blessings by the Almighty. This faith kept them going through the horrors of Valley Forge and Morristown; the defeats at Long Island, Brandywine, Ticonderoga, and Camden; and the "Country Dance" of the Southern Campaign. This faith led to herculean efforts at Trenton, Quebec, Vincennes, and the Mohawk Valley where victory was pulled from defeat. Thomas Paine often voiced this faith and his pamphlets kept half-starved Continentals going as around him all seemed lost.
Now we face constant verbal assault by those who vilify us for our patriotism, faith in God, and our determination that this nation is a nation of laws and not emotions. We are called every vile named in the book when we stand our ground and even physically assaulted. The so-called press makes us out to be lunatics and monsters while hiding the true monsters among their own. Many claim all is lost.
I disagree.
These people are nothing but unintelligent bullies and fools who live in ivory towers led by narcissists whose thirst for power and acceptance knows no bounds. Their beliefs are confusing and contradictory and are based around a corrupt Marxist theory that has collapsed under its own weight throughout the world. The leaders are corrupt, self-serving red-diaper babies bred in the treason of the 1960s counterculture and have become the same kind of despots they accuse patriotic Americans of being. Their followers have been spoiled in a world where they do not have to take responsibility for their actions and have swallowed the lies that government is there to help them. These pawns react with vicious rhetoric and personal (often physical) attacks on those who use fact and logic to debate their ideas while their leaders encourage them with one hand while enslaving them with the other.
If George Washington and his Continentals could endure the defeats and trials they suffered, then we can carry the day against these spoiled-rotten, blind fools. God is with us.
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