(CHAPITRE 3--French)
AGE AND DECEIT WILL ALWAYS OVERCOME YOUTH AND SKILL.
Anon.
SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF LEFT
RIGHT THINKING Guns; Life Style; Gender Preference; Governmental Aid;, Enemy Lists; Religious Tolerance; Free Enterprise; Spendthrift; Bad Commanders; Energy; Global Warming; Evolution vs.
Creationism; Humor; Politically Correct; Discrimination; Abortion; Telling Others What To Do; Changing Names; Illegal Immigration; Health Care.
Let us examine some unique differences in the thought process between a typical Leftist and a typical Conservative.
Just to refresh your mind, a typical Leftist is one who favors Governmental control of most things. A typical Conservative is one who does not. We are not going to analyze the differences, but simply illustrate them and ask the question—Why? Other chapters will be devoted to answering the question.
GUNS: Please understand the ownership of guns was supposed to be settled in our Constitution. The writing of the founders, without doubt, explains why citizens cannot have their guns taken away. The founders thought it so important they devoted a single amendment, ―the second‖, to the subject. Freedom of Speech, right to assemble, right of free press, freedom of religion, and the right to petition had to share a single amendment, the first. Not so with Guns. It was so important it stands alone.
Second Amendment --US Constitution: ―A well regulated militia, being necessary to the Security of a free State, the right to the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed‖
A Conservative, who does not like guns, is afraid of guns, has no interest in guns, simply avoids them. A Leftist dislike of guns is a fear. Fear is an emotion. Normally (Upps! an oxymoron) a Leftist fear is not of the gun, but what it can do to his or her course of conduct. A Leftist wants them banned.
Actually they want to forcible take them away. In many places in America, where the Leftist can marshal the vote they pass all manner of laws to ―infringe‖ (last word of the 2nd amendment) on the use of guns. The concealed weapon laws are the best example.
Leftist restrict the places where guns can be carried, the kind of guns allowed, limit the amount of ammunition or the kind of ammunition and when they really have control, they outlaw them in spite of the Constitution. They recently did this in Washington D.C. and in Chicago. Remember the Supreme Court had to find both laws unconstitutional. As soon as the Supreme Court made its ruling in Chicago, the City Council, controlled by Leftists and their echoes, passed a new law limiting the possession and use to inside the house. One cannot even bring a gun on to a porch.
Why do liberals want to destroy this right? Is it the noise? Is it the fact a gun can accidentally wound or kill? Is it because a gun can intentionally be used to change a course of conduct like the takeover of government?
Certainly all credible evidence proves an armed citizenry depresses serious crime.
Criminals do not want to get blown away either. Leftists do not want guns to interfere with their control. In fact there is little difference between a robber taking your property at Gun point, and a Leftist passing a law to take your property against your will. Actually passing a law to do so is worse. It has all the attributes of a sneak attack.
LIFE STYLE: Let‘s look at being a Vegetarian or the flip side--do not eat cows because of the methane gas they produce. First, the Constitution did not get into life styles. The founders did not feel the Federal government should have a say whether you had to eat only carrots and chicken. If a Conservative is a vegetarian he or she simply does not eat meat. If a Leftist is a vegetarian, he or she wants all meat banned and certainly will not allow it on their table, no matter who you are. The Leftist will demand Governments regulate it, limit it and when they have the votes outlaw it. Why do Leftists want to control the life style of others?
Certainly life style goes beyond your choice of food.
Let‘s look at the life style forced on us by Leftist in the 60s and 70s. I do not know one clear headed person who thinks Woodstock was a socially great thing, or that the gazillion of failed communes provided anything but examples of failure.
What about ―Free Love‖. Most scientists and doctors today recognize that free love and its fall-outs are responsible for the spread of HIV and a multitude of other viruses. Many bizarre sexual problems of today, not to mention porno addiction, are a result of the letting go of social restraints. Why do liberals want to go there? Why do they ignore the hundreds of years of social experience that created the restraints? What is this crash and burn mentality they seem to possess?
What about smoking and drinking? I smoked cigarettes for about 10 years and still enjoy a cigar now and again. Yes the smoke can kill and is not good for you. Too much food does the same. Too much sex can kill you. In fact too much of a good thing is bad for you. No doubt, most of us agree some effort should be put forward to reduce the risks, but Conservatives do not agree the Government should dictate what, when, and where.
Leftist demand the Government dictate and forbid, just like they did with the 18th amendment (Prohibition). They do not seem to get the picture. If people want to commit slow suicide, they will. So why do they prefer dictation over education? Why can‘t beer advertise? Why can‘t a restaurant have a smoking section and a nonsmoking section?
Let us add to this life style list the use of Drugs. In the 60s Leftists took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and the same people take Prozac to make it seem normal.
Legal and illegal drug abuse has always been with us. Before the late 20s all drugs were legal and the abuse was up to you.
Based on the statistics I can find the abuse was less then, than it is today. The ladies against bars, brothels, and booze (the three Bs) and drugs rose up and got us to pass the only stupid amendment ever, to our Constitution…..the 18th—(prohibition).
These prohibitionists were simply another collection of the brain dead. People who take a cause without any thought as to the consequences, the fall out, and their loss of liberty.
Why is that?
What causes them to go brain dead? I mean people who do not use history to gauge the present and future. Why these terrible mistakes?
GENDER PREFERENCE: Again the Constitution is silent on the subject. Religions generally are not. Some, like Islam, absolutely forbid being Gay. The gender preference is where a man wants a man or a woman wants a women. Not heterosexual. Now a Conservative, who is a homosexual, is alright with it and wants the public to leave he or she alone.
A homosexual Leftist demands Governmental sanction.
They avoid religions that are against it and want secular approval. They are active and direct in wanting a homosexual relationship to be called ―Marriage‖, not because it can be in the traditional sense, but because they want their relationship to be considered normal. Heterosexual and Gay can never be the same. They are different in so many ways. These Leftists are unrealistic. It is their game of smoke and mirrors. No doubt the faint of heart will allow the Gay couple to be married. The real test of whether it does anything or not would be for all heterosexuals to abandon the word Marriage and use the term, Matrimony. Wanna bet the Leftist gays would fight against it and if it passed, would fight to have their relationship called Matrimony? As I write this book a Gay judge overruled the will of the people of the State of California to keep ―marriage‖ for heterosexuals only. His ruling makes no sense. His choice of principles were invented in his mind. My mind conjures up a picture of a dog chasing its tail, round and round.
Doesn‘t make any sense.
For years now the Leftist have pushed to get rid of the ―Don‘t ask and don‘t tell‖ rule in the Military. This rule means that a Gay can serve in the military so long as no one in the Military knows it. Under all recent Democrat leadership there have been pushes to allow military types to be openly gay. Conservatives say it is not a good idea to mix the troupes. The Leftist do not use sense as their reason. In this same vein the Leftist have pushed to allow women to serve in fighting units. An equally dangerous idea. Why? I spent 13 years in the military so I know something about it. Most soldiers in fighting units are young, and have strong sexual desires. It is part of the package. Further you must admit that in any fighting unit the goal is to make the enemy die, and not to die for your country. Now imagine yourself a hot blooded heterosexual male on patrol in Afghanistan. The enemy really wants to kill you. If the point soldier is a hot blooded 20
year old girl, you will be distracted by her presence. It will happen. This is not a game.
Your life is at stake. Now as she takes the point of the patrol you become interested in her butt. It is as natural as rain. If we allow open gay guys in the military you could have one behind you as the patrol makes its way. Gay guys are as hot blooded as anyone else. It‘s just that they direct their lust for other guys. Ok, so you have the 20 year old healthy, horny girl on the point and you bend down to get a better look. At the same moment the gay guy behind you becomes transfixed on your butt. How well are any of you concentrating on where the enemy is or is not?
Remember in Afghanistan civilians and soldiers all look the same. This means each synapse must be concentrated on the enemy. You may very well be in the cross hairs of a sniper and soon to die. This is serious stuff, folks. We are being pushed into a situation where our military is being purposefully weakened and the Leftists are doing it.
Conservatives say that if Gays want to serve openly then let them have their own units.
The Spartans in Ancient Greece did it with some success. If the ladies want to serve in combat units, let them do it on their own and together. Why do Leftists demand this mixing of sexual desires in the Military? Is it to foster love, or is it to foster destruction?
Will it help or hurt military effectiveness? Bradley Manning answers the questions I ask.
He is the gay soldier who in a fit of pique released all manner of secret documents on Afghanistan to WikiLeaks. A forward turret of the Battleship Utah blew up in a fire drill and the investigation pointed at two gay sailors, one of whom was in a jealous rage.
GOVERNMENTAL AID: A Leftist wants all significant aid to come from Government.
Seldom do you meet a Leftist who is gung ho for charity. All of history tells us Government programs do not work well. It is human nature to look out for number 1 first.
That is what the Governmental employees will do. If there is anything leftover then it goes toward the purpose of the program. Moreover if you want to lose a friend, loan them money or make a ―charitable gift‖ to them. It is the nature of the beast.
I need to again say that a Leftist is a socialist/communist type. We already know they do not learn from history. Adolph Hitler rose to power as the leader of the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany. It was to be a socialist experiment.
As in all such experiments, they are easy to hijack because of the centralization of power.
Guess what? That is what ole Adolph did. You can blame a failed socialist experiment on bringing about the Holocaust. Lenin set up such an experiment in Russia. Stalin hijacked it and became the most blood thirsty killer in history. Just these two failed socialist experiments killed over 65 million soles in World War II and after. Do the Leftist get it?
Of course not and they are doomed to repeat the same mistakes if we allow it to happen.
A Conservative, if he is down and out, figures out what he has to do, on his own, to get out of the mud. The Conservative knows that lending money, or giving money to someone who is down and out prevents, or tends to prevent, that person from helping themselves and this destroys resolve and character. A Leftist must know all Federal programs are bloated and inefficient, so why do they persist? Why do they want to continue to make gifts of the treasury? Why can‘t they see that Federal and State Food Stamp Programs are wasteful and are taken advantage of on a daily basis? Maybe they do and then the question is, if so, why do they continue the waste? I personally went and applied for food stamps to learn about it.
From my own observations, of the approximately 500 people who went through this one small office, in one small town, only about 10 percent were citizens. Almost to a man, woman, and child I saw, not one looked hungry. In fact all should have lost weight. Most were Latino and anyone who knows people from Latin America, knows they have strong family bonds which means, no member of the family goes hungry. Nobody there needed food stamps. They want them because it frees up money for Plasma TVs, I Phones‘ and other unnecessary of life.
Those of us not on food stamps pay for their toys. Yet, faced with all this, the liberal will become very emotional about its need. Why? It does not make sense.
ENEMY LISTS: Leftists have them and Conservatives generally do not. There was much wailing that President Nixon had one, but it was not a list to do harm. His was a watch list. Leftist do not like to debate, because emotional responses seldom stand up to logic and good sense. It is easier to try to get rid of the one who wants debate. For example the Leftist have in many ways tried to get control of the airways to destroy Conservative talk radio. Why? I just said that they do not like debate. That is one.
Second, they put Conservative talk show hosts on an enemies list. Demanding ―equal time‖ ―balanced discourse‖ ―public Radio—NPR etc.‖ are some of their methods to destroy the enemy. They claim Conservative talk shows spew hate speech, distorted concepts and Ideas opposed to the common good.
Leftists have been able to get such regulations promulgated by the FCC. They know that Conservative talk radio only survives on advertisers. If they can demand equal time, they will destroy the commercial part of the shows. They know they cannot compete on the airways. Every leftist commercial attempt has ended up in the can. Now where they control the radio, as they do in most Universities, and in most public funded radio, the Leftists will not allow Conservative Talk shows. Oh--- they will pretend they do, but they do not. I know because I am one they kicked off the air. For 16 years I had a successful Jass/jazz music show on the FM station at the University of California at Santa Barbara. I tried to get permission to do a Conservative show and was laughed off the stage. I then used subterfuge and told them I would do a Country Western show and comment.
They thought I meant comment on the music and the artists. I did not. I meant to comment on political issues, which I did.
Once they were tricked it took them some time to recover.
Finally, I devoted the last 1/2 hour of my jass show to Political comment. They went crazy. Finally, one day as I set up the show in studio A the wicked witch of the Left and her student stooge came in and ordered me out of the studio. Do you think I am exaggerating? Go ask Shaun Hannity. The Leftists in charge of that same FM station did the same to him when he was a student there. Leftist in charge will not tolerate debate.
They will not allow the chance that an opposing view might be true and the one they hold false. Is this clear thinking? No it is not… so then pray tell what motivates them to remove free speech and avoid debate? Is it the noise? Is it the Stress? Is it they do not want to be questioned?
On the other hand a Conservative simply shuts off the radio station, or changes it to something they like better. They do not want control or to silence the opposition. A Conservative invites debate. This leftist intolerance is a major indication of the different mindset. Why does it exist?
RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE: Here the Conservative and Leftist are on opposite sides of the world. A non-religious Conservative rejoices at the opportunity for you to pray, worship, etc. as you please. Tolerance is the byword. A secular Conservative does not want to control worship or any evidence of it. Just leave him alone and do not ask him to come to church.
The Leftist is all things opposite. The evidence is everywhere. First any person, who qualifies for the name Leftist, is not a dolt. They think, and most of the time they consider a religion as a competitor for control. Most are atheist and at best religious in name only (Hey! that spells RINO as well). That is why they relish banishing all things religious from all public places. Leftists cannot have the 10 commandments in a court house. Now I might agree if the basis was that you cannot have signs that say ―Thou Shall Not Steal, Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery and Thou Shall Not Lie‖ in a building of lawyers and judges and (God, forbid the thought), politicians. But that is not the logic of Leftists.
Leftist demand we cannot have ―In God We Trust‖ on coins, and must remove all crosses, Stars of David etc.
If they had their way, religious people would have to do their thing in caves out of the noon day sun. It is a relentless battle they wage to bury religion so that people can only worship their God, Big Government. But once again history means nothing to them. Not once has Communism, the worst offender against religion, been successful. Still the Leftist demands there be no visible evidence of religion? Isn‘t the logical next step to banish the evidence in the private sector as well as the governmental?
Communists do every time. What real good is there to prevent a human being from believing in a life hereafter?
Oh! By the way, please do remember that atheism is a religion. If a religion is defined as a set of beliefs about the hereafter then atheism is playing the same game in the same ballpark. They have such a set of beliefs. Many atheists will tell you it is their Religion.
Remember Mr. Newdow? He was the fellow who sued, in California, to not have his daughter say the pledge of allegiance, because it speaks of God. I heard him, not once, but twice say his religion was atheism.
Why? What motivates the Leftist to not be tolerant with religions other than their own?
FREE ENTERPRISE: The founders did not bother to make free enterprise a stated liberty or right. Only 9 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were public servants. For several hundreds of years Americans assumed that enterprise was supposed to be free. Yearly leftists do what they can to eliminate this freedom. Income redistribution is just one of the ways. Certainly corporation income tax, (A corporation profits will be taxed in the hands of its shareholder owners), is another example of double taxation against enterprise.
Capital gains tax is yet another. Now I am talking only about tax. The regulation upon regulation which stifles free enterprise is even a bigger example. The examples are endless. Have you ever given much thought as to why the Leftist dislike free enterprise?
Is it because free enterprise is difficult and therefore not fair to the less capable? Is it because free enterprise stands in the way of governmental control? Is it because they just cannot visualize a world of challenges, success, and reward? Maybe it is just that there is something wrong with their computers; the ones on their shoulders.
SPENDTHRIFTS: Many families have been faced with planning their estate to take care of one or more members who just cannot get a grasp on income and expenses. That is what a spend-thrift is--one who spends more than they have. Each of us has struggled with this problem, either personally or with others we know. A credit card is so easy to abuse. The point is that being frugal, saving (which means not spending all you have) requires self-discipline and determination.
Conservatives seem to have a good grasp of the problem. They know a family, much more a government, cannot spend more money than is available. The Conservative knows it can be done but also knows the end result may not be pretty.
The Leftist has a major problem here. Spending more than the Government has is simply simple. This year 2010 is one where many governments, which have been Leftist led, are broke and the result is painful. This is not the first year nor will it be the last. For some reason the Leftist fails to see that once government (actually any entity or person) makes a lot of gifts to people, the beneficiaries expect the giving to continue. When it does not they get upset and the damage can be extensive.
Examples abound. Recent riots in Atlanta over Federal Housing 8 benefits.--Watts riots--
New Orleans in the Katrina blow—on and on into the night. The United States has the largest economy and potential of any other country, but it too, must not spend more than it has. This is not theory. It is economic fact. When government borrows too much, generations down the line have to pay. Speaking of not fair, this is it. Raise taxes and you hit the middle class the hardest. When the middle class suffers the entire economy feels the loss. Why is a Leftist a spendthrift? Do they think it is a Monopoly game and the money is make believe? Do they see Government as Big Daddy War Bucks and the game never ends? Do they fail to see the danger of borrowing on the future of others? What if the others rebel? Do they simply think the future will cure their sins? Do they even think of their mistakes as sins? What set of blinders do they wear? Why is it they cannot see the danger? One thing is for certain, Leftists do not make good ship captains. Ships on rocks seldom survive and, if they do the damage is extensive. Ask the Captain of the Valdez.
The ship of state is no different.
LEFTIST MAKE BAD GENERALS AND COMMANDERS IN CHIEF: A good military commander has to have the good sense and ability to make the hard decision.
Leftist fail to do so most of the time. Let‘s examine our own History for the record. I have divided the wars of our country into big ones and little ones. By doing this you will see history tells us Leftists get us into big wars. In small ones Conservatives almost always win and Leftists lose. Whyzat?
MAJOR WARS.
1864 Civil war.
Started by Democrats in the South and finished by a Republican President 625,000 dead.
1889 Spanish American War: President McKinley, a Republican, resisted the war but the Democrats agitated for it.
―Remember the Maine‖. It is a little confusing about who declared it. Not important anymore because no one declares war. The point is that McKinley relied on his military leaders and the war was over within the year.
U.S. dead 2,446 1918 World War I Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, resisted the war, but had to declare it after he allowed several of our ships to be sunk by German U Boats. He was sending supplies to England. This declared war took 2 years. His resulting dream of a League of Nations failed. The war defeated Germany, but failed peace.
U.S. dead 116,114 1941 World War II Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, like Wilson gave so much aid to Europe that we were in the middle of the war. Some say he teased the Japanese so much that they felt they had to keep us out of Asia….Hence Pearl Harbor.
Others have said he knew the Japanese were going to attack and he allowed it to happen because the polls showed the American People did not want war. In any event we entered the biggest and second worst war counting the number of our dead. The war lasted about 4 years and devastated our way of life.
U.S. lost 405,000.
Truman, a Democrat, ordered the Atomic bombs, killing from 90,000 to 160,000 or so. A few historians say just the threat could have brought the war to an end. For example Truman could have just blown up an island to demonstrate why resistance was futile.
1950 Korean War Harry Truman, a Liberal, ran this 3 year war, failing to follow the decisions of his Military Commanders. The war stalemated.
U.S. lost 53,000.
1961 Vietnam War Lyndon Johnson, Democrat liberal, started the war, because of what many historians believe was a faked attack on one of our naval vessels. He then injected politics into every aspect of the war. By the time Nixon, a Republican, became President the war was lost. He finished the loss.
U.S. lost, 58,000.
SKIRMISHES: (Warlike, but with comparative less loss of time, lives and costs. I have not included Indian wars, and incidents) Bay of Pigs (1962) Jack Kennedy Democrat Loss Iran U.S. Embassy (1977) J. Carter Democrat Loss Grenada (1982) R. Reagan Republican Win Panama (1985) R. Reagan Republican Win Iraq First Gulf (1990) G.
Bush Republican Win Somalia (1995) William Clinton Democrat Loss Kosovo (1998) William Clinton Democrat Loss Afghanistan (2001) G.W. Bush Republican W/L Iraq 2nd Gulf G.W. Bush Republican win Simply by knowing the history it is clear Liberals do badly in war. They generally interfere with the Military and prevent them from doing what has to be done to win.
Conservatives listen to the Military and give them freedom to win. A Conservative politician knows his limitations and that he or she was not trained to kill, and has more empathy for the soldier, who was so trained.
Today the war in Afghanistan is a prime example.
President Obama has ordered the military not to kill civilians, when no one there knows the difference between a soldier or civilian. He restricted the use of air strikes for the same reason.
All very dumb. Why do they do that?
ENERGY: What is energy? It is oil, atomic, wind, solar, geothermal, coal, hydroelectric, and natural gas. Those are the major sources of energy in the United States. It is fair to say that on each of them, except Wind, Solar, and Geothermal the Leftists are against their development. They used to be split on hydroelectric but have turned more against it in favor of fish, and natural appearing land. Now in knowing Leftists on this issue, we have to view them as very active environmentalists. They either participate directly or aid and abet. It is difficult to separate the two terms. Not all Leftists really care about the environment, but all activists of the environment are Leftists.
That is probably the best way to say it. Maybe a way to analyze their position is to look at the development of organic products.
Organic is a big deal these days and is being regulated by Governments all over the world. It started in the early 60s, by anti-establishment hippies. To a man, women and child, they were Leftists and environmentalist. They were ―one world‖
socialist/communist and favored communes. They are the ones who coined ―Organic‖ as applying to foods and stuffs naturally produced. They hated oil. In a discussion with them during those tumultuous times, they always confessed they hated oil not because of its carbon footprint, but because of the large and dominating oil companies. The entire concern about carbon footprints came much later. Hydroelectric was ok because the operators were government like and some cases actual governmental agencies. Atomic has always been on the bad list because of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan. Logic, if applied at all, stopped there. Natural gas and coal followed the same logic as oil, but with somewhat of a lesser hate. Primarily because there are few Coal and natural gas stations down the street, to hate. Solar and Wind have always been considered green, as opposed to black. They, unlike Atomic, have been considered environmentally safe. Just this last week I saw pictures of a Wind machine blowing up with black smoke all over the landscape. When birds battle the blades, the wind machines win. I am certain, Leftists ignore all this.
Now here comes the problem. All the energy sources mentioned cost money to develop and produce for peoples to use. None of it is free. Oh, yes the sunshine is free and wind is free, but not the machines and equipment necessary to obtain it.
In fact, wind and solar recovery are so expensive people would not pay the price, if it sold for the costs of production. More than that, one can say the oil is free, the coal is free, and the atoms are free, but the equipment needed to obtain and distribute them is not. The short of it is that all energy we can use, costs us money to obtain. Solar and wind cannot presently produce economically balanced energy and all such productions are heavily subsidized by governments. Hydroelectric, natural gas, and oil can be produced in enough volume that the cost comes down to an affordable price. The same can be said of atomic energy plants; however, because of the emotion employed against them, it takes a very long time to recover the exaggerated production costs.
Do Leftists accept the economics of these sources? No, they do not. Why is that? First, their Leftist governments hide the real disparity between so called green energy and the other.
Every wind- mill to make electricity, every solar panel to produce electricity for a lot of people, every hybrid car, and every electric car is subsidized by the tax payers in general.
Look in a mirror.
That‘s you Snow White. This means everyone is paying the difference so the energy produced by the wind mills and solar panels etc. will not substantially increase the citizens‘ energy bills. By doing this the true costs are hidden. If the governments made it all pay