Newt For President, Condi For Veep, Part II: The Cost
By John Longenecker (12/20/06)
I used to have two words as a solution to selecting our national direction: President Reagan. For decades, the two words President Reagan said it all to sum up the best path, the best values and the ultimate courage of what America would need – and need enough – to be truly prosperous and safe.
Last week, I watched Newt Gingrich on FOX News mentioning that America is looking for another President Reagan, but that we won’t find one: we’ll have to locate and elect an entirely new person on our own.
He’s right.
In Part I, I’d mentioned three wonderful truths about America which I believe much of the country does not remember, but which need to be respected by officials in their oath of office. Too much of this has been abandoned in demagoguery and ambition. Newt and Condi could be the ticket to reverse this.
1. Rights of the Constitution are few, but they are all we need to live in liberty under our system in America. Living by these restores personal dignity and a more genuine happiness with less expectation of government’s being your personal butler. Self-reliance is vital to our way of life – painfully necessary to liberty, powerfully satisfying in liberty – and government largess and brokering more demagoguery interferes with this process immensely.
2. Rights of the Constitution are Creator-given, not given by government. They cannot be taken away by government. People can be oppressed as they are, but the rights continue to live, and the question is then whether they are respected or quashed. Our National Government’s job is to protect those Creator-given rights – the few, clearly defined ones we have – and not to demagogue and make a living finding and funding rights that aren’t even there anywhere. Like prostitution, it appears at first to be none of anyone's business, a victimless crime, right? But demagoguery is in fact predatory, and the biggest customers among the electorate cannot see how this hurts the nation more and more every day as predatory practices do.
3. The Constitution does not empower government as much as it limits government. We’re just going to have to do without demagoguery.
With news this week of noticing earmarking – the practice of sneaking Pork into a Bill at the last minute – it would seem citizens might have something to sacrifice in voting for genuine reform of some of the most plaguing, anti-American practices affecting us all. But will they do it?
I fully understand just how this could be painful for the nation, but shouldn’t it be done, anyway? [And just how painful is for another edition of Good For The Country.]
Meanwhile, these top three things plague America which I believe only Newt and Condi can reform. Want to hear ‘em?
1. Repeal all gun laws. It’s time to understand that gun control and anti-violence activism are an industrial complex to the gain of officials. It’s time to see how more than 22,000 gun laws affect non-gun owner homes profoundly. As I write, the individual would-be victim is the first line of defense with full legal authority which has been obfuscated for political gain – while crime is grown with counter-intuitive policies. Few citizens understand their current legal authority to act in facing grave danger and are instructed instead how to act to their detriment, which builds the complex, etc..
2. Reform education content and values. It is unAmerican for educators to go home at night and enjoy their families in shared American values, but then be the ones to go to work at a job which acts to unwind those very values in the children they teach. As I write often, it is a personal integrity issue. [Did you know it was Republicans who wrote and enacted the first Civil Rights laws in the 1800’s?]
3. Reform family law. When old wounds (real or imagined) meet political clout, the result is a scorched earth policy of revenge, striking out at the nearest thing, and that closest thing is family, naturally, bitterly, from old wounds. Modern innocents pay the price in exaggerated claims, over-anxious regulations and restraints, and the horrific psycho-drama of imagining punishing one’s own parents long after their passing – an unwelcome, sweeping result the original liberals would find tragically, tragically misguided. Whole cottage industries dwell and depend on rotten anti-family law based more on personal angst than social justice.
For other issues America absolutely needs to change, painful or not, check out search term keyword: Nationwide Stand Your Ground Movement.
In managing violence, in correcting education content with its substituted, destructive values, and in the unending torment of the household, we have been played for fools in cooperating under pressure to choose to endure these frauds purely to balm the anxiety of the wounded, ignoring the truly right thing to do. For, we are not just another country with social problems – we have these problems because we think we’re just another country.
Our rights and sovereignty make America unique among nations, not alike, with a way of life here which itself magnetizes the world, and – painful as it might be – dutiful and practical reforms can work. This frightens some, but only because it can spoil their political picnic – or their attempt to soothe their anxiety in the political arena. Politics will never soothe that anxiety of old.
Meanwhile, it doesn’t frighten your average liberty enthusiast to see all Americans in freedom again. It’s good for the country.
Repealing all gun laws will improve liberty and safety, not to mention affirm our sovereignty. Reforming Education will put us again on the right path: you either hand down your values or you hand them over. Reforming family law will certify it all and take interference with family out of the hands of the deeply angry, forever-wounded.
Newt Gingrich for President and Condoleezza Rice for Vice-President.
Is violent crime a wing of a nationwide predatory industrial complex? Visit www.TransferOfWealth.net
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