"Let me tell you something else, lady, what Obama inherited: the American People, who work hard, who can overcome almost every obstacle, except YOU, and your ideology, and your party, and centralized government."
“The status quo ante--the circumstances of our government and the way it treats us, the way it treats liberty, the way it treats states, the way it treats the economy, the way it treats businesses--particularly small businesses--the way it treats citizenry. The status quo in this respect is them.H/t: CNS
What’s happening in immigration isn’t what we want, it’s what they want. What’s happening with the debt isn’t what we want, it’s what they’ve done. And I can go right down the list. What’s happening to our foreign policy is them, not us.
Conservatives and conservatism hasn’t been tried since Ronald Reagan. They’re the status quo--Hillary, Obama, the Democrat Party, the Republican RINOs. They’re the status quo, and they act like they’re rebelling, they act like they’re revolutionaries.
'You know, look what we inherited. Look what we inherited and, you know, if I had been elected, I would have inherited the same thing: this deep hole.'"
They're not rebels, they're not revolutionaries...they're tyrants bringing about tyranny. And they're out-of-the-closet promoting it, politically, judicially, culturally, tearing down our civil society bit by bit...
It's high time to heed the warnings throughout the wisdom of history...
This is what has happened, and is happening, to this Greatest Country on the face of the earth, as Levin affirms. Centralized government has become all powerful. The federal Leviathan is smothering the civil society. Ameritopia is here."By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer." ~ Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution, 1790
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.” ~ Frederic Bastiat, The Law, 1850
“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” ~ Frederic Bastiat
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?” ~ Frederic Bastiat, The Law, 1850
"I saw that the New Deal was only superficially a reform movement. I had to acknowledge the truth of what it’s more forthright protagonists, sometimes unwarily, sometimes defiantly, averred: the New Deal was a genuine revolution, whose deepest purpose was not simply reform from within existing traditions, but a basic change in the social, and above all, the power relationships within the nation. It was not a revolution by violence. It was a revolution by bookkeeping and lawmaking. In so far as it was successful, the power of politics had replaced the power of business. This is the basic power shift of all the revolutions of our time. This shift was the revolution. It was only of incidental interest that the revolution was not complete, that it was made not by tanks and machine guns, but by acts of Congress and decisions of the Supreme Court, or that many of the revolutionists did not know what they were or denied it. But revolution is always an affair of force, whatever forms the force disguises itself in. Whether the revolutionists prefer to call themselves Fabians, who seek power by the inevitability of gradualism, or Bolsheviks, who seek power by the dictatorship of the proletariat, the struggle is for power." ~ Whittaker Chambers, Witness, 1952
"They have rejected all of them [Chambers, Bastiat, Burke, Locke, Montesquieu, the Enlightenment, the Framers] for what? For the tyranny of power, centralized power...social engineering, social experimentation, bullying, coercing, subsidizing, threatening. Is that not what our government has become? Is that not the tactics our government uses? Is this not now the true manifesto of the Democrat Party? Is it not the true manifesto of the Democrat Party to eliminate all remaining vestiges of the United States? ... This isn't even an attack on the country, this is an attack on YOU.
It's an amazing spectacle how you and I, we the American citizen are to be managed, are to be engineered, are to be parts of these grand social experiments by a handful of masterminds in both parties using an army of bureaucrats to impose their will on us. It's an amazing spectacle that we need to be transformed. But anybody who crawls across the border, who overstays a visa, or is given birth in this country who's not a citizen, well that's held up as virtue when it's not.
People are stunned today. They're saying look what's happened to the country. The majority of people support socialism. Well, when you keep importing people into a country that do not understand the nation's history, do not respect the nation's history, and they listen to a media and academia and politicians who do not respect America's history, they are not Americanized, they are not assimilated into a culture, in fact, the culture's under attack, what do you expect?!
The nation's changing, the libs are applauding! Look at the grand experiment that they're involved in. The destruction of the United States! The destruction of our Constitution and our governing system! The destruction of American culture and society! And they're to be celebrated! And I have to watch knuckleheads on tv, and listen to some on radio, applauding our progress, telling us we have to pander to this and reach out to this!
Who is going to stand up for this country? I didn't say the government! Who is going to stand up for this country? Who's going to stand up for the American people? Who's going to stand up for the American culture, the American society? Apparently nobody in power today, or very few."
