Politically Correct Inversions
Published Sat, Dec 2 2006 12:34 AM
Technorati Tags: Liberals, Political Correctness
Do you enjoy having freedom and liberty? Are you tired of the erosion of our unique American culture?
There are a great many groups out there that want to do away with our freedoms. Some of them want to take our freedoms away while claiming to be fighting to preserve them. They do this by asserting a right not to be offended.
They erode our culture by asserting "diversity", and the equivalent value of "all" cultures. All cultures except our own. They "protect" our religious freedoms by fighting to remove all religious expression from the public square... unless it's expression of the currently fashionable "minority" religion.
They take our language and they twist it, so that a culture of death becomes "pro-choice". They teach our children that morality doesn't work, that abstinence leads to pregnancy. That's a strange kind of thing. Apparently there are a lot of immaculate conceptions taking place.
They complain that there isn't enough money for education, but they don't want our children to learn history. They want our children to re-discover mathematical principles through a "reform" method of groping about in the dark rather than learning based upon a millennia-old tradition of study.
They say that they don't want a racist society. They're so adamant about it that they use racist methods to try to produce a more diverse mix in our schools, our neighborhoods, and our businesses. But when a member of a minority group succeeds by rising to the top in our current merit-based system, they deride that person as a sell-out or a race traitor.
They claim to want equality for all men and women. They don't want equality of opportunity though, they want equality of outcome. A "future-orientation" is called subconscious racism rather than preparation to take advantage of opportunities.
Achieving success through hard work and responsibility is somehow wrong, and is punished through confiscatory taxing schemes. Laziness and failure are rewarded through government "social" programs.
The "equality of outcome" is really nothing more than the equality of the lowest-common-denominator. Our children are taught that it is bad to be competitive. That sports are about how we feel about ourselves and not about achievement.
They teach our children that the struggle for achievement is meaningless and wrong-headed. We "don't keep score" in youth sports because someone might feel bad if they don't win.
Criminals are coddled in our courts because they had a "hard childhood." A show of remorse, real or not is sufficient for many to buy a pass in the court of public opinion. The consequences of our choices "aren't fair" when our actions come back to hurt us. Never mind the victims, I hurt, therefore I inflict pain.
This same attitude infects our culture to the highest levels. It has begun to infect our national pride and our foreign relations.
Today the "equality" of the lowest common denominator causes us to feel guilty about our role in the world. We have too much power, so we must be evil. We believe in rewarding success and sharing opportunity instead of the redistribution of wealth, and so we are called "uncaring" and "arrogant".
I'm tired of it. All of these ills come from the socialist doctrines espoused by the "progressives" in our country and throughout the world. They are the direct result of moral relativism. If there is no true "good" or "evil" in the world then there is no value in accomplishment and hard work.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Those words sound noble on the surface, but they are truly an abomination. They bring us all down to our lowest common denominator. With that philosophy there is no reward for effort, there is no penalty for sloth. To follow that philosophy to its ultimate end is to bring about the death of our civilization.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. In today's high-tech world, the left has managed to create road building machinery of incredible efficiency.
Its time to follow behind the left's road-making machinery with jackhammers and tear it up.
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