Self-Evident
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,”
The above quote should be instantly recognizable as coming from the Declaration of Independence which goes on to list the matters which are self-evident along with a long list of grievances based on said matters. Many other things are self-evident to the average conservative and the fact that they are so self-evident has been largely responsible for the situation we face where the statists on the left have managed to distort even the language that we use in our politics.
Conservatives see many things as self-evident. Things like individual freedom and free markets are so obviously superior to failed concepts such as socialism that we have not really seen it as necessary to defend them from the many attacks the left makes on a daily basis. How can anybody think that all of the disastrous experiments involving central economic control have just been bad luck? Yet those on the left would have us believe that if they just tried again with more control they will succeed this time. Just give up your freedom and the chance of being successful on your own merit and they will deliver a communist utopia.
Don’t Cuba, China and the USSR count as failures? Michael Moore would have us believe that Cuba has superior health care than the USA but this author hasn’t yet heard of boatloads of Americans trying to escape to this socialist Nirvana.
The progressives (now there’s a badly mangled piece of language, claiming that people who want to retry the failed experiments of regimes that no longer exist because they didn’t work are somehow aiming for progress) have been trying to paint the GOP as the party of “No” for a long time now and have enjoyed some success because conservatives have not thought that they even needed to defend their predilection for avoiding making the same mistakes proven in history to be failures.
Let’s look at the “no” thing another way. Conservatives like limited government, free markets and individual responsibility because they have been demonstrated to provide the better results than all other forms of government. Compare that to automotive engineers with their liking for round wheels. There is no such thing as a perfect wheel. They need to have tyres on them to provide reasonable grip and also to allow some flex to absorb some of the road shocks. The tyres eventually wear out and need to be replaced. The wheel and tyre assembly needs to be balanced by adding weights to offset heavy spots.
What would an automotive engineer say if somebody suggested that perhaps another shape should be tried to avoid these problems, say oval or square? Some automotive engineers might gently tell the person who suggested this that the changes would result in new problems without in any way addressing the original problems. Many would not bother to even grace the suggestion with a reply thinking that the wrongheadedness of such a suggestion would be self-evident.
Another thing that is self-evident is that the current rush of huge bills being rammed through by the statists all share one common theme. They are all about expanding government power with a light dusting of faked concern for the American people who are largely aware that this is a big government scam and thus oppose the bills, much to the chagrin of the Obama regime.
When the ruling party seizes on an issue and then tries to make people afraid of it while crafting a bill that expands and helps to perpetuate their grasp on power I am happy that we have people in Washington who say “No!”, just like I am happy that automotive engineers won’t allow somebody to put square wheels on my car.
To all of those out there who like the way that things are being done and don’t mind giving more power to Obama and his cronies just think about this. How would you like it if Ron Paul or Dick Cheney or Newt Gingrich had the power that you are willingly passing to “The Won” because chances are that something like this will be happening? Puts issues in a whole different light doesn’t it?
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