These, my friends, are truly frightening paragraphs
Matt Gunterman November 25th, 2007
Yes. Frightening paragraphs. I was reading this oped by a lawyer in Lexington named W. Bryan Hubbard in this Sunday’s Herald-Leader with bemusement until I came to these words. Then the whole thing just turned dark and scary:
GOP must reclaim conservative high ground
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In mockery’s face, we must continue to preach that America is special because it is divine. The God who created it is the same God who grants our liberty against the tyrant within. To protect a nation of faith, we must be a party of faith that welcomes all who worship and respect that which is greater than man.
We must preserve a nation of color. One hundred years from now, we will look and sound much different than we do today. Fear not, for America is not a language or color. It is the sum of history’s eternal dream — a land where freedom reigns and peace prevails.
We are called to keep that flame for those who risk life and limb to live in its light. If the choice must ever be made, may we be brown, speak Spanish and be free before we stay white, speak English and be socialist.
Freedom calls. The time has come to rise and march.
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First, as far as the conservative high ground is concerned, they can have all the conservative ground they want. The rest of us — the vast majority of us — are going a different direction. It’s called progressive, and we’re looking for progress, not preserving the status quo.
Second, it really is the sign of a highly delusional mind to make a statement to tens of thousands of readers that the United States is divine. Let’s be frank; that’s a statement that all but the very fringe of religious Americans would eschew. That’s crazy talk.
Third, I love the not-so-latent racism. To paraphrase, ‘It’s better to be brown than socialist, but in the perfect world we’d remain white and capitalist.’ And do you know what will make us socialist in his eyes? Universal health care! Yes, that’s right, for conservatives, to provide every man woman and child in the country access to health care is socialism! Just like it’s socialist to provide every man woman and child access to state-sponsored education. Oops.
People. This man represents the state of the conservative movement in Kentucky.
Progressives rejoice!
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I was born on a North American land mass. Therefore, God loves me more than you, Frenchie.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused today’s politicians of lacking clear moral leadership.
In a BBC interview, Dr Rowan Williams said in response to former Downing Street media chief Alastair Campbell’s remark that “we don’t do God”, Dr Williams said: “I think prime ministers as individuals ought to `do God’, because I think everybody ought to.”
Dr Williams raised questions about the modern Western definition of humanity, saying: “There is something about Western modernity which really does eat away at the soul.” He warned the fast pace of modern life could “get in the way of the soul”.
He is, however, against Bush and says the US lost the moral high ground by attacking Iraq.
Damn these scary fundies want to control governments all over the world!
I love how liberals want us to go neo-socialist like all of Europe, but if you notice Europe’s had enough of that and want to become more conservative and capitolist… look at Germany and France’s recent conservative election swings for proof that socialism doesn’t work.
herodotus, you know good and well that it’s simply not true that France or Germany are abandoning the social welfare state. Are they enacting reforms? Yes. But even after those reforms, you would call it a move towards socialism if the United States adopted the points where those nations end up post reform.
Also, while I’m not certain about the French economy, the German economy is out-performing the U.S. economy right now even with its large social welfare system.
What you’re forgetting is your history. Social welfare has always served to stabilize society, and business types like stable societies because stable and predictable societies are places where profits can be earned. Disorder, fear, and chaos are not what anyone wants, especially not capitalists. So, do you really think people are going to deny their own children health care if it continues to spiral out of control on costs? No, they are going to cut back on consumption. That’s going to hurt the economy even more.
If you’re talking about the history of social programs in this country Gunterman there going broke, so how do you fix social programs that are going broke? You raise taxes, what happens when you raise taxes, people cut back on consumption.
You progressives scare me thinking that government is the cure all and will bring bliss and harmony to all. Progressives are just communists. That’s what you are G man a communist, and you don’t have the guts to admit it.
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