Posted by
ConservaTease on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:52:12 PM
When the Pied Piper plays his tune -- the rats are eager to dance. And when Obama plays the tune of socialism -- it is Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins who are eager to dance the jig of compulsory moral perversion.
What is moral perversion? It's the idea that compromising the rights of citizens in order to increase the power of the government is enlightened and imperative. It's using a crisis to rob American's of their God-given right to liberty.
And moral perversion explains the devastating state of Arlen Specter’s character and honor. Because they are absent from his person completely. He is
enslaved by the Democrat’s idea of usefulness and compromise. Having
no concept of the interests of free men, he is the lead rat that follows the
pied piper out of the city.
And with any luck, out of the Senate.
Why is compromise morally perverse? Because the "enlightened" idea of "caution and compromise" advances the political and moral argument leftward, forcing the country to accept the Leftist's premise that the needs of some supersede the rights of others.
In this case, that premise comes in the form of the socialization and nationalization of our economy and our medicine. That the government has a RIGHT to take from you, and give it to someone else, in the name of the common good. It's the premise that you MUST work, so others don't have to.
What happened to the three Senators who chose to dance for Obama?
Without the principles of individual rights and capitalism, the three Republican Senators accepted the premise that the bailout as written was good and necessary. Needing their dose of importance, they chose to object, not to the sale of our country to socialism, but to the price tag.
The argument of the "Republican Three" allowed the Leftists to take the moral high ground, even though the majority of the public was, and remains, clearly against their bailout plan. The premise that socialism is the only way out of this crisis became the "moral" and "just" position.
At that point it was only a matter of time before a "compromise" was reached. Afterall, the Republican Senators only objected to the total cost of the bill. So the Democrats, smelling a rat and a victory, agreed to a few menial cuts. A few million dollars were easy to trade for absolute, unconditional surrender to the Leftist's radical changes. But the poisonous provisions stayed intact. Because the Republican Senators forfeited the moral imperative that each individual is responsible for himself and accountable to no governmental entity or tyrant.
And if conservatives refuse to maintain their, "stand of moral self-confidence, on clear-cut, consistent principles," as described by Ayn Rand in a speech she gave in 1963, the public will have nowhere to turn.
So, slowly, they will be forced by their government, the media lapdogs and by history books to capitulate to the idea that socialism is our only option.
Beware of where conservatism turns from here. We must understand that it is incumbent upon us to stand and fight for individual rights. In fact, it is our moral obligation given our understanding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, to demand that the government and it's socialists step back from the deep collectivist abyss that we now face.
Conservatives must understand that ideas matter. Principles are important. And freedom is vital to our lives.
Conservatives must refuse to play to the tune of appeasing socialism. Americans, a true majority of them, are counting on us.