Tuesday, March 10, 2009
I don't like being boxed in like this
Danny has a recurring theme over at Right Minds and that is his concern that the conservative movement not become irrational as the liberal movement has been in the past if I can give a capsule review here. He says the growing conservative charge that Obama is a socialist or has socialist leanings is evidence of the movement becoming unhinged. Libs did this with Bush and it became known as BDS or Bush Derangement Syndrome but here's another option: what if the libs were right about Bush and the conservatives are right about Obama? I was thinking about the late William F. Buckley Jr. the other day and one of his legacies was he almost single-handedly purged the John Birchites from the mainstream conservative movement. Now if you ask me if I agree with the Birchers I would say in large part NO but I still want to hear what they have to say just like I want to hear Rosie O'Donnell's theories on why steel can't melt. Throw it ALL into the mix and while Danny is a smart fella, imo he's a rising star but the reality of it is this whole country right now is the top of the blender having come off and the shake going all over the place. You hear this you hear that and pretty much you can't control it anymore, it is what it is and maybe that's a good thing after all. Savage said last night a very profound thing, when the day comes when you can't hear these things, when everyone says the same thing our country is gone, no longer a democracy. Gotta say something about those embryos in the next blog.....
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Not sure where Daniel is coming from sometimes, like he doesn't want Steele criticizing his blog personally, so he tries to be the anti-Rush, lol.
ReplyDeleteHe spends a lot of time critiqueing his own movement, nothing wrong with this I've done it myself but it's like we're not all on the same page. I don't see calling Obama a socialist as being outside the parameters of respectable civil discourse and it doesn't matter if we agree if he's one or not. I feel boxed in like I said when you get tagged as extreme when making an argument. I'll bet most of us hold at least one view that is extreme or could be considered extreme by others, hell I probably have several (lol). It's like moderation is the new gospel. People can call my oft-stated views on Romantic Love and dating as deranged but I simply see it as thinking outside the box, throwing light on some uncomfortable truths. The BOX is what we are allowed to say and think and it seems to be shrinking by the day and I'm afraid there might come a time when you can't criticize our Messiah at all, it'll be a hate crime. I just like a big box is all, room to stretch out in and not being able to call O a socialist I get all cramped up.
ReplyDeleteIn retrospect though, during the election I made similar commentary to what Daniel is now saying, and my point during the primaries was that conservatives should focus on ourselves and holding our side up to the standards rather than complaining about the other side. Yet that is what our side focused on, and we lost. And we'll continue to lose if we don't stand for what we believe in, we'll lose if our only focus is trying to cut down the left. So, maybe think of Daniel's messages as a call to point of the benefits of conservatism and capitalism instead of focusing on the negatives of socialism and liberalism.
ReplyDeleteWell if time goes by and I feel Obama's a socialist I'ma gonna say so. As it stands now I ain't there yet but it is scary how he's playing around with our money.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me that anyone who had read the Constitution could say that our current Congress and president are following it, call it whatever you like (socialism or liberalism or whatever) it is wrong and I'd say unConstitutional, and it was our Constitution that made our country great.
ReplyDeleteDaniel is a masturblogger imo even if I find I don't always quite agree with the tenor of his blog of the day, he's keeping us honest but I'm afraid I do skirt the extremist border a bit or skate around the rim but that all depends on how you look at things. I'm not afraid to say I think Obama's an extremist on abortion.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me the reality in Washington (and my local planning board, I might add) is that it's harder to get things done if you're honest, whether you're on the right or the left. Don't get me wrong, it sickens me, but it's the truth and it's a tragedy of the commons type situation.
ReplyDeleteThe fallout is that the citizenry doesn't know what the hell is going on! This kind of crap would make me bitter, except my reading of the history tells me this thing has been going on in our country since the very beginning. I recently read a biography of Lincoln, and during that time the political games were at least that bad, plus there was a civil war going on!
It's an ugly thing but at least we have two sides to keep us from getting too extreme, and the country hasn't imploded yet.