Throughout the process of our being exposed to the causes of our current, global financial crisis, the thing that has astounded me most is that our leaders… not just President Bush… nearly every single one of them… predicated their actions that led to this upon egalitarian ideals that simply do not correspond to human nature. It is this sort of inculcated Leftist stupidity that leads normally intelligent men to presuppose a whole raft of dangerous notions that simply are not so.
Here’s my short list of dangerous fallacies:
- All men are not only born equal, but are always equal. If they are not, then something, someone, or some group in the “system” is to blame, and government must fix it.
- Multiculturalism is a de facto good.
- Diversity is a de facto good.
- Basic human nature is benign.
- Innovation is de facto good.
- Individual or group “rights” must always trump broader cultural or societal responsibilities.
- “Equal access” to anything or everything is a de facto good.
- Egalitarianism must always trump tradition.
And so, considering that most of the above absurd propositions are things that contemporary leaders believe and act upon in ways that surely would astound their predecessors of generations past, government has striven mightily in its hunt to assassinate all anti-egalitarian snipes.
Which brings us to today, to an expository article in the International Herald Tribune about how the world has been brought to the precipice of perhaps its greatest financial collapse. In reading it, I was looking for something concrete… much in the way I suppose a radiologist might look for a tumor in an MRI… that would reveal the root cause of our problem.
And here it is:
White House philosophy stoked mortgage bonfire - International Herald Tribune
“We absolutely wanted to increase homeownership,” Tony Fratto, his [Bush's] deputy press secretary, recalled him saying. “But we never wanted lenders to make bad decisions.”
Now, I have to admit here that I already knew The Bush Administration truly believed that all people of all races, ethnicities, creeds, intelligence quotients, and life experiences were equally capable of managing the details that go along with home ownership in our society. But I had not yet written about it here and it was time that I pointed it out.
In one short paragraph, this article exposes two assumptions, commonly held by many of our leaders, that our children and probably our children’s children will be paying for throughout their lifetimes. The legacy it now appears we will leave is simply unconscionable, especially to those of us with traditionalist mindsets attached to stewardship obligations.
It is time for government, for leaders and especially for the snooty, elitist bastards on the left, to stop every social engineering effort they have in mind that is based on false premises regarding human nature. From now on, before those we choose to represent us do anything… and I mean ANYTHING… they must ask themselves the following: Does the world really work this way? Is there any instance in history, any set of acts not committed by Saints or our Savior, that supports what we believe will happen if we do this?
If the answer to these questions is not an overwhelming and utterly unqualified “yes,” then they must not do it. Period.
From what I’ve seen, I don’t believe that we have any leaders capable of the discernment necessary to keep us from the abyss.
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