The Movement You Need…

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.

Tags: egalitarian ideals, egalitarianism, global financial crisis, human nature, international herald tribune, president bush

Things I don’t tell my wife

My wife, Shelley, is a kind person - perhaps the kindest soul I’ve ever gotten to know intimately. Frankly, we are very different people and she’s far more consistently pleasant than I am. I’m outgoing, gregarious and less even-tempered; she’s a reserved, consistent and calming influence on me. She’ll never be the one quick to shake the hand of every person in the room, but she’ll always be very observant and perceive a lot of things that I’ll miss. Her counsel is priceless to me, and as I write this I feel a bit guilty for not thanking her for it more often. Knowing her, being with her and growing with her has, I believe, made me a far better person than the one she met seven years ago.

I think it is our contrasting basic natures that feeds a lot of what I put into my writings in this blog and various other written forums in which I participate: She simply would rather not know about or discuss what we call current events in great detail. Too many of the reported artifacts and results of human nature we call “news” are off-putting to her. If the terrorist is in our neighborhood she wants to know about it, but if it involves clashes of civilizations in some distant sand-pit that have been going on since Abraham begat Ishmael and Isaac, I know to spare her the details.

Our commitment to each other, building our lives together and raising our daughter gives us plenty to talk about and work on as a couple and a family. We each bring our unique strengths to bear in rearing our daughter. For instance: Very soon, my wife will be the one most intimately informed about the daily details of our four-year-old’s school days; I’m already trying to make sure that Federal intrusions like the insipid “No Child Left Behind Act” don’t render her part of a generation in which all public school children are molded into equally inept imbeciles.

We’ll both be working toward the same ends by different means while sharing equally in Katie’s successes and disappointments. (Continued)

Tags: communications, current events, human nature, no child left behind act, Political Correctness