Posted by
Mike on Thursday, August 13, 2009 7:22:53 PM
http://westernperspective.blogspot.com/
Health care is only the tip of the iceberg. Anger and contempt for
federal and state government have been building up for decades, and all
because of betrayals and mismanagement of the few in government which
were distorted by mass media outlets.
Take for example the case
of Terry Schiavo. There was absolutely no reason for her to die. The
courts promulgated a grave injustice equal to, if not worse than,
racial segregation. President Kennedy used federal marshals in 1963 to stop
racial segregation despite objections by governor George Wallace
standing outside the classroom door in Alabama. Why could not something
similar have been done for Terry Schiavo? Either of the Bush brothers
could have acted to save a woman's life. If anyone was ever deprived of
constitutional rights, she was. Yet there was no action forthcoming
either in Florida or at the federal level. So why should Americans
believe that the government cares about their health or well-being, and
stand back idly while Congress and the President set up another
Draconian nightmare of bureaucratic red tape? Has this socialistic
approach
ever worked in the past?
John
McCain brilliantly began to tap into this groundswell in nominating
Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate. The trouble was that
he didn't follow through. McCain was overly committed to the
neo-conservative agenda of Randy Scheunemann and Joe Lieberman who
perceived Palin as being a major threat to war funding for Israel.
McCain refused to allow her to let the genie out of the bottle by
addressing the pro-life gathering in Minnesota outside the convention.
Taking this subject off the table in 2008 only unleashed the anger
expressed at town hall gatherings in 2009. Today, most Americans feel
betrayed by Congress, the President, and the Courts, and rightly so.
It
may well be that this betrayal is a manifestation of the stage of
capitalism in which we are now living. Any society that takes
selfishness to the extreme to which America has done, and has
deliberately shunned religion and morality from public life, will be
faced with big problems.
Liberals in government have dug
themselves into a deep hole. Like their predecessors during the French
Revolution, they are now forced to either accept a flawed agenda of
more and more government sponsored killing, or put their own careers
and lives in danger because their past actions are criminal and
punishable by any just standard of law. Let us hope that our nation can
resolve these conflicts and not fall into the cycle of reprisals for
past misdeeds.