"Wilson was the first American statesman to argue that the Founders had done badly by depriving the U. S. government of the power to reshape American society. Nor was Wilson the last to invade a foreign country (Mexico) to 'teach (them) to elect good men'...The progressives...found it fulfilling to attribute their schemes' failure to the American people's backwardness, to something deeply wrong with American...(D)emocracy in its American form perpetuated the worst in humanity." (The Ruling Class, How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It, Angelo Codevilla; Beaufort Books, 2010; pp 17, 18.)
"We are five days away from transforming American." (BO, just before his inauguration.) This seems to be a hideous attitude of our government. Our government seems to have take it upon themselves to transform, morally improve, our society. What a joke! We see the blatant corruption and complete disregard for law in the White House and the insistent corruption in the Congress and in the agencies of our government. We see voter fraud perpetrated by government officials and their reluctance to allow laws to be passed to hinder such massive fraud. We see government officials, even ones who are responsible for collecting taxes, failing to pay their income taxes until their "crimes" are exposed for the public to see. And then we see no move by the IRS to prosecute these officials for their failures. But if a private citizen is even implicated for such "crimes", immediately the lawyers are rallied by the government to make an example of them. Ah sure, our government officials are going to teach us morality, truthfulness and honesty. That is like the pig claiming to teach someone how to stay out of the mire and muck. Maybe that is why they call so much of what our government does and our legislation "pork".
What is really pure foolishness is for any of our officials, even the honest ones, to think they can make us honest and truthful through their legislation and regulation. Don't they know that such morality is not taught by force, but by example? But of course, they are not able to teach us from the example of so many of our government elected and appointed officials. Their example teaches just the opposite. So all they have left to use to teach society such morality is to use the gun. And we all know how well the gun works in teaching any morality.
What also seems ridiculous is the attitude of our government that we need to help other countries set up a republic. A republic cannot be set up by forcing the people to desire a republic. Another country can only learn how to make a republic work by watching a successful example. And up till the last few decades we had given that example, but the election of BO and the runaway 111th Congress must certainly discourage others from following in our footsteps. Wilson thought he could teach Mexico how to get good people into their government. Look how successful he was! Now BO thinks he is going to teach the American republic how to be kind, loving, honest, and a good example to the world. He will be about as successful as Wilson was with Mexico. We cannot turn other countries into Americas. They can only do that for themselves if they like what they see us doing. The only difference between BO and Wilson is that Wilson wanted to teach Mexico to be a good country and BO thinks he is going to teach the USA to be a good country. Talk about arrogance. A crook is going to teach the rest how to live properly.
If our officials are going teach our citizens morality, those officials need to set the example. And if we are going to help other countries become republics, then we need to be a good example to them. Force will never accomplish any of that.
"We are five days away from transforming American." (BO, just before his inauguration.) This seems to be a hideous attitude of our government. Our government seems to have take it upon themselves to transform, morally improve, our society. What a joke! We see the blatant corruption and complete disregard for law in the White House and the insistent corruption in the Congress and in the agencies of our government. We see voter fraud perpetrated by government officials and their reluctance to allow laws to be passed to hinder such massive fraud. We see government officials, even ones who are responsible for collecting taxes, failing to pay their income taxes until their "crimes" are exposed for the public to see. And then we see no move by the IRS to prosecute these officials for their failures. But if a private citizen is even implicated for such "crimes", immediately the lawyers are rallied by the government to make an example of them. Ah sure, our government officials are going to teach us morality, truthfulness and honesty. That is like the pig claiming to teach someone how to stay out of the mire and muck. Maybe that is why they call so much of what our government does and our legislation "pork".
What is really pure foolishness is for any of our officials, even the honest ones, to think they can make us honest and truthful through their legislation and regulation. Don't they know that such morality is not taught by force, but by example? But of course, they are not able to teach us from the example of so many of our government elected and appointed officials. Their example teaches just the opposite. So all they have left to use to teach society such morality is to use the gun. And we all know how well the gun works in teaching any morality.
What also seems ridiculous is the attitude of our government that we need to help other countries set up a republic. A republic cannot be set up by forcing the people to desire a republic. Another country can only learn how to make a republic work by watching a successful example. And up till the last few decades we had given that example, but the election of BO and the runaway 111th Congress must certainly discourage others from following in our footsteps. Wilson thought he could teach Mexico how to get good people into their government. Look how successful he was! Now BO thinks he is going to teach the American republic how to be kind, loving, honest, and a good example to the world. He will be about as successful as Wilson was with Mexico. We cannot turn other countries into Americas. They can only do that for themselves if they like what they see us doing. The only difference between BO and Wilson is that Wilson wanted to teach Mexico to be a good country and BO thinks he is going to teach the USA to be a good country. Talk about arrogance. A crook is going to teach the rest how to live properly.
If our officials are going teach our citizens morality, those officials need to set the example. And if we are going to help other countries become republics, then we need to be a good example to them. Force will never accomplish any of that.
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