DNC Video: "Government is the Only Thing We All Belong To" (security, campaign)
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How psychologically impoverished must you be to find validation in “belonging” to a government? You’re forced to “join,” your “dues” are typically squandered on stupid, wasteful projects, half of the other members are perpetually at your throat, and the whole thing is shot through with corruption at every level. It’s essentially the world’s biggest and worst union (and worst in part because it’s biggest). In fact, didn’t we just spend an entire week listening to the left’s friends in the media tell us how racist Republicans are? Why would any liberal want to belong to a group with people like that in it? This rhetoric is pure communitarian garbage, designed to inculcate some perverse civic pride in the ideas that (a) government will continue to grow and usurp your choices and, more importantly, (b) you need to pay more “dues,” even though government’s already so big that realistically there’s no amount you could pay to make it sustainable. Loathsome.
Reminiscent of the 'Life of Julia' ad that apparently was such a bomb that we never heard of it again after it first came out and was lampooned. It manages to exude paternalism while saying basically nothing. Both parties believe that government is necessary and useful; Republicans (at least the Republican wing of the Republican Party) just want a whole lot less from gov't than Demcrats do.
You know, I really LOVE this message from the democrats. In a time with the vast majority of Americans say the government is TOO big, TOO intrusive and TOO irresponsible, the democrats, bless their hearts, are going all in on even MORE government in our lives.
Reminiscent of the 'Life of Julia' ad that apparently was such a bomb that we never heard of it again after it first came out and was lampooned. It manages to exude paternalism while saying basically nothing. Both parties believe that government is necessary and useful; Republicans (at least the Republican wing of the Republican Party) just want a whole lot less from gov't than Demcrats do.
Paternalistic is a great adjective to describe today's Democrat Party.
You know, I really LOVE this message from the democrats. In a time with the vast majority of Americans say the government is TOO big, TOO intrusive and TOO irresponsible, the democrats, bless their hearts, are going all in on even MORE government in our lives.
I agree with this. When 'Life of Julia' came out I wondered--can the Obama campaign really be this incompetent? This stuff has never been popular among Americans. When FDR did social security he packaged it as "insurance" because it would never fly if packaged as welfare.
Karlyn Bowman at AEI looked at a bunch of polling data and found that support for smaller, rather than biggger gov't has been steadily growing since around 1975.
The DNC this past week was America’s chance to learn anew what the left believe about government, and it’s relationship to us. Probably most stunning was to find out that, according to the left, we all belong to the government!
This revelation should probably not have come as a surprise, given the Prevaricator-In Chief’s view of the Constitution. He has said that one of the failings of the Constitution is that it limits what the government can do to us, but it does not say what the government “should do on [our] behalf.” Thus, Mr. Obama sees government’s roll as our parent.
So, is it any wonder that they trot out overnight celebrity, Sandra Fluke, to talk about government providing birth control for all women free of charge? After all, wouldn’t a good parent see to it that a daughter does not have to endure the embarrassment of an “unplanned” pregnancy when she chooses to have sex?
Abortion was also a big topic and of course this, too, is high on the list of concerns of all Americans, I’m sure. With millions of Americans having lost their jobs under Obama, there is much more free time to engage in recreational sexual activity, and therefore the risk of “unplanned” pregnancy is great. Therefore, this is a huge concern, and we really wanted to know what the position of the Democrat Party is.
Elizabeth Warren was also trotted out to give us her speech on collectivist thinking, that Mr. Obama mirrored in his now famous Roanoke “You didn’t build that!” speech. This thinking holds that all things are held in joint, because your success is dependent not only on your own effort, but is also dependent upon what others do for you (read “government” again). Ms. Warren believes that “we all” paid for things that led to your success. Therefore, you owe something back.
All this kind of talk is Marxist/socialist claptrap, which shows how out of step the Democrat Party is with the thinking of America’s founders, who believed in individual achievement, property rights and limited government that existed for the purpose of the protection of those rights and to “secure the blessings of liberty.”
I don’t want a Nanny State. I want Liberty, which is why I choose Romney/Ryan.
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Recapping DNC. We all belong to government?
