Frank Borelli
Editor In Chief
New American Truth
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This morning I saw a news article about another Senator who has decided not to seek re-election this fall. To him, first I say, “Congratulations on your intelligent decision,” and second I say, “No thanks to you we still have this mess to clean up.” I never heard of Senator Bayh before and I haven’t looked at his record. For all I know he’s voted intelligently and acted with a reasonable outlook. However, since the mainstream media is describing him as a centrist Democrat I immiediately perceived him as a politician who wants a popular vote but knows governing our nation isn’t really about liberal versus conservative. It’s not about right versus left. It’s about common sense and staying true to our forefathers’ vision and values.
My own reaction to centrist Democrat got me wondering about how we label out politicians these days. I was finally getting used to liberal and conservative (although I felt they were incomplete) when along came blue dogs, centrist anythings and more. I came to the realization that I can’t keep track of what all that crap is supposed to mean: more importantly, I don’t want to! Right versus left, liberal versus conservative, blue, red, centrist, extremes… all different labels used by various media pundits trying to pin down what a politician is or stands for. Truth be told, I don’t want to elect or have representing me someone who feels the need to be labeled. I want someone representing me who simply does the right thing.
Of course, therein lies the rub. What’s the right thing? That depends on who you ask; what their personal values are; what their upbringing and education was / is and more. In short, the right thing is entirely subjective. So after considering that I decided I settle for two characteristics in my elected representatives:
- Common sense
- Loyalty to our founding fathers’ principles
I mean, how hard can that be? We here at New American Truth harp on common sense all the time. It’s not difficult to identify, have and use. For those who disagree, let’s try a few simple questions to test whether or not you have common sense:
- Do you think it’s intelligent to play in traffic?
- Do you think it’s smart to put your hand on a hot stove?
- Do you think that punching someone in the face is a good way to make them your friend?
- Can we teach people to be independent by giving them everything they need?
- Can we motivate people to work by rewarding everyone, even those who didn’t do anything?
I intentionally made those last two a LITTLE more blurry but the answers are still obvious. Playing in traffic is stupid unless you have a death wish. Putting your hand on a hot stove will get you nothing but burned. Punching people in the face is NOT the way to make them your friend.
Giving someone everything they need will not make them independent. It may put them in a position to be capable of independence, but independence isn’t a condition – it’s a personal outlook that couples motivation with effort to pursue a goal of not needing someone else to give you something to survive. It’s like the old saying: You can lead a horse to water… I can give you everything you need to be independent, but I can’t MAKE you independent.
Rewarding an entire group based on the efforts of only a few in the group doesn’t motivate those who did nothing in the first place. It rewards them for having done nothing. What will they learn? Doing nothing earns them rewards. That is not democracy; that is not a humanitarian government; that is a bottomless spiral into social decay that will end in anarchy.
So, I return to my beginning point: I don’t care if every centrist anything, liberal or conservative decides not to run for re-election. We need to vote them all out anyway. We need to elect people who will operate on common sense and with a dedication to the principles upon which our great country was founded. I’m no longer willing to have my tax dollars pay them to do anything else. How about you?
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I was surprised to find out that a clean water law was on the books way back in 1898. When I asked the instructor if it was a misprint, he said no, but the law was not enforced.If that was one extreme, the current siuation does true stewardship of our home -Earth- no better.
This current ‘Al Gore -carbon -whore crowd’ are more akin to a religious movement than an environmental awarness based upon actual hard data science. One common sense scientist called this crowd ( discovered to be phonying up the data in Britian) proclaiming to be such, ” a comradeship who have found a ‘gravy-train.’” I believe they are of “the ends justify the means” means test – if you know what I mean. The Copenhagen gathering were whopping it up over praises fo Karl Marx like a 1960s Beatles hysterical fan following, acording to one reporter.
In the Common Law upon which our Constitution is based (as opposed to Roman Civil Law-law of the rulers) historically has identified a criminal as someone who gains to much control over another.That could include a lot of people in this ‘environmental police’ religious-like movement.
Common Law could be said to be on par with “good old common ‘horse sense.’”
It gets worse, David. One of the dumber things George W. Bush did, IMHO, was the $700 billion TARP bailout. If it’s “too big to be allowed to fail” then it’s too big to be permitted to continue – that was the whole point of the antitrust laws. So, Barack Obama, all the while complaining about how Bush’s dumb actions left him such a mess, proceeds to do a bailout for GM and Chrysler, and pushes through a bunch of stimulus grants that don’t seem to have had any net effect on increasing hires or expanding production, and cost us $1.5 trillion so far – and he’s doubling down with a “healthcare reform” that combines the worst features of an HMO and European-style socialized medicine, and forming a special commission for global warming (the press conference for which was, ironically, cancelled due to the blizzard in DC last week).
“It didn’t work, so let’s do it some more” goes way beyond a lack of common sense, and gets into insanity. And, check me on this, but I seem to recall that our Founding Fathers had as a core principle that “the goverment that governs least, governs best” – in other words, they had some really bad experiences that told them that an all-powerful central government trying to run everything was a particularly bad idea. The bottom line here is, I agree with you, Frank. “Left”, “Right”, and “Centrist” doesn’t make much difference, when all of them are ignoring common sense and ignoring the Founding Father’s core principles at the same time.
The U. S. Government is suffering from Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy: “In any organization, there are two types of people – those who work for the goals for which the organization was founded, and those who work for the organization itself. Over time, the second type will take over the organization, and run all of first type out.” The only way to get rid of the second type is for the rest of us to vote them out!