conservatives in America, we are, in so many ways, the vanguard and pioneers of not only America, but all of mankind. --- delusion noted.
On Friday, January 2, 2015 6:47:22 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/still_the_last_best_hope.html > > > > January 1, 2015 > Still the Last Best Hope > > By Bruce Walker <http://www.americanthinker.com/author/bruce_walker/> > > America remains, in spite of the left, the Last Best Hope of Man. As the > New Year starts and the 2016 presidential race begins in earnest, that is a > vital truth to grasp. Happy optimism, not grouchy despair, ought to > inspire conservatism today. > > Yes, the national debt is huge and growing; entitlements and debt service > will soon swallow each tax dollar. Yes, Obama has tried as hard as he can > to undo the American Dream and will try in 2015 to fight us with > unconstitutional rule by executive fiat. Yes, the educational and > informational establishment is firmly in the hand of leftist cadres, and > the ignorance of Americans is appalling and growing. > > There are many things to worry and depress us, but there always have been > problems. Fifty years ago, in January 1965, LBJ propounded his calamitous > Great Society and shipped young Americans to a war in Southeast Asia that > he chose not to win. Seventy-five years ago, Nazis and Communists were > fast allies against the civilized world, and FDR’s New Deal was savaging > the Constitution and creating those entitlements that plague us now. > > Go back 100 years to the beginning carnage of Great War in 1915 or 150 > years to the ghastly end of our Civil War in 1865 and ponder how little > reason our countrymen had for hope. Things have always been bad, and the > future has always seemed cloudy. But that is the mindset of leftist > socialists and state planners, not conservatives. > > The reality of conservatives is inherently a reality of hope. It is the > left that views the imagined slow change in global climate – if, indeed, > there is such a change and if, indeed, it is man-made and not natural – as > cause of fear and trembling. Conservatives (that is, ordinary people) > easily grasp the incredible adaptability of man, and those with a smidgen > of history know of the Medieval Warming Period, a good thing for man, and > see no problem at all. > > Successful conservatism both loves the American Dream and views life with > promise and smiles. Think of Goldwater or Reagan or Buckley, the > conservative leaders of a generation ago. They were all reviled by the > left, but they were all cheerful and confident men. Indeed, the very > friendliness and calm of Reagan seemed to drive leftists into sputtering > rage. > > Or think of the last two decades of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich, two > trailblazers in conservative action who were demonized by the left and > smeared with every sort of slime imaginable. Yet both men are happy and > exuberant and know that they are on the winning side of history and that > our nation is the promise of mankind. Sometimes I flinch at the grimace > that seems to paint so many conservatives today. > > Things are, in many ways, better than ever for us. Winning the Cold War > without firing a shot remains a staggering achievement almost unequaled in > human history. No threat we face today is as dangerous or thorny as the > Evil Empire and its subject nations, and yet, in a remarkably short time, > that whole hideous castle collapsed before an astonished world. > > The left has long utterly controlled the national media, but guerrilla > conservatives in the last twenty years have used talk radio, cyberspace, > and cable television to challenge the empire of leftist media monopolies. > Academia has been a leftist cesspool since the 1940s and fifty years ago > conservative authors were noting that conservative thinkers were almost > never invited to speak on campuses or were hounded when they spoke. Today, > we hear about this much more. What has changed is that the left, at last, > is being challenged in the information and education complex. > > Our economic problems may seem daunting, but wealth is created in ways > that are unexpected and unanticipated. Twenty years ago, information > technology created vast wealth from little more than the genius of man. As > we enter 2015, the free spirits of those men most hated by leftists, > oilmen, have utterly transformed the energy productivity of our nation and > created new vast wealth undreamed of twenty years ago. > > We live in a land that has had an “immigration problem” for the last two > hundred years, something unequaled in human history, and as conservatives > in America, we are, in so many ways, the vanguard and pioneers of not only > America, but all of mankind. Conservatives in America ought to enter this > new year with happy courage and resolution. 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