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In Virginia: Hell Bent, I wrote of the ongoing battle against the Second Amendment in the Democrat-controlled Virginia Legislature. I referred to current D/S/C presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, who spent a very great deal of money to elect Democrats beholden to his anti-liberty/gun agenda, only to see his wishes momentarily stymied. This earned a link from one Marcus Ampe, who, if one is to judge by the article containing the link, is a Bernie Bro with all that implies.
I write to comment, briefly, on an issue regular reader Doug recently raised, the idea that conservatives do not, out of a fear of being exposed to conflicting ideas, read anything other than conservative writers. By all means, take the link and read the entire article. It provides reasonably clear insight into the thinking of the socialist and further leftward wing of the D/S/C Party. Inevitably, I’ll speak to several other common issues.
A lot of American voters in the U.S.A. may consider themselves Christian, though might not be willing to show their brotherly love by not wanting to stand up for the poor and the sick and to be willing to collectively contribute to a social protection system such as Obama Care or another state health insurance fund.
One might think this just another example of the reflexive anti-Christian sentiment one finds in contemporary D/S/C ranks, and it is that, but it speaks to a larger issue, a fundamental divide between D/S/Cs and normal Americans who seek a constitutionally limited government. Ampe obviously feels anyone that does not believe in stock D/S/C policies is un-Christian, all morality being on the Left these days. What other reason could there possibly be for opposing the policies of the morally and intellectually evolved? I’ve often commented that D/S/Cs routinely accuse those not of their kind of being cruel and uncaring. How can anyone that opposes Obamacare or the Green New Deal be anything but? This is certainly a form of virtue signaling, but it is also a reflection of their fundamental philosophy.
Christians and other normal Americans give far more, by enormous margins, to charity than D/S/Cs. One need spend little Google time to discover this. Yet normal Americans do not clothe themselves in virtue over their giving. They commonly tell no one. D/S/Cs believe it the job of government—with other people’s money—to provide for everyone’s needs, and in that process, they constantly invent new “human rights,” such as a right to “free” government health care, and free college tuition, free housing and the list is endless. This belief comes from the general D/S/C belief in equality not of opportunity, but equality of outcome.
Normal Americans believe in equality of opportunity, that everyone might have the same opportunity to succeed or fail on their own initiative. They see this as the exercise of individual liberty. D/S/Cs believe everyone deserves the same things, paid for by diligent taxpayers, regardless of their willingness to work for them. It is a fortunate consequence that people will tend to vote for those that give them “free” stuff. Thus do D/S/Cs work to herd people into favored victim groups whose individual identities—to the degree they’re allowed to have them—are determined by race, gender—or no or multiple genders—sexual orientation, or a variety of other factors.
Understanding this, the faux altruism of the D/S/C is often enacted for political rather than personal reasons, and it is entirely predictable they give relatively little to charity. They believe that’s government’s job. That normal Americans individually give far more to charity is also predictable. They don’t see charity as government’s job, but theirs. When they see need, they meet it. This doesn’t mean they oppose public aid for those in genuine need, they just don’t think it should be an eternal entitlement. Money forcibly taken is not charity, which must be freely given.
Several of those so-called American Christians, in particular, the very conservatives and the evangelists consider every person who wants to bring social measures in the society, as a danger to society and label that person a communist. This way Bernie Sanders may be looked at as the least religious of four Democratic presidential front-runners, a survey released Thursday found.
Not quite. They oppose big and all-powerful government, and follow the scriptural admonition to judge others by their acts. Bernie Sanders calls himself a “democratic Socialist,” but this is an oxymoron. There is nothing democratic about socialism. More telling is Sanders’ long history of fealty to communist ideology and practice, including his unstinting praise for communist systems and dictator/murderers. In thinking him a Communist, they merely judge him by his fruits, which includes his past words and actions, and his present words revealing his intentions for America.
Sanders, in my eyes, could be seen as a man of his word who kept to the matters in which he believes and keeps standing for. As any lover of God may not take up arms against other human beings, Sanders applied for conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War, though he was too old to be drafted by the time his application was rejected.
One can certainly take Sanders at his word, but while Ampe professes to understand Christians, he reveals he does not. The Bible does not proscribe the taking up of arms. It makes clear there are times when it is necessary, and makes a clear distinction between justified and unjustified killing. Christian theology also encompasses “just war” theory, the conditions under which war is not only necessary, but essentially moral.
Neo-Nazis and Tea-party members would detest it that a Jew could come to be the leader of ‘Their’ nation. Bad also in their eyes is that when he would become leader of the United States, they shall have to see more equality between people they would not like to find in their nation at all.
Apparently “Neo-Nazis” and “Tea-Party” members are one in the same, or at least closely aligned. “Nazi” is so abused these days, it’s essentially meaningless. After all, President, because he’s Hitler, is surely a Nazi, as is anyone that supports him. The term is so widely bandied about, it encompasses just about anyone not a D/S/C. Contemporary usage surely does not reflect historical reality.
The Tea-Party movement, which is past its heyday, was merely like-minded Americans who believed in limited government, the Constitution and the rule of law. They were known for conducting exceedingly polite and welcoming gatherings, and always left whatever venue they used cleaner than they found it.
Ignoring for the moment Ampe’s loose usage, it’s important to clear up another misconception. Christians do not reflexively oppose Jews. They recognize the Jews as God’s chosen people, and unlike D/S/Cs, and particularly Bernie Sanders, fully support Israel. Circa 2020, Anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel is virtually entirely on the Left, and it should be remembered that the actual Nazis were national socialists. Actual, contemporary Nazis in the historic sense are rare and justly seen as social pariahs. Normal Americans oppose Bernie Sanders not because of his Jewish faith, which he appears not to embrace or practice, but because his political views are anti-semitic, anti-Israel, support the enemies of America and our allies and are incompatible with our representative republic, individual liberty and fiscal reality.
Obviously, I cannot speak for every Christian, even every conservative, but the caricatures of both disseminated by D/S/Cs these days bear little resemblance to reality. Perhaps that’s because like Gropin’ Joe Biden, they believe in truth over fact?
The big points of this screed to me are (1) Leftists are increasingly wrapping themselves and every one of their causes no matter how senseless, cruel, corrupt, or confiscatory, in a cloak of loudly righteous morality, thus anyone who doesn’t rabidly agree with them is immoral if not downright evil, and (2) Leftists hate charity because it competes with government programs, siphons off funds badly needed by those programs, and distributes the funds it siphons off in an unfair (i.e. not government approved) manner.
I’m not a visitor of what I call ‘leftist’ sites because too many of them sing the same songs, as in ‘anyone who doesn’t support us rabidly in political/cultural position ‘X’ is stupid/evil/crazy/bigoted or some combination thereof and should be deprived of their rights if not sent straight to the gulag, along with all their friends, relatives and children to the Nth generation for being so stupid/evil/crazy/bigoted to associate with said previously described S/E/C/B in any way shape or form. Kind of like the North Korean work camps where generations have been born, grown up, and died without passing the barbed wire fence But of course these self-described ‘liberals’ are the most tolerant people ever to have been or ever will be, just don’t ask them if they’re tolerant ‘cuz that’s a question only a bigot would ask.
Dear TarsTarkas:
Tolerance only goes so far…
Dear Tarz, were you afraid to come to my site to read some other articles to get a right impression of what I think?
Did you prefer just to make an opinion of me without knowing me nor willing to get ot know what my ideas are?
You say ” Leftists hate charity because it competes with government programs, siphons off funds badly needed by those programs, and distributes the funds it siphons off in an unfair (i.e. not government approved) manner.
Strangely enough, you should know that as a non-paid pastor I spend most of my time witnessing in the Name of God and helping others, without receiving any money for that. I, as a retired person still have to work for making it possible to survive and pay for the preaching and aid work.
Your response to this and perhaps also to my article which you probably did not come to read, shows clearly how paranoid many Americans are concerning anything that small too social according to their opinion.
Where do you get it from that social or communist feeling people would deprive others of their rights, whilst we just defend the right of freedom of speech, the freedom of thinking, the freedom of clothing, the freedom of religion, etc..?
Worse is also that you think we would imprison all those who are not thinking like us. You go even so far to say that we would dare to sent other thinking persons, straight to the gulag. The idea you have that this would be,”along with all their friends, relatives and children to the Nth generation for being so stupid/evil/crazy/bigoted to associate with said previously described S/E/C/B in any way shape or form” expresses clearly how indoctrinated you probably could be by the American propaganda.
The same you saying “Kind of like the North Korean work camps where generations have been born, grown up, and died without passing the barbed wire fence. This clearly showing you having no idea of what real socialism or real communism, or real utopianism are.
Laconically you also mock with people who think like me and many others, not according to your way of thinking, you say mockingly “But of course, these self-described ‘liberals’ are the most tolerant people ever to have been or ever will be, just don’t ask them if they’re tolerant ‘cuz that’s a question only a bigot would ask.”
For me, as for many of my colleagues, freedom of thought and freedom of speech are important values. It is already a long time ago, but the values for which I stood on the barricades in May 1968, still count for me; I do know and agree that several people I knew from then, who also marched along or cried or even did things we could not agree with (like putting fire to cars or public domain) have turned around and chosen the capitalist way. I still defend those values in the same manner as at that time, respecting people with other views, but this not meaning I, nor we, have to stay silent and let all those unrighteous matters to nature and to our co- or fellow citizens to happen.
You should or could be surprised to see how more tolerant we are than many American Republicans.
Free people are never equal and equal people are never free. Find a society of equal people and you’ll be looking at a group of slaves.
Churchill said “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Dear Phil:
But everyone would be equal?
The core question of the left-right divide is this: can human nature be perfected? If you believe that we’re all fundamentally flawed sinners then the US Constitution makes perfect sense. If you believe that human nature can be perfected, with just the right mix of man-made laws and secular leadership, then the Constitutional limits are unnecessary impediments to your socialist utopia.
Dear The other Phil:
Quite so. But of course, they’re so much smarter and more moral than any socialist before them, they’re bound to triumph where all before them have failed. Just ask them.
If more people would keep to the Law of God, there would be much more justice in this world and many more people would live in better conditions.
Dear Marcus Ampe:
Yes.
Mike,
Do you think that Bernie Sanders truly does not understand that his policies will inevitably lead to gulags and famine? Is it simple arrogance and naivety, or something more sinister?
Dear The other Phil:
I suspect Bernie, and other socialist/communists understand that intellectually, but to admit it is do admit they are fools and monsters, people who have wasted their lives chasing an insane and murderous philosophy. They see themselves as great humanitarians, scientific communists selflessly laboring for the good of mankind, hence all the carnage they cause must be ignored.
Reblogged this on It's Karl.
Dear karllembke:
Thanks for the reblog!
Thanks for reading my article and linking and reacting to it.
Judge by the article containing the link your perhaps rightly consider me a Bernie Bro with all that implies. first of all I want to make it clear I am not an American and not living in the United States of America at all.
By lots of Americans, I am accused to be a communist and as such I shall have to live with that “imprint” as well. No matter if I am or not am a communist, the ideas I stand for are those preached by a Nazarene rabbi, some two thousand years ago. As a follower of this Nazarene Jewish master teacher, Jeshua, in America better known as Jesus Christ, I defend those values this preacher brought forward. As a Christian I also preach those values which would make a better place of the world.
I am fully aware that there are lots of Americans who say that they are Christian, but really do not follow the teachings of Christ Jesus, and as such misuse his name. Many of those so-called Christians love to wear and use guns, but worse are more interested in their own financial and materialistic gain than willing to share to and provide for others. For them there is no need to help the needy or to pay for the ill, as long as they can live wealthy and healthy.
Big problem for the American population is that everything that smells to be social or for the protection and the good of all the people, then they stick up the red banner and use the depressing word of socialism and/or communism as a lightning bolt.
You say “D/S/Cs believe it the job of government—with other people’s money—to provide for everyone’s needs, and in that process,”
In a democracy, it is the voice of the majority which decides what to do with the money of all who contribute to the system. It is not considered democratic when just one leader can decide over all others and as a dictator can rule over everyone and everything.
You also write that D/S/Cs ‘constantly invent new “human rights,” such as a right to “free” government health care, and free college tuition, free housing and the list is endless. ” but we do not invent them … they are there already for ages but we just want to remind people we should keep up to human values and human rights for everybody, no matter what skin colour, language, nationality or form which class.
From this article, I notice you seem to confuse socialism and communism with wrong communist systems where one could come to see dictators and murderers taking hold of a non-democratic state. I do agree we have seen Stalinism, Leninism, Maoism but they are not real defenders of real communism; The same way we have seen Carterism, which we can not consider real libertarianism neither democratism nor republicanism.
Naturally, you thinking that I would contradict “Christians do not reflexively oppose Jews. ” is absurd me myself being a Christian and following the real Jesus, the son of God, and preaching in his and his heavenly Father’s name.
As you correctly say, or how it should be “They (Christians) recognize the Jews as God’s chosen people” but then suddenly you make a twist and accuse “D/S/Cs, and particularly Bernie Sanders” not wanting to fully support Israel. But there is a big discrepancy between believing and supporting the Chosen people of Israel and accepting that non-religious Jews and fundamentalist Jews just take land from other people and build walls and do unrighteous things to other creatures of God. It is not because someone is a Jew that he or she may do whatever she thinks is right to enrich himself or herself. They too have to keep to the Torah, even more than we Christians have to keep to it. For Christians and Jeshuaists there are certain allowances which are not there for Jews. Westerners have to take that into account.
We may not be blind for certain events and actions which are against the Law of God that certain Jews do, the same as certain Christians can do a lot against the Will of God as well
Dear Marcus Ampe:
Thanks for your reply. It’s much appreciated.