Freedom, Liberals, Iraq

The gifts in today's liberal stocking

By John Burtis
Monday, December 19, 2005

With Christmas and the season of gifts is fast approaching, I return to my youth, the old snowy black and white television and a frigid January where John F. Kennedy, a Democrat in his inaugural speech, exhorts us to, "...ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country...". 

With some 40 years of evolution, what has become of his gifts of elocution and his dreams of a better America?

Today the party of his legacy stands in sharp contrast to the burdens of democracy he felt America, still fresh from its victories over the globe girdling forces of fascist tyranny, should willingly carry. 

The "liberal" Democratic party, the all too questionably loyal party of opposition, occupies a part of the spectrum 180 degrees in opposition to the vision offered on that cold January day in 1961 and certainly to the vision offered by our founding fathers. 

Far from offering to bear any burdens, today's Democrats have become a party tied to America's failure, where their success is directly tied to our misadventures and their strategies are directed at bringing these harmful and deleterious calamities about. 

Today's Democrats openly endorse policies directly at odds with the success of our democratic republic, the family and law and order.

Every day we are dinned with the following "liberal" messages: the reduction of free speech in the name of free speech; the appeasement of our enemies by the liberal political leaders and their acolytes in the media; the denigration of our armed forces by the use of the most outrageous fabrications; the view that market capitalism is an enemy and is to be scourged at every turn; that medicine is to be socialized by an immense governmental intrusion into the doctor patient relationship; abortion, legal in any case whatsoever, must trump the right of parental notification at any age; dictators are better left in place than their removal and tinkering with democracy; the continued peddling of outright liberal political propaganda by the major news networks and print media; the coddling of criminals and the defence of criminality; the tolerance of rioting and lawlessness; the use of the judiciary to impose the liberal will following their failure at the ballot box; the continual demand for support of the union dominated public school systems in the face of overwhelming evidence of their failure; the increasingly strident and open war on Christianity; the continued worship at the altar of the welfare system despite the recognition of its manifold failures and its destruction of the family system; and the continued outcry for the lowering of the age of consent in order to pander to the most prurient elements of liberal society.  The beat goes on.

Yes, these are the gifts in today's liberal stocking. 

Millions of folks voted in Iraq, just as they did across the America and the world yesterday, and they have held their purple ink stained fingers in the air as a sign that they have braved terrorists, roadside bombs, long lines and many dusty miles.  And just as assuredly the Democrats will mock them for their naivet™, for their belief in democracy, and for not believing the liberal message.