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The Left Justifies Pushing An Agenda While We Suffer 07/08/2009

by Dacia Nichol

First they denied it, then they ridiculed it...now they admit it while dismissing its relevance altogether in favor of a progressive agenda: Obama is not trying to fix the nation, he’s trying to destroy what’s left of American exceptionalism while using the economic disaster as his excuse and opportunity.

This week’s issue of Time Magazine boasted as its cover feature an article titled, “What Barack Obama Can Learn from FDR.” Basically, this means that the final conclusive idolatry has been had: Our great president is trying to emulate the man responsible for ushering in the failing socialist programs that we still fight today for financial breathing room.

The irony behind this article is that it dismisses the very myth that liberals have used as their cushion for years by stating that government spending during an economic crisis does not stimulate recovery, and using FDR’s “New Deal” as proof that it does is an absolute sham. In the author’s own words:

“It’s old news that FDR’s New Deal did not end the depression.”

Is it though? This author [yours truly] has been ridiculed, quite recently actually, for having made that suggestion a few articles back. Perhaps the commenter should take his argument up with Mr. David Kennedy also, the author of the Time article in question, for even he seems to agree on this point. If only Mr. Kennedy would have stopped there with his FDR worship fest. Alas, such was not the case and we must continue here...

An objective view of FDR’s policies would have been more welcome - even one spun in a positive light to ignore the fiscal and constitutional issues at stake with them. That’s expected. Kennedy however takes his suggestions to a level that is so absurd, they make the profanity-ridden Republican hit pieces in the Rolling Stone magazine seem credible.

Here are the most outrageous claims of Mr. Kennedy:

1) The multitude of security programs set forth by FDR did not have much “appreciable economic stimulus in the short run”, yet somehow became responsible for the economic growth in the years following WWII.

There’s no mention of how the war itself came into play with all that. All those tanks, planes, and weapons didn’t just manifest out of thin air. The U.S. became a manufacturing powerhouse, which meant jobs, higher incomes, and yes - economic growth! Not to mention the new alliances forged with nations that we helped to rebuild and the profitable trade that ensued. No, no - it was just the alphabet soup he served out on very expensive dinnerware.

2) The upward social mobility of minorities and women was a result of the “giddyness” the nation felt from the successes of FDR’s reforms.

This suggestion might be worth a kick around if it weren’t for a couple of points:

a. The “Roaring 20’s” preceded the crash that brought about the Depression. It sounds like the nation was having a good time then as well, with no sign of minority prosperity...only white people, and we’d just finished the first world war. The difference? The 20’s high life came via “conservative” free market ideas (well, they used to be just American - even liberal - ideas until that wasn’t convenient), and the baby boomer generation prosperity came after FDR’s wrestle with anything that allowed people to profit from a business. See, if Kennedy started going down that road (blaming Republican laissez-faire policies for the Depression), he’d also need to mention how we came about the economic mess under Carter (obscene taxes to pay for FDR’s social programs that stifled growth), and how a fella from California had to come fix it. Read: REAGAN. Kennedy avoids the conundrum by just making the overly-broad suggestion that everything good that happened after FDR was because of FDR.

b. Getting something done when there isn’t a crisis goes against Kennedy’s logic. If we can fuel progress when things are going well, then he would need to advocate for Obama to fix the economy first instead of prolonging it to seize the opportunity to shove an agenda down our throats. Why condone suffering when there’s another option?

3) The Constitution is at fault for not allowing effective political action to take place outside of a conflict. Or rather, when a President needs to prolong a conflict to get something done when he couldn’t otherwise (i.e., the people don’t want it or it’s unconstitutional), it’s because the system is rigged against him and therefore he has no choice but to stretch out the suffering.

Basically, the Founders knew the dangers of a government with too much power and therefore crafted the Constitution so that the accumulation of power was impeded as much as possible. This little notion is quite inconvenient for those who would like to radically change our way of life from something that has worked better than anyone could hope for - American freedom, into things that we’ve seen evolve into oppressive tyranny and national bankruptcy over and over - socialism and it’s sister-in-waiting, communism.

To quote Kennedy:

“The...“checks and balances”...has conspicuous virtues, but it also designs a measure of paralysis into the American political system...It sustains a chronic deadlock in which trauma and shock become the necessary preconditions for effective political action...it forges a perverse partnership between danger and opportunity.”

The article goes on the state how Obama knows this and believes that government is most “effective” during times of peril.

How did his stimulus pass? Fear.
How did the cap-and-tax bill pass? Fear.
Healthcare? Financial reform? FEAR!

Hit the sirens boys and start running. Hopefully no one’s up for reelection when the people wake up. Or will they? This piece displays everything we conservatives have been yelling about for years: Today’s liberals have no respect for our country’s Constitution nor any other ideals through which it was founded. They don’t want to fix anything, they want to burn it down and start over with their image in mind - and of course, their goons at the helm.

Fare thee well comrades!

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