October 15, 2010
Campaign Promises
There are politicians who will promise just about anything to get elected and often they are merely telling us what our itching ears want to hear. As if they can somehow single-handedly influence the political landscape, they emphatically tell us how they are going to change Washington. Just once I’d like to hear a candidate say, ‘The Lord willing, I will do…’
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Gail;
-----You deliver a lot of insight in a short statement. It is the itch of the ears that determines the vote of the hand. Our society is a confused one. It once held common traditions and values close to similar hearts. But political ambitions of intellectual elitists having influential positions have destroyed the commonality which can make a society healthy. Because the traditions and values we once held were an amalgamation of the time tested thinking and wisdom of countless good hearted folks over many generations, because institutions emerged from their thinking and wisdom, and because we commonly held to the importance of those institutions for the proper living of a stable and normal life, the intellectuals drove a stake of impunity through the heart of our social sanity.
-----It was not that they were opposed to a society’s holding of a belief in common. Indeed, the political system of their ambitions centered more upon commonality than does the one they are trying to destroy. What we once had in a system of broad individual freedom was a commonality arising from a mass of competent people who were able to legitimately reason and assess the implications of life and actions merely from the small sampling their experiences and observations were of the vast and available knowledge about reality. What the intellectuals needed for their collective political system was a mass of people whose rationale was construed for them by the intellectuals themselves and made common among them by the force of law. To entice a mass of competent, free thinking people away from their shared values, traditions, and institutions into the intellectuals’ required ones necessitates both the deconstruction of what they believe and the destruction of even their competence.
-----”Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency.” (Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg, pg 43) It is not that crisis is the collectivist’s goal, it is that it is his instrument. People experience a mental and emotional crisis when their time honored institutions are seemingly torn apart by those in authoritative and influential positions who are thought of as smarter because they’ve attained those positions. They are unsure about where to turn, they become ambivalent about what to trust, and most of them, being working moms and dads, can not figure out what is happening or why. But they will catch on to any lifeline thrown to them having a reasonable looking end.
-----The politician knows this. He also knows that since the concepts of norm and common values have been deconstructed, intellectuals of every stripe are chumming the floundering people with every thought imaginable. To get a vote, the lifeline he throws to the floundering people must relatively match the chum they’ve been fed. To get a majority of votes, the various lifelines he throws must match the various chums. He is driven by the short term goal of getting elected.
-----The people must stop floundering in confusion. They must recognize the values of their institutions and return to them, telling the intellectuals to take a hike, because the influence of the Word is sufficient. Then the pressures upon the politician to be deceitful will diminish.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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