{"id":1814,"date":"2010-02-19T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/the-system\/"},"modified":"2010-02-20T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T18:12:44","slug":"the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"the system"},"content":{"rendered":"

The system<\/em> works.\u00a0 It wouldn’t be the system<\/em> long enough to become the system<\/em> if it didn’t.\u00a0 That said, the system<\/em> exists in a state of corrupt flux.\u00a0 As any human expression built with human fallibility and imperfect knowledge, only divine intervention could enable humans to create a more perfect existence than themselves.\u00a0 So we defer to our flawed nature, soldier on, and hope for the best.\u00a0 That’s the system<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mike Rosen had a caller the other morning who wouldn’t accept Rosen’s point that political party trumps person.\u00a0 Pete Boyles would have agreed with the caller.\u00a0 He too votes for the person over the party.\u00a0 2009 went down as a disaster for one party leftist government–an abject proof of Rosen’s thesis.<\/p>\n

The system <\/em>involves a lot more than casting votes in November.\u00a0 Our civic conscience and prescriptions for ethical society hinge on education, accurate perception, a true knowledge of the history of what has worked and what has not, and humility.\u00a0 Too many use their vote as a mirror for preening their self image.\u00a0 They’re the ones tuning up their self esteem with congratulatory back slapping and snippets of sound-bite love for the downtrodden. Notwithstanding civic duty, the system<\/em> accepts all motivations including the most base and the most naive.<\/p>\n

The left’s approach holds that the good<\/em> is objectively obvious and that everyone should be required to contribute to it.\u00a0 Their systemic safety net sounds charitable, but in practice leads to unchecked corruption, the denial of free will, the prevention of moral choice, and a worsening of the human condition.\u00a0 While the good<\/em> may be objectively obvious to many people, manifesting the good<\/em> by force always makes things worse.<\/p>\n

The right holds that what is good<\/em> can only be individually and voluntarily created.\u00a0 They know that coercion nullifies moral choice–that it is the act of choosing the good<\/em> over the bad that makes something good<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The left avoid this topic like the plague because it reminds them of their pro-choice<\/em> position where they insist on preserving the legal license to choose to kill babies–which they think is a good <\/em>thing.\u00a0 And so go the pitfalls of their relative morality.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the right’s approach has in fact produced the greatest good<\/em> for the greatest number of people whenever it has been the controlling philosophy.\u00a0 The left continues to attack it for want of a systemic safety net, even though the left have repeatedly demonstrated that systemic safety nets don’t work.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, the system<\/em> that most empowers individuals to create their own good<\/em> has the endorsement of the weight of history.\u00a0 George Will has observed in many columns that the brilliance of the American system<\/em> lies in its’ ability to produce governmental gridlock.\u00a0 And who wouldn’t want to have the 800 lb. gorilla in the living room securely shackled?<\/p>\n

Individual empowerment by default through the frustration of systemic government coercion may not be pretty, but it’s the system<\/em> that works best for us.\u00a0 The Founders designed a self-limiting American government in order to protect our freedom to live and pursue happiness.\u00a0 They knew that only free people so engaged could build a great nation.<\/p>\n

Since the founding of America, however, huge national mistakes harming millions of people have been repeatedly committed in the name of social progress in our country, and in many nations throughout the world.\u00a0 It’s time for the left to face the facts that it (a) has no monopoly on good intentions and that (b) good intentions do not justify forcing progressive programs on the country.<\/p>\n

One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.\u00a0 The only thing progressivism (and it’s close cousins socialism, fascism and communism) ever delivered is destruction to the fabric of their societies.\u00a0 We can no longer afford to stand by while America consumes itself in the fire of progressive passion.\u00a0The failed progressive experiment must end and we can use the system<\/em> to do it.<\/p>\n

Don’t wait for November to get into the system<\/em>.\u00a0 By then, 99% of the political season’s governmental product will be formed.\u00a0 The American system<\/em> is a continuum of free speech, critical analysis, study of history, and the endless task of trying to avoid repeating our mistakes.\u00a0 I believe the system<\/em> can be operated so that we quit making the big progressive national mistakes that harm millions of people.\u00a0 We must end the experiments in the name of social progress.\u00a0 We are human beings, not lab rats for entertaining progressive social scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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