PA Bill Number: HB2311
Title: Establishing the School Mental Health Screening Grant and Development Program.
Description: Establishing the School Mental Health Screening Grant and Development Program. ...
Last Action: Laid on the table
Last Action Date: Sep 23, 2024
The need to reinvigorate individualism :: 11/05/2016
The authentically inauthentic Hillary (Fibbary) Clinton is the spearhead of today’s Progressive movement. This movement is the wolf cajoling sheep to ignore the wolves’ nature, proclaiming, “we can work together.” But to the sheep’s surprise, with wolves outnumbering the sheep, the vote always come down to what to have for dinner.
The wolf is the Collectivist (democratic socialist) philosophy of the Progressive movement. The sheep is our founding philosophy of Individualism. Progressives promise to free us from the burdens of freedom, each promise requiring a freedom payola, and bit by bit they gain the power necessary to dictate how we live our lives.
Compromise between these philosophies is an impossibility, and early Progressives understood this. They understood the need to eviscerate the constitution, and negate the idiotic concept of natural individual rights if they were to succeed with the establishment of the Administrative State; they succeeded. The prominent founder of American Progressivism, Woodrow Wilson succinctly stated their view of individual rights, writing, “… all ideas of a limitation of public authority by individual rights be put out of view.” Today’s Progressive (democratic socialist) are not as forthcoming. They shroud themselves with concepts of our founding, but deep down they share sentiments of their early brethren.
How lucky for Hillary to have Trump as her opponent in the bid for the presidency. I can only imagine a Marco Rubio or Carly Fiorina on the debate stage with Hillary. Marco or Carly’s understanding of limited government and free enterprise would have eloquently made crystal clear Hillary’s socialist tendencies. Coupled with the revelations in the hacked emails, she would have been toast. But with Trump as her opponent, we don’t hear a clear articulation of the principles of limited government and free enterprise.
And her complicit media has an easy out to ignore the hacked emails with their focus on Trump’s foibles.
Hillary believes the Supreme Court got it wrong in D.C. v. Heller, in which the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protected an individual’s right to own a firearm for lawful purposes such as self-defense in the home. Regarding appointments to the Supreme Court, she states, “I want a Supreme Court justice who understands how the world really works.” This of course means how the world works from a Progressive’s perspective. She wants the Supreme Court to stand against the rich and corporate interest, i.e., justices who view the Constitution as a living a breathing document, who take sides in disputes rather than adjudicate them according to the law. One can only wonder if the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were suspended for 90 days what Progressives would do complete their view of “social justice,” individual freedom be damned.
Progressives must cling to the backs of Capitalists; their survival depends on this. They want to assuage the doctrine of socialism with the modifier “Democratic,” a hopeless attempt in making a distinction without a difference. If there is a difference it is one of method not end. They insist on pointing to the success of Scandinavian democratic socialist countries not realizing that they were first successful because of free enterprise. Then in the ’60s and ’70s, they dove head first into the socialism cesspool. Decades later, after their economies tanked, they reversed course, and began to scale back the entitlement state, and free up their economies. All now have lower corporate tax rates than the U.S., (the U.S. is the highest in the world) and rank higher on the economic freedom scale than the U.S. Trump is right to want to reduce the corporate tax rate, to encourage the repatriation of more than two trillion dollars held off shore because of our confiscatory rate. Reinvesting that money here at home would be a tremendous boost to our economy.
Aside from hard core supporters on either side, both Trump and Hillary suffer some of the highest negatives in recent history. Nevertheless, their policy differences are in stark contrast. One wants justices to take sides on issues, the other wants a justice who supports Constitutional Textualism. One wants to raise taxes and increase the regulatory state; the other wants to accomplish just the opposite. One wants to continue the failed policies of our educational system; the other wants radically change the educational system.
The choice is clear. Hillary is the “one” in these statements, Trump is the “other.” We must change the trajectory towards socialism’s bone yard where liberty goes to die, and reinvigorate the individualism of our founding.
Manny Montes lives in Auburn.
http://www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/manny-montes-the-need-to-reinvigorate-individualism/
