printThe excerpt is from my new WND column, “Hussein/McCain and Other Invasive Species”:
“About the interminable electioneering we’ve been subjected to for over a year, maybe two, I have less and less to say by the day. The duo dueling for the presidency doesn’t represent me, speak for me, interest me, or intend to uphold my rights. The latter Obama proves daily—most recently by voting to sunder what remains of the Fourth Amendment after Bush.
For his part, McCain didn’t even bother to show up for the vote that leaves the president with the usurped power to spy on Americans. The passing of the updated FISA, seconded by Obama and skipped by McCain, will grant retrospective immunity to telecommunications companies that have both contravened the Constitution and breached their contracts with clients. …
There is a disconnect, if you get my drift. The Hussein/McCain couple says tomato, I say tomahto. “Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto!” If only we could call the whole thing off!
But beggars can’t be choosers. With American freedoms on the wane, freedom lovers must contend with small pleasures. And there is some good news on the environmental front….
Read the rest in“Hussein/McCain and Other Invasive Species.”
Hey,Where else can you take off from your regular job…travel at company expense (taxpayers)and audition for a still better paying job..Prez!!! Manchurian candidate McCain has so little respect for we the masses (drop the M smirked Karl Marx) because he has never worked in the private sector. 1984 and Brave new World warned of the teevee watching us one day..of course it is all for our own good..just pay the inflated taxes and other bills and nod to our leaders as they drive by in their huge limos while we bike or shuffle on to the store..
In the previous article about Jefferson, my comment is that while Jefferson had some “English” ancestors, they were also at least partly Norman-French, and less certainly “Saxon”, and his paternal ancestry was Welsh; although of course he was praising “English” political ideas based upon the Norman-French descended barons and lords, who rebelled against King John and forced the beginning of “English” political rights in the Magna Charta.
About John McCain, I can only hope that there will be some kind of Republican Convention revolt that dumps sleepwalking McCain and gives the Republican nomination to a stronger and more conservative Republican.
[Ron Paul will be holding a convention down the road. Join his revolution.–IM]
There is a mindset typical of environmentalists, and of socialists and state worshippers in general. This is the mental habit of group-think, whereby one suspends one’s critical judgement to absorb as true whatever the political/cultural nexus is promoting.
Group think, in turn, is a product of philosophical nihilism, the widely-held belief that facts are slippery, that truth is an invention, that moral principles are essentially social conventions. From this perspective, thinking persistently and carefully to achieve understanding in some area is futile. From this perspective, challenging the crowd, and its beliefs, is scary and dangerous.
Naturally, such an outlook is hostile to individualism, because moral character–one’s habits of thought and action–makes humans individual in the sense that cattle or dolphins are not. Greens are unfriendly to capitalism, which is commercial individualism.
They don’t represent me either, and they won’t see my vote.
Buck
I’m rather concerned about who to vote for too, come election time.
Excellent column, Ilana. From what I’ve heard the “global warming” paranoia among young people has reached our shores, as well. Several months ago, I overheard a locker room discussion between two young women, one of whom was convinced that if she didn’t take action now (what action?) global warming would be the plague that would wipe out her entire generation.
Seems to me that propagandists such Al Gore (as you mention, he’s hardly someone who appears as if he’s lacking in material substance) have done quite well in turning their pet philosophies into paranoia that some of our young people embrace.