Posted by
Stephen Guy Hardin on Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:42:10 PM
The Politics of Submission
by Stephen Guy Hardin
December 7, 2009.
Main Entry: sub·mis·sion
Pronunciation: \s?b-'mi-sh?n\
Function: noun
[Middle English submissioun, from Old French submission, from Latin submissio, submission-, a lowering, from submissus, past participle of submittere, to set under; see submit.]
1 : the condition of being submissive, humble, or compliant
2 : an act of submitting to the authority or control of another
Tom Brokaw wrote , ‘The Greatest Generation' , which heralded the strength and will and determination of a generation of Americans who survived the Great Depression, fought World War Two and forged a nation that would win the Cold War. Though Brokaw is justifiably proud and respectful of this generation of great Americans, it is the political party and the political ideology of Brokaw and his generation of Sixties cultural revolutionaries that is undermining and attempting to destroy everything that the Greatest Generation sacrificed to build.
The radical chic of the Sixties counterculture has corroded to it’s current guttural level of a post-bourgeois mind set that values political correctness over freedom of speech. Just as the years wore down and dulled the fighting edge of the generation of the Second World War, the need to feed the kids, pay the mortgage and buy the newest Range Rover has dulled the radical senses of the Liberal elitist class. Rather than debate and dissect and protest current political points of contention, the modern Liberal pours their collective radical energy into pushing their kids Girl Scout cookies and campaigning for the much coveted position of treasurer of their local PTA. Radical chic, indeed?
Since the common collective denominator of the classic American Liberal is a toxic mix of anger, guilt and loathing for all things American, the appearance of Barack Hussein Obama skipping merrily down the yellow brick road arm in arm with George Soros and Bill Ayers was indeed a magical image. Neatly packaged as the 'safe' Black man, who to paraphrase Vice-President Biden, was neat and well spoken, Barack and his well camouflaged cadre of pseudo-Marxist political advisors crafted a political campaign that eventually out lied and out spent the campaign of a true Sixties radical, Hillary Clinton.
Earnestly joined by Michele Obama, playing her role of the oppressed yet privileged angry Black woman, this power couple proved themselves to be the perfect dynamic duo to engage and excite the jaded 'Desperate Housewives' of the American Left. George Soros, as the enlightened European immigrant, who makes his millions upon the back of the American dream, while denouncing the system he has abused, and Bill Ayers, a hard-core, unrepentant American terrorist, as the ghostwriter and puppet master proved as effective a team as Hitler and Goring when they masterminded the burning of the Reichstag.
One can only imagine the orgasmic fits that must have engulfed the guilt laded millionaires of Wall Street, who had dutifully maintained their Democrat Party registration, while cashing in on the economic euphoria of excess of the Reagan Revolution. How they must have unconsciously giggled as schoolgirls as they wrote out check after check to finance the campaign of 'Hope' and 'Change We Can Believe In.' What an emotional release it must have been to be able to discuss the possibility of the renewal of the spirit and dream of the Sixties Counter-Revolution, instead of the stale and tired debate concerning the merits of the BMW X5 over the Porsche Cayenne as the de rigueur SUV at their tennis club.
I am a lifelong Conservative who has always practiced the politics I've preached, but I can empathize with the terrible burden that the success of pursuing the American dream must have caused for the spoiled children of the Greatest Generation. To lounge in the lap of luxury of all you marched against as a college student, while pursuing your MBA on your parents dime, has certainly created a notable chemical imbalance in their brains. I've always believed that chemical imbalance was the only explanation for successful and educated people who actively campaign to destroy their own lifestyle and the society that has embraced them. Chemical imbalance, indeed.
It is an historical truth that the basic tenants of Progressive political philosophy is a fraudulent mask disguising the corruptive hunger of mans need to control his fellow man. The driving philosophy of the Left is that people are incapable of taking care of themselves, thus the government must be grown to accommodate and enable the welfare state as the means of supplanting personal liberty for the illusion of security.
So, as the Liberal intelligentsia bow before the community organizer they have anointed, in much the same manner as Obama himself bows before all foreign rulers and potentates, we can now begin to appreciate the feeling of euphoria and release that the anxiety oppressed Left must have felt during Obama’s historic presidential run. As the Liberals and their fellow travelers roll like pigs in the mud over every overly stressed syntax of a Bill Ayers ghostwritten Obama speech, we can breathe the freshly filtered air of the Liberal emancipation from the slavery of American success.
The politics of Amercian exceptionalism has been supplanted by the politics of false guilt. The politics of Americican political discussion has been replaced by the politics of class hatred. The politics of American patriotism has been debased by the politics of self-loathing. And the politcs of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness has been enslaved by the politics of submission.
Stephen Guy Hardin
HARDIN REPUBLIC
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