By Susan Stamper Brown
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Arrogance is like a cancer. Once it lodges itself in the
heart and mind, there's not much you can do as it begins to permeate the entire
body with an inordinate sense of self-worth, significance, and position.
Lucifer understood this firsthand after becoming so enamored
with himself he believed he was co-equal with the Creator. He lost his
grandiose gig and earned a one-way ticket south to spend the rest of his days
slithering around trying to entice mankind to join him in his misery.
Contemporary Liberalism is headed for the same fate as it
elevates itself to unnatural heights, having nowhere but downward to fall.
Policies like the Affordable Care Act (Seriously?), i.e. ObamaCare, highlight
the arrogance of liberals who promote themselves to a place of superiority,
telling us what we need and then redefining those needs as a "right."
Life is a right. Liberty is a right. Pursuit of happiness is a right.
Healthcare is not a right.
ObamaCare teaches us that liberals don't believe in true freedom
or unalienable rights. Nor do they think we are smart enough to make personal
decisions. Instead, they pervert the Constitution and misuse governmental
authority to coerce us to do what they say is good for us. And then exempt
themselves from their own laws.
They tell us to "move on, it's the law of the
land." From lofty thrones they call those who speak out against ObamaCare
"anarchists." With that logic, those who opposed once-legal slavery
were also anarchists. Legality is not license for stupidity - unless you are a
liberal.
Is it not the height of arrogance that liberals do not
label as "anarchists" the crybabies attempting to repeal another law
of the land, Citizens United? Their actions condemn them.
A trip down Memory Lane: Remember when global warming
soothsayer and former V.P. Al Gore was caught with his lights on in 2006 when
his 10,000-square-foot Nashville home used 191,000 kilowatt-hours of energy?
According to Nashville's News Channel 5, that same year the average Nashville
household used about 15,600 kilowatt-hours.
Hypocrisy incarnate: Liberals love to spend time
demonizing rich people and calculating how to spread their money around. That
is, unless you're talking about their money. According to Roll Call, seven of
the ten richest members of the 112th Congress are Democrats.
Number 13, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA),
badgered 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to release his tax
returns, but refused to do the same when McClatchy News asked members of Congress
to release returns the same year. Incidentally, Romney had a higher tax rate
than John Kerry did the year before Kerry ran for president. Secretary of State
Kerry is Number 2 on the "rich" list.
Wasn't it Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who said during
the 2009 Baucus-Grassley jobs bill fight that it was her belief "that tax
credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep
it"? As Number 9 on the list, Feinstein didn't get there giving all her
money away.
As surely as the sun rose and fell today over the
white-capped Alaskan mountains I now call home, liberalism will fail. In the
meantime the rest of us are charged with spreading truth and speaking with our
vote in 2014 and 2016. Anything less is arrogance.
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