American Thinker – Daren Jonescu
– 5/15/2013
The president and secretary of state of the most
powerful nation on Earth are impervious to shame. They can do -- they have done -- what you hope
you could never do, what you pray your children will never be able to do, what
psychologists fill academic journals attempting to explain.
They were informed that
their countrymen -- their appointees -- were being attacked, were issuing
repeated cries for help, and, if nothing were done to intercede, were likely to
be killed. Knowing this, and knowing, further, that they had at their
disposal the most powerful military in the world, no risk of personal harm, and
many subordinates prepared to leap into action at their word, they blithely
walked away from the desperate men pleading for their help, and carried on with
whatever they happened to be doing that night.
They let other men suffer unto death without
lifting a finger to help, or even indicating a moment's regret for their
inaction after the fact.
They demonstrated a cold
lack of interest in the suffering of others -- not the abstract, theoretical
suffering of collective interest groups, such as "the poor" or
"gays" or "women," but the real physical pain and mortal terror-style
suffering of individual human beings in mortal crisis.
Progressivism, socialism, Marxism -- call it what you will -- is an authoritarian
strategy masked as a political theory. At its core is the premise that
the state has full authority, in the name of "the people," to do any
number of things which would have been almost universally recognized,
throughout human history, as shameful
acts.
In the name of
"equality" and "justice," progressives
- claim the authority to take one man's rightfully
earned possessions by force,
- and simply give them to other men;
- to remove children forcibly from their parents,
- and raise them according to precepts that may be
antithetical to everything the parents believe;
- to retard the intellectual and moral development
of every citizen through an aggressive, coercive program of indoctrination
through government schools,
- aimed at producing a submissive underclass of
competent but unambitious adults;
- to determine, by edict, who may or may not be
permitted to pursue life-preserving medical treatment, and under what
conditions that treatment may be provided;
- and so on through the litany of moral violations
recast as "services," and even "rights," by
collectivist despots and their bureaucratic minions.
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