THE AMERICAN WAY-PART 2-RACISM

The Liberal Way:

Liberals believe you are a racist if:

• You didn't vote for Obama
• You think the law applies to Obama
• You believe affirmative action laws are immoral and harmful to all concerned
• Same for welfare
• You like country music
• You like NASCAR
• You think we should secure our borders
• You support the Tea Party
• You are a conservative

The American Way:

While calling republicans and conservatives racist may serve to silence discussion and drive a wedge through this country based on skin color, it is, in fact, historically inaccurate. But then, being a democrat/liberal means being unencumbered by the facts. A cursory review of some history will show these democrat- liberal-progressive- elitist snobs to be a bunch of lying bastards.

America did not invent slavery but we did end it. It was a Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, that put forth the Emancipation Proclamation and conducted a bloody civil war to end that scourge on American history.

It was the Democrats, at their 1868 national convention, that honored the first grand wizard of the KKK.

Not one Democrat voted for the 14^th Amendment, which granted citizenship to former slaves.

It was liberal/progressive heroine Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, who developed what she called the “Negro Project.” In implementing this plan Sanger wrote: "[We propose to] hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. And we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

In 1957, it was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who sent the 82^nd Airborne to Little Rock, AR. to force Governor Orval Faubus, a Democrat, to integrate Arkansas' public schools. (Fun Fact: In 1956 Martin Luther King, Jr. publicly announced that he voted for Eisenhower.)

Democrat George Wallace, Jr. served 16 years as governor of Alabama. In his first inaugural speech in 1963 he stated: “In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

The 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed into law by LBJ. Conservative senator Barry Goldwater, speaking in opposition to the Act, stated, in part: “I wish to make myself perfectly clear. The two portions of this bill to which I have constantly and consistently voiced objections, and which are of such overriding significance that they are determinative of my vote on the entire measure, are those which would embark the Federal Government on a regulatory course of action in the area of so-called- '"public accommodations'" -and in the area of employment--to be precise, Titles II and VII of the bill. I find no constitutional basis for the exercise of Federal regulatory authority in either of these areas; and I believe the attempted usurpation of such power to be a grave threat to the very essence of our basic system of government, namely, that of a constitutional government in which 50 sovereign states have reserved to themselves and to the people those powers not specifically granted to the central or Federal Government.” BAM! Boy did we get stuck with the wrong Barry as president.

Title II outlawed discrimination based on race in hotels, restaurants, theaters and all other “public accommodations.” This violates our freedom of association which courts have ruled is derivative from the First Amendment guarantees of speech, assembly, and petition and it also violates our due process protections regarding liberty and property contained in the 14^th Amendment. Title VII prohibits discrimination by employers on the basis of race. We've been over the employer/employee contractual relationship before so I won't waste your time being redundant.

The racism of contemporary Democratic/liberal elites is manifested in a subtle and yet more insidious way. The have convinced generations of minorities they are victims of a racist American society. The Democratic Party has marketed itself as their advocate and protector. Through the welfare apparatus they have created a permanent condition of dependency among a large segment of the country. Democrat President Lyndon Johnson summed up their plan with his legendary eloquence: “I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” What a bunch of assholes.

True racism, being prejudicial of people based solely on their race, is morally bankrupt and an intellectual absurdity but that doesn't mean there should be a law against it. Not in America. America values freedom and the sovereignty of the individual. We have adopted free market capitalism as our economic system because it is most compatible with those values. Racist business owners and employers that act on their racism by discriminating will be punished because capitalism is a moral system that involves the voluntary commerce between consenting people. As Thomas Sowell observed: “Prejudice is free, but discrimination has costs.” Who among us would go into a bar or restaurant that advertised “No blacks allowed?” I don't know anyone. The place would be out of business in short order. Similarly, an employer that discriminates by hiring people based on criteria other than productivity is cutting his own throat. We don't need affirmative action laws because the free market is colorblind and will always be biased toward productivity.

Conservative Americans want all people to enjoy the blessings of liberty and the dignity of work that facilitates our independence. Liberal politicians fear and loathe independent people. They are a threat to their power. Dependent people are not free but they do vote Democrat and that is all liberal politicians care about.

THE AMERICAN WAY

The liberal/progressive ideology is not new in America. It has been a scourge in this country for well over 150 years. In the middle of the 19^th century there was Horace Mann, followed by John Dewey in the early part of the 20^th century, progressive socialists both, that gave us the train wreck known as public education. Woodrow Wilson was a big time progressive and of course FDR with his New Deal and LBJ with his Great Society have inflicted deep generational damage to the country.

During my lifetime, liberalism has continued to spread like an aggressive cancer. The cesspool of academia has provided a fertile breeding ground and facilitated liberal dominance in the media, our culture and the body politic. We are, in my opinion, now heading toward the ultimate manifestation of this depraved ideology.    

After the Constitutional Convention, a lady asked Benjamin Franklin what form of government had been established. “A republic,” replied Franklin, “if you can keep it.”

We are not a strict democracy where majority rules. We get to elect our leadership but they are bound by the constraints of the Constitution. It was intended that we be, in the words of John Adams, “A government of laws and not of men.” Considering what is going on in this country today, Franklin's cautionary response appears prescient. Every day now, it seems, we see the president or someone in his administration break the law, ignore the law or, without bothering to get the consent of the legislature, change the law. That so many American citizens, along with a complicit media, not only tolerate such lawlessness but actually endorse it is scary and terribly sad. In a rare moment of honesty, Obama said that he wants to “fundamentally transform” America. This is revealing. One would not want to “fundamentally transform” something they love. It is clear to me that Obama and the liberal elites have a deep- rooted animus toward this country and they are doing their best to change what it means to be an American.

The idea of America, I think, includes two aspects. Individual sovereignty and the law. Our culture was once predicated on freedom and individual sovereignty, conditions proclaimed as man's unalienable right in the Declaration of Independence and codified as law by the Constitution. Liberals, in general, and Obama in particular are able to corrupt the culture because the Constitution is not self-enforcing. It requires politicians of high moral character who respect their oath to uphold it. Today most Democrats are quite willing to subvert the Constitution and most Republicans are too scared and weak to hold them accountable. The American Way is in serious jeopardy.

By means of examining current events and legislative issues, I will attempt to illustrate how the Liberal Way is antithetical to freedom and individual sovereignty and, hopefully, provide a reasoned and compelling argument in support of our founding principles, which will convince readers to embrace “The American Way!”

This review is not intended to be a rigorous examination of every Supreme Court decision. I want people to read this without dying of boredom. Besides, on any particular issue, I could site Court decisions both in support and in opposition to my position. Supreme Court rulings have the force of law but that does not mean my interpretations are illegitimate.

“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.” Thomas Jefferson

As a man of ordinary understanding and common sense, I believe the Constitution needs to be interpreted within the context of the Founder's original intent. Fortunately, the Founders were prolific writers, bold and clear in stating their positions. From the Federalist Papers, Common Sense and countless personal letters, to the recorded history of the Constitutional Convention, their intentions were clear. They had recently won a war against a king and they were terrified of reimposing a strong centralized government on themselves. But they also recognized the need for a federal government strong enough to protect individual rights and freedom from enemies, both foreign and domestic and to “form a more perfect Union.” My Constitutional philosophy leans heavily on those parts of the document that, in my opinion, best illustrate their brilliance in achieving both these competing goals. The Ninth Amendment- “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” and the Tenth Amendment-”The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” make it very clear that only certain powers were delegated to the federal government. The Ninth Amendment refers to Article I, Section 8 where very limited and concise powers are enumerated. And no, taxing hard working Americans so the government can pay for the birth control for some graduate school skank did not make the list.

Liberals, armed with neither ordinary understanding or common sense, prefer to search for interpretations in “metaphysical subtleties” which leads to inconsistent and ridiculous positions. To Wit:

MINIMUM WAGE

The Liberal Way: Barack Obama says, ”It's time to give America a raise.” He is promoting legislation that would raise the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour. “As Americans, we believe that honest work should be rewarded with honest wages. That certainly means that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty....most workers who would get a raise when Congress passes this bill aren't teenagers taking on their first job. They average 35 years old,” he says. He lauds those few states that have already passed laws raising their minimum wage. He shows his business acumen when he explains, “Profitable businesses...pay higher wages too, not out of charity but because it reduces employee turnover, boosts productivity and improves the bottom line.”

The American Way: Article I, section 10 of the Constitution prohibits States from “impairing the obligations of contracts...” Through the years courts have seen fit to diminish the potential of this clause but they have also ruled that a right to enter into contracts free from unreasonable government regulations is protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Sometimes whacky and often inconsistent jurisprudence aside, there can be no disputing the Founder's view that private property is considered sacred and a man's labor is his property. To quote Madison, workers have “free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations, which...constitute their property in the general sense of the word.”

I know to challenge Obama is considered racist but I wish someone would ask him a simple question. If $10.10 an hour is good, wouldn't $20 an hour be better? How about $50? Heck, why not just sign an executive order making it $100 and we can all party like rock stars! It's ridiculous. Even an economic midget like Obama knows there is a point where an artificially high cost of labor will result in reduced job opportunities. He just doesn't know what that number is. Neither do I but I know a great economic system that will find it. It's called the Free Market. A minimum wage that is higher than the competitive market wage level will result in an increase in unemployment and the greater the difference between the artificial wage and the competitive market wage, the higher the unemployment rate. The cost of labor, just like the cost of material goods, is subject to the law of supply and demand. Wages will rise as the demand for labor increases. If Obama really wanted to help low-wage workers, he would stop punishing those that actually create jobs.

In 1995, the congressional Joint Economic Committee published a review of 50 years of academic research on the minimum wage. The study concluded that effects of increasing the minimum wage included:

*Increasing the likelihood and duration of unemployment for low-wage workers;

*Encouraging employers to cut worker training;

*Increasing inflationary pressure;

*Encouraging employers to cut back on fringe benefits;

*Increasing teenage crime rates; and

*Encouraging employees to hire illegal aliens.

More specific to Obama's plan, the Congressional Budget Office recently released a report showing that an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour could help lift 900,000 workers out of poverty but would cost approximately 500,000 jobs! Gee, thanks comrade!

Once again, dipshit politicians commission a survey, paid for by us, with the hope that it will validate their idiotic schemes, then ignore it when it concludes that their ideas are idiotic. It would make more sense for Obama to promise low-wage workers magic beans and fairy dust. It would do them every bit as good as raising the minimum wage and in fact would do them much less harm.

ACCEPTABLE MEANS

It is becoming more apparent every day that liberals in general, and Barack Obama in particular, believe the end justifies the means.
 

In September of 2012, Obama was trying to get reelected. One of his campaign narratives was “GM is alive, Osama bin Laden is dead, and Al Qaeda is on the run.”

On September 11 the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was attacked and four Americans were killed. The historical significance of the date is obvious and we now know that Obama was informed that same day that it was a coordinated attack by Islamic terrorists. The attack went on for more than eight hours. As President and Commander In Chief, Obama has an obligation and duty to protect the people and the interests of the United States yet his response was to protect his desired end of being reelected. He needed to maintain the perceived veracity of his, “Al Qaeda is on the run” narrative so his administration initiated a cover-up by means of blaming some obscure anti-Muslim video. To this day no one in the Obama administration has been held accountable and none of the terrorists responsible for the attack have been caught or killed. But hey, Obama got reelected. The end justifies the means.
 

Obama wants to socialize our healthcare system. He knows that most Americans have yet to embrace socialism so he called it something else. During the 2008 campaign, Obama promised that all debate and negotiations regarding his healthcare bill would be televised on C-Span so all Americans would know what was going on. That was a lie. The bill was developed in complete secrecy with no Republican input. Republicans were given just hours to read the 2000-plus page bill before they were required to vote on it. This led to the crazed Nancy Pelosi saying, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it...” - The bill passed with not one Republican vote. He promised us that the typical family would save approximately $2500 in annual premiums. That was a lie. The typical family is seeing huge percentage increases in their premiums. He promised that if we liked our insurance plan, we could keep our plan. A lie. He promised that if we liked our doctor, we could keep our doctor. A lie. Obama wanted socialized healthcare so he cut backroom deals, gave out exemptions to the politically connected and lied repeatedly to the American people. But hey, he got his Obamacare. The end justifies the means. 
 

The IRS targeting conservative groups, red lines that Obama drew then said he didn't, Fast and Furious, rule by executive fiat. I could go on and on but you get the idea.
 

The end justifies the means is not an American philosophy. It is more indicative of the governing ethos of dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. In America, the ultimate end is always freedom and the sovereignty of the individual. As the great Milton Friedman said, “Desirable or not, any end that can be obtained only by the use of bad means must give way to the more basic end of the use of acceptable means."