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Sworn Enemies: Liberty and the Modern Left
Posted On 09 Jul 2017
In Poland last week, Trump warned of many threats facing Western civilization. Islamic terrorism, unrestrained immigration, rogue states with nuclear arsenals, and so forth. But he made it clear that while those threats were real and serious, there was one threat more dangerous than all of them. And it was the one threat Western nations were themselves responsible for and capable of putting a stop to.
“Finally, on both sides of the Atlantic, our citizens are confronted by yet another danger — one firmly within our control,” Trump said. “This danger is invisible to some but familiar to the Poles: the steady creep of government bureaucracy that drains the vitality and wealth of the people. The West became great not because of paperwork and regulations but because people were allowed to chase their dreams and pursue their destinies.
“Americans, Poles, and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty,” he continued. “We must work together to confront forces, whether they come from inside or out, from the South or the East, that threaten over time to undermine these values and to erase the bonds of culture, faith and tradition that make us who we are. If left unchecked, these forces will undermine our courage, sap our spirit, and weaken our will to defend ourselves and our societies.”
This was a beautiful segment of a beautiful speech, and it did something that many of Trump’s critics think is impossible: It combined the “Trumpish” aspects of his philosophy seamlessly with traditional conservative ideals and proved that the two ideologies were never that far away from each other to begin with. Yes, there is still room for Trump supporters to criticize the conservative intelligentsia and vice versa, but there isn’t as much of a gap there as many would have us believe. Trump is a rebuke to the Republican Party’s mushy path, for certain, but he is not a rebuke to conservatism. He REPRESENTS conservatism and he REPRESENTS what the U.S. has always and (God willing) will always stand for.
And that is enough to make him a sworn enemy of the left, which regards his presidency as a dangerous throwback to the days of slavery, Jim Crow, Indian genocide, and whatever other horrors they can dredge up from America’s past. They see him as a figure to be feared above all others because he is NOT ashamed to be the leader of the United States and he is NOT ashamed of that thing the U.S. and Western civilization is best at: Winning. He is certainly not ashamed of liberty.
And if the left is against all of that today, then theirs is a poisonous ideology that deserves to be left on the scrap heap of history.
Democrats are not patriots, not anymore!
Shame on you Charlie!
You cannot really believe that every Democrat is bad and every Republican is good.
Good or Bad is irrelevant.
The issue is Patriotism. Democrats are not displaying it.
Not only are they not displaying it, Democrats are the anthesis of Patriotism.
They would sell our country to hurt Trump!
Talk about a basket of deplorables!!! ?
What do you mean Would , they already have sold us out , 8 years of Obama and Clinton. Neither one did anything to stop our industry and Drug Companies from leaving the USA .Neither one did anything to make taxes fair for all , both stuck it to the so called middle class which today is mainly Gov. employees and their Union workers .
For seven of the eight years President Obama was in office the Republican Party controlled congress and therefore any failure of governance is on them. The president does not have the power.
Study your constitution. What can a president do. He did save the auto industry or did you forget. He attempted to help in the solar industry and the word cronyism came up and he had to back off. He also has a stimulus package but could not get congress to make it bi enough.
I do not believe you are evaluating the terms correctly.
They were all afraid to stop him because he played the race card [ I is a poor black boy ] . just because a party has the majority does not mean they will control , this has been going on for decades longer than you can remember . Wake up as to how congress and lobbyist play you for your tax Dollars .
They don’t need to. Trump is doing an excellent job of selling off America to his communist friends.
And he would sell the country to benefit himself.
He has already demonstrated this.
Right on Charlie!
Only a fool would separate dems and repubs by “good and bad”, any person with half a brain knows that there is good and bad in both parties, it’s just that in the demon party, there are the bad, and then there are the mis-informed, who have been lied to so much they cannot discern what is good anymore!
Unlike the true conservatives, who denounce party lines to go for what is good for America as a whole, not some minority group!
DNC Chair Perez said the Democrat has no room for pro-life. Hillary said half of the country is deplorable. What do democrats have to offer except fear and hate?
It just seems to be that way when it comes to the democrats in power, Like Obie & Hilly.
This axiom of Charlie’s is spot on. Very few good d-RATS. And bad R’s are already known as RINOS. ALL should be shot in both eyes and then fed to pigs.
I agree but to far off.
They never really were, Democrats were a product of the Confederacy.
And founders of the K.K.K. also!!!!
And Jim Crow laws
Yes, the Republicans in Lincoln’s time were the progressive liberal party – accused of being communists. The Democrats at that time were the regressive party – racist, against taxes, and wanting free labor (slaves). Between then and now, the parties reversed their ideologies. Now the Democrats are the progressive party and the Republicans are the regressive party. Labels do not mean anything. Vote for policies, not parties. No institute every stays the same forever. Look behind the labels.
What confederacy are you talking about?
Demon craps mistake party loyalty for patriotism, which is why they are so willing to riot; name call; and destroy anything or anyone which is good for America. They are guilty of everything they accuse conservatives of; i.e. lying; rioting; threatening assassinations; beating up anyone with a “Trump” shirt on; etc.
Excellent!
The name Seattle makes me cringe I live there what a left sided queer loving dirty sick shit hole it has become!
I do not live there. I visit to fish.
Democrat Communist Party has one agenda , Destroy America from within.
The Reptilians, oops, Republicans, are selling off America both without and within. Trump has sold us out to the Russians. Putin must have a lot on Trump. But Trump isn’t interested in the citizens anyway – he is only interested in what benefits him. The Trump Administration is putting more than 230 million acres of national monuments up for review, intending to rescind or reduce past designation that could open up these treasures to fossil fuel exploration, land development, extraction and privatization. Are you okay with Russia buying up the Grand Canyon? Trump said he is thinking our privatizing our interstate highway system. Are you okay with private companies operating these ‘public’ highways for profit? Trump sold $120 Billion dollars in weapons to the home of the 9/11 terrorists and the main financier of the Taliban and Isis. Are you okay with that? Trump is proposing a healthcare plan that would throw 23 millions Americans off healthcare. He wants to cut Medicaid by over $800 billion and raise premiums for older workers. So, while Trump wants to make massive cuts to life-and-death programs for millions and millions of childre, working people, the elderly, the sick and the poor – at the same exact time he proposes a budget that, over a 10-year period, would provide $3 TRILLION in tax breaks to the top 1 percent. That, my friend, is a small example of how communism usually works out. Democrats are the ‘progressive’ party – you know – PROGRESS. The Republican party has become, over the last two decades, a regressive, self-serving, extremist group not the least bit interested in public service. Trump is a pathetically insecure, emotionally adolescent liar, hypocrite and traitor. He should be impeached and deported to the communist countries that he loves.
I am not you’re friend Darll.
Obviously. ‘My Friend’ is often used simply as a figure of speech, just as, say, I would address some/you as ‘Gentlemen’. I’m retired, worked my whole life and now have a small business. I have my insurance. I also designed and contracted large group health plans for the companies for which I was previously employed. I know how the rates increased every year and how careful negotiations had to be made in order to keep the best benefits for the employees. I have first-hand experience in the difference between how American companies treat their employees versus some European companies who are more social minded. What’s your experience with insurance companies?
The Left is not the JFK Democrats, that is now become the Republicans. The Left has now the Socialist, the Communist and a cancer that we have allowed into our schools, and our society. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. I am a former Democrat, I did not leave the Democrat Party, it left me! I now PROUDLY stand against them!
Nice take, Alan. If JFK was alive today he’d be considered a fiscal hawk on government spending and a warrior for national defense, both political traits and values of the Tea Party Patriots. And he’d be as far from the democrat party as Donald Trump is from Chuck Schumer…
In Florida during the Cuban crisis and saw a yellow streak a mile wide, and now we have commies in our back yard. No one heard we lost all our missiles In Turkey, given up. Shed no tear in 63. given a boat and sunk it USAF Ret
Your comment appreciated! Yes WE have allowed the enemys of our freedom to take over our schools and our churches. Socialism is not a possibility , it has grown in disguise for a long time, property tax the graduated income tax, medicaid _ _ _. It has worked because we have listened to the double speak elected who cause evil to sound good. When Indiana initiated the 1% sales tax they said , That’s not much and now it is 7%. All taxes will grow out of control. Indiana has just dumped the largest tax increase in it’s history upon it’s citizens while we watch billions of dollars squandered. Re elect no one!
I almost gave you a thumbs up; until I read that very last 4 words. We definitely need to re-elect those who are bringing about positive change, this is needed because we have allowed the wicked leftists to dominate for far too long!
I will give you a thumbs up as there are a few in office that are fighting for us. Thanks
;>)
I too leaned very heavily toward the democrap party in the very early 60’s, but then I visited a friend who was attending a major university, and at one of the “coffee houses” listened to a communist who was passing himself off as a dem. speak nothing but anti-American rhetoric. Promoting the socialist welfare system, and the destruction of our military might; both items which are designed to weaken America’s position as world leader for peace. Evil will always prevail where the good are no longer able to defend itself!
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Amazing. My thoughts exactly about the Republican Party. It certainly must have Eisenhower and Nixon rolling over in their graves.
There all traitors to the people. They only represent there lined pockets of taxpayers money, plain and simple!!!
Not all Democrats are bad, this is true, but it is the far left liberals that are truly a threat to this country! When Trump talks about trying to protect our western civilization from the many threats that we face, and the liberals scream “white supremacy,” you know that they are totally NUTS! Protecting our western civilization is NOT about white supremacy at all! As Rush Limbaugh said the other day, it is about protecting the very things, and the reasons that many immigrants have come to this country, LEGALLY, as did my ancestors, for many years now! Anyone with any common sense, which excludes the liberals, knows that we must not lose those values, and that way of life!
deleated
“…he REPRESENTS what the U.S. has always and (God willing) will always stand for.”? Really?
Trump: “Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
The scrap heap of history. Very well said. That is exactly where the left belongs. Oh by the way, take the main stream media there too.
AMERICA FIRST
Democrats=Socialism, Communism and fascism.
These three philosophies have been and still are
being practiced by the left and the Democrats have
embraced them. At the heart of these philosophies is one goal, total control of your life!
Allow Democrats to gain control again and they will
employ all three with a vengeance.
I love America!!!! I am an Ole Red-Neck Trump supporter & I say Whack The Dumb Donkey Party, right bewteen the their Dumb Donkey eyes, KAPOW<, ZIP<, POW! With A hickory 4×4 Of Truth!!!!! Sick of these Leftist Libertards!!!!! They are UnAmerica Disrespectful Hateful Swamp Bottom Feeders!!!!!! Just tellin' it as it is!!!!!!!!
Funny comments given that it is well established on at least 2 occasions (possibly 3) Republican Presidential candidates made promises to a foreign country that if they refused to act in good faith with the previous administration when they won they’d give the foreign country a better deal. The two are Nixon’s back channel around the Paris Peace talks and Reagan’s deal with Iran to keep the hostages. Is Trump the third?
Thanks 4 a little reality, perspective, and context.
Democrats are self serving. Rinos not far behind. New health care law adds taxes on the rich but both congress and the house reserve the right to carry their own insurance and not ours. Very sad.
I suppose you all know that the Republican party has been in power 20 years
out of the past 28 years President Reagan 8 Bush 4 Bush 8 President Clinton 8
Obama 8. Congress has been Republican for the past 7 years.
How do you blame the Democrats unless you are lying to yourselves.
There is no such thing as a conservative or liberal agenda it is in your mind.
I bet none of you can define any of the programs that exist that can be called
truly liberal or exceptionally conservative.
Making loud noises and doing nothing is the current administration’s policies.
What bills have been passed. What real improvement has been done.
What actual changes have been made that are the result of either all Democrats
or all Republican. The current Affordable Care Act was a Republican program
first introduced in Mass. It is the southern states and a few western states
that do not want to assist their poor that are complaining about Obamacare.
We are the land of the free and the home of the brave. Our success is based on
killing off the local population (we call them Indians), slavery and Jim Crow
and the allocation of millions of square miles of free land to Europeans,
(mainly black need not apply).
The past years from 1946 until 2007 are bolstered by the free college education
of (mainly whites) after World War II and the unlimited GI Bill which in most
cases did not allow blacks to purchase property in favorable locations; however
supported the housing industry for that period.
Looking in a black neighborhood where blacks could buy and you will notice
that property values normally failed to increase at the same rate as they did
in other neighborhoods.
No person can seriously look back and call that period liberal or
conservative. Conservative what: financial or religious or way of life.
Get use to those who have been held down, to rise to the same level as those of
you who have been given the advantages carte blanche.
Those of you who are true Christians will welcome others; however, many individuals
will not follow the word of Christ and go back to the Old Testament to find
reasons for eliminating others now that the believe they can force the religion
into the government. Our Constitution will not allow that to happen and within
a few more years citizens will be forced to welcome all individuals who wish to
make this nation their home.
Finally, the current proposed “Health Care Bill” is going to
practically destroy the white middle and lower class. I suggest you pay very
close attention to the bill because it is a direct attack on that group. They
are calling it a “conservative bill”; however, what it is doing is
conserving the wealth of the very rich at the expense of the middle class. (U)
Excellent! I could not have said it better myself, Trump is what we need and have needed for years, he loves our country and is doing everything he can to fix the problems from our past not to bury our past as the left has!
Anyone who denies President Trump’s performance is a an idiot.
tHAT IS WHY THE DEMS ARE FIGHTING SO HARD ——THEIR DREAM IS EMPLODING ON THEM AND ITS DRIVING THEM CRAZY.!!!!
Folks, if you are Conservative, get ready this year for the second civil war. You think that the demonrats will not seek your life?
Winston Churchill was considered a loser, a fool, during his early days in politics. He made many mistakes and his critics were not wrong. But then, at the beginning of the war with Hitler, he argued against submission to Germany’s occupation of his country, inspiring the Brits to fight to the death when many would have appeased Hitler. Churchill saved England by convincing the US to enter the war and it is Chuchill who is most credited for saving Europe from Hitler’s domination. At that time he had to overcome the arguments for appeasing Hitler that most in power promoted. I feel America is at a similar crossroads today, with many promoting appeasement of our enemies as they have done for far too long. We need to start facing the dangers head on and fortunately we now have a leader who will inspire us to make hard but necessary choices.
Great article,well said..
Sworn Enemies: Common Sense and the Far Right.