Posted by
Icarus on Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:18:24 AM
Average people, building grassroots,
populist oriented organizations, are the heart of Liberal-Left causes.
Conservatives are nothing more than authoritarians forcing their agenda on the
little guy. The odd thing about these claims is that they both come from the Liberal-Left.
Something here reminds me of the psychological concept of
projection
that I learned so much about as an undergraduate and graduate student.
The ideas above are what they want us to think, and by ‘they’ I
mean Liberal-Left Politicians, Activists, Hollywood,
the Main Stream Media, etc. It is the little guy, they tell us, that want single-payer
(i.e., state run) medical care, “progressive” taxation on the “rich”,
negotiations with terrorists, nanny state welfare, etc., etc., etc. The truth,
however, is exactly the opposite. That is why there will never be a
conservative George Soros and conservatives should stop looking for one.
I attended John Ziegler's Media Malpractice Seattle screening on March
4th. In response to a question, John spoke briefly, longingly it
seemed, of a conservative George
Soros injecting massive amounts of money into various
conservative/libertarian causes. When, John wondered, will a conservative
multi-billionaire come forward and fund right-wing causes and groups? In a
word: Never, because conservatives would not stand for it.
There is nothing grassroots about the
Liberal-Left. They were, are and always will not much more than an angry,
jealous mob driven from the top down by angry, jealous leaders. From the French
Revolution to the October Revolution to the 'Hope & Change' Revolution, the
Liberal-Left has been about a handful of radicals forcing their will on a group
of mindless followers.
There will never be a conservative
version of George Soros because conservatives have been, are and always will be
about free individuals exercising their liberty to create true home-grown,
grassroots organizations. Case in point: The Boy
Scouts of America (BSA). the Liberal-Left hate the Boy Scouts because that
group spontaneously arose from local communities and openly professes love of
God, country and family. The Liberal-Left, instead of creating their own
version of the BSA, funded by multi-billionaires like George Soros, works to
destroy the BSA. They drive BSA out of buildings they have used for decades and
attack them in courts in order to force the Liberal-Left agenda on Scouting.
Conservative also tend to make up a
lion's share of the entrepreneurial class, or
those that venture out on the entrepreneurial path become more conservative, at
least economically speaking. The Liberal-Left’s love for the Big Government
quashes entrepreneurial initiative, and reinforces the growth of massive
corporations. How does Big Government and Big Corporation go hand in hand, you
might ask. Jonah Goldberg makes this clear in his book, Liberal Fascism. So-called
private-public initiatives are a gold mine to Big Corporations, and the
Liberal-Left love the idea of public money spent on what it thinks are private
goods. You want a new type of energy efficient car built? Hand millions, if not
billions, to Big Corporations to get them built. You want more people riding
trains? Pass laws that give public money to private corporations to build
tracks and put trains on them. That is why conservatives believe that charity
begins at home. That is why the call from some for a big money conservative to
step up and take on the Liberal-Left hegemony in Hollywood has largely fell on deaf ears. When
a conservative with money hears this plea, he or she looks at the individual
making the request and sees an intelligent, hard-working person, and says to
him or herself, "If you want it bad enough, get up and go do it. Don't
expect me to do it for you."
Stop looking for a conservative
George Soros. There isn't going to be one. No conservative gazillionaire is
going to open a checkbook and write a blank check to someone because that
person has the right (pun intended) ideology.
To my fellow audience members at the Media
Malpractice screening who are wondering how to get out this film's message. The answer is: You get up off your behind, get out in front of your
neighbors and you tell them about it, because conservatives are the real grassroots movement.