Serious Matters

Making fun of liberals and Democrats is a constant entertainment. But there are times when I need to be serious and one of them looms on Nov. 7. It is critically important for Americans to get this one right.

On talk radio shows I frequently hear that there is not a significant difference between Democrats and Republicans, usually followed by a complaint about government spending: “This Republican congress is spending like a herd of drunken Democrats.” While I am disappointed by the porkish behavior of the current congress (not once vetoed by the president), I believe that Republicans could never outspend even sober Democrats. Anyway, government spending is not the most important thing to me.

The things that matter most are what separate us from the libdems.

1. Libdems believe that one belief system is as good as another. This is called moral relativism. America’s founding fathers would disagree.

2. Libdems believe that “war is never the answer.” For fun, I’ll call this idea jimmycarterism. The “Greatest Generation” would disagree.

3. Libdems believe that America is too powerful and that we consume too much of the world’s resources. Such jealousy is at the heart of anti-Americanism.

4. Libdems believe that there is a “wall of separation” between religion and government. This unfounded idea is at the core of secularism. Again, the founding fathers would disagree.

5. Libdems believe that human generated global warming is the most serious problem facing mankind. Let’s call this lunacy algorism.

There are other characteristics of libdems; my friend Dennis Prager has a questionnaire on his web site that will tell you if you are a liberal. It is Prager’s belief that “about half of the Americans who call themselves liberal do not hold the great majority of positions held by mainstream liberal institutions such as the New York Times editorial page, People for the American Way, and the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.”

I agree, with one proviso: Dennis wrote this before the Democratic Party was taken over by its liberal wing (witness Senator Joe Liberman).

Here are a few of his defining statements that illustrate the big five libdem beliefs.

1. No culture is morally superior to any other. The Israelis and Palestinians are morally equivalent.

2. During the Cold War, America should have adopted a nuclear arms freeze. It was wrong to wage war against Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War.

3. The United Nations is a moral force for good in the world, and therefore America should be subservient to it and such international institutions as a world court.

4. It is wrong and unconstitutional for students to be told, "God bless you" at their graduation.

Dennis wrote before algorism was in popular vogue, so I’ll offer this liberal example:

5. The environment is constantly degrading, a problem that is direr even than having weapons of mass destruction in the hands of terrorists.

Liberals in America are joined in these beliefs by liberal foreigners throughout the Western world. I have this on good authority from my blog readers in Canada, Britain, Australia and San Francisco.

In 1787, Scottish history professor Alexander Tyler said about the fall of the Athenian Republic 2,000 years earlier: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

He traced the steps taken by democratic societies from bondage to spiritual faith to great courage to liberty to abundance to complacency to… hades. We in America have great abundance, but have we become complacent, on the path to apathy, dependence and back into bondage? Will we continue to be the strong liberal society devoted to freedom we began as, or will we be weakened from within until the barbarians beat down the gates?

On November 7, we can choose the path of courage or appeasement, of greatness or apathy.