So this morning I was called a bigot by some whiny liberal who works at the local PBS affiliate. SHOCK, I know, a liberal working for public broadcasting! Anyway, he called me a bigot in response to an observation I made on Twitter about the people who showed up to protest Sarah Palin when she visited Rochester this weekend.
I had said:
HILARIOUS seeing footage of local #ROC Palin protesters. Group of ppl never called on first in gym & abstinent not by choice
A slightly subjective yet largely accurate description of the fat beard-draped hippies and indoctrinated college students holding up signs in a futile attempt to gain their parents attention.
Considering the racial component to the term, bigot, I couldn’t quite make the connection between my subjective but accurate description and the response I received. Because this person works for the local media, I pulled out my dictionary and made the assumption that he was aware of the libel and slander laws and not suggesting I was a racist, as so many liberals do. Especially since there was absolutely nothing racial or even gender biased in my state. So instead, I wanted to use the strictest dictionary definition I could and assume that he was attempting to say, I was intolerant, in general, of opposing ideas.
Putting aside the fact that the protesters themselves are bigoted, in this strictest sense, I will admit I am intolerant and proudly so. I am intolerant of socialism, fascism, marxism and all the other “isms” that put the government in control of our lives and are embraced by the American left. I am intolerant, for our nation, of anything short of capitalism and representative democracy. Most important, I am not just intolerant of these philosophies but often the people who espouse them. Many of these people are well intentioned and unaware of the consequences of their actions. They are like children heading toward an open electrical socket with a fork in hand. I will not tolerate their actions to place fork in socket, not so much because I worry about their safety but am unwilling to withstand the damage it may do to the wiring of the house and all of us who live here.
There is a growing belief that we can somehow fuse socialism and capitalism. This is popular among modern liberals, progressives, Democrats and sadly many elected Republicans. This notion has been tried throughout Europe and it has failed. Over the last eight to ten years it has been tried in the United States, it has failed. It was tried during the Great Depression, it failed. It continues to be tried throughout Latin America, it always fails.
Every time socialism has been fused with capitalism, the same result occurs. Socialism often begins as simple and sometimes well intentioned programs to alleviate fleeting moments of collective suffering. It becomes a growing organism that demands more fuel. Socialism, like cancer, consumes and spreads, it eats alive everything it was intended to protect and drains from the body of society, all the resources it can. Giving government control over the means and distribution of production with the intention that it produce things, is always a prescription for more government and eventually the destruction of competition, individualism and freedom.
The history of full blown communist, marxist, socialist and National Socialist or fascist societies is far worse. After a short time of revival, the economies of these societies plummet and human suffering becomes catastrophic.
Modern progressives have cleverly wrapped their intentions in the cloak of what appears to be an embrace of Capitalism light. They despise being called socialists or marxists and will fight the use of these terms even as they espouse more Government control and the expansion of existing programs. They also ignore the very real definition of fascism by preemptively labeling anyone who opposes their agenda a fascist and/or racist with no regard for the true meaning of either word.
During the 2008 election then candidate Barack Obama promised Americans tax cuts, knowing that in 2000 and 2004 opposition to lessoning government control resulted in Democrat losses. Every attempt by those on the right to point out his true agenda, was met with fierce calls by his allies that the right was simply racist, fascist and misusing the term socialist.
Since the opening moments of the Obama administration, however, the President has offered one massive Government intervention after another and has stood in support of more from the Democrat Congress. The agenda feared by the right during the election was actually a less invasive and costly one than what Obama has given us. America is still waiting for tax cuts and the fiscal responsibility eventually embraced by President Clinton after his disastrous first two liberal years in office.
My opposition to the modern left and to these “isms” is not unlike opposition to fighting fire with more fire. Every solution proposed by the left today is counter intuitive. Sadly much of it was started during the waining years of the Bush administration and the reign of an often corrupt and inept Republican Congress. Both sought to build “consensus” and reach “across Party lines” to find some grey middle-ground of consensus. The left and their many Republican partners have embraced and presented a world in which conviction, decision informed by experience and simple common sense are simply misguided attempts to be intolerant or racist.
Capitalism is the most beautiful system ever designed for the distribution of resources and wealth. It does not provide for all and it never promised to. Rather, it gives the greatest opportunity for those who are willing to put their God given ability to work. It is not perfect, no system is perfect. In comparison, socialism, marxism, fascism and communism are utter wastelands, failures in every regard that should be disregarded and discredited at every opportunity. In every experiment each has failed. The ideologies themselves are the root cause of what always becomes the creation of the most suffering, for the most people, over the longest periods of time. While Capitalism is not perfect, it has lead in every experiment to the most happiness, for the most people, for the longest periods of time.
Capitalism’s greatest failure is often weak defenders during troubled times. During moments of suffering, our system is always assaulted by the weak. They present even the slightest moments of suffering by the smallest margins of people as evidence of Capitalism’s failure and are always unwilling to accept that the alternatives are many times worse. Oddly enough, these people who are the most intolerant of the byproduct of nature selection, often cloak themselves as adherents to the scientific method and believers in natural evolution, yet they will not accept the overwhelming conclusive evidence that socialist philosophy in all of its deviations will always fail.
I am intolerant of what we all know both instinctually and factually to be untrue. That temporary moments of suffering are evidence that our entire way of life is wrong. That massive government control will lead to greater wealth and further human happiness. That human beings must be controlled in the greatest way for the greatest benefit to all.
I am proudly intolerant of systems that will destroy this nation. I am proudly intolerant of the misguided people who wish to deny all the evidence presented to them in favor of an adherence to a morally bankrupt series of philosophies. I make no apologies for my intolerance and feel it sad that so many people born into our glorious Republic feel the need to.
I do more than tolerate my intolerance, I embrace it because of the overwhelming evidence that the Founders and our nation is right. Yes, I also smugly laugh and prod those who are intolerant on the other side. I do so because of the irony and absurdity of watching them demonize their opposition by scapegoating their intolerance while they are unwilling to embrace fully their adherence to socialism in any of its forms. I am proud of what I am, the nation I live in and the philosophy I adhere to. Why aren’t they?
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