Dakota Beacon

Which approach draws out the best in the human organism?

1) Allow people the freedom to think, produce, earn and interact in ways that benefit everyone who chooses to think, produce, and earn.

or

2) Expect thinkers and producers to think and produce, but cap earnings at a level considered "fair" and then confiscate "excess" earnings to redistribute to people who choose not to think and produce.

Revealing, it is, that today's Progressive-in-Chief, Barack Obama, boasts of delivering "the most progressive legislative agenda" in decades in order to "shape history for the better." Obama's pronouncement summarizes the mission that progressives see in life. Yet every single attempt by progressives to "shape history for the better" has consisted of social engineering that produces misery.

Obama's words highlight the most fundamental difference between progressives (or "liberals") and conservatives/libertarians. Conservatives and libertarians allow people to make history without government interference. Progressives/liberals use government to force people in directions set by progressives/liberals.

"Shapers" of history have painted pictures that turned out ugly. To "shape" is to control. History's shapers have one predominant mode of operation: control.

History's heroes, on the other hand, were tapped by desperate people in times of great need. The heroes didn't set out to lead and rarely sought control, but instead wanted the people to be in control.

Think shapers and think Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez. Think misery, great misery. Hundreds of millions starving, suffering, and dead in the name of centralized visions of perfection.

Think heroes and think quiet men on whose shoulders fell the task of setting people free to save themselves. Think Washington, Lincoln, Coolidge, Churchill, Reagan.

Think of Barack Obama's "most progressive legislative agenda" in decades put forth to "shape history for the better." As the Heritage Foundation documents, Obama made the remarks

…at the Beverly Hills home of  “West Wing” producer John Wells, after the string quartet quieted down, President Barack Obama told the assembled Hollywood elite, who paid $2,500 a person for cocktails and $30,400 a couple for dinner: “We have been able to deliver the most progressive legislative agenda – one that helps working families – not just in one generation, maybe two, maybe three.” Half an hour later, after the President concluded “Even as the other side wants to offer fear, we’re going to offer hope,” the Beverly Hills crowd responded with loud applause.

Beverly Hills crowd indeed. And the hopey crap once again. Enough.

Elitist snobs without any economic worries have a nasty habit of looking down their noses at the unenlightened masses. The behaviors we are seeing in our arrogant ruling class is scary similar to the behaviors of the "visionary" elitist shapers in the list four paragraphs above.

Damned concerned, we ought to be. Damned determined, we must be, to kick the progressives out of power this November and the Progressive-in-Chief out of the White House in 2012.

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