Is Dissent Still Patriotic?
Interesting article today from David Harsanyi of The Denver Post. In it he says;
“Some of you must still believe that politicians are meant to serve rather than be worshiped. Is there anyone who still believes the Constitution was created to ensure each citizen liberty and the ability to pursue happiness rather than a guarantee of happiness — and a retirement fund, health care, a job, an education, a house … ?”
Yes Dave….we are here and we are called Libertarians. 
“Liberals rightly recoil at the prospect of conservatives dictating which morals they should live by. Obama, though, has spent the past year preaching his own brand of morality — with a list of demands.”
As neither a liberal nor a conservative (my stance depends on the issue at hand), I also do not want anyone, no matter what they call themselves dictating how I should live.
“Everyone, you see, “must” sacrifice. Michelle Obama recently explained, “Barack Obama will require you to work. . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”
The whole quote was;
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed”.
I’m so relieved that Obama is going to “require people to work”. I’m tired of being part of the group that does all the work, while others are lazy and expect others to do their share. I come across people all the time in my daily life, that need to “push themselves to be better”. You know who I’m talking about…..the ones who sit back with their hand, and their sense of entitlement out. While the rest of us create opportunities for ourselves and others, give back to those who need it and work to raise awareness about issues that are important to us. So to those people, I say, it’ll be a nice change for the rest of us when Obama “never allows you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed”.
“To require such fealty to power in the name of patriotism was once repugnant to the left. Now, with the right guy in charge, apparently it can once again be embraced.
Change, indeed.”
