Bonnie Parsley of Murrieta penned the following article, published in the The Californian just today. Ms. Parsley’s wisdom is striking and in sharp contrast to the limp-wristed, off the mark writings of most “elite” political commentators. Enjoy:
“Nation needs to return to founding principles”
Posted: February 28, 2010
“Have you wondered why many people today subscribe to a political philosophy of socialism? Why do some people put their faith and trust in government to solve problems? Why are many willing to give up their individual liberty for the common good, i.e., the collective? I believe it’s a failure of our public schools to educate young people about the founding of our country and the principles of freedom it was founded upon.
For more than 100 years, our countrymen have been fighting over whether we should govern from the left —- socialism —- or from the right —- individualism. Why do we continue this argument when there are so many examples from history illustrating the failure of political systems based on the collective?
President Ronald Reagan had a brilliant way of explaining the superiority of our system. In his 1975 speech at CPAC, he said the following:
‘Let’s have no more theorizing when actual comparison is possible. There is in the world a great nation, larger than ours in territory and populated with 250 million capable people. It is rich in resources and has had more than 50 uninterrupted years to practice socialism without opposition.
We could match them, but it would take a little doing on our part. We’d have to cut our paychecks back by 75 percent; move 60 million workers back to the farm; abandon two-thirds of our steelmaking capacity; destroy 40 million television sets; tear up 14 out of every 15 miles of highway; junk 19 of every 20 automobiles; tear up two-thirds of our railroad tracks; knock down 70 percent of our houses; and rip out nine of every 10 telephones. Then all we have to do is find a capitalist country to sell us wheat on credit to keep us from starving!’
What a powerful statement and yet, what is being taught in our schools about the perils of a socialist system? What citizen understands the genius of our founders in setting up our constitutional government? What child, or adult for that matter, understands the difference between a democracy and a republic?
Our founders explicitly ruled out a democracy because it can easily deteriorate into mob rule. They tried their best to ensure that our government would never become corrupt and oppressive. They designed a system of limited federal power, and divided responsibility between three branches of government so that no one branch could become dictatorial.
But we’ve veered off course. For more than 100 years our legislators have been ignoring our Constitution. They take an oath to protect it and defend it; then they ignore it and do as they please. It is time that people stand up and shout, No More!
Reagan said, ‘Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.’
We must fight to restore our republic and return to the principles that gave us the most prosperous, free nation on the planet.”
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy in Guest Authors