In 1858, while running for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln said:
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
At the time, Lincoln was referring to slavery, that the United States could not exist with the states divided. He was right, as three years later, while he was president, the Civil War began.
Now Tony Blankley refers to our once-again divided house, this time divided between freedom and socialism.
Now we enter our history’s second stage in the struggle against the abomination of socialism. Just as slavery had been contained in the South, so entitlement socialism has, until this week, been more or less contained in service to only the poor and the elderly. And even those programs — Medicare and Social Security — rested on the principle of beneficiaries paying monthly premiums for the benefits they will get later. Only the poor under Medicaid received benefit without premium payment.
But now, just as the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 broke through the slave-state limitation to the South, the Democratic Party’s 2010 health care law has broken socialism’s boundary of being so limited. Now, the chains of socialism are to be clamped onto the able-bodied middle class — not merely the already-presumed-helpless poor and old who have paid their insurance premiums.
I saw it observed on Twitter this week, that the last time the nation was this divided it had two presidents: Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
Sad to say we are that divided, but not equally divided. I still do not believe, as The Reverend Al Sharpton maintained, that the American people voted for socialism. Barack Hussein Obama did not run as a socialist, although anyone who really cared to do even cursory research on Him could find out that’s exactly what he was. That’s all He associated Himself with over the years, Marxists, socialists, communists and terrorists. Radical extremists.
But the state-run media, nothing but sycophants for The Messiah, chose to ignore all the evidence and portray Him as a post-racial, post-partisan uniter who was all about hope and change and unicorns. The Anointed One Himself said he was a blank slate, that He was whatever you wanted Him to be.
Now we are stuck with the most divisive political figure in our lifetimes and quite possibly our nation’s history. The next two to three election cycles will determine the fate of our people. An an-CNN poll showed Obama in a dead heat (47 percent apiece) with an unnamed GOP opponent; in other words, in betting terms, “the field.”
But first things first. November 2010 is on the horizons. Voters need to replace as many of the representatives and Senators who shredded the U.S. Constitution between November 2009 and March 2010. Don’t listen to the arguments of the state-run media and concern trolls on blogs and forums that it cannot be done.
It can. And it must. Donate to candidates, work for candidates, vote for candidates who are firmly committed to … Repeal. Replace. Reform. Not the limp-wristed, linguini-spined girlie men afraid of their own shadow — John Cornyn, call your office — who have already backed away from repealing this abomination and instead want to work around the edges to just fix what’s broken.
It’s all broken. To borrow a line from Quint in Jaws:
… the head, the tail, the whole damn thing
Repeal. Replace. Reform. A winning slogan for November.
