Mark West
R.I.P. Bushism
By Mark West
November 4th, 2008, should be known as the night Bushism died.
Sound too harsh? Well, the main-stream media got it wrong, as usual! Hailing this election as the replacement of Reaganism, they grossly misunderstand and misrepresent what went wrong for Republicans.
Bushism does not equal Reaganism, in spite of what you hear pushed by the main-stream media. To their disdain, I must inform them that it was merely a false image of Reaganism that was dispelled. True Reaganism/Conservatism would not have lost this election.
Self-evident truths drive the purpose of our Declaration of Independence. Can you name them? #1 Equality, #2 Unalienable Rights (Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness), #3 Government empowerment by we the people to secure our rights, #4 Government altering, replacement, or destruction, by we the people when it destroys our rights. Please note, the Declaration states that God made us equal and endowed us with our rights. The Declaration states that God is the provider of our rights...not Government. Government is limited in this regard.
The Preamble to the Constitution lays out the purpose of the Constitution. The Constitution is supposed to be the "higher" law of the land that our Government must abide by in securing our rights. The Constitution's purposes are to: #1 form a more perfect union, #2 establish justice, #3 provide for the common defense, #4 promote the general welfare, and #5 secure the Blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
Conservatives adhere to the Constitutional function of a limited Government. Government is to provide national defense and to protect our rights. Government is not to provide our general welfare, only to promote it. Such are the tenets of true Reaganism.
Unfortunately, Bushism seeks, as do liberals, to provide the general welfare. Our founding fathers intelligently understood that no Government could afford to provide general welfare to all, only to selected few. They knew that if our Government were to attempt such, as it has since Reagan left office, it would create massive divisions between the haves of the State and the have nots.
Reviving and revamping Reaganism will reunite our nation around the principles we share rather than divide us over the issues we don't.
© Mark West
November 7, 2008
November 4th, 2008, should be known as the night Bushism died.
Sound too harsh? Well, the main-stream media got it wrong, as usual! Hailing this election as the replacement of Reaganism, they grossly misunderstand and misrepresent what went wrong for Republicans.
Bushism does not equal Reaganism, in spite of what you hear pushed by the main-stream media. To their disdain, I must inform them that it was merely a false image of Reaganism that was dispelled. True Reaganism/Conservatism would not have lost this election.
Self-evident truths drive the purpose of our Declaration of Independence. Can you name them? #1 Equality, #2 Unalienable Rights (Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness), #3 Government empowerment by we the people to secure our rights, #4 Government altering, replacement, or destruction, by we the people when it destroys our rights. Please note, the Declaration states that God made us equal and endowed us with our rights. The Declaration states that God is the provider of our rights...not Government. Government is limited in this regard.
The Preamble to the Constitution lays out the purpose of the Constitution. The Constitution is supposed to be the "higher" law of the land that our Government must abide by in securing our rights. The Constitution's purposes are to: #1 form a more perfect union, #2 establish justice, #3 provide for the common defense, #4 promote the general welfare, and #5 secure the Blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
Conservatives adhere to the Constitutional function of a limited Government. Government is to provide national defense and to protect our rights. Government is not to provide our general welfare, only to promote it. Such are the tenets of true Reaganism.
Unfortunately, Bushism seeks, as do liberals, to provide the general welfare. Our founding fathers intelligently understood that no Government could afford to provide general welfare to all, only to selected few. They knew that if our Government were to attempt such, as it has since Reagan left office, it would create massive divisions between the haves of the State and the have nots.
Reviving and revamping Reaganism will reunite our nation around the principles we share rather than divide us over the issues we don't.
© Mark West
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