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America’s
Ideological Dependency
Eats Away at Freedom
EDITORIAL
Frank Salvato
July 6, 2004 |
Ideology is a good thing, I suppose. A
thoughtful and serious person who chooses to adventure into the political
climate of today has to have one. But too often ideology is the downfall of
the political arena. It lends itself to the demise of debate and discussion
because in all honesty, ideology seldom, if ever, works in reality.
Ideology, all things considered, is the appropriate and advantageous place
for tolerance and flexibility.
Our Forefathers knew ideology alone wouldn’t achieve the country they set
out to create, a country of freedom and liberty. Recently, I read that upon
leaving the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, in 1787, Benjamin
Franklin was asked whether Americans had a monarchy or republic. "A
republic," responded the revolutionary sage, "if you can keep it." He said
this, I believe, because he knew that the element of ideology, left
unchecked by reality, would start to whittle away at the very fabric of our
newly formed nation.
Today we see the infection of unchecked ideology spreading faster than the
Ebola virus in a virus friendly Petri dish. This societal ailment has
embedded itself on both sides of the aisle but if one is to look at the
total spectrum, from Liberal-Left to Radical-Right, it is quite clear the
infection of unchecked ideology has especially ensconced itself in the area
spanning from Left to Liberal-Left.
Many critics of the Right – or the conservative movement – contend their
vision of the United States remains puritanical in nature, devoid of an
expanding vision and lacking any tolerance for a politically correct,
globalist future for our country. In actuality the conservative movement has
embraced the idea of preserving traditionalism in an age that sees
traditionalism threatened by multicultural fanaticism.
Conservatives believe our Constitution shouldn’t be considered a guideline –
unlike Al Gore’s attorneys during the court battle of the 2000 election – or
a tool with which to force ones beliefs onto another. Rather, conservatives
believe our Constitution should be revered as the law of the land for all to
protect and uphold. The conservative movement believes in the American
people’s ability to rise to the occasion, in their ingenuity. They believe
that entitlement, government programs in mass and laws regulating every
aspect of our daily lives infringe on the right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness and that government intervention in our daily lives
should be held to a necessary minimum. In a nutshell, the conservative
movement believes that while it is eyebrow raising to not say "under God” in
the Pledge of Allegiance there shouldn’t be a law that outlaws those who
don’t want to say it. There is the pesky freedom of speech provision after
all.
By contrast, the Left has more ideological factions than a Douglas Fir has
needles. There is the NEA, which champions a globalist multicultural agenda
in our public schools. Their agenda includes seeing children forced to
participate in the study of the Quran in California under the guise of
multicultural tolerance while doing everything to banish Christianity from
our nations classrooms in total. There is the ACLU who sued the City of Los
Angeles in an effort to remove a cross from their city seal and who chose to
represent NAMBLA; a group that advocates sex between men and boys, in a
murder trial under the pretext of free speech. There is the National
Organization for Women and the National Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Action League who, with out a mandate by the medical community on when life
actually begins, has championed as a natural right the act of partial birth
abortion. These are but a very few of the "causes” and "action groups” that
effectively comprise the Left and the Liberal-Left.
Incidentally, each time the ACLU brings suit against a governmental body in
an effort to remove religious – and most often Christian – symbols from the
public arena they have the right to recoup their legal fees from the
government via taxpayer dollars.
Even more disturbing organizations of the Liberal-Left are groups like
MoveOn.org and America Coming Together that simply want to push the
ideological agenda of the Liberal-Left in total. MoveOn.org and ACT have
proven they will collect money from anyone and do anything, including
purposely clouding the issues to the point of lying and promoting ad
"contests” that see winners equating elected officials with Adolph Hitler,
in order to achieve their goal; the advancement of the Liberal-Left’s agenda
and the indoctrination of the United States into the multicultural,
globalist society. This indoctrination would forfeit certain sovereign
rights our nation currently possesses, sovereign rights that our
revolutionary Forefathers fought and died to secure. This indoctrination
would forfeit these sovereign rights to the United Nations in return for an
equal voice, yet we would shoulder most of the burdens of the world due to
our people’s personal successes. One needs only to look at The Law of the
Sea Treaty, originally a part of the UN’s New International Economic Order
Agenda to see this deceptive schema at work.
In a contrasting nutshell, the Liberal-Left – not the moderate, mainstream
Left, so let’s get this correct – would rather ban the phrase "under God”
from the American lexicon so as not to offend even the least numbers among
us, all the while denying the freedom of doing so to those who would like
to, which in this case is the majority of Americans.
Ideology, in all actuality, is simply theory. Anyone who took science
classes in high school and college can attest to the fact that not all
theories pan out when they are applied in reality. Most times there are
unseen, unaccounted for variables. In human nature those variables are
infinite.
I believe the Liberal-Left in this country has not accounted for America’s
hunger for traditional freedom, a hunger possessed by the silent majority in
our country. It will be this miscalculation that will see the Liberal-Left
defeated ninety percent of the time, especially come this November.
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