Murder/Suicide

I just read this comment in response to an essay castigating David Frum, suggesting he isn't quite the "conservative" he claims to be.

"The problem with the conservative movement is that it is a movement of principles, which is fine if you have a principally-homogeneous society. But we do not. America is a disparate, far-flung society with no shared sets of values. In such a political environment it's either rule or be ruled, and the only type of political movement that can survive in that environment is a party based on interests, not on principles.

If the Republican party wants to be relevant again then it needs to be a party of interests, the objective, material, class-interests of the middle-class. What is good for the middle-class is bad for the underclass, and what is good for the underclass is bad for the middle-class. So, it is in the objective, material, class-interests of the middle-class to have class-warfare, war on the poor. The Republican party can only be electorally relevant by promising the middle-class protections against the rapaciousness of the politically-connected and the social degeneracy of the underclass.

The war on poverty needs to become a war on the poor."

This is very disturbing, considering that it is the very Liberal policies Conservatives stand against that created the environment that this commenter describes. I worry that he's right. And that without secession and separation, there is no longer any hope to re-establish our Founding Principles and Values because so many of the interest groups rummaging within the American landscape are not remotely interested in America, but merely what they can "get" from it.

Leftist and leeches assume that no matter how they change it, how they undermine it, how much they take and steal from it...America will remain the same, rich, free, prosperous, promising country as always.

They never, ever learn that it is the principles and values of Conservatism that made...and continue to make, this country the one they all benefit from. And as they undermine those principles and values, substituting them with their own entitlement collectivism, there will be no more goose providing all those golden eggs.

Liberal/Leftists are like mindless animals, living only in the moment, without a memory of the horrors and misery brought on by their staggeringly destructive policies in the past...and the inability to foresee the obvious implications and consequences of those same policies in the future.

I just don't see how we can share a civilization with these people. They are brutally self-destructive. Never mind the other people they will ruin with their selfish, "I've got it coming" mentality; they are sowing the seeds of their own harvest of ruin and misery.

What is wrong with them?

"Eat the wealthy and we'll all be rich.
Destroy capitalism and we'll all be rich.
Cripple the producers and we'll all be rich.
Squander resources in losing concerns and we'll all be rich.
Consume without producing, and we'll all be rich."

Not a single one of them or their leaders seem to understand how there might be a problem with this formula.

It doesn't have anything to do with legislation. It doesn't have anything to do with force. In the final analysis, it doesn't have anything to do with who "won the election". It won't work. Doesn't matter if you hold a gun to a (formerly) rich guy's head. When you've stolen all his money, and destroyed his business, he won't have any money left to support socialist policies and programs.

Socialist programs have to be funded by something. And that's why they always end up making the rich poor and the poor, poorer.

East Germany and the rest of the Eastern Block under communism are perfect examples, as are North Korea & Cuba. The degeneration of healthcare in Britain and Canada are equally instructive.

Leftist/Liberal policies are essentially murder/suicide.

First you bleed those that produce the wealth that fund your policies, and once they are drained, your policies—without a living host to suck from—die like blood-starved leeches.

Maybe we need to change our argument. We usually talk about principles, but the people we're trying to convince don't have any.

Maybe we need to focus on the pure and undeniable unsustainability of their Utopian fantasies, and where they inevitably lead—and the dreary consequences to themselves.

Maybe we need to concentrate on the "suicide" factor of the equation. The "murder" part doesn't seem to bother them at all.

The Gunslinger