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WND
Commentary…
We
Belong to the Government
By Joseph Farah
September 6, 2012
Do
you belong to the government?
If
you want to understand why the
Democratic Party represents the gravest threat to America’s freedom,
all you
really need to know is that the convention planners in Charlotte didn’t
see
anything wrong with a video shown there Tuesday night.
They
made the video. They must have
thought it was very good. I’m sure they listened carefully to every
word
uttered and every image shown before approving it for broadcast to the
entire
nation.
I
don’t know what the video was
called by the producers, but, from now on, it will be known as the
“Government
is the only thing we all belong to” video. You can see the relevant 17
seconds
right here.
This
is the philosophy of the
Democratic Party. This is the way the hierarchy of the party thinks.
Democrats
really believe in government – the bigger the better.
But,
more importantly, they believe
the people are subjects of government. The government doesn’t belong to
the
people, rather we belong to the government.
This,
of course, is quite at odds
with the kind of government our Founding Fathers conceived for America
– a
government, as Abraham Lincoln explained, “of the people, by the people
and for
the people.” In America, from the very beginning, the difference would
be that
we don’t belong to the government, it belongs to us.
Democrats
don’t get that concept.
They want America to renounce its unique experiment in liberty and go
the way of
the rest of the world. They call themselves “progressives,” but, in
this most
important way, they demonstrate they are actually “retrogressives” –
moving
America away from self-government, individual rights and limited
constitutional
government to a system in which the people are “of the government, by
the
government and for the government.”
Maybe
you think I’m making too much
of what was revealed in 17 seconds of a video played at the Democratic
convention. But I don’t think so. Occasionally, I think the Democrats
mean just
what they say. It’s a very big deal that a video message carefully
scripted and
crafted to be shown at its presidential nominating convention and
presented to
a national TV audience made the point that “the government is the only
thing we
all belong to…
Read
the rest of the article at WND
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