red states rule
11-01-2013, 03:13 AM
The John McCain's and Mitch McConnell's need to go for the good of the party and the nation
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Fisher Ames was a great man. He also had a great name (I couldn't resist). But this original, almost completely forgotten Conservative philosopher said something hundreds of years ago that is as relevant in the world today as wigs and horses were back when he said it.
Ames said, "Society is the substratum of government."
By that he meant that culture, in many ways, steers the ship of state. As the values of the culture change, voters will elect people who embody and represent those changing values. It doesn't matter if those changes in morals were brought on by the media, the church, a partisan and biased educational system, or all of the above; the people eventually get what they want. If their wants shift in a certain direction, regardless of the cause, in a representative republic the government will eventually change with it.
The establishment Republicans -- who have shown a far more robust proclivity to attack Tea Party conservatives than attacking the socialist left -- have been living at odds with this sentiment. They seem to believe in the culture of money and Democrat-Light government that plays dog to the societal tail.
Take for example the GOP establishment's efforts to turn the course of the party on gay marriage (http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/1.%20http://www.standard.net/stories/2013/10/21/big-republican-donors-want-kinder-gentler-gop-gay-rights). Wealthy GOP donors claim to want to open the floodgates of campaign cash to Republican candidates; but they're worried about the party brand being tainted by those crazy Conservatives and their anti-gay marriage proselytizing.
What's revealing about this mentality is that the issue of gay marriage has absolutely nothing to do with gays or marriage. On the contrary, gay marriage laws have everything to do with the left's continuing effort to push religion out of the public space and get biblical teachings branded as hate speech.
We've seen the proof of this in places like Massachusetts, where one of the oldest, longest-serving Catholic Charities adoption centers decided to close its doors (http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/2.%20http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/191kgwgh.asp)rather than violate their religious principles and comply with state law that mandates they give children to gay couples.
In short, the Church was forced to retreat from the public sphere.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/the_alinsky_republicans.html#ixzz2jNasAspI
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Fisher Ames was a great man. He also had a great name (I couldn't resist). But this original, almost completely forgotten Conservative philosopher said something hundreds of years ago that is as relevant in the world today as wigs and horses were back when he said it.
Ames said, "Society is the substratum of government."
By that he meant that culture, in many ways, steers the ship of state. As the values of the culture change, voters will elect people who embody and represent those changing values. It doesn't matter if those changes in morals were brought on by the media, the church, a partisan and biased educational system, or all of the above; the people eventually get what they want. If their wants shift in a certain direction, regardless of the cause, in a representative republic the government will eventually change with it.
The establishment Republicans -- who have shown a far more robust proclivity to attack Tea Party conservatives than attacking the socialist left -- have been living at odds with this sentiment. They seem to believe in the culture of money and Democrat-Light government that plays dog to the societal tail.
Take for example the GOP establishment's efforts to turn the course of the party on gay marriage (http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/1.%20http://www.standard.net/stories/2013/10/21/big-republican-donors-want-kinder-gentler-gop-gay-rights). Wealthy GOP donors claim to want to open the floodgates of campaign cash to Republican candidates; but they're worried about the party brand being tainted by those crazy Conservatives and their anti-gay marriage proselytizing.
What's revealing about this mentality is that the issue of gay marriage has absolutely nothing to do with gays or marriage. On the contrary, gay marriage laws have everything to do with the left's continuing effort to push religion out of the public space and get biblical teachings branded as hate speech.
We've seen the proof of this in places like Massachusetts, where one of the oldest, longest-serving Catholic Charities adoption centers decided to close its doors (http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/2.%20http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/191kgwgh.asp)rather than violate their religious principles and comply with state law that mandates they give children to gay couples.
In short, the Church was forced to retreat from the public sphere.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/the_alinsky_republicans.html#ixzz2jNasAspI