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Wikipedia, for all of its faults, defines paternalism as "the quality of being paternal, i.e. like a father, e.g. characterized by behaving in benevolent and yet intrusive manner towards underlings."
People who have called themselves liberal since the late sixties, found it necessary to paternalize those who would comprise their constituents, or underlings.
Neo-liberal, as opposed to classical liberal, philosophy emphasized that people were not directly responsible for their own prosperity and well-being, but that the "establishment" had this obligation. The Neo-Liberals further defined classes of their constituents or underlings, such as ethnic-Americans, LGBT, and other "victims", thus relieving them of the responsibility for their own happiness and prosperity. Furthermore, Neo-Liberals taught this taxonomy to thoughtful young people who were in their care, and under color of their professorial authority, without the benefit of also teaching these students the lessons of Locke, Hayek, Smith or even Friedman.
Rather, these students’ emotions and good intentions were exploited by these professors to enforce their own notions of Democrat paternalism.
Indeed, Hayek wrote the Democrat Party playbook, “The Road to Serfdom”. If the party of Obama’s arrogance and expectations of underlings to fall in line was not made crystal clear during the convention week, then a generation of people may be doomed to be the serfs, the underlings, until the majority of people realize that individual liberty is far more precious then the false security of being taken care of by the machine.
The Democrat Party, who has put party before country, has nominated the most radical left wing candidate in history. Barack Obama is a man who lacks appreciation for the rights of the individual, believes in the primacy of government, who is punitive against an economic class of Americans, who has allied himself with corrupt Democrat party apparatchiks, and militant Palestinian causes.
Barack Obama lies and obfuscates with great ease, about his record, and the history of those with whom he has let into his circle of influence.
Barack Obama has was a member of a racist, anti-Semitic church for twenty years, and stated that he could not disown his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, any more than his own grandmother, "who is a typical white person". Obama disowned his pastor when it became expedient for him to do so.
Senator McCain may not be the most conservative man running on the GOP ticket, but I assure you it is necessary to vote for him for the following reasons.
1. Supreme Court - Who ever fills the soon vacant positions on the SCOTUS will determine the fate of individual liberty and rights, and hold the government powers at bay, for at least a generation.
As evidence, I offer that the interpretation of the 2nd amendment, which is one of the most clearly articulated amendments in the constitution, was decided by a 5-4 split.
2. War on Terror - Left wingers have common cause with Islamists who desire to destroy Western Democracy. Sharia is very consistent with Marxism. The most radical left wing groups are allied with Barack Obama. The War against Islamism was NOT MENTIONED ONCE in the debates held during the Democrat primary debates.
3. The resurgence of Russian nationalism - Our new allies who have chosen freedom and capitalism in the former east block, are understandably nervous not only about Russia's intent, but the steadfastness of their sponsor, indeed the historical sponsor of liberty, the United States of America. Global power can shift swiftly, with much blood shed without the steadfastness of the strength and determination of American leadership. This could result in our country making very bloody and costly compromises with the enemies of freedom. Left-wingers, such as Obama do not understand this dynamic, and are quick to blame the United States for the transgressions of those who seek to destroy Western Democracies.
4. Iran – Persians are held hostage by an islamist theocracy who vow to make Shia the most powerful form of Islam and a dominant force in the global community. They intend to do it by threat of nuclear force, similar to Mohammed’s quest to spread his beliefs to enrich himself and his followers. Iran is an existential threat not only to reliable Western democracies like Israel, but to our Arab trading partners. Arabs may not be reliably pro-American, but the instability an Iranian adventure would cause would disrupt the world’s economies, causing suffering amongst billions of people.
5. President Bush and the Country Club Republicans who ran this country from 2001 – 2006, has indebted this country to the Chinese and the Arabs, who collectively own hundreds of billions of dollars of American debt, and have effectively removed much needed leverage to assert American diplomacy in the world. This situation needs to be reversed immediately, starting with an increase of American energy production, an increase in the value of the American dollar, and a show to the world that American has the will and the fortitude to back up our policies.
6. Obama’s headline is “America is better than this”, which implies that we are weak and deficient. The only reason for any fatigue at this point is the continuous criticism, undermining, and hysterics that have emanated from the Democrat Party and their Establishment media partners.
7. Four years of Obama would effectively disenfranchise those Americans who work hard to be productive citizens, demoralize them and remove the democratic barriers which cause unchecked government growth of power and the unfair redistribution of people’s property. We would, in fact, become closer to socialism then the Democratic Republic we are now.
