Those Dinosauric Republicans Never Have Any New Ideas!
Published By: All Right Magazine on July 1, 2009
By K. L. KRAEMER
Responding to the title, I first want to point out that the Republican party does have their idea generators. Take, for instance, Newt Gingrich. The media doesn’t focus much on his versatility, but no one can make your eyes and head spin like a roulette machine the way he can in the numbers game of relevant ideas. However, having many, many ideas really isn’t the measure of try in making America as great as she can be, and new ideas are not the point of an American platform.
With Republicans, it is their strong suit that that they don’t come up with new ways to interfere with the American way of life. Blind rejoicing over ideas just because they are new, and no matter if they turn out to be crummy at the core and detrimental in the long run, is not rational. Such lack of rational thinking is one symptom of the systematic dumbing down that America has undergone over the past 40 years. The bulk of our citizens are becoming, by design of liberal educators, progressively ignorant of America’s founding principles as the years pass; they think new ways have always got to be better than old, and that’s that. A lack of education about our founding is one reason why the leftists are succeeding in destroying this great country, the place where many other freedom lovers come to flee their once-great countries destroyed by liberalism.
When Obama called Republicans the ‘party of no,’ it resonated. Why? Because the word ‘no’ is an automatic negative in and of itself; and many people didn’t care to think beyond the surface of the word’s meaning to look at its context. When saying ‘no,’ to passing a bill that no one had time to read, or to closed door sessions in the wee hours of the morning, or to burdensome taxing, spending, borrowing, printing money, is it really a negative? Saying ‘no’ to foolish ideas is a positive. It’s wiser to leave things alone than to make them worse.
Consider that good ol’ American dinosaur values never go extinct because the basic needs and nature of humans don’t change. Our people in choosing their governing goals have traditionally dealt with reality to make the best decisions suitable for all in striving toward a mainstream type of the good life. We believe all individuals are valuable and have the potential to succeed in playing the hand they’ve been dealt for their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Those old tried-and-true ideas don’t need to be changed, maybe just fine-tuned now and then. It still stands true today that in wanting a healthier, more productive country, the capable should not be handcuffed in favor of the less capable. Instead, the most competent people need free reign in using their abilities to find ways to discover and manufacture what others need, want, and are willing to pay for. It’s a sharing endeavor from which all can reap maximized benefits.
It is true that some people are born with a seeming advantage over others, but that is not a situation that the President and Congress have the wisdom or ability in judgment to remedy. Trying to even out the field causes more problems and an unnatural type of unfairness; and it’s not good for the overall health of the country. The government still chooses certain people to give advantages to who no longer need them. In knowing that, I for one say, well, let’s do away with Affirmative Action as its usefulness has run its course. Black America has proven it can shine on the power of their own talent without help from the government. The best thing the government can do for all minorities is to stop telling them they are minorities who are therefore disadvantaged. Just let them be and fit in as people. What an idea!
For those who truly are disadvantaged, the government does have its place but there again, the private organizations are far superior to the government in helping those disadvantaged. Since America has been so productive in the past, she has also been very charitable throughout her past.
The government is really supposed to be a back-seat player, to have a rather limited role. Its basic purpose isn’t to dig around looking for problems to solve with hope-and-change ideas and then force solutions at our expense, but to make sure each person has the opportunity to use their own tools, resources, talents, determination, ability–whatever they care to use–in order to compete in life. Government should let the Capitalistic system work, with their main role being to make sure our environment is safe from criminal intruders both outside and inside the country. And if government oversight is needed somewhere, we as the people will ask by name for it.
So to the dear government, I say please stop telling us we must follow your solutions. Stop polluting the mainstream and imposing your new ideas upon us, especially when we vote against such impositions. Please don’t concentrate so hard on being new without keeping the traditional truths intact; and, especially, I ask that you remember this idea of old: Being elected by us means you work for us.
K. L. KRAEMER is a Christian writer and poet who knows a good idea when it appears.
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