Peter Lemiska is a military veteran and former Senior Special Agent of the U.S. Secret Service. He holds a BA in psychology, and his commentaries can be found at renewamerica.com and various other political websites.
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Obama’s election in 2008 might have been attributed to a naïve electorate that saw a new kind of politician, one filled with inspiration and hope. Or perhaps it was nothing more than mindless enthusiasm generated by America’s first African-American President. With this election, we now know that the country has fundamentally changed. It’s been remolded by Socialists and Communists who have wormed their way into our government, the news media, and our education system. The younger generation has been particularly influenced. One poll shows that 60 percent of the youth vote went to Obama.
This election suggests that the America of past generations is gone. The Obama supporters have forgotten, or never learned those values that made the country great, like hard work, personal responsibility, and selflessness. They have long ago forgotten the inspirational words of John F. Kennedy, Democratic leader from a bygone era, who called for some of that selflessness when he proclaimed, “Ask not what your country can do for you...” That’s exactly what today’s voters are asking. They are inspired by promises of free contraceptives, free health care, and free education. In fact, they demand nothing less than cradle-to-tomb care guaranteed by the government, and funded by the taxpayer.
There was another world leader from Kennedy’s era who comes to mind. He said something not particularly inspirational, but just as memorable. In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, predicted the demise of Capitalism and free enterprise, announcing to the West, “We will bury you.” Fifty six years later, his prediction has come to pass.
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Meanwhile, much of the rest of the world understands how to integrate a working social welfare system with a carefully regulated capitalist economy and a modern parliamentary system of governance. They understand that military spending is wasteful, and conflict interferes with trade, and therefore with growth of per capita GDP. They understand that wealth inequality damages the basic social structure and damages incentive structures. America is rich because of a bunch of inherent advantages and some good historical decisions, but idiots like this who don't understand how to preserve those advantages will ultimately wreck the whole system...
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They refuse to recognize that "hard work, personal responsibility, and selflessness" usually have little to do w/ it; admitting the U.S. isn't exceptional in a good way would undermine their entire ideo-theology of the deserving & not-deserving.
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