Terry Selby Says

We Lost the Culture War:

Since the election I have been trying to make sense out of my not getting one of my candidates elected to anything. Not even school board. I lost every election that I voted in. Not a single win.

As I have looked at what this means I have come to the following conclusions ;

1. Simply; We lost because we (what has been called conservatives) are no longer the majority. We are now the minority.
2. The loss of the majority view has been happening over a long time but is slowly but surely been happening.
   As I think about how the progressive movement has become the majority we only have to look at how we became the welfare state. How our thinking about government has gone from “I am an individual with with responsibilities and obligations and a social contract with my government. That government can not nor should not intervene in my daily living. That I have inalienable rights to include all the the rights guaranteed us in the constitution and the individual pursuit of happiness, and individual freedoms which used to be at the heart of our society have been replaced.
   3. What has replaced the notion of freedom is a societal norm that first asks what can the government do for me. It is not my fault it is somebody else. It is the governments problem to make laws and enforce them. Call a cope, call welfare, call the school, call the city, call the county, call the state, call the States Attorney, call the federal government, call a lawyer. We now look to government to mediate, solve, enforce, make and change our moral, inter and intra relationships by making and enforcing rules and regulations. We now have rules and regulations that say who I can associate with, how I have to speak in the public square. I can not even advocate competition and winning as a good thing to have as a goal. We now have a culture that has no losers and no winners.
   4. The major problem is in how we discuss the problems with our society and government in particular. For example: all you need to know about government at this point is that we barrow $.46 of every dollar the government spends and we can not seem to stop doing this. The problem comes when government uses our own personal special interests, what I call “good ideas” against us to get us to vote for them. We take sides and have been told that the Reps/Dems can fix the problem and then the problem never gets fixed. Since those in power only give us the two choices then we only have the other side to blame. It can not be my side that is wrong. How has this been working for them?.

There is nobody that thinks we can spend borrowed money day in and day out to the tune of Trillions of dollars with out destroying our selves. Yet that is what we are doing. Why: because my side has a “good idea”. Every idea that our government pays for was somebodies “good idea” That is why we continue to argue about a particular idea when in fact the problem is not the good idea the problem is we borrow $.46 of every dollar spent on all the good ideas.

With 4 million Federal, 3 million state and 11 million local public employees all with lifetime benefits at some level, do we think there can ever be a change by voting in a one man one vote system. Every person votes their own special interest. The problem is not the 18 million public employees, or the 47% who only take but do not pay or the 4 million on welfare or the 47 million on food stamps. The problem is we have given up our way of life to a government that can not get out of its own way and to a majority of well meaning people with “good ideas” that are borrowing $.46 of every dollar we spend to support all the “good ideas”. Gov. Huckabee said yesterday about the shooting in Ct. “the shooting happened because we have systematically removed God from the classroom”. He will be publicly attacked for such a politically incorrect statement. Why??

If he is saying that Government can not and will not be able to pass on a moral code to this countries children. I agree. Government can only pass laws. Just wait for the gun control fascist to come out from under a rock. The moral code is not the responsibility of Government and you can not replace a moral code with laws and continue to have a society that functions. If a person is a student or has just a casual acceptance of Christian Philosophy you will notice that we are once again living in old testament times. How did that work out for our ancestors. The Early Peoples, Greece, Rome, Chinese, Germans, English, Africa etc. and any other peoples that used man made laws, that, by the way, laws are always changed to support the latest “good idea” by the latest dictator. All previous societies have failed because the people rose up at a point because they saw the corruptness of the government that governed them. Every ancient civilization had “good ideas”. Some modern societies have had good ideas, they all failed because they all used man made laws that government misused for their own interest, instead of a society wide morality brought on by and enforced by social forces . Now in the beginning of the rise of man He/She only had their own wits and beliefs. It worked for them for a bunch of years. Modern civilizations have only been around for about 7000 years. We have had a lot of “good ideas” and not one has worked, over the long haul, to date. As in the old testament man is permanently flawed.

America started with” good ideas” by men and women who had seen what corrupt people and government could do to the majority of people if those given the power miss used that which was in trusted to them. They started with an attitude of suffering for the greater good and a vision of liberty not seen in the world at anytime before. We even put in place some very different “good ideas”. Balance of power, bill of rights, guaranteed protection from an overreaching government, strong state rights, freedom of speech, voting rights, limited government rights, civilian power over the military etc. It has only taken 200+years to overcome most of the limits of government envisioned by the “good ideas” of our founders.

I am now in the minority. I truly believe that the government has over-reached its legitimate authority as envisioned by the our founding fathers. I also now believe that the progressive thinking “good ideas” is in the majority. We lost. Therefore everybody lost. The only hopeful notion I can come up with is that this can not last. This form of government only leads to a consolidation of power by a few and eventually a revolution against that power.  So be it.