The War on Conservatism

Socialism my A*s

WAR!

Enemy of the People

By Stephen L. Wilmeth

Since August 9, 1974 until today, an epic that will live in Infamy … the liberal press has openly coordinated a sustained WAR! on American conservatism!

That should be the headline splattered across every newsprint rag this morning. At least, it should be from any newspaper that presents itself with any degree of fairness.

Yes, the obvious question might be, “Are there any newspapers that present anything with true objectivity?” It could be a moot point, but a prevailing fact of journalism remains. Most people never see an objective assessment of news.

The majority never see an accurate story.

Socialism my A*s!

 The referencing of evolving political tendencies has been an exercise in punch bowl curtsy. All this nonsense about the new wave of democratic socialism is couched in perfected delusion. We can’t say it because we are supposed to be politically correct, but it needs to be said firmly without flinching. Call it what it is.

It is communism and stop making patsy about it.

Matthew Quigley, that Texan wearing the near Ralph Lauren style wardrobe who saw through the real reason he was hired to bring his .50-90 Sharps to Australia, reminded us of what being honest is. He had had enough of Crazy Cora calling him her departed husband’s name, Roy.

“Lady, I told you my name ain’t Roy!”

Well, America, these mob ruled scribes denigrating our way of life ain’t social

democrats, either. Stripes line their entire backs and their mission isn’t to preserve our Constitution and uphold our way of life.

            It is interesting watching them ruminate on reaction to their newly acquired moniker, Enemy of the People. It is somewhat akin to a cow misfiring a neuron impulse simultaneously to her hiatal and anal sphincters and millisecond in arrears. Green soup is squirting in all directions.

            “The dirty war on the Free Press must end!” declared the Boston Globe in its recent, opening trumpet call to 350 newspapers across the country to double down and fire editorials at us that reverberate through the concrete and asphalt hollows of urban Valhalla. The reaction of over 90% of Conservatives, however, is one of open smirk.

We know what it is like to be hated and mischaracterized. That dirty war has been waged against us for the last half century.

            Enemy of the People

            Actually, the overt mischaracterization of conservatism has been going on a lot longer than 50 years.

            My paternal grandfather was Republican occupying the number two position on the entire list of 16 Republicans in his Grant County precinct. He never got to vote in a primary, but he didn’t care, either. He voted in each general election like a well-tended clock. In fact, for years it was his practice to be first to vote at his polling place. If that meant getting there at 4:00 AM to be first in line that is what he did. In the years since, I have always been reminded of what he told me after watching Everett Dirksen speak during the 1964 Republican Convention.

            “He made a good speech,” I said with as much assuredness as an inexperienced Little Leaguer could muster.

            “Now just what did he say that in the least could make your life or your future better?” my grandfather asked me. “Listen to what somebody like that says, and then listen to yourself.”

            Starting eight years later, I, too, tried to be the first in line at the polling place.

            I am a categorically described Deplorable. I have grown to wear that unsavory characterization as a badge although I remain resentful of the bias and elitism of the leader declaring me and my colleagues as such. Our story is a political blitzkrieg that, described authentically, should deserve a Pulitzer, but that will never happen because it is never accurately depicted.

            We know more than a little about the world, but we know a whole lot about the border. Every one of us has known numerous Border Patrol agents. Most of us know at least one ICE agent and one U.S. Marshal. We know what was attempted in Fast and Furious and we remain furious that nothing has been done. We are either directly acquainted with deceased BP agent Brian Terry or we are one or two voices from him. The same thing applies to Rob Krentz. Many of us know the actual tracker of Rob’s killer and we know why that group of men were detained long enough to miss apprehending him before he escaped into Mexico.

            We also know the absolute maleficence of our federal forest management. We know what global warming is but also know that the fires today started with the management decisions of the agencies over a century ago. It is not what one degree increase in temperature manifests! We understand the implication of landscape scale management decisions when and where they are prescribed. Inevitably, there is disaster waiting at the end of such bureaucratic group think.

The press has mischaracterized every one of these issues as they affect our lives, our customs, our culture, and our allegiance to our Constitution.

            WAR!

            The Leader who has stepped out of the concrete jungles to defend us has the same understanding of omnipotent government as we do. The natural progress of things is for Liberty to yield and for government to gain.

            The honor that comes from knowing somebody is actually standing up for constitutional principles is almost unimaginable. Maybe his mannerisms aren’t presidential, but to be stately in the shadow of what the press and the liberal hordes have done to our nation doesn’t deserve grace. Three hundred and fifty of these archaic, crumbling rag mills have determined our beliefs are counterfeit.

Yes, they have declared an editorial war on him, but, when they attack him, they attack us as well.

Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New Mexico. “Our President is welcome in our camp anytime.”

Ayn Rand explains the different systems this way:

The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal . . . .
Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under socialism, government officials acquire all the advantages of ownership, without any of the responsibilities, since they do not hold title to the property, but merely the right to use it—at least until the next purge. In either case, the government officials hold the economic, political and legal power of life or death over the citizens . . . .
Under both systems, sacrifice is invoked as a magic, omnipotent solution in any crisis—and “the public good” is the altar on which victims are immolated. But there are stylistic differences of emphasis. The socialist-communist axis keeps promising to achieve abundance, material comfort and security for its victims, in some indeterminate future. The fascist-Nazi axis scorns material comfort and security, and keeps extolling some undefined sort of spiritual duty, service and conquest. The socialist-communist axis offers its victims an alleged social ideal. The fascist-Nazi axis offers nothing but loose talk about some unspecified form of racial or national “greatness.” The socialist-communist axis proclaims some grandiose economic plan, which keeps receding year by year. The fascist-Nazi axis merely extols leadership—leadership without purpose, program or direction—and power for power’s sake.

Simpler is the tale of two cows:

Communism: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and gives you part of the milk.
Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both cows and sells you the milk.
Nazism: You have two cows. The government takes both your cows, then shoots you.
Bureaucracy: You have two cows. The government takes both of them, shoots one, milks the other, then pours the milk down the drain.
Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one of them and buy a bull.

UPDATE 

The original version of this article erred in saying Dirksen spoke at the Democratic Convention, which has now been corrected.

Dirksen gave the nominating speech for Barry Goldwater at the 1964 REPUBLICAN convention, which you can read or listen to here:http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/everettdirksen1964rncgoldwater.htm