Thursday, May 27, 2010

Obama - A Tinpot Dictator America Can Call Its Own

Catching up on my reading, I note Mike Soja’s comments and links on certain individuals pining over their desires for Obama to be set up as America’s dictator.  I’d say Obama has acted, and taken legislative giant steps, to wear this tinpot title since he moved into the White House, under the guise of saving America, when in actuality Obama is hastening its demise.

Mike’s post links to a piece at FirstThings.com, penned by Elizabeth Scalia, “The Anchoress,” which is titled The Privileged Call for Limited Dictatorships, which notes such alleged illuminaries as I’ll marry my adopted daughter Woody Allen, and commie admirer Thomas Friedman, as, I guess, the priviliged making the dictator call.  Idiots.

I’ll note, here, that it is not only the priviliged calling for a dictator.  The masses have been calling for life under a dictatorship, for decades, every time they pull the lever of the slot machine cleverly disguised as a voting booth.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.

Posted by John Venlet on 05/27 at 06:18 AM
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