Liberals Celebrate 'Decline of Conservatism'
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Conservatism's problem is deeper than controversial speakers and
divisions within the movement, argued Rick Perlstein, a senior fellow at the
Campaign for America's Future (CAF), which sponsors Take Back
America.
"Conservatism will always fail," Perlstein said, adding that the
ideology's problems stem from its main tenet of smaller government.
"People who confess their contempt for government cannot be trusted to
govern," he said. "When you start breaking down the institutions of government
and trifling with them, then you make it harder to govern efficiently.
"Perlstein said conservatism "is a movement about nothing, and I don't
think it can succeed, and I implore the American people to turn their backs on
it."
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The Founding Fathers might not agree with Rick Perlstein and CAF:
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like
fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the
people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is
our servant, not our master! -Thomas Jefferson
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. - James Madison
"There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our
overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter.
From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from
their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some
danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public
servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they
may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing." - Daniel Webster
They are going to "take back America" with big government and by ignoring what our founders wrote?
Contempt for government? I have nothing but contempt for what the people of CAF are planning for our government.
HT Yeah, right, whatever
