Post by The Big Dog on Nov 6, 2008 11:15:27 GMT -5
Spotted this over at Political Mavens. It is brilliant, and sums it up for me perhaps better than any piece I've yet read post election, even though it was written the day before. It also makes all the more clear the sentiment I returned with.
Principled and informed dissent based on fact is not disloyalty and must not be suppressed.
Principled and informed dissent based on fact is not disloyalty and must not be suppressed.
To the Winner:Best of Luck
By Arnold Ahlert
For conservatives like myself, tomorrow appears to be shaping up like a bad dream. I believe America is on the verge of electing the most disastrous president since Jimmy Carter, along with the most radical-left Congress we have ever experienced. But when all is said and done, those whom the people elect to lead us will have my initial support for one simple reason: I am an American.
Sadly, I suspect such an attitude is relatively rare.
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The American left has done its best to destroy this essential concept, much to their everlasting shame. Theirs is a world where anyone deviating from their beliefs is an enemy to be destroyed by any means necessary. Yet as much as I dislike the thought of a neophyte socialist running the country, I will never refer to him as “a Hitler,” wait for a movie depicting his assassination, or call him the “world’s foremost terrorist.” I will never tell the American people that any effort he makes to defend our national security is “lost” a “quagmire,” or that our troops are “terrorists,” “stupid,” or “cold-blooded murderers” absent a shred of proof.
There are two kinds of divided nations. One is the kind where divergent ideas and opinions are treated with equal amounts of respect and consideration. The other is what we have, courtesy of a contaminated public school system, a pathetically biased media and a general level of immaturity nurtured for the purpose of keeping Americans more dependent on government than they should be.
By Arnold Ahlert
For conservatives like myself, tomorrow appears to be shaping up like a bad dream. I believe America is on the verge of electing the most disastrous president since Jimmy Carter, along with the most radical-left Congress we have ever experienced. But when all is said and done, those whom the people elect to lead us will have my initial support for one simple reason: I am an American.
Sadly, I suspect such an attitude is relatively rare.
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The American left has done its best to destroy this essential concept, much to their everlasting shame. Theirs is a world where anyone deviating from their beliefs is an enemy to be destroyed by any means necessary. Yet as much as I dislike the thought of a neophyte socialist running the country, I will never refer to him as “a Hitler,” wait for a movie depicting his assassination, or call him the “world’s foremost terrorist.” I will never tell the American people that any effort he makes to defend our national security is “lost” a “quagmire,” or that our troops are “terrorists,” “stupid,” or “cold-blooded murderers” absent a shred of proof.
There are two kinds of divided nations. One is the kind where divergent ideas and opinions are treated with equal amounts of respect and consideration. The other is what we have, courtesy of a contaminated public school system, a pathetically biased media and a general level of immaturity nurtured for the purpose of keeping Americans more dependent on government than they should be.
