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I was and am conflicted about this website. We’re given one life, and here I am, devoting a portion of my God- given existence to trying to tear people down and end (hopefully) their careers. I’m painfully aware that the people chosen for this list might be good people. They may be faithful and loving husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, grandparents, church brethren—good citizens, friendly neighbors, the kind of people you like to have next door. But that doesn’t change the fact that some on this list tried to surrounder 29 million Iraqi citizens into Al Qaeda’ s slaughtering hands only months before victory. It doesn’t change the fact that some on this list have criminalized political speech, opposed tax cuts, banned oil-drilling in the face of unprecedented prices. There are those who have accused the U.S. of war atrocities (because, undeniably, our presidential nominee's rhetoric means that either America has committed atrocities or "torture" isn't an atrocity); and there are those on this list who would, if given a chance, retroactively tear down the nation’s southern border. Some would squander, as in 2005, a chance to partially mend a broken Social Security system. Others would print trillions of counterfeit bills in an act of either economic sabotage or sublime stupidity (and for our purposes, it doesn't really matter which). Make no mistake, these people—most of whom, I’m sure, are well intentioned (though “can’t we just get along” seems a weak way to govern in the face of war and an economy sliding toward a depression)—ARE responsible, if not for socializing the government, then for handing our government to socialists. But laying blame isn’t my goal; if it were, I might have to conclude these people “know not what they do” and then lay the blame elsewhere. These politicians are the products of a Washington culture that is, itself, the product of a news media that is, itself, the product of a university system so steeped in blind propaganda that it’s amazing we’ve waited this long to put a socialist in the white house. The men and women chosen for this list did not hijack the universities, the media, the Washington culture; this handful of hapless Republicans did not impose the principle that "ridicule is the greatest weapon" and that a "constant pressure" brings about a slow, corrosive, insidiously chronic change within the minds of the opposition—it was Saul Alinksy who set the tenor of our current political mood. Indeed, the faces on our cards may be the most duped faces in America.
harm on any of them. But these are serious times. We have no media to protect us. Now, thanks to the individuals on this list, we don't even have a two-party system to protect us. We only have ourselves, the people in grass-roots America. Freedom was endowed by our Creator--and while there is still freedom, I plan to use it. I'm tired of watching. I can't restore the media; but maybe with your help, we can do something to restore a two-party system. |
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