No matter how you slice it:

Friday-January 14, 2011

No matter how you slice it:

No matter how you slice it, it’s still the liberal that we have to contend with. Civility does not come in the form of censorship. The left now wants everyone to tone it back. The left is now taking the high road after their attempts in the wake of the Arizona shooting to paint the conservatives as the terrorists that cause shootings and despair with the loss of life. The left would have you believe that they own the new movement of peace, because of the man that preached to a crowd.

Some feel that the tragedy in Arizona has given the president his Shuttle disaster, his Oklahoma City or even his 9/11. This is a sick notion to wait for disaster, but the liberal always tries to make a profit off of tragedy. No matter how you slice it, this event was used to advance a goal to censor conservatives and advance the presidents popularity.

The speech that was given in Arizona on Wednesday was a test for the bigger picture coming later this month, the State of the Union Address. The speech given this week is a blue print of a theme the president wants to advance, because he can’t advance anything else except the theme: civility. Every liberal knows what they have done in the wake of the tragedy. Every democrat knows why they have lost their hold on power. However, every democrat knows how to bring back the base and that is through a display of compassion and the new politics of civility.

It was not a conservative who went on the rampage in Arizona. It was not a conservative who has spent the nation’s wealth on programs that are supposed to help people like the shooter. It was not a conservative who started to point the finger of blame in less than two hours after the shooting. It was not a conservative who forced an innocent person unattached to the shooting into the limelight to defend a position and to defend themselves against accusations of guilt. No matter how you slice it, still boils down to the worst kind of politics. It still boils down to using divisive tactics.

I had a conversation yesterday with someone I didn’t know. I overheard someone say in line at the Home Depot, that Sarah Palin, through her policies, led to the disaster in Arizona. I broke into the conversation and asked what policies are you referring to? As one would have guessed, the person slinging the accusations couldn’t answer the question. I then inquired who that person voted for. They didn’t answer and told me to mind my own business. I then begged that persons pardon and asked what did Sarah Palin ever do to you or anybody else in the nation? Her response was: she is still living. This is a true story. I later saw this person driving away with her friend. I noticed a bumper sticker that read “I am enlightened. I voted Democrat.”

When we speak of civility, this is a perfect example of what has to stop. Though this person was not responsible for the shooting, nor was she responsible for the attacks against conservatives this week, she is responsible for a declining nation.

This week, unemployment figures rose to 445,000 people filing for unemployment benefits. The trend is in the wrong direction. The producer price index rose to 1.1%. The true barometer of inflation, when it arrives, are rising prices at the grocery store and at Home Depot. The price of oil is creeping up to that $100.00 a barrel price. This will equate to higher prices at the gas pump, the national average is $3.09 up about .28 from last year. Unemployment is still right under 10%. Our debt is still rising and the presidents signature piece of legislation (health care) is about to undergo some extensive surgery. Foreclosures are on the rise and housing values are still plummeting.

These are the reasons that the president is calling for civility. He does not want the criticism, because he can’t win when it occurs; hence the censorship of conservatives and the outlets they use.

When we analyze who causes violence we can clearly see it is not the conservative. Do conservatives riot when they are displeased? Do conservatives employ professional leftist protestors that show up at every liberal gathering and at world economic summits? Do conservatives continually call for reductions in freedom and liberty through legislative policies? Do conservatives call on government to take up the slack when personal responsibility is taken out of the societal norm?

These are all reasons that support my premise that the president has nothing else to talk about in the State of the Union later in the month, except to ask for more civility.

At the age of 16, George Washington wrote his rules of civility. In these rules, a spirit lives and a spirit thrived on decent behavior. Washington would never use tragedy as a way to cater to a base. But then, Washington warned us against political allegiance. On this day, in 1784, the Revolutionary War ended. The war, which was a consequence to what started in peaceful dissent, created a nation of citizens that were civil and that wanted the best for each other and not for party.

I think we should review Washington’s rules of civility so we can determine how to once again be civil. (http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/manners/rules2.cfm)

I end this week with what Washington said: “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversitybefore it is entitled to the appellation.”

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: No matter how you slice it, liberals do not own the meaning of civility. They do own the reason why the country is in decline.