Because I know!

Friday-May 13, 2011

Because now I know!

Remember when you had an argument with your father or mother and it ended with them saying, because I know!

Well, that can be said every time you argue with a liberal or a misguided follower of the liberal agenda. It’s called taking the high road, because you do have the facts to win an argument.

I had a conversation with a friend about the politics that are now being played out in Washington. The conversation centered mainly on the upcoming presidential election in 2012. The person I was talking to is a staunch supporter of the president, but now has softened a bit due to the one sided policy measures that have been enacted under this administration.

I argued many points. I argued against deficit spending, I argued against entitlements, I argued against the unprecedented expansion of the federal government under this President’s rule. Then I stopped and I realized that I was arguing for a moral purpose. I interjected this thought and the person that I was talking to demonstrated a response that I haven’t seen in a long time. The response then went from adversary to someone wanting to know more about what I was saying.

I started to illustrate that the President, when he was a Senator, voted for every spending program since the Republicans lost the House and Senate in ‘06. I argued that the problems today are a direct result of how he voted then. I said the Democrats have been in control since then and under Pelosi and Reid have furthered this immoral liberal agenda. I further bolstered my argument by saying that the liberal policies of deficit spending and expanded government is choking the life out of you and me and will choke our posterities as well. How can this be moral? I brought in the politics of favoritism that the Unions enjoy and the unfavorable politics that corporations must put up with, just to stay in business. How can that be moral? I brought up the fact that most of what has been done to please people like you is just window dressing by another liberal administration, because you want Big Business and Big Oil to pay for the ills of the nation. Big Oil for example controls only 5% of the world’s oil reserves the other 95% is controlled by governments around the world. General Electric for example gets away without paying millions of dollars in taxes because of the loop holes that politicians build into the tax code. You have been conditioned to believe that they are at fault. How can this be moral?

Liberals like Evan Thomas and Rob Reiner call the 58% of Americans who identify with the Tea Party, Nazi’s because they are fearful. How can this be moral and how is this dialogue considered appropriate?

I asked a question. What has this president done to improve the deficit, reform entitlement spending and even with his healthcare plan that is being constitutionally challenged. How has this president and the liberals improved anything?

I then went on to say the President did the appropriate thing in hunting down and killing Bin Laden but is this really moral? However, this is another discussion for another day.

I then made a particular point to stress the question of moral history. This is something that is never addressed and not recognized. From the inception as a country and as citizens, there has been this moral code that we were taught to live by. Though the code is not defined, it still remains a guiding light in the decisions that our politicians make. Some politicians practice this moral code more than others, but none the less, the moral code of doing what is right fortunately is still recognized by some but not enough.

We discussed how this president came to power based on the absence of a moral code. The person I was talking with was bothered by some of the things that the press didn’t delve into and should have. This is not me talking; it was the person I was talking to. I brought out the past and present associations of the president and the continued pattern of denial when an association of the president doesn’t pass the test of appropriateness. This was the case this week when the President and the First Lady invited the Rapper Common to the White House where children were invited to listen to poetry.

I was thinking about my conversation and I realized that the term of appropriate doesn’t mean anything anymore. I see many people who do not behave appropriately in public. I see many people in businesses who don’t behave appropriately. I read and I see many people in the news who don’t behave appropriately. I see many who try to make an argument, but who come up short, because their arguments are not appropriate. How can many of the laws that are passed be moral when they might not be appropriate?

I can remember my parents making an issue about the importance of behaving and conducting yourself appropriately and practicing the morals that you were being taught.
I didn’t think that was so important then, but now I can see that it is now more than ever, because now I know.

In a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to Don Valentine de Feronda in 1809 he said: “I never …believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.”

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: It is appropriate to say I know when you know you are morally right!