America's culture war is not about fashion, but our values, priorities and lifestyle
For half a century America has endured a culture war. This "war" is classic America. by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Thursday, February 17, 2011
The struggle goes on.
In one sense, the Culture War within the United States is a wondrous manifestation of the American tradition. Born through the minds of the Founding Fathers as designed in the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, our nation is struggling for its identity.
For almost half a century and possibly longer, different visions of society have wrestled with each other. For some the British invasion of The Beatles and the carnal energy of Elvis were the first shots of the current Culture War.
America moved from being a western hemisphere nation, to a nation of the world. The values and systems which shaped the settlement of the United States and made our nation a "City on the Hill" were quickly exported, and the ideas of communism, socialism, human secularism and atheism were imported. The nations and cultures our ancestors left, approached the US like the constancy of the waves of the ocean on our eastern beaches.
Internally, Harvard, Yale, the Ivy League, followed by most of US academia moved to condemn the very first alumni and creators of these institutions. The American Heartland made the grievous error of embracing these contagions and thus bringing the social diseases to "fly over " America.
Our Founding Fathers appreciated the importance of growth, development and change. They saw the need for difference, and in fact embraced the differences of the time. The structure for difference was state hood. A republican form of government allowed a wide and diverse society within one nation. It organized chaos by allowing communities at the state level to determine their domestic structure. These social laboratories provided a way to experiment while establishing the safety of compartmentalization. If an experiment worked, other states could than adopt the changes, but if they failed, as they more often do, the damage would be limited to one state.
Theoretically at least, people had choices. They could choose where they lived based on how they wanted to live.
All of these brilliant innovations have been shunted aside through the actions of an activist Court and the centralization of power after the American Civil War, through the federalization of domestic policy.
Americans resist centralization. Home schooling and the continuance of private schools demonstrates this reality.
What is occurring today is the social evidence of the physical law "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." With the liberal victory which elected Barrack Obama, and the wholly disastrous passage of Obamacare and other socialist policies, the Silent Majority has arisen in a new movement, the Tea Party. Heartland America is reacting.
Americans are not socialists. Americans do NOT look to government as the answer for most problems. Americans resent being told how to live, and enjoy their independence and freedom. Americans have a tradition of ignoring law, whether it be Prohibition or speed limits.
The liberal victories which began with the Obama election to the Presidency began to collapse almost immediately after Novermber 2008.
When faced with stark liberalism, increased taxation, a command government, the American people quickly woke up from their sleep.
The Tea Party may not be the purest reflection of American anger. As a part of its consolidation special interests invariably establish themselves within the core of new political movements.
Sarah Palin may be the one who can most effectively articulate Heartland America if she can resist the temptation to accept advice from Washington professionals.
And to those who call Sean Hannity and Rush and condemn social conservatives, and call for moderation in conservatism I say, if social conservatism isn't at the heart of this conservative couinter revolution, than we won't be there on election day. If Obama and the Democrats destroy America...there will than be a new day for the rebirth of a conservative America. So, if you want Obama to win, keep pushing the social conservatives away, keep marginalizing Christianity.
We are in this struggle for eternity, not November, 2012.
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