Monday, August 06, 2012

The Threat of Obamism

Yuval Levin:

The Left’s disdain for civil society is thus driven above all not by a desire to empower the state without limit, but by a deeply held concern that the mediating institutions in society — emphatically including the family, the church, and private enterprise — are instruments of prejudice, selfishness, backwardness, and resistance to change, and that in order to establish our national life on more rational grounds, the government needs to weaken and counteract them.

The Right’s high regard for civil society, meanwhile, is driven above all not by a disdain for government but by a deeply held belief in the importance of our diverse and evolved societal forms, without which we could not hope to secure our liberty. Conservatives seek mechanisms and institutions to bring implicit social knowledge to bear on our troubles, while progressives seek the authority and power to bring explicit technical knowledge to bear on them.

Obamism, unchecked, is all about 'seeking authority and power'--and more and more it's not "seeking" but rather arrogating that power to itself.

It must be eradicated.

HT:  AmSpecBlog

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Romney is not, not, not, "ad naseum", the answer.

Choice we are given: Evil vs Evil.

I will not vote for evil.

Anonymous said...

Looks like the RINOS are in control of the RNC...
Looks like Tea Party influece is zippo....
RINOS to Tea Party and Paulbots: No power for you.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/article1244151.ece

Anonymous said...

Dad, You are irrelevant unless you state who is your alternative to Obama

Jim said...

The quoted content from Levin is a steaming pile of horse s**t.

Dad29 said...

My, my. You can prove that, Jimbo?

Saint Revolution said...

TO: AnnieConstantPlaguarizer 8/07/2012 8:48 AM:

...and, once again, countlessly, with a piss ant brain the size of a dung beetle's, Annie, for the umpteenth time, plaguarizes from Saint Revolution's own descriptive prose of Annie...

Saint Revolution truthfully posits Annie as "irrelevant" HERE and, within days, Annie needs to, waxing uncreatively, pass along the same semantic (describing Dad29) for lack of any thought process ownership puking through Annie's empty ear 'tweens.

Annie...you are the worst blogger...you are the weakest link.

Jim said...

Since when is anyone here required to "prove" an opinion? I don't see Levin proving his.