The Ministry Of Plenty
Deborah Venable
11/23/08
The
curse of a well-rounded education these days can lead to a debilitating
depression if one lets it. It is a
constant battle to remain optimistic in the face of negative events and the
demoralizing of the human spirit. The
easy way is to just give up and give in to the pessimism, but the rebel heart
can win any battle it wishes to.
There
truly is no logic in all the post election analysis of the results. While there may be some who think they have
the whole thing figured out, there isn’t any faith in any of it. We can be on a “wait and see” approach for
confirmation, or simply refuse to be intimidated or influenced by those
“brilliant thinkers” who think they have all the answers.
I
prefer the latter approach.
A
student of history, especially American history, will recognize the absolute
lunacy in a government that “leans” left being able to protect, defend, and
provide for the common good of this country and the world. Never has that happened, and never will
it. Leaning left means leaning toward
government dependency, social irresponsibility, cultural amnesia, and a general
promotion of behavior modification over principled education. That’s what it means - and none of those
things defend individual freedom and prosperity.
Individual
freedom and prosperity protects, defends, and promotes the general welfare,
providing for the common good, better than anything else that has ever been
tried.
But
America elected an overwhelmingly left-leaning government this year, and it has
“hit the road running” to set up the “Ministry Of Plenty” as quickly as it can.
The
change that is coming will be ushered in via a thought process that is
clinically mad – a psychological disorder, according
to some.
I’ve
never heard such stupid assessment of what went wrong in so many different
versions in my life. We are asked to
believe that McCain lost the election because he went too far to the right, acted
too maverick-like with his Palin pick – this coming from the “smart folks” on
our side! Many actually blame it on
Bush!
As
I’ve said before, Republicans lost because a conservative was not heading the
ticket. Period.
While
we all break our arms patting ourselves on the back for choking back all our
racism to elect the “first black” president, our enemies are gleeful at our
naiveté and can hardly wait until the new ruler is officially installed. Even the old bear of the eighties,
Gorbachev, is feeling giddy enough to inject
his opinion
about how Obama can save America.
Obviously Obama is the old communists’ dream.
How
can any thinking American not feel extreme discomfort with what the immediate
future holds?
While
the recent economic collapse probably did more to pave the way for socialist
takeover of the government next year than anything else, we must understand
that the seeds of socialism actually caused that collapse. Those seeds were planted years ago, and the
crop they produced is sucking the economy into the toilet as we watch.
The
fact that so many elected and appointed government leaders think that applying
more socialism to the problem will result in positive change only proves the
insanity theory.
There
can be no doubt that the conservative message has been compromised to the point
that all of this could be allowed to happen.
The average person, including those in the Republican Party, cannot
adequately articulate the definition of conservatism. This is our fault, and it will be a daunting task to fix it. We have not fought the hijackers of our
culture, our history, and our religion with anything akin to a winning
strategy. No. Instead we have negotiated, compromised, and capitulated our core
principles away – one by one, little by little, until we are seen as having no
core principles left.
Conservatives
seem to think that we can pick and choose which of the principles that built
this country and secured our freedoms we could embrace, and which we could
leave out of the equation to preserve it.
I’m tired of hearing about moderate Republicans, or moderate anything
for that matter. The middle ground is
indeed killing us. If you know that you
have the high ground, then everything else is the low ground, beneath your
principles – and that includes ANY middle ground.
At
no time in history have liberal, socialist, (home to the modern Democrat
Party), principles claimed any high ground.
They define only misery in the human condition. Why should conservatives ever compromise
with that?
·
How
do you compromise the principle that every innocent life is precious with
people who would see innocent babies legally killed (in and out of the womb?)?
·
How
do you compromise the principle that freedom of speech should not be infringed
just because you are speaking from a position of moral authority on a social
issue such as homosexuality with people who place more value in political
correctness than individual liberty?
·
How
do you compromise the principle that government should not grow at the expense
of free enterprise and should not tax to promote socialism over capitalism?
·
How
do you compromise the principle that individuals are endowed by their Creator
with freedoms that godless collectivists scoff at and would see the end to in
favor of slavery to government?
·
How
do you compromise the principle that along with freedom of speech, religion,
and assembly, individuals also have a perfect right to obtain, possess, and use
arms to protect themselves, their families, their neighbors, and their property
with people who would regulate all these freedoms and, indeed, infringe upon
them with regulation and denial of these rights?
·
How
do you compromise the principle that these things you believe in are the basis
on which this country was founded and proceeded to become the greatest nation
on the face of the earth in spite of continuing infringement with people who
have distorted and blasphemed the history and culture that has provided them
with the only reason they are allowed to do it?
Republicans
who would compromise any of these things are not, by definition,
conservatives.
Now
to the upcoming Ministry Of Plenty:
This is just one little excerpt from its namesake, George Orwell’s
“1984” written and published shortly after World War II.
“But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of
Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of
one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing
with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of
connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a
fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal
of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the
Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter
at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions.
Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to
fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had
been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth
than fiftyseven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been
produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much
less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots
were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went
barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small.
Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of
the year had become uncertain.”
For
anyone who has never read the book, “1984” – and seeing a movie about it
doesn’t count because none have done it justice, I would suggest that you make
the effort to find it and read it.
Remember that George Orwell, (real name, Eric Blair), was a socialist
with a colorful past who died about the time that communists began their
all-out assault on America. The
Ministry Of Plenty was one of four such ministries that made up Orwell’s
government of Big Brother. It was the
one in charge of the economy.
Since
the state of the economy seems to be the most important thing on everyone’s
mind, it is only reasonable to assume that the “new government” of change will
usher in more prosperity for everyone.
Right? Don’t count on it, all
you folks who are not relying on that well-rounded education I spoke of. Just get the book, “1984” and read it with
an open mind if you dare. I’ll even
send it, to anyone who requests it, via email, in a digital format for
free.
Republicans
made a very big mistake where the economy is concerned, especially this past
year as we approached the “crisis” and the election. Republican politicians counted on the fact that the economy was
“sound” and robust enough to survive the huge onslaught of socialism, and they
even capitulated to many of the socialist ideas to help the poor and middle
class at the expense of productive capitalists. They compromised core principles and then had to attempt to clean
up the mess it made by almost total capitulation to nationalism of financial
institutions and corporations.
Those
few conservative Republicans who did not join in this insanity are now
America’s best hope to survive the future power plays that will soon come down
the pike. God bless them all!
Coming
soon – The Ministry Of Truth!