Season 4 Podcast 3 “We the People vs Globalism”
It is common for members of the same party to excuse every faux pas of members of their own party and condemn every fault of members of the opposing party. It is obvious, when listening to the news, which party the newscasters belong to by the way they spin the news.
But we need to bypass the spin and listen to the language of our leaders and hold them accountable. On the one hand, we must show charity for simple verbal blunders spoken extemporaneously, sometimes in a fluster. We all stumble. On the other hand, we must hold them accountable for what they say. In prepared speeches, every word matters. In extremely important events, such as an Inaugural Address of a President or a State of the Union Address, they should be accountable for every word, every phrase, every clause, every proposition. We must be wary of rhetorical devices and dissembling words.
In President Barrack Obama’s First Inaugural Address, he uses the phrase “We, the people” only once; however, he uses phrases that mean “We, the people” over fifty times. In other words, he uses the clinical we as if “we the people” were in entire agreement with every assertion he makes. It is one thing to use the phrase “we the people” in the preamble to the Constitution, it is another to assume that what a president or any other politician says represents ‘the voice of the people.’
For example, examine the following statement By President Obama:
· “At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we, the people, have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears and true to our founding documents.”
Noble words, but that is the heart of the problem, isn’t it? They may not mean what you think they mean. The liberals, who are trying to turn us into a socialist state and a globalist community, have not “remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears and true to our founding documents.” Our forebears would be appalled at where the liberals are taking our nation.
As a conservative, ask yourself if President Obama speaks for “We, the people” when he says the following (taken from his First Inaugural Address):
· Our health care is too costly, our schools fail too many -- and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet. These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable, but no less profound, is a sapping of confidence across our land; a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, that the next generation must lower its sights.
And what did Obama replace our health care system with—Obamacare which is twice as expensive for those who must pay for it and free for those who don’t. We don’t even get to choose our own doctors. Many prefer to pay the penalty and go without health insurance rather than pay the high premium of Obamacare. Obamacare is socialized medicine and a gross form of redistribution of wealth. Furthermore, members of Congress, whose health care is paid for by tax-payer money, exempted themselves from Obamacare, making it mandatory only for “we the people.”
· On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations, and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.
