On his Monday Fox News broadcast Sean Hannity's "great American panel" included singer Aubrey O'Day. Outspoken and articulate, O'Day insisted that the U.S. government should provide for all citizens what she repeatedly called "basic civil rights," meaning all of our basic needs, including free health care, free child care and so on. She seemed to care about people and apparently didn't want to see anyone suffer or go without.
Listening to her transported me back to a train ride I took through (what was then) Yugoslavia many years ago. While traveling across that communist country, I got into a conversation with a lady passenger about freedom and "basic rights." I explained that in America, we have fundamental freedoms of speech, of the press, of religion, association, travel and so on, as well as freedom of opportunity – that is, to succeed or fail, but also to be able to keep the fruits of our labors and to be free of the tyranny of a stifling and predatory government.
She countered, with words very close to these: "I know that's what you believe in America. But in my society, we believe basic rights include the right to a job, to housing, to health care, to the basics of life. We consider these to be our basic rights."
"OK," I said, "but what if you have to sacrifice your individual rights and liberties in order to provide such security for everyone?"
Her reply was that it was worth the tradeoff.
What the writer of the above (David Kupelian) seems reticent in making a point of, is that both his examples of mouthpieces for socialism are women.
That's a shame because it is a relevant fact that America's slide towards socialism picked up considerable speed post-Women's Suffrage. That's because women are (by their natural inclination towards nurturing the young) designed to be more apologetic of tyrannical management of people. And tyrannical government (which is to say, socialist government) after all tends to see the citizenry as helpless infants in need of supervision and regulation.
Furthermore Kupelain glides lightly over the reality that with the commencement of the "civil rights" movement, with minorities allotted equal standing with White Men, the country plunged irrevocably into social and cultural (and eventually economic) ruin.
Of course stating these facts is considered "blasphemous" in the current dogmatic regime of political correctness.
But let's be honest, the entire push to artificially engineer equality is essentially one giant appeal to the vanity of the non-Whites.
Most say that truths, such as blacks have lower IQ's than Whites is "mean", "prejudiced" and "hurtful." But the truth is never any of those things. The only thing the truth hurts is someones PRIDE.
In the long run the truth does not hurt, but helps.
When a society reaches the point of sacrificing truth to prop up one segment's ego at the expense of its social and economic stability, that society is at the end of it's history.
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