While perusing through Michael Gerson's column today, I came across a quote from Presidential candidate Rick Santorum that I considered particularly disturbing:
"Someone always gets hurt when masses of individuals do what is only in their own self-interest. That is the great lie of liberal freedom. . . . Freedom is liberty coupled with responsibility to something bigger or higher than the self. It is a self-less freedom. It is sacrificial freedom. It is the pursuit of our dreams with an eye towards the common good."
This philosophy is at the very root of Socialism where the good and the will of the individual must be sacrificed for the good of society as shaped through the will of the state. This one of the underlying tenets of totalitarian forms of government like Communism, Fascism, and the Nazis of Germany. Of course, you don't have to take my word for it.
"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
Benito Mussolini
"The day of individual happiness has passed."
Adolf Hitler
It seems that Mr. Santorum has never met a "Bigger Government" program he didn't like and he seems to have a problem with the individual "Right to Keep and Bear Arms." If he doesn't trust you with a firearm than you know my philosophy about trusting him. And we all know where the real power of politics come from:
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Mao Tse-Tung
Compassionate conservative or Socialist? At this point I am reminded of something about roses and the way they smell. For some reason Rick doesn't seem to smell very good to me...
"Someone always gets hurt when masses of individuals do what is only in their own self-interest. That is the great lie of liberal freedom. . . . Freedom is liberty coupled with responsibility to something bigger or higher than the self. It is a self-less freedom. It is sacrificial freedom. It is the pursuit of our dreams with an eye towards the common good."
This philosophy is at the very root of Socialism where the good and the will of the individual must be sacrificed for the good of society as shaped through the will of the state. This one of the underlying tenets of totalitarian forms of government like Communism, Fascism, and the Nazis of Germany. Of course, you don't have to take my word for it.
"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
Benito Mussolini
"The day of individual happiness has passed."
Adolf Hitler
It seems that Mr. Santorum has never met a "Bigger Government" program he didn't like and he seems to have a problem with the individual "Right to Keep and Bear Arms." If he doesn't trust you with a firearm than you know my philosophy about trusting him. And we all know where the real power of politics come from:
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Mao Tse-Tung
Compassionate conservative or Socialist? At this point I am reminded of something about roses and the way they smell. For some reason Rick doesn't seem to smell very good to me...
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