Praeger

Election Day 2012 will not be a presidential election. It will be a plebiscite.

Americans will not only be voting for a president (and a House and a third of the Senate). They will be participating in a plebiscite on the definition of America.

If Americans reelect the Democrat, Barack Obama, they will have announced that America should be like Western European countries — governed by left-wing values. Americans will have decided that America’s value system — “Liberty,” “In God We Trust,” “E Pluribus Unum” — should be replaced.

The election in November is therefore a plebiscite on the American Revolution. The usual description of presidential elections — “the most important in our lifetime” — is true this time. In fact, it may be the most important election since the Civil War, and possibly since America’s founding.



The Left knows what is stake. And the most left-wing president in American history knows what is at stake. Candidate Obama announced shortly before the 2008 election, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
He described the Left’s aim perfectly: to fundamentally transform America. It seeks to replace Liberty, In God We Trust, and E Pluribus Unum.

That is what “fundamentally transform” means. In fact, those words are proof that American values and leftist values are fundamentally opposed to one another.

The Right, on the other hand, seeks to maintain America’s values. Conservatives want to improve America, but, as its name implies, conservatism seeks to conserve, not transform.

“Liberty” means, first and foremost, limited government — because bigger government means less individual liberty.  NO.  WHY?  It just means a big costly safety net we can or cannot afford, and opinions differ on this. 

 “In God We Trust” means that America must be rooted in Creator-based values. There are no inalienable rights if  rights don't derive from God.  NO.  WHY?  Utterly, profoundly preposterous. My new favorite word.  

  “E Pluribus Unum” means the assumption of an American identity by all citizens regardless of their racial, ethnic, or national background.  WE ALL AGREE ON THAT. 

The Left seeks to replace Liberty with Equality.  NO. That's something you just made up.  Liberty is wonderful. So is a fairer distribution of goods. 

Material inequality is the great evil, and if individual liberty needs to be sacrificed to attain equality, so be it.  NO.  Liberty is fine, Excessively luxurious life style is  perverted.  AND,  NO,  MATERIAL INEQUALITY IS INEVITABLE.  ITS JUST EXCESSIVE. BUT ALL WE WANT IS A THREE PERCENT HIKE ON EARNINGS OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.  THAT ISN'T EQUALITY. STOP LYING.

Creator-based values are to be replaced by government-based values.  God must be removed from schools and wherever else the Left can succeed in doing so.

  NO. God is fine. Religion is good. Only idiots care about that issue. 

“E Pluribus Unum” is to be replaced by multiculturalism. For leftism, the very words “American identity” conjure up chauvinism, if not fascism. 



NO. Absolutely non factual. There are liberals who espouse such garbage, but they are loons. 

For these reasons, this election is not just a choice between a Democrat and a Republican. It is between Americanism and leftism.