EATING AWAY AT FREEDOM

Ideology is a good thing, I suppose. A thoughtful and serious person who chooses to adventure into the political climate of today has to have one. But too often ideology is the downfall of the political arena. It lends itself to the demise of debate and discussion because in all honesty, ideology seldom, if ever, works in reality. Ideology, all things considered, is the appropriate and advantageous place for tolerance and flexibility.

Our Forefathers knew ideology alone wouldn’t achieve the country they set out to create, a country of freedom and liberty. Recently, I read that upon leaving the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked whether Americans had a monarchy or republic. “A republic,” responded the revolutionary sage, “if you can keep it.” He said this, I believe, because he knew that the element of ideology, left unchecked by reality, would start to whittle away at the very fabric of our newly formed nation.

Today we see the infection of unchecked ideology spreading faster than the Ebola virus in a virus friendly Petri dish. This societal ailment has embedded itself on both sides of the aisle but if one is to look at the total spectrum, from Liberal-Left to Radical-Right, it is quite clear the infection of unchecked ideology has especially ensconced itself in the area spanning from Left to Liberal-Left.

Many critics of the Right – or the conservative movement – contend their vision of the United States remains puritanical in nature, devoid of an expanding vision and lacking any tolerance for a politically correct, globalist future for our country. In actuality the conservative movement has embraced the idea of preserving traditionalism in an age that sees traditionalism threatened by multicultural fanaticism.

Conservatives believe our Constitution shouldn’t be considered a guideline – unlike Al Gore’s attorneys during the court battle of the 2000 election – or a tool with which to force one’s beliefs onto another. Rather, conservatives believe our Constitution should be revered as the law of the land for all to protect and uphold.

The conservative movement believes in the American people’s ability to rise to the occasion, in their ingenuity. They believe that entitlement, government programs in mass and laws regulating every aspect of our daily lives infringe on the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that government intervention in our daily lives should be held to a necessary minimum.

By contrast, the Left has more ideological factions than a Douglas Fir has needles. There is the NEA, which champions a globalist multicultural agenda in our public schools. Their agenda includes seeing children forced to participate in the study of the Koran in California under the guise of multicultural tolerance while doing everything to banish Christianity from our nations classrooms in total.

There is the ACLU who sued the City of Los Angeles in an effort to remove a cross from their city seal and who chose to represent NAMBLA — a group that advocates pederasty between men and boys — in a murder trial under the pretext of free speech.

There is the National Organization for Women and the National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League who, without a mandate by the medical community on when life actually begins, has championed as a natural right the act of partial birth abortion. These are but a very few of the “causes” and “action groups” that effectively comprise the Left and the Liberal-Left.

Incidentally, each time the ACLU brings suit against a governmental body in an effort to remove religious – and most often Christian – symbols from the public arena they have the right to recoup their legal fees from the government via taxpayer dollars.

Even more disturbing organizations of the Liberal-Left are groups like MoveOn.org and America Coming Together that simply want to push the ideological agenda of the Liberal-Left in total.

MoveOn.org and ACT have proven they will collect money from anyone and do anything, including purposely clouding the issues to the point of lying and promoting ad “contests” that see winners equating elected officials with Adolph Hitler, in order to achieve their goal: the advancement of the Liberal-Left’s agenda and the indoctrination of the United States into the multicultural, globalist society.

This indoctrination would forfeit certain sovereign rights our nation currently possesses, sovereign rights that our revolutionary Forefathers fought and died to secure. This indoctrination would forfeit these sovereign rights to the United Nations in return for an equal voice, yet we would shoulder most of the burdens of the world due to our people’s personal successes. One needs only to look at The Law of the Sea Treaty, originally a part of the UN’s New International Economic Order Agenda to see this deceptive schema at work.

In a contrasting nutshell, the Liberal-Left – not the moderate, mainstream Left, so let’s get this correct – would rather ban the phrase “under God” from the American lexicon so as not to offend even the least numbers among us, all the while denying the freedom of doing so to those who would like to, i.e., the majority of Americans.

Ideology, in all actuality, is simply theory. Anyone who took science classes in high school and college can attest to the fact that not all theories pan out when they are applied in reality. Most times there are unseen, unaccounted for variables. In human nature those variables are infinite.

I believe the Liberal-Left in this country has not accounted for America’s hunger for traditional freedom, a hunger possessed by the silent majority in our country. It will be this miscalculation that will see the Liberal-Left defeated ninety percent of the time, especially come this November.

Frank Salvato is a political media consultant and the managing editor for TheRant.us. His pieces are regularly featured in Townhall.com. He has appeared as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor and numerous radio shows. His pieces have been recognized by the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention and are periodically featured in The Washington Times as well as other national and international publications. He can be contacted at [email protected]