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ICONIC FREEDOM on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:33:02 PM
What is character? How does one achieve such?
Character is the nature of who you are and how you develop it is through the millions of choices you will make throughout your lifetime.
Integrity is a reflection of character. Through these millions of choices what emerges is the observation of self and from others that your choices are made without pre-judgment and upholding of freedom, free choice, self-reliance, and self-governance.
Republicans are masters of self-evaluation toward self-correction; this is a great thing. Democrats are almost incapable of such. This is an advantage.
Republicans being open to the idea that no subject or situation is ever resolved to an extent that it cannot be revisited at a later date, is a brilliant approach. Democrats love to live in self-righteousness. They start from a position of being “right” and therefore every opposition is simply because you’re inept, stupid, ill-equipped to understand, sub-standard, bigoted, racist, misogynistic, dumb, and astro turf.
From this position, Democrats stand on the unbalanced beam of self-righteousness, use “social justice” as credential, then manipulate with language to convince those who want to be manipulated.
The question before Republicans: do you want to be manipulated?
Every candidate who jumps into a race from this point forward needs to assimilate freedom, free choice, the development of personal responsibility, speak to limited government and safety of this nation. If he, or she, cannot, then reconsider your vote for that individual.
Sob stories or stories to tug at your heart strings; fear mongering of our “fate as a nation” is nothing more than manipulation.
If a candidate truly upholds freedom and all the precepts that follow, then all such concerns would naturally resolve themselves. Your children need not worry about their future if they’re living in freedom.
To state, “I have concern for our future where a life of freedom is no longer” speaks to everyone, irrespective of any hyphenated label they wish apply to themselves. It’s universal.
Don’t let politicians get away with this manipulation. Call them out on it. Don’t let politicians use your family, children, elderly, husbands, wives, military or anyone else to extort your vote.
If a candidate is or was a small business owner, great, speak to that with respect to understanding a FREE market system where choice, competition, obligation to personal responsibility and consent are paramount.
If a candidate understands the scientific method (and he should!) then let him speak to how he understands what it means when politicians try and thrust junk science on us strictly for political and financial gain.
Sympathy, empathy, personal experience: these are not synonyms for legislation.
Freedom is a reason for legislation.
Individual choice is a reason for legislation.
Unleashing markets from the chains of regulation is about freedom which is a reason for legislation.
Getting government out of everything is a reason for legislation because it’s about freedom.
You get the picture here? I know you do. Now our candidates and politicians need to.
They will tell you that only 30,000 people out of 670,000 people in a district actually voted; that they need to “negotiate” for votes (this is euphemism for granting favors for votes). My question to them: what is your message that isn’t getting through to the other 670,000 voters? Why can’t you motivate them?
If you ignore a larger piece of the pie for the minority, isn’t that what liberals do? They want to manipulate the larger group for favor of a minority group?
Are you so attached to an outcome that it blinds you to the simple message for freedom, free choice, independence, self-reliance, and self-governance?
We know all candidates want to win – that’s a “duh” moment. However, a candidate who is attached to the outcome has a personal agenda that isn’t about freedom and advancing freedom for his fellow Americans. If your motivations are anything other than freedom, you’re a fraud. Out of freedom is the byproduct of every personal concern that EVERY AMERICAN has to live free.
As a candidate, I would want to win, but not at the cost of the American people’s freedom and certainly not at a cost to their loss of confidence when they find out all the “sweetheart deals”, or “special favors” or “cow-towing to special interests” in order to get elected.
These are euphemisms for bribery.
And while we’re on the subject of integrity, don’t fall for the “with all due respect” line. If an individual is developing integrity through character & personal choices, that person would naturally have self-respect. As a result, it wouldn’t occur to him to speak about others in ways that were “disrespectful”. There’s a difference between speaking to reality and coddling the feelings of others.
If it’s not in your nature to have self-respect, then you may want to self-evaluate whether or not you should open your mouth to begin with.
Growing up, my mom always liked to tell us, “It is wiser to remain silent and thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt”. She read it somewhere and never missed an opportunity to utilize it.
I miss that woman. J