The Future is Only One Second Away
Conservatives worldwide yearn for principles, not the past.
My good friend, Barry Downard, the Wise Smithy from Oak Tree Cottage, tipped me to this quote by a fellow, @AuronMacintyre, he follows on Twitter (I follow him now, too):
“Conservatives are trapped in the realm of the practical, this is a disadvantage based on disposition Because conservatives inherently defend the existing system, they are trapped in the frame the left builds for them. No vision of the future, only a defense of the present."
That is one of the best descriptions of the box we conservatives, and I mean worldwide, allow ourselves to be put in. In America, it I always “They goin’ put you back in chains” when Democrats address black Americans, “They want you barefoot, pregnant in in the kitchen” for women – as a famously incompetent President once said, “You know the thing.”
But we don’t long for the past, at least not in the sense the Democrats mean.
We don’t even consider the passing of time at all. We don’t yearn for this age or that age, not for the antebellum days, the Roaring Twenties or ever the Leave it to Beaver 50’s.
What we want is for the country to realize there are things in the past that ARE the future.
We understand that the future is never more than one second away.
It has always been that way.
When I say that, I mean that while the principles we need to save our Republic were written into our founding in the past chronologically, these are principles are not time bound. The ideas that we are all created equal, and we are blessed by our Creator with unalienable rights are not ideas that have a shelf life, they are transcendent and timeless and as such, were true then, are now and forever will be.
But the Democrats have simply done a better job at classifying those ideas as useless and obsolete and horrifically out of step with modernity. That’s the “living constitution” versus the traditionalist constitution argument. How could the old white slaveholding men have possibly foreseen the complex and erudite society in which we now live, right?
But they did foresee complexities – that is why they stripped government down to its least common denominator and restricted it with the duties and structure delineated in the actual Constitution.
What is not timeless about freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly, the right to petition the government? What about the right to bear arms, the prohibition on quartering troops or illegal searches or seizures? Of the right to a grand jury, no double jeopardy, no self-Incrimination, and a right to due process. What about the right to trial by a jury of your peers or the right to confront your accusers and to have the right to legal counsel? How about a right to a jury trial in common law matters or to be free of excess bail or fines and free from cruel and unusual punishment? How about the idea that just because the Constitution didn’t name all the rights that no government may assume other rights are not retained by the people or that the federal government only has the powers enumerated in the Constitution and the rest are reserved to the states and the people?
Those are your rights from the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the Constitution.
Democrats think those have an expiration date.
Nothing can make that clearer than their persecution of J6 protesters and Donald J. Trump.
But they don’t expire. They can’t be wished away, because like truth, they are natural and real.
We are not defending the past or the present, we are trying to preserve transcendent and timeless principles that are necessary for our future.
"Those are your rights from the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the Constitution." I am so tired of hearing this false statement. No. The Bill of Rights does NOT create your rights nor grant you rights. If I magically burned every copy of the Constitution right now, I would still have all of my Rights. My Rights come from God. I was born with them. No government nor Constitution GAVE them to me. The Constitution serves 2 purposes, it outlines the structure and powers of the US government and second, it lists some of the many things that the federal government explicitly may not do. That is what the first 10 Amendments do - explicitly tells government what it may NOT do to infringe upon my already-existing Rights.//
In addition, how does our side compete with the liberal/socialist appeals for free sex, free "stuff", and basically no accountability? We say delay gratification, work hard, save for the future and be accountable.