Virginia Kruta is an associate editor at the right-wing The Daily Caller. She recently attended a Democratic campaign rally in Missouri, where Democratic Socialist and rising star, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was speaking. And, as a conservative, what she heard "terrified" her.
“I saw something truly terrifying,” Kruta wrote. “I saw just how easy it would be, were I less involved and less certain of our nation’s founding and its history, to fall for the populist lines they were shouting from that stage.”
“I saw how easy it would be, as a parent, to accept the idea that my children deserve healthcare and education,” Kruta wrote. “I saw how easy it would be, as someone who has struggled to make ends meet, to accept the idea that a ‘living wage’ was a human right. Above all, I saw how easy it would be to accept the notion that it was the government’s job to make sure that those things were provided.” Link
She was terrified of the idea that making a living wage is a human right.
She was terrified of the idea that her children deserve healthcare and an education.
She was terrified that the government's job might be to provide those things.
Apparently our "nation's founding and its history" means we can't have those things.
What about this?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.How do you convince someone who doesn't even believe her own children deserve to see a doctor and to go to school?
Fortunately for her, there are people in this world who believe that ". . . all men are created equal, that they are endowed . . . with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
Of course, her argument is that the richest country in the history of the world can't afford these things. The same country that just gave $1 TRILLION back to rich people who don't need it. We just can't afford it.
Fortunately for her, other people care about her children and their rights and will fight for them.
Even if she doesn't and won't.
2 comments:
It totally blows my mind! At times, I've tried to discuss this topic with some conservatives i know and it truly is like talking to a wall. A few I know who have and still do benefit from several social programs/entitlements always vote Republican and for the life of me, I can't figure out how they justify that. When challenged, they either have no comment, just a blank far off stare or they get defensive and try to side step the issue by bringing up things that have nothing to do with the topic. I guess they learned that move from their fearless leader. I wonder if he discusses the effectiveness of those moves in The Art Of The Deal and when to use them.
I think at its base, it's just a virulent form of tribalism. The tribe is always right. The tribe CANNOT be wrong. They would rather burn down the entire country, themselves with it, than admit that they may be on the wrong side.
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