Brad Miller (NC-13) Armed Potential Victims Lead to the Kind of Carnage We Saw in Aurora......

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News Record:

U.S. Rep. Brad Miller , D- 13th District, counters those fears assume “a tyrannical government.” He said the idea that armed citizens serve as an effective check on a modern military is “kind of a fantasy.”

“Given the power of the military now, the weaponry available to the military and the powers of the government, the idea that armed citizens are an important check on government just seems unrealistic,” Miller said. “And it leads to the kind of carnage that we saw in Aurora.”

What emptiness would drive Brad Miller to argue for  disarming  would be victims? Perhaps Brad Miller should search his heart, his soul, and find the humanity within that would allow him to trust his fellow citizen over the soulless, inanimate government he seems more inclined to not only entrust his  well being to, but force others to entrust their well being to as well.

And what is it within liberals in general that drive them to entrust inanimate government over real people with their well being? I am sure there is a term that describes such a psychosis.  Whatever that psychosis it is surly highly related to the dehumanization of the disarmed victims their arguments necessarily force upon them. While liberals seem prepared to argue for disarming potential victims,  I doubt those same individuals would argue for de-clawing cats prior to throwing them to the wild. 

What drives liberals like Brad Miller to dehumanize their fellow citizens and treat them as less than cats?  What drives them to disconnect from their fellow citizen and embrace inanimate governance?

In the case of Brad Miller, his immorality in such matters are of little significance in terms of his governance, he has lost his gerrymandered district to his extremism.  But as a private citizen he will still be able argue for  his cold, inhuman, and inhumane liberal immorality and that is his right.



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Progressivism and the authoritarian impulse...

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Protein Wisdom:

And it is because of this — the progressives’ fidelity to a belief system that is fundamentally at odds with the idea of equality of the individual before the law — that I’ve said time and time again that modern progressivism / “liberalism” is nothing like the classical liberalism upon which this country was founded, and is in fact antithetical and hostile to the very notion of individual autonomy, and a foundational “fairness” that comes about as a result of a system of law that seeks to create an even playing field. That is, it is in a very real and strict sense un-American.

To the progressive, your social and political worth — in fact, your very claim to morality — comes from your various identity politics alliances. That is, your morality is a function not so much of what you do, but rather of where you claim to stand, and with whom.

Progressivism cares not about fairness or equality in the sense those words are used under a political paradigm that adheres to classical liberalism; instead, it seeks to redefine “fairness” and “equality” (and “tolerance”) as based on the outcomes it desires, a deconstructive procedure it then justifies by tying those outcomes to its own self-serving descriptions of what comes to count as moral. It is circular reasoning made perfect. Might makes right. The ends justify the means.

And, thus, leftists claim morality as theirs to impose and the right to acquiesce.

I reject their "morality" in which racist leftists are not racist and all conservatives are racist without need for proof.

I reject their "morality" that places the needs of a fish or spotted owl above the needs of even a single human.

I reject their "morality" that allows women to claim a "right to choose" that denies all rights to another human when  that "right to chose" is exercised.

I reject their "morality" that places the "needs of society" above, not only the needs, and desires, but the  beliefs of the individual.

I reject their "morality" that  has been balkinizing America for decades through   multiculturalism and is straining the common threads  that bind our nation together as one people.

It is the authoritarian impulse that gives rise to leftist immorality for in each case their "morality" leads to a weaker individual and a stronger state.






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