Reactionary Moderns

I'm telling you, there's gonna be a revival in Calvin Coolidge. I remember reading about his Presidency and wondered why it's not discussed more.

Quote:

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."

Quoted for damn truth.

This fetish for central authority Obama pushed yesterday is going to run - hopefully - its course. Then America's resurgence will really begin.

Here are some quotes from Obama:

"But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; "

No clue what that means.

"that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action."

Ah. Yes. What pages is that in the Big Book Of Marx? Or communism?

And my personal enigmatic favorite:

"For the American people can no more meet the demands of today's world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias. "

The guy is one gigantic false dichotomy. What the heck does he mean here? That collectivism leads to better technology? I don't get it.

No wonder I avoided the TV yesterday opting to read Sherlock Holmes instead.