February 5, 2009 - As a general rule, we aren’t prone to use biblical analogies or parables in our frequent articles and essays, although sometimes they can be useful because of everyone’s common knowledge of them ….. especially the story of David and Goliath.  We won’t go into the story except to say that Goliath, the bully, was terrorizing the common folk and had to be stopped.  The common folk had no other alternative but to confront the bully.

A commoner, David, took on the task and was triumphant with just a sling shot and a staff.  Goliath the bully, on the other hand, was not only giant in stature but was fully equipped with armor, sword and spear and not likely to be vanquished.  This made David’s triumph over Goliath, even more of a story.  In other words, in contemporary vernacular, his triumph gave the story “legs” and has been carried down through the ages as a result.   Nevertheless, the non-biblical moral of the story is of course, we must confront the bully, no matter how large or how powerful he, or they, may be, if we desire to live and remain free.

All throughout our long and tortured 5,000-year history of civilization, bullies have arisen from time to time to dominate the common folk.  Actually, there have been tens of thousands of bullies, large and small, on all continents.  There seems to be an innate character in some men and some women for that matter, that require they control others, either as single individuals, small groups, or entire countries and cultures.  Equally, all throughout our history of civilization, we have been forced to put the bullies down, one by one, long after they have inflicted terror, cultural disruptions, property damage and grave wounds or massive deaths on the hapless and helpless population.  Unfortunately, the biggest problem we have is that we wait far too long (HItler) before action is taken to relieve the bullies of their power, or their lives.  We are far too tolerant of their growing power and negligently blind to their ambitions.  History has proven, the longer we wait, the tougher the job.

The power over the common people is fluid in every corner on Earth.  It is constantly on the move.  It rises and falls as the ambitions of men (and women) exercise their ambitions of power by appealing to large segments of the population, that “their” way is the only right way.  Gullible, non-thinking people within the masses, are highly vulnerable to powerful, charismatic speakers, who emit qualities of vision and leadership.  The charismatic leader has no difficulty in finding converts and it is the mindless converts that empower the man or woman seeking power.

But bullies don’t have to come in the form of single, megalomaniac individuals, like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Attila The Hun, Caesar, or even the crazed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, current dictator of Iran.  Sometimes the “bullies” come in the form of a phantom ideology that is generally accepted by a group in power and reinforced by a constituency that has adopted the ideology, spoon fed to them by those very same people in power.  Sometimes the ideology morphs, slowly over time and becomes radicalized.  (Environmentalism)  Sometimes their is a hidden agenda behind the radicalized ideology by powerful, wealthy men, that provide the energy to keep the ideology alive and uses the group in power and their constituents, for their own evil ends.  (Globalism)  Many times actual or perceived natural or man-made emergencies are exploited to increase power over the people by using the ideology and the emergency as their rationale.  FDR used an emergency (the Great Depression) to increase his power and now Obama is doing the same thing.  The results will not be any different and freedom will be the loser.

This phantom ideology, the group in power, the constituents that maintain the group in power and international evil men who exploit all three for their own enrichment, are what we, as free individual Americans, face today.  It is the bully in the china shop.  It is the elephant in the room.  It is the commonly accepted, phantom ideology, of liberalism.  Liberalism is socialism by any other name and it is the giant bully (Goliath) that we must vanquish, should we desire to live and remain free.  Liberalism is the antithesis of freedom and liberty.  It cannot co-exist with our Constitution, that is why they constantly violate it.  Liberalism is manifested in the ideology of collectivism, where the group, the mob, the collective, have a greater priority and greater rights than the individual.  In liberalism, the rule of the mob, the collective, must triumph over the rule of law, where the “needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”.   Liberalism rewards bad behavior, makes victims out of segments of our society and then vilifies and taxes achievement and success, for the benefit of the government-made victims.   Liberalism is Marxism where the guiding philosophy and subsequent policies are based on “….. from those with the greatest capability, to those with the greatest need.”  Liberalism is “big, nasty government”, personified.

But this bully, liberalism, is intractable.  We have allowed it to become entrenched in the very fabric of our culture.  It is concentrated in big cities that by their very nature, are dependent on government.  Liberalism has been woven into our laws and regulations.  It is like a demon that must be exorcised from the “house” we live in.  The constituency that has bought into this phantom ideology, is absolutely convinced that it is the “way”, the “light”, the “salvation”.  To bring them out of this liberal stupor will be a monumental task.  The saying,  ”….. that a man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still”, is directly applicable to this “mountain” we must climb.  Like the followers of a Jim Jones’ cult, members will have to be de-programmed if they are to join the ranks of the sane.

As in the title to this article, Liberalism is the “bully” that all freedom-loving people must confront and relieve of its political power and its ideological life, if we desire to preserve liberty.   In spite of what lays before us, the de-programming of liberalism that threatens our freedom, is not insurmountable.  It is not the unalterable end-all to American culture and way of life.  Like all converts, they must be won over, one-by-one.

But how you say, can we be victorious over such an insidious enemy?  A few facts may put our dilemma in perspective.  First, there are more of “us” than there are of “them”.    Some liberals just don’t know they are really conservatives when it comes to values, morals and individual rights.  They will be the easier converts.  The hard-core liberals will take a little more time.  It can be done peacefully, if those of us of like mind will commit and take a stand for the principles of freedom and liberty, protect and defend our American constitution and the individual rights it promises and be true to the values of family, honesty, integrity and honor.  This must be done on a grand scale.  It cannot be a token effort, if it is to succeed.

Here is how it can be done.  Every conservative in America agrees on just one thing (one bully) to confront, at a time.  Let’s just say the “bully” is illegal immigration.  If every single conservative adult and every member of a conservative organization in America, got together as one and deluged Washington DC (the Congress) with an absolute demand that there be no amnesty for illegal aliens, the Congress would capitulate.  They would have no choice.  If all these same conservatives rejected the idea of man-caused global warming and demanded that the congress, as well as all lower political bodies, not pass any law, act, regulation, restriction or ordinance, or ratify any treaty, that purports to solve the fraud that is man-caused global warming, with CO2 emission limits and cap and trade policies, no such laws would be passed.  With each win, the power of conservatives and conservatism would grow stronger.  It would also be infectious.  Republican politicians would finally realize that they must be true to their conservative values, or join the other side.

The alternative to the coalescing of all conservatives as one to confront the “bully” or “bullies”, is to succumb to a civil war, armed revolution, or slavery, or all three.  America is at a cross roads, a turning point.  What we do, or don’t do, now, will determine the fate of freedom for all future generations from this moment forward.  Do we not owe it to those future generations (that’s right, our own children and grandchildren), to do the right thing?  But it is inescapable that, the longer we wait, the tougher the job.

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Ron Ewart is the President of The National Association of Rural Landowners and may reached for comment via email at r.ewart@comcast.net.