Posted by
Steve on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:22:31 AM
Dennis Prager had an interesting column last night. He discussed Barak Obama’s primary point of “Unity”. What does Barak Obama mean by Unity? Does he want all of us to follow him? Or is he going to embrace American values? Those are legitimate questions to ask about his meaning.
As Mr. Prager says, there are some fundamental differences in some positions. If I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman and you believe that any two people can be married, that is a fundamental difference. There is no unity position to take. It is an either/or position. There is no point where compromise is possible.
There are other fundamental positions that people take. You have to allow people to take fundamentally different positions. We can have a unity of purpose, like defeating communism. But, we can never be completely unified without some people giving up their core values.
Taking a unity position sounds great. You sound like you are a uniter, not a divider. In reality, you are someone who is naive. Your position is unrealistic. Everyone will either have to change their positions to follow you, or you will have to change to follow them. It is highly unlikely that the person touting the unity line will mean that they will change; the obvious intent is for the other people to follow them. They will not change their values one bit. Everyone else must change their values to match the person that is suggesting the unity position. That is an unrealistic position to take.
A more realistic position to take would be to get people to agree on a mission for the country. Everyone could agree that we need to defeat communism. Their values would remain the same; just having a goal of defeating communism would tend to reduce the impact of the differences in their values. Trying to achieve unity would be impossible in the United States. In a totalitarian form of government, it would be easy to achieve. You just tell everyone what their values are and enforce it with the gun. That would never work in the US.
In Obama’s case, when you look at what he is proposing to back his “Unity” idea, you get pure socialism. We do not need socialism in the US. The US is a country built on individualism. Individualism and socialism do not mix. If you introduce socialism to the overall society, you will destroy the American spirit. We have introduced so much socialism in this country now; that the American sprit is in danger of death anyway. There is a point at which socialism will destroy the will of the people to resist destruction by enemies. We have socialism in many aspects of our lives thanks to Democrats, but we still have the will to survive. I fear the election of a Democrat because of the dramatic increase in the advance of socialism. Then we will be in danger of being destroyed by our enemies. We will have lost our will to survive and all that goes with it.