August 8, 8:41 AM
San Diego Community Issues Examiner
Alberto Vargas
Riding an increasingly rising tide of conservatism that is strongly reverberating nationwide, Sean Hannity, along with Mark Levin, Brian Bilbray, Carrie Prejean, and Leann Tweeden, among others, swept through San Diego on Friday at the Cricket Wireless Amphiteater in Chula Vista.
Being one of eight nationwide Freedom Concerts set for 2009, musical acts like Billy Ray Cyrus, Michael W. Smith, Lee Greenwood, and The Charlie Daniel’s Band, took to the stage, honoring America and the heroes who fight and die to keep us safe.
Also in attendance was Rick Roberts, local radio personality, well-known conservative, and one of the many critics voicing outrage over President Obama’s increasingly arrogant and dismissive approach to those who dare question his policies and political intentions.
Made glaringly obvious by the town-hall style meetings that have gone awry across the country, Democrats and in particular those on the far left (secular progressives, liberals) who seek to unquestionably embrace everything Obama proposes are faced with a collapsing power base not very long ago attained. The power they so much salivated over and proudly snatched during the most recent elections is now slipping from their hands.
Former president Bush and his policies, though very unpopular on his way out, both with conservatives and liberals, is beginning to look increasingly more palatable in comparison to our current president and his decisions.
President Obama has not set out to unify the nation. In fact, the nation, it seems, has not been more strongly divided in quite a long time. Those who’ve supported the president, whether policy makers like Nancy Pelosi or those in the general public, tend to be suffering from the same blindness he suffers, which is brought upon by an incomprehensible level of arrogance and detachment from “real” Americans.
Pelosi recently mocked the town hall Americans voicing their opinions as “astro turf” rather than “grass roots.” Couldn’t she just respectfully agree to disagree? Is the mocking of concerned Americans, from an elected public official, necessary and politically intelligent? Maybe she feels she is untouchable.
For these kinds of reasons, the nation, one could argue, is now engaged in a political civil war. Yet, sadly what seems to most accurately reflect the nature of those on the left is hostility and intolerance. Coming from a former Democrat (now an Independent) and someone who voted for President Clinton – TWICE! – and even Al Gore, it’s obvious that the Democratic Party, which once stood for the working class, for family, for tradition, and the constitutional right of freedom of speech, has been hijacked by hostile special interest groups, which aim to silence others’ voices. http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-11974-San-Diego-Community-Issues-Examiner~y2009m8d7-A-reflection-Metallica-freedom-of-speech-and-the-growing-power-of-our-government
The key word here is “hostile.” Whether it’s in the vast and growing blogosphere, television, or magazines, the voices from the left are consistently reverberating with hostility, intolerance, anger, hatred even, and arrogance. What has become of the democratic party?
They tend to ridicule – like no doubt they will this writer and this article – anyone who stands in opposition to their views. They aim to defame and discredit the conservative individual, using “hypocrisy” as their preferred weapon. Imperfect Christians who tend to be fully aware of their human vulnerabilities, yet seek to please God and country are painted as religious radicals, zealots, and un-American.
Carrie Prejean who today said on the Sean Hannity show, “It’s okay to be conservative. It’s okay to believe in traditional family values,” has been mercilessly dragged through the mud, yet gladly she remains strong; in fact, stronger than before.
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Leftists increasingly engage in discourse, not with civility, dignity, discipline, and respect for other Americans with differing views, but belittlement, mockery, and defamation.
This, ultimately, will be their demise. The American people will stand for this no longer. Republicans? A disappointing group of individuals who meekly hold their finger up in the air to see which way the wind is blowing, so that they can follow accordingly, better wake up and stand for something, or they too will find themselves on the outside looking in.
Ultimately, God and love of country must prevail. Those that ridicule, debase, mock, and seek to deconstruct that which is good and replace it with moral relativism, are arrogantly unaware that they’re sewing the seeds of everyone’s demise, including their’s.
You're more than welcome to voice your opinion now. Please prove us wrong in doing so, using civility, throughtfulness, respect, dignity, and constructive dissent, if that's what you choose.
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