Such was the case with Ronald Reagan in his famous speech in 1964---there is no left or right, but only up or down. Reagan redefined the argument in terms of liberty, not who gets to run the show.
So, when I see a piece like this that I followed through Instapundit, I think of Reagan. Also, Rush Limbaugh. You see, Limbaugh loves ideology, but Reagan didn't trust it. Limbaugh likes to refer to conservatism as "the right", but that isn't consistent with what Reagan said. Anyway, here's a quote that I pulled out of the piece that reminds me of this faulty type of thinking that is hurting liberty in this country:
Furthermore, he had the absolute Alinskyite brilliance — a coup d’Alinsky, you might call it – to assert in front of the debate audience Thursday that our educational system was biased toward rightwing corporations and the corporate rich. ---Roger L. Simon
First of all, corporations are not conservative these days. To call them "right-wing" means nothing unless you accept the premises of the left-right divide, which Reagan did not. Secondly, so many on the "so-called right" seem to have this notion that if we lower taxes on corporations, we will be more free. Only one problem with that--- the constitution in its original form forbad taxing individuals. It encouraged taxing a collective entity like corporations. Thus, if we went back to that concept, we will be defending freedom. Alas, Bill Ayers may be more "right" than they think he is. And they may be more "left" than they think they are.
In the end, none of this would matter if they would frame the issue the way Reagan did. They long for Reagan, but do they even understand the man at all?
Update:
More here. Looks like there are some people out there with their thinking caps on.
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