How To Break The Camel’s Back

 

How to Break a Camel's Back written by Daren Jonescu

 

Desirable as defeating President Obama is, the calamity awaiting America just a few paces further along its current path makes mere electoral victory inadequate. It is necessary that such victory be coupled with a greater triumph over an opponent more intractable than any mere Democrat - namely, the tide of anti-individualist morality, which has gradually swept the flotsam of entitlement, hyper-regulation, and disregard for the rights of others onto America's shores.

 

The problem is that the gradual nature of this tide has created its own dilemma, which is how to persuade people that another step in the wrong direction will take them to the point of no return, rather than being just "one more inconvenience." In my view, there is one issue -- health care -- which might, if presented in the right way, serve as the moral tide-changer. What is required, however, is that the issue be fought not as a difference of opinion about how to achieve shared goals, or as a disagreement about the efficiency of a bureaucratized medical system, or even as one about the constitutionality of the individual mandate.

 

Rather, the issue must be presented as a fundamental moral divide in the broadest terms: individual liberty versus serfdom.

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Guy Green and Tony Bauer on their Minnesota conservative radio program, "The Speakeasy." As our conversation took place within 48 hours of the announcement of Kim Jong-il's death, and as I live in South Korea, we naturally spent a few minutes delving into the predicament of this divided country. I noted the resiliency of South Koreans in the face of a continual threat of aggression, affronts to their sovereignty, and murderous attacks on their citizens. Repeatedly, South Koreans react with anger and stern warnings -- but with restraint. Their capacity to absorb each new "provocation" is a testament to the human capacity to keep life livable through crisis and hardship.

 

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This article came from the American Thinker website