Can we overcome….

Recently we were asked – TheFundamentals seems to be dying out – not as many posts – not much vigor – what happened to the fire in the belly – the outcries against politicians, bureaucrats and, eeks, lawyers?

Our answer is this – there is not much new to bring to the table. Everyone of our essays about debt is as true today as when written and posted.  Ditto for those about public employee unions as well as the clogged arteries of commerce, wealth creation and economic growth that government and bureaucrats have destroyed with their self serving burdens.  So we could run repeats – just like everyone else does.

We watch the preemptive candidate for the majority party scheme to win votes.  She is carefully plotting to secure the female vote with her idiotic nonsense about an economic war on women.  She desperately needs their votes.  She has now turned to the black vote.  She will buy it with public monies and with extensions of plantation/slavery thinking because it is all she knows.  Without the black vote and we mean all of the black vote she is just one more washed up politician who knows the world has passed her by – she can’t keep up with it but she is too foolish to retreat and age gracefully.  She does not have one new idea; not one radical idea; not one self responsibility idea. 

The republicans are following the same approach – guarded, afraid to take a position on something as basic as cutting back government; reining in public employee unions; paying down debt; school choice; strict immigration controls; tax and regulatory free economic zones; and most of all this one simple concept – responsibility.  Democracy, freedom, economic growth, etc. are not public rights or constitutional guarantees or some such nonsense delivered by multiple, layered levels of governments.  There is not a particle of a chance that any government anywhere can deliver one smidgen of such a promise or guarantee.

Sure the world has changed.  No kidding.  So what?  It’s always been changing.  A good portion of the change has come from here.  Change does not affect the makeup of a human being.  Marrying your boyfriend, if you are a boy, does not change the needs of a community that wishes to survive; much less grow.  That community still needs something to do; babies to be born; it still needs to compete; it still needs jobs or if the jobs are gone it needs mobility to get to where the jobs are.  That motivation does not come from government.  Government stifles it.  There is not one American welfare program or bureaucracy that exists today that is consistent with survival, growth and success.

The government set up 240 years ago was not about any of that.  And it’s tough to find one candidate who grasps that simple point.  Instead they all substitute their own list of things their government will do for this group and that group, hoping to buy enough votes by November 8, 2016 to get over the top.

Then, along comes Dr. Ben Carson.  Dr. Carson grew up in Detroit – poor.  But he would never claim victimhood.  Why?  His mother would not allow it.  This one defining principle – this rejection or refusal to embrace the politics of victimhood stands in stark contrast to every other announced American politician seeking the presidency.

Ben does not accept victimhood.  Boy is he in for one of the biggest smack a rounds ever delivered. So we ask this question – can we overcome?  Can Ben help American overcome the politics of victimhood?  Heck, we hope he just survives long enough to at least introduce the concept that we are the problem – our way of thinking is the problem – those in power, just as they always have been, are the problem.  The solution – get rid of them.  Can we overcome government?  Can we overcome “victimhood?”