Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-6285-6
Suggested Retail: $25.00
Book Review by Armand Vaquer
Conservative talk-show host Mark Levin has a new book out, and it has been number one on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks since it was published.
It is Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.
Levin started this book before Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president, but the points he made in the book have been proven time and time again by the actions of President Obama and the Democrat-controlled congress.
Since we are nearing the Independence Day weekend, it is a book you should consider getting and read over the holiday.
Levin points out that the word liberal meant, in the classical sense, the opposite of authoritarian. Today's "liberals" (or "progressives") should be referred to as statists. This means that a statist believes in the supremacy of the state, specifically the federal government with centralized planning. The modern liberal believes that "the individual's imperfection and personal pursuits impede the objective of the utopian state. In this, Modern Liberalism promotes what French historian Alexis de Tocqueville described as a soft tyranny." Levin says this soft tyranny becomes more oppressive and potentially could lead to a hard tyranny (or totalitarianism).
We see this now in the current news involving cap-and-trade, health care "reform," and the current moves by Obama to grab more power through executive orders and the appointment of "czars" with more powers than cabinet secretaries and without any oversight. Leftist bloggers such as J. Clifford at the Irregular Times pooh-pooh the concerns many of us have over these governmental actions that the statists couch in sugary terms such as "common good."
Levin's book covers a wide range of topics and ends with a conservative manifesto on different issues, which are based upon the foundations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
This is a must-read for all U.S. citizens. This book should also be required reading in political science classes.
Good recommendation.
ReplyDeleteAlexis de Tocqueville also said something to the effect that Once your people understand that they can vote on their own entitlements your system of democracy and freedom is finished.
Thus we are in the situation we are in today with millions receiving aid in the form of welfare, food stamps, social security for the unretired, etc. The working class is paying for the lower and lazy class and today also for the gambling losses of the elitist bankers.
He also said, The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
This was in the 1800's. How chillingly prophetic and wise he was.
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