While Obama and Congress Spending Goes Out of Control - Culture Matters

Americans are finally waking up to the fact that absurd deficit spending and a huge national debt are somehow bad for the country. A few even realize that the fault lies within the leftist ideals of statist government, unsustainable Keynesian economic models, and the failed policies of the welfare state.

Yet, a lot of conservatives, libertarians, and even a few old-style Democrats focus on deficit spending without addressing the root of the problem. Government uberspending is merely a symptom of the underlying disease.

What is the disease that's eating away at the very foundations of our government? The rejection of those values and ideas on which the US was founded. We've rejected the secular religion based on the Constitution and have, in its place, gradually imposed the secular religion of socialism. The new secular religion values change at all costs and expresses a profound intolerance against any other system.

Leftist doctrine, in absolute hubris, cannot tolerate competing systems. Modern conservatism is demonized as bigoted and unfeeling. Christianity is demonized as shameful bigotry. Tea Party members are condemned as racist. Republicans are trying to kill women and babies. Middle Americans are gun-clinging, Bible thumpers.

Americans have long known that the universities were permeated with faculty who bought into the anti-American system. Yet we, who held the benefits of our constitutional system, said and did little. Now we have several generations of children raised up within the public school system who, besides becoming increasingly illiterate and uneducated, are taught only the memes of leftist thought.

The sheer idiocy of the dialog in Washington DC ought to convince us that something is fundamentally wrong with the current underlying system:

• In proposing a budget, Republicans tried to defund Planned Parenthood. In response, Harry Reid implied that women's cancer screenings are more important than saving the country - attacking Republicans by fear mongering.
• Republicans proposed a budget that would significantly reduce spending. Barack Obama called the budget wrong for America and proposed taxing the rich even more to reduce the budget - because being rich is unfair.
• Congressional talk about cutting spending currently centers on raising the debt ceiling - a situation that Barack Obama himself called a failure in leadership when talking about the rising debt under George W. Bush.
• The International Monetary Fund now predicts that China's economy will surpass that of the US sometime in 2016 - an indicator that current policies have put the US into decline.

The point isn't that our economy is a shambles. It is. Rather, the point is that in order to fix the economy, we must reject the socialist policies that brought us to this point. This is not merely a problem of economic policy, it is a war against the underlying socialist assumptions and socialist narratives that we've allowed to creep into the system at all levels.

We will never be able to maintain checks and balances in our government until we take on and conquer the destructive narrative of the left.

We must bring American culture in line with classical liberalism to cure the socialist disease failing our system. Fiscal conservatives must also become cultural conservatives.