Lying and the Modern Democrat
by Dean O. Muehlberg
The propensity of the modern leftist democrat to lie while putting a period after their declamations has bothered me for awhile. Sure, all politicians lie to some extent, but in the past they have at least tried to make it seem like they were not lying, in some respect for the concept of truth. When lies are promulgated by the highest offices in the land, and without even a hint of shame, and doubling down on them, it is a major blow to this country’s foundation, morals, and stability.
I was aware of community organizing through the efforts of ACORN, and other agitating groups. I was not aware of the real history of these groups, and of where the heart of it came from. Of course agitation by groups has always been where they have the will and power to effect change. This, however, was much different, not generated by actual communities rising up on their own to confront power through their own efforts. This was organizing from without, from people who believed that they were the pure equalizers, noble in heart and goal. I began hearing more of a man named Saul Alinsky, but had never read what he had written or of how he conceived of his mission as an organizer.
I decided to read his book “Reveille for Radicals,” fully expecting that I would find him very disagreeable. On the contrary, I found him fascinating. His intellect, his intelligence, his straightforward approach to what he espoused, are all interesting in any man. I would like to have known him. Yet as Thomas Jefferson said about John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, I believe he accrues to the latter: “John Adams was honest as a man, and honest as a politician. Alexander Hamilton was honest as a man, and not as a politician.” His charm is especially dangerous because what he in effect is saying is that there is nowhere that one cannot lie if it is for the greater good. The entire work really is based on the use of deceit and lying. He respects the truth of situations in which deceit was used, and uses it to justify the lie whenever it suits his own purposes. It is moral relativism in spades. He praises honesty on the one hand, and then goes down the road of deceit whenever it is useful in the cloudy world of “the general welfare.”
