Recently I
saw the old Hitchcock movie, Lifeboat. The story centers around a group of Americans
whose ship is sunk by a German U-boat, leaving them stranded on a
lifeboat. Soon the U-boat is also sunk,
and an evacuated German sailor seeks refuge with the Americans in the
lifeboat. The Americans disagree about
whether or not to let him on the boat but ultimately they do. The plan is to try and guide the lifeboat to
Bermuda, but they have no compass and are unsure about the accuracy of their
course. Eventually the German sailor
takes charge of the boat and the mission, including pretty much all of the
rowing, as the others aren’t experienced sailors and they’re growing weak from
hunger and thirst. Unbeknownst to them
the German was actually the captain of the U-boat and has a secret stash of
water and sugar pills, as well as a compass.
Eventually they realize that instead of aiming for Bermuda he’s been
rowing them to a rendezvous with a German supply ship.
Hitchcock probably
wanted viewers to contemplate themes about human nature, desperation and
survival; but the main lesson I took away had to do with the importance of understanding
what people’s real motives are. That is
to say you shouldn’t entrust someone with your boat or your life unless you’re certain
that he wants to go in the same direction as you do. Metaphorically speaking it’s a good lesson for
a lot of areas in life, not the least of which is the election of our
leaders. That’s why I was greatly disappointed
by an interview I saw a while back with Senator Mike Lee of Utah by Greta Van
Susteren. Senator Lee, a man whom I
respect and admire, complained about Obama disparaging the motives of the GOP
on their approach to Medicaid, and he went on to say that the two sides should
not be questioning each other’s motives.
This “play nice” policy and misguided reverence for gentlemanly manners when
we’re in a war for the soul of this nation dumbfounds me. It’s yet another chapter out of the
republican manual for How to Lose
Elections (and the Country) in Ten Easy Steps. Does
Senator Lee really believe we can win a war with the devil by politely pretending
that he isn’t the devil? When would be a
good time to start questioning Obama’s motives?
After the “transformation” is completed?
Motives
matter. They are critical to understanding
why people behave the way they do and how they will behave in the future. The
destructive policies that republicans refer to as “failures,” the puzzling “incompetency”
by what is supposed to be an intelligent man are really nothing of the
kind. They are a misdiagnosis of the problem,
and the problem is that we pretend, or perhaps even believe, that Obama is
motivated by the same things that we are.
People who are sailing on the great ship USA, who believe they’re sailing
towards the American dream, to freedom and prosperity, need to understand that
Captain Obama isn’t going there, and that’s by design. His goals are to weaken this nation to make
it ripe for the “transformation.” The
plan is to transfer wealth according to the leftist definition of who’s worthy
and whose not; normalize and expand government dependency; take power from the
individual and centralize it within the government for control by the Left; and
gratify Obama’s ego by amassing personal glory for himself. Everything he does, from vastly expanding our
debt and our welfare systems to taking over our healthcare to making
unconstitutional power grabs to arrogantly claiming credit for that which has
been paid for not by him but by the American taxpayer, all of it can be traced
to the motivates of this very dangerous and foolish man.
Yes I know,
Senator Lee, that to delve into an examination of motives exposes republicans
to the usual misrepresentations about their own motives. But can we really not defend ourselves
against charges that we want seniors to die, children to starve and poor people
to go without healthcare? Ironically,
all of that is what will eventually happen when the nation collapses under the
weight of socialist programs being imposed on us by the Left.
Another
reason we need to expose the Left’s motives is to make people understand the
futility of logical debates about things like the debt ceiling. We are never going to successfully appeal to
the Left’s sense of reason about our looming debt crisis or about anything else
because they don’t care unless it interferes with the larger plan.
So let’s
have the debate. Let’s pull no punches. To whatever extent we can let’s force Obama
and Hillary and all the leftists that presume to control this country to
explain why their actions and their outcomes never align with the saintly, altruistic
motives they pretend to be pursuing. Could
be that much of this country really doesn’t care where we end up as long as
they’re comfortable along the way; but we’ll never know unless we finally have
the debate.
~CW
