Moral Vision
Everyone wants to be proud of the political party they belong to.
Who really wanted to be a Democrat when Bill Clinton was the sexual laughingstock of the nation? Right now, the GOP is the party of drug addicts who do radio, closet gay ministers who patronize male prostitutes to get drugs, and coddlers of child perverts. It's no fun being Republican. All of Bush's mistakes fall on your shoulders. Why carry the GOP's dirty water? Why support social pariah and moral refuse, especially when they refuse to deliver limited government? They had all the power to reduce government spending, but AGAINST all their professed beliefs, they broke Lyndon Johnson's record on spending increases.
OLYMPIC PARTY
EXPRESS YOUR WILL TO LIVE™
This is brazen evil. Isn't there a limit to the water you will carry? There's no moral or practical reason to be Republican. They defrauded you. They don't take your freedom seriously. They don't take you seriously.
If welfare rewards laziness, then funding the GOP rewards those who sell out freedom. It rewards statism. If you support the GOP, don't fool yourself. You will get Supersized Government full of Waste, Fraud, Abuse—and Ultimate Tyranny.
It is near-treason to be Republican. What do you call it when Bush says "Islam is a great religion?" When you aid and abet America's enemies in a time of war, that's treason. You must demoralize your enemy, not inspire him. With his words and actions, Bush has demoralized America. Why?
The GOP has been taken over by neo-cons.
Neo-cons are driving America into the ground. When you realize that the neo-cons were former communists loyal to Trotsky, you realize why the GOP is not the party of Reagan or Goldwater myth, but of foreign- minded criminals who have taken over America to reconstruct an "empire" in the post-Soviet era. They believe we should export the American ideal—which they claim is statism. This is complete non-sense and a complete disaster. The Marxist Right destroys America as does the Marxist Left.
Every Republican should be loyal to America, to our freedoms, and to the Bill of Rights before any party or leader. That's true patriotism. More and more Republicans are waking up to that, and they have a sick taste in their mouths after the neo-con Bush years.
They haven't left the GOP. The GOP left them.
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Now, imagine how proud you would be once you are in the Olympic Party. You would be in a party that is based on the will to live—the ethic that most Americans use every day of their lives regardless of their race, religion, or bank account. This ethic serves Americans well when they use it.
Behind the pursuit of happiness, behind the pioneer spirit, behind the American Dream is our basic will to live.
Is there a party that believes in expressing the will to live?
Is there a party that upolds the quest for excellence in all things? Now there is. The Ancient Greeks valued this concept, calling it areté. We do too. The pursuit of excellence means respecting those who do pursue excellence. Their values are good values.
We won't make excuses for the lowest order. We don't put them on welfare. We don't cater to failure. We don't coddle the criminals, deficit spenders, or taxmen in Congress. We don't redistribute wealth.
We want the freedom to create our own wealth.
Now you have a party behind your great American virtue: self-reliance—that entrepreneurial honesty and effort that built America from a barren land to the pinnacle of technological supremacy. You'd be part of a party that believes in the quest for excellence in all things—not just athletics—but in all areas of life. Don't we need a quest for excellence in the arts, movies, poetry, music, and in our spirit and relationships?
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What do Tiger Woods, Jack Welch, Steve Jobs, and Martha Stewart have in common?
The quest for excellence.
Deeper still, what made Lance Armstrong endure his thrilling life-saving cancer treatments until he survived?
His will to live.
Behind his historic seven championships lies his invincible will to live. If you have a will to live, you want to make the most out of your life. If you teach kids to have a will to live, if they understand and embrace that ethic, will they do drugs, drink and drive, or dash into on-coming traffic? No. They will be on the higher road of life.
The will to live is the foundation of our rights.
Could you survive if others could steal your home, car, business, food, or the shirt on your back? Where would you live, what would you eat? If the State redistributed your kidneys, could you survive? Only your will to live says it's wrong. Murder is wrong when you have a will to live.
Plunder is wrong when you have a will to live.
If you have a will to live, you realize that property rights are moral absolutes. You can't live without them. They are vital to your survival as much as the things they protect. Rights are moral absolutes if you have a will to live.
If kids learned that property rights are moral absolutes, would they be inclined to rob banks, homes, stores, or old ladies? No. If they had a will to live, would they find prison a seductive lifestyle choice? No. If Americans regarded property rights as moral absolutes, would we have a welfare state? No.
The welfare-state thrives in an era of moral relativism. Only a new appealing ethics can succeed where other moral codes have failed. The will to live is the thrust behind the quest for excellence and that is lacking in every area where statism reigns: schools, health care, social security, taxation, war. Where the state's role is limited, excellence abounds: as in cuisine and computers.
If you had a quest for excellence, would you skip school, homework, college, or skip out on your family? Rarely.
If Muslims had a will to live, would they fly planes into our buildings? If Muslims had a will to live, there would be peace on earth. The message of the Olympic Party is crucial to America's future and the future of the world.
The will to live is the mother of all solid values and virtues. The will to live is the foundation of Western civilization. The will to live is man's natural moral compass.
Everyone needs to know why that is so.
Western ideas have been so powerful and productive: science, logic, individual rights and freedoms, property rights, capitalism, the pursuit of happiness. Those who have a will to live embrace these values. Those who don't, don't. The Olympic Party understands that to promote Western values you have to promote the will to live and show how these ideas are benefit human beings. If you do, people will embrace these values peacefully. That is crucial to overthrowing the suffocating culture of the Middle East.
The Olympic Party stands for the will to live.
The will to live is our moral absolute, our moral compass, our reason for being. With our will to live, we can embrace America and all that makes her unique in history. America has done more for man's survival and fulfillment than any nation in history. How could anyone not cherish her essence?
You won't find America-haters in our party. You won't find those who lambast her values like free speech, capitalism, or the pursuit of happiness. You won't hear the culture of nihilism: "slaughter the rich for the sake of the poor," "kill whitey," "tax the rich," "save the babies!" and "burn the homos," That's all we hear if we listen hard enough.
The Olympic Party aims to rejuvenate the moral fabric of America in a new way. We have the tools. We have the right words. We can't legislate morality. That would destroy it. We can express what the will to live is and what it means and what it can do for us. We have the words for the ethic that Americans actually use. We have the will to live ethic.
The quest for excellence is a good thing. It makes us productive men and woman who have an eye for quality, safety, comfort. Our moral absolute is the will to live.
Our policies are those that best express our will to live.
Once you are a member of this party, you are an Olympian.
That means something: you take your life and future seriously. It means you believe government should live by moral absolutes. You appreciate the value of a dollar. You expect Congress to appreciate it, too. The will to live gives you that resiliency to the state which is the moral fiber of good citizenship. Our fellow Americans lack that today.
Olympians are the voice for excellence in politics. We believe our rights should be respected and protected consistently. Ultimately, through our joint efforts, they will be.
We won't sell our soul for a tax cut, only to get the living hell of a super-state, like the Bush GOP.
Olympians will bring to Washington the conviction that property rights are moral absolutes.
To vanquish bleeding-heart liberalism and compassionate conservativism, to slay their taxes and shackles, we must restore the moral stature of property rights.
Property rights are moral absolutes—if you have a will to live. And for those who do, we expect the State to respect them. Virtually all our rights and freedoms come down to the respect we have for property rights. The Olympic message elevates these rights culturally in our minds as moral absolutes. That will reduce crime and plunder from Main Street to Wall Street to K-Street in Washington.
The conviction that property rights are moral absolutes elevates America over Soviet communism and all its lesser imitations.
It elevates Olympians over the swine who lead the GOP.
The GOP has just begun its long slow slide into dementia, obsolescense, and permanent decline. Of course, the Democrat Party began its slide in 1968. That is why the time is right for a vigorous party vigorously defending America and her freedoms.
Vigor springs from the robust will to live.
American idealism brings freedom to the American people—before it should ever bring freedom to Iraqis.
The moral effort to fight for freedom starts with our will to live, to embrace those policies that measure up to our health, happiness, and freedom. The resiliency of man to the state depends on our will to live. Olympians restore that resiliency by glorifying the will to live.
How is your will to live today? How can you strengthen it?
Does your son or daughter lack it? Do you?
When Americans are united by their will to live, they are invincible. They can survive whatever the world throws at them. That is something to be proud of.
If Americans are Americans, they will follow their will to live. They will find a party that expresses it.
The Olympic Party won't be a minor party for long.
© Lorenz Kraus 2006