An Alinskyite gets a logical beatdown

Over at the Conservative Treehouse, Sundance vivisects the comments of someone who either doesn't quite get the concept of free people in a free country...or is attempting to engage in deliberate obfuscation.

Perhaps that is the most alarming portion of the entire statement. We are not a democratic republic, we are a Constitutional Republic. HUGE DIFFERENCE, as in totally opposite forms of governance.

If a government structure is “of the people, by the people, for the people” how and when does it become socialistic and flawed to address the needs of people?

The line of quotation is from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The reference was a follow-on to the larger statement … “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom”… the construct of the principle “freedom” was individual freedom and liberty. Your INDIVIDUAL freedom, everyone’s individual freedom, and the right of the individual to be considered equally. Freedom for blacks, freedom for whites, freedom for everyone; and most importantly freedom to strive forward, in a manner of their own choosing, toward their own needs and aspirations, with equality in opportunity to succeed. It is not the role of government to define individual needs, nor provide for them. It is the role of the individual to determine for themselves, as an outcome of their effort, what they desire and need. The individual must then be free to pursue, or strive, toward that end.

This is only a sliver of the whole post.  Don't forget to read the commentary as well, as other 'Treepers' add their own insights.