The Founding Fathers Versus Television

Do the Founding Fathers Know Best?

Something debated for a number of years especially now as we face incredible history revisions from many different angles.   "I confess, that I do not entirely approve of this Constitution at present; but Sir, I am not sure I shall never approve it. . . Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best ." -- Benjamin Franklin Speech in the convention at the conclusion, deliberations, September 17, 1787.  

Ben Franklin expected no better, and there was a little bit of skepticism in his comments about the whole thing.  He did not say he consents because he thinks it is perfect!  The Constitution was created not as a Celebration of Americana but as a hindrance to tyranny gone amuck.  They believed that this country could very well teeter on the brink of it. 


Thomas Jefferson: "When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."   He did NOT put in a disclaimer and say, "except in America."   

Liberals and Conservatives are in a constant slap fight over this stuff!  Unfortunately, Conservatives often take the bait when Liberals disparage America's record. Let's be honest, it is not perfect and has elements of all the evil that has ever existed in the world.  The thing we often forget:  It is not about creating the perfect country- impossible due to human nature.  It is about limiting the worst aspects of human nature as much as possible in a system that is not perfect but has performed better than anything else out there.  

What does all this have to do with Leftist media?  "Hate and blame America first" is their mantra and oozes from most things they create.  This is a problem and done to purposefully once again throw the baby out with the bathwater.  The baby, as mentioned previously in another blog, are the precious things the Constitution and Declaration of Independence have to offer and is not, as they claim, merely traditional American jingoism to which even the Founders did not adhere.  The Left wants to throw out the baby primarily because they are arrogant enough to assume they can somehow avoid the evils of human nature that have afflicted human kind for millennium, rule over us and have the government disperse property out to everyone equally. 

Like moths to the flame, low information voters and many television viewers fall under this trance because equality of outcome and moral ambiguity sounds good to them.  A trance the writers/producers and broadcast giants promote through political messaging.  Do they have the right to produce it? Absolutely.  Do we have the right to point it out?  Yes.  Let's try to remember the Founders knew best:  

“It may be a reflection on human nature,” Madison wrote in a famous passage in Federalist No. 51, “that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”  http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227823/our-founders-realists/rich-lowry

A common tactic by the Far Left is to consistently set up false premises to bait Conservatives onto a playing field that is by itself wrong.  By attacking the Founders as evil (slave owners, evil capitalists, gentry) and traditional valued Americans in general as racists, bigots and homophobes, these traits somehow undermine the whole foundation of America and make it a lie.  Of course, since no one is perfect, they think they win this argument. They are trying to take our eyes off the ball.  

The foundation of America is not based on the imperfections or qualities of Its leaders and Its people.   It is based on the belief that those imperfections need to be kept in check at all times and The Constitution is the vehicle to do it. The Far Left foundation is the lie.  They would have us believe in their greatest Narcissistic fantasies they are Madison's "Angels" come down to grace us with their Utopian unacheivable vision of government control. 

In our journey to explore the ins and outs of the political views of writers/producers and broadcast giants, it is important for us to keep in mind their motivations in light of The Founders truth.  The Fathers Know Best.








      

The Baby, the Bathwater or Both?

This kid's First TV!  Not many of us remember those days. Black and White- that was it.  A screen about 5 to 6 inches thick, bullets could have bounced off it ( at least those shot from a BB gun).  Flying head butts did not penetrate it. Of course, me and my 2 brothers plead the 5th on any actual knowledge we have of these facts. How far we have come since those days: smart phones, flat screen televisions, TiVo, the Cloud, the Internet, tablets, iThis and iThat. But, have we really come that far?Technologically, yes. Culturally, the debate is still ongoing.  Granted, Civil Rights have improved for most people. Freedom is still difficult for some in this country.  So has the world always been.

My mother passed down a library of sayings that she learned from her mother and grandmother that are timeless.  In this blog, I will refer to them as Mom Says.  Mom Says: "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater".  The hippies and their baby boomer minions did that for us in the late 1960's into the 70's.  While the Civil Rights Movement was a necessary step towards equality and freedom, freedom from morality through embracing hedonism was not.  Bathwater=Civil Rights Violations, Baby=Traditional Moral Principles.  This movement towards hedonism has had devastating effects on our society. In addition, most are in agreement the Vietnam War should have not been politicized to the point of paralyzation.  At some point, it became a bad thing to continue policy wise.  But, the H & SBB (Hippies and Sympathetic Baby Boomers) threw down on the Vietnam Veterans.  Bathwater= Vietnam Policy, Baby= All Veterans in any war.

No where else is the baby/bathwater idiocy more obscenely portrayed than in politics. Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat.  Really?  Yes, he was.  He is famous for saying "I did not leave the Democrat party, the party left me."  It left him when they threw the baby out. This baby was the clearly unique American ideology found in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.  It was not based in Marxist and Communist ideology which was embraced by the Democratic Party and has now grown like a cancer.  It has moved well beyond the H & SBB and infected the very marrow of our culture. This infection is spread primarily through education and the media to which our young, 30 and below, are highly susceptible.

I have been reading a bit on the subject lately.  Here is an interview with one of the authors I have been reading that is quite telling.  He was able to interview openly with Hollywood writers and producers about some of the most popular TV programs from today and the early days of television.  He brilliantly writes about the history of Hollywood, blacklisting directed at Conservatives and "seed planting" of Far Left ideological ideas as normal by writers. Extremely eye opening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUvYxhjz9w

I do not watch an extreme amount of television but I must admit I grew up with it and I like some of it. Ben Shapiro discusses in his book  the lack of actual Conservative television.  It is approached in the industry as a necessary evil whenever it is tried.  All television shows are laden with immoral, Marxist/Communist imagery and messages.  But, there are nuggets out there of Conservative values. How do we sort through it?

The purpose of this blog is to help sort through it.   There maybe a baby out there we do not want to throw away in some of the television we watch.  It is important for us to be able to point things out to others and our children if we see things that are not right.  Those things can often be hidden because so much fun, funny lines, glamour and glitz are thrown in as camouflage.

I am going to critique the shows I tend to watch on a regular basis through out the week.  There will be SPOILER ALERTS in case of TiVo.  After awhile, you might get the knack of it by reading my ideas, or not.  It might turn you off totally from certain TV shows, this can be good or bad.  The point is to not just sit there and soak it all in like this little guy.  We can no longer be as naive as the handsome boy at the top of this blog who was mainly exposed to the Beverly Hill Billies or Giligan's Island. This might be another way to Get Involved and Take America Back.  And or a way to just have a little fun.