“Question Authority”

nick r brown — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:00:34 +0000

“Question Authority” is a popular slogan often pasted on bumper stickers that came out of the late 1970′s famous protests around the United States. The phrase is a statement refuting the logical fallacy of “because I said so.” In other words, statements made by “authority figures” are not necessarily factual just because the individual making the statements have rank over others.

“You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on…” -Oliver Goldsmith

From Vietnam to George W. Bush, questioning authority has been the policy of the left, especially when Republicans have been in office. And to be fair, there has always been an assumption that it is the duty of citizenry not to blindly accept what they are being told by a government. Especially when that government was appointment by the very people it assumes it has authority over.

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” -Benjamin Franklin

But for the Left, this mantra of sorts has quickly come to a close with the election of a Progressive administration. Questioning authority is unacceptable. And it is confusing to the Left why conservatives would ever question the policies of the administration. Furthermore, the generation that invented the “Question Authority” movement, now the authorities themselves, have entered into numerous double standards.

Mark Lloyd was brought into the administration as the Chief Diversity Officer. A position that is designed to verify that a strategy of diversity and inclusion policy is taking place across the nation. Yet the administration has attempted to shut down and shut out Fox News as of late. A very diverse move.

Back in August the Obama administration became concerned over email chain mails that were making the rounds on the Internet. One should take pause and consider that sentence. The administration of the Office of the President of the United States of America was concerned about a chain email circulating on the Internet regarding the health care bill. David Axelrod emailed thousands of individuals who had not opted in to receive correspondence from the White House in order to confront “myths” circulating on the Internet.

This from the office of a president who is “open for debate and discourse” on the issues. This from the man whose entire political campaign was about questioning the authority of the Bush administration.

In the midst of all these issues, dissent became racism. It was no longer that the right was simply questioning policy, Tea Party events were racist gatherings and those of persuasions other than white labeled “uncle toms”. These events culminated in Warren Ballentine unquestionably disgusting remark to Juan Williams involving a porch.

The Left is now responsible for answering the question, “Where did question authority go?” The answer to this is that Progressives believe that middle America are the modern proletariat. We are dumb, and we need to be herded like sheep into the divine promised land of socialism. Asking questions gets in the way of this.

I for one was never taught in school that asking questions was a thing of ignorance.

-nick

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“Question Authority”