Where are we going? and why am I in this handbasket?

Sometimes I wonder if it just seems that the World is so much worse than it used to be. Perhaps it appears that way because we have access to so much more information today....Nah! I know that throughout history we generally see a decline in morality and the scriptures and prophets tell us to expect that. At the same time we are supposed to struggle against such a decline. With that preface, let me vent.

What is society thinking? last week there were two major Utah news stories that simply ground the faces of already downtrodden conservatives into the muck and seem to be symptomatic of the Nation as a whole:

Jon Huntsman (RINO) Utah Governor announced a compromise on the Legacy Highway issue. Bob Lonsberry described it very aptly, "The state used the grab-your-ankles approach to negotiation, with occasional utilization of the here’s-my-wallet-don’t-hurt-me technique." There was absolutelyey no reason to cave into the brash demands of outsider funded minority special interest environmentalist terrorists.

The now crippled Legacy Highway project has long been needed to ease the traffic on the only main artery north and south through the three northern most valleys of Utah. Years ago construction was halted by environmentalists and Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson with the subsequent cost to taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars. A highway project to benefit the State and desired by the majority of the people, was halted by a wacko left-wing mayor (who thinks he is the most important man in the State), his ACLU-enviro-terrorist cronies and their supporters and financial backers who live elsewhere.

Also last week, Rocky Anderson extended City employee benefits to their live-in "partners." This was meant to be a nod to same sex couples. But, to achieve his aim he can't exclude heterosexual couples who haven't bothered to get married. Let's face it Rocky was rubbing our noses in it. Consider the typical same sex couple. Are they more or less likely to have children? Are they more or less likely to have lots of children? Are they more or less likely to be a dual income household? Same rhetorical questions for the shack-ups who can't bring themselves to get married. He gave official standing to same sex partners under the guise of giving them a benefit that most of them probably don't need and likely need a lot less than heterosexual, legally married, stay-at-home-mom type families.

Liberals in Utah love to cry that the LDS Church runs the State. If that were true there are a lot of things like this that would never happen in Utah. In reality the Church has limited control even over its devout members.

It becomes increasingly apparent that what minorities lose at the ballot box and cannot achieve through constitutional means they are able to obtain through lawless courts and judges and the Supreme Fiat of Maverick Ideologue Leaders and appointees.

Our Constitution is really on it's head. I remember during the Reagan era discussing the idea of majority rule with an office associate who was very Liberal. I got the distinct impression that there was a groundswell of the idea that "even though we are a minority, we still get a voice." She used the phrase "protection of the minority." Where in the Constitution is this idea of the minority getting a voice? I think you only get a voice if you can control a majority. Over the years we see a growth in the mechanisms for the "voice of the minority." 1) Lobbyists and special interest groups with $, 2) Judges and leaders who a) don't enforce the law b) proclaim constitutional rights mentioned nowhere in our Divine Contract, and c) pronounce as unconstitutional" laws and bills enacted by Congress or by the voice of the people, 3) frivolous lawsuits that give situs and standing to nonsense ideas and people, 4) hijacking of the State Educational system for wholesale indoctrinization of their ideas, 5) "rights" extended to criminals who, by their actions, have forfeited Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, and 6) the promotion of land, plants, and animals to a status superior to humans (I call this doctrine "Liberal Flapdoodle").

More and more I feel people don't know and don't believe in the America that was. There are whole groups of grown ups, supposedly smart and educated people, whose main premise is that the US is outdated and needs to be changed. Then there are the right thinking people who feel that the US has gone too far afield and needs to be changed back.

Update 29 Sep 05

Now Rocky Anderson has gotten caught paying for Liquor (to entertain out of town guests) with his city expense credit card. This is illegal. He says it's a stupid law and is going to change it.

Update 5 Oct 05

I sent a letter to the Opinion Page of the Deseret News (follows). They haven't published it yet. Which leads me to believe they won't. It's probably deemed too provocative. They usually print my letters when I send them:

Supporters of Rocky Anderson like to tell the rest of us that if we don't like him we can move to Salt Lake and vote him out. This would be just fine if he limited his actions to those that only affect and reflect on Salt Lake City. In truth he is an embarrassment to most of the state. The only avenue the rest of us have against him is to complain. Anyone who is not transfixed with adoration for Rocky can tell that he clearly has an inferiority complex about being Utahn and wishes the LDS Church didn't exist. He doesn't want to be the Mayor of Salt Lake. He wants to be the Mayor of Berkeley, or better yet, the King of the World.