Truth Does Not Play Games

The radical left is going to discover the power of what they are fighting…

Albert Einstein famously discounted randomness and disorder in the universe with the quip (paraphrased) “God does not play dice with the universe”. Though he was commenting in the realm of quantum mechanics, his observation is worth remembering as Americans contemplate their nation and its future. We’d adapt it this way: Truth does not play games.

The radical left—led by Obama—is treating politics as a game for the accumulation of power over others. In this game, winning is all that matters; this end justifies any means; and there are no boundaries to what can be said or done in the name of trying to win the game. As Obama puppeteer David Axelrod has said (paraphrasing), “we’re not about process but about results”.

The radical left long ago denied the existence or relevance of God to humanity, and with this denial, truth becomes nothing but a concept, and never an absolute. As Clinton crony Craig Livingstone once put it, “truth is whatever you say it is”. But the radical left and Craig Livingstone are wrong, and it doesn’t matter if they succeed in getting Pravda to agree and proclaim headlines that truth is whatever they say it is. It’s not.

Humanity has been on a march to understand truth since the children of Israel fled Egypt. Moses helped out tremendously, receiving ten rules to help mankind experience greater order and civility. Christ Jesus expanded on these rules in his Sermon on the Mount. And whether the radical left likes it or not, the development of America under the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution followed in a direct line this path of human progress. That ‘all men (and women) are created equal’, and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights, including ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”—these are divinely inspired ideas every bit as powerful and liberating for humanity as the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. To identify them as divinely inspired is another way of saying they are based on truth itself. And here’s what the leftists can never understand—it is not possible to fight against truth and win.

Free men and women do not want to be controlled by other men and women.

These observations come to mind as the all-out Obama campaign for socialized medicine fills the airwaves. The lies being told in support of this plan are unconscionable. Nearly 80% of Americans are satisfied with their healthcare; there is no crisis; there is no public demand for radical, socialized medicine. But rather than itemize and discuss the misleading and blatantly misrepresented provisions of the healthcare bill, let’s stop just to consider the White House’s action to delay by one month the release of the most recent budget figures (which undoubtedly show deficits out of control by even more than anticipated). The move is a deliberate tactic to help pass the radical socialized medicine legislation; if the public and Congress knew the most recent information on the budget, they would almost certainly balk at doing anything that will make the financial situation an even bigger mess.

Please take a moment to think about this. Pravda reports that this tactic is being employed, and we’re all supposed to wink or even yawn and shrug—“aren’t those politicians clever little rascals”—and just move on. Well, consider this.

If a business—for example, Google—wants to sell its stock to the public, it has to comply with all sorts of disclosure requirements—supply all material information about the company so that investors can make an informed decision about whether to invest. Now suppose, just prior to the day on which the stock is to be sold, Google announces that it is withholding its most recent financial statements but is insisting that investors buy the stock anyway. What would happen?

The SEC would not allow Google to withhold the most recent financial statements—the securities laws would compel disclosure. And so by operation of law the whole stock offering would be shut down. In effect, the law is defining the deliberately withholding of material financial information as fraud. The law is correct; this is fraud. What the Obama administration is doing in withholding budget information as they try to ‘sell’ nationalized healthcare is out and out, unequivocal, in your face FRAUD. Google executives would be subject to prosecution if they tried to avoid disclosure obligations in the way this administration is doing.

How stupid does this administration and this Congress think the American people are? They pass bills they haven’t read, and now they are considering buying the most radical, far-reaching piece of legislation in American history in the midst of a patently fraudulent process. The cynics among us would say, yes, the administration and the Congress do think we are stupid, and they do think they can get away with it because so far they are getting away with it.

But the people aren’t stupid. They are noticing. They are angry. They are about to blow. A people that knows they have been endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is a people that knows the ring of truth, and the hollow sound of lies. They people know they are being lied to; they know the Democrat leadership is, to put it very simply, dishonest.

Which brings us back to where we started. Truth does not play games. Fraud and deceit may often be tried and may seem to succeed for a time. But they do not last. They are exposed. They do not prevail over truth. Truth always wins. Obama and the radical left crowd are going to lose, and lose big. For all the talk of the Republican Party in disarray, the Democrat Party may never recover from the radical sabotage it has suffered at the hands of Soros/Obama/Reid/Pelosi.

The American people and American government will find their way back to the honoring of truth when they return to the spirit of the American founding, and the truth-inspired framework of the Constitution. The founders got it right; we just need the humility and willingness to follow what they established.

Truth hasn’t changed; it never will.

Paul Gable

July 21, 2009