Truth is truth is truth. Truth never changes. Lies can, and do, change all the time, but the truth will never change. I ate a hot dog for supper last night. That is the truth. It will never change. It was true last night, it is true today, it will be true tomorrow, it will be true 2,000 years from now. That is why Solomon wrote, "buy the truth and sell it not" (Proverbs 23:23). Only liars hate the truth.

Edmund Burke wrote, over 200 years ago, some great moral and political truths that are just as true today as they were when Burke wrote them. Moral truth, just like historical truth, never changes because it is rooted in the very nature of an eternal, unchanging God. This is why we should study history: to learn the truths that never change and base our lives upon them.

But the Left doesn't want to do that because it's all a power game to them. They love themselves and power more than they love God, truth, or humanity. Almost everything they say is a lie.

But Lenin said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." It doesn't, of course, but his point was that, as long as people believe it is the truth, they will act upon it. That's basic leftism.

I want to look at a few more quotes from the great Edmund Burke today. His first one is in line with what I discussed above:

1. "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

The lie. The delusion. And it gets people to give up their freedoms.

We would think that most people want to be "free," but that's not necessarily the case. Slavery is much more common in human history than freedom is, even "voluntary" slavery. What I mean by "voluntary" slavery is dependence, usually upon government. Some people, many people, don't want to take care of themselves, perhaps don't even know how. So, it is easier for them to rely on government, become "voluntary slaves," than to take the risk of providing for themselves. This is exactly what communism and the Left want, of course. And many go right along with it. Slavery is easy; freedom is not.

But yet, many people truly do want to be free from government tyranny; they do want to live their own lives in accordance with the freedom they naturally have from God, not a freedom from God, but a freedom to live in harmony with the beneficial principles He established for us. It is these people the Left hate, will tyrannize, oppress, torture, and kill, if necessary. These people who love freedom are the ones who won't believe the lies of atheism and communism. Thus, when atheism and communism come to power—as they did in the USSR, China, and many other places in the 20th century—there are countless gulags and deaths. The gullible fall for the "delusion" (Burke), the "lie" (Lenin), and lose their freedom. For many, that's ok. But for others, "give me liberty, or give me death." And the Left is happy to give them death.

2. "Whatever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

Since "all men are created equal," and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" (a point that Burke would obviously agree with); and further, since, according to Jesus, the second greatest commandment is "love thy neighbor as thyself" (the first being to love God with all our being); ergo, what Burke says here is one of the greatest truths in existence. And again, we see this great moral maxim applied in human history over the last 100 years. "My object is to dethrone God," Marx said, and the USSR, Communist China, North Korea, Cuba, Cambodia, and every other atheist, communist, Marxist hellhole did just that—"disunite" man from God, and as a result "disunited man from man"—and life. Literally hundreds of millions of deaths by cold, uncaring, conscienceless, godless leftists. The biggest lie that leftists in America are telling the American people today is that they care about people. Leftist history says they don't. Back to point 1—it's a delusion that is causing many Americans to sacrifice their freedoms today. When a nation divorces itself from God, it divorces itself from humanity and freedom. If the past 100 years of human history don't prove that, they prove nothing at all.

3. "All men have equal rights, but not to equal things."

I recently wrote an article, which Townhall graciously published, where I quote Lyndon Johnson as saying that "we" (whoever that might be) seek equality not just as a "right," but as a "result." It's not only practically impossible to have equal results (they never even had that in the forced, slave societies of communism), but it would be totally unjust. To have equal "results," something that one person has earned must be forcefully taken from him and given to someone who hasn't earned it. Which is, of course, perfect Democratic Party doctrine today. This injustice is one of the greatest causes of division in America today, because the Democrats tell the lie that some people have a "right" to what other people have earned. Oh, they tell that lie all the time, and at least half the country believes it. People wouldn't vote Democrat otherwise.

Note that in the 18th century, Burke was arguing that people should have "equal rights"; that wasn't just an American doctrine. Equal rights plus freedom will lead to unequal results; every football and basketball game (that is fairly played) proves that point. Equal results can only be accomplished by force, and force robs people of equal rights and freedom. But that's leftism. Burke warned us against it over 200 years ago.

It's past time America listened to Edmund Burke and other great men of history.

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