3 thoughts on “Viktor Orbán and Horst Seehofer on the European Dream”

1. Christian humanitarianism? More like Christian suicide. If there is one thing the Merkel migration policy has taught us, it is that Europe isn’t going to wake up one morning to the realisation that it has been entertaining angels unawares.

   • You’re right, Salome. It’s a driveling, sniveling distortion of what it means to be a Christian. Christ said to turn the other cheek, but that’s the limit. He *didn’t* say to keeping turning one’s face.

     This generation hasn’t produced the Chestertons, or Tolkiens, or Lewises of the last century. They’d not have put up with the garbage being spewed from the various pulpits in the West. I’d love to see a treatise on Pope Francis as written by, say, G.K. Chesterton. Or English pols compared by Lewis to “Men Without Chests”…(umm, don’t know where that leaves Ms. May, but you get the point).

     Today more than ever the parable of the Good Samaritan illustrates the reasonable limits of charitable behavior. When you happen upon an injured traveler you assist him to the point of finding someone to bind his wounds, pay for his lodging and then go on your way, your part done. As a human being living in the world, we are bound to come across those needing help – we provide what we can and then proceed on with whatever tasks we have to perform.

     It is the marxists who have put their guns to the head of bureaucratic government and demanded that ALL be taken care of – all of the people, all of the time without considering the unintended consequences of such largesse. Marxism in its various guises is the modern robber baron, taking from those who produce and giving to those who consume. Always with toxic results.

     In American colonial history there were two examples of communism: in the Dominion of Virginia and quite separately, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In both cases people would accept prison, the stocks, and public ridicule rather than have the fruits of their labor taken and redistributed without their say-so. Both places finally threw in the towel and gave in to the idea of each according to his labor…end of social unrest and near starvation.

     Maybe it’s a lesson each generation has to learn anew?

     • Dear Dymphna,

       you are so right on this. The late Margaret Thatcher said it so well: Socialism works until you run out of other people’s money. We still have not lear’t this simple fact. Even here in Australia, the left wing and marxists and indeed quite a large proportion of the Commonwealth continually expect, nay demand that the Governments do something about this that or the other. Always on the lookout for handouts rather than getting off their butts and doing it themselves. We now live in country where huge numbers of people work in Government departments, agencies and the like creating ever more regulation to stifle our lives and all this costs money, more and more every year. They great unwashed either don’t see it or wilfully do not heed the danger signals. The national debt is now greater than the GDP of the country and is never likely to be paid off anytime soon. Now the Federal Govt is targeting superannuation savings and pensions. Raiding the cookie jar is now the way to spend even more money on useless projects whilst committing the country to dubious UN inspired carbon targets and renewable energy targets which distort the grid and give us huge power outages in some areas. Stop the planet I want to get off.

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