 Mike Heath
A favorite word of the Left is “Deconstructionalism.” This rather difficult-sounding word, the brainchild of a French philosophy professor, Michel Foucault, has a simple meaning. It means to take apart all existing historical, ethical, and religious truths by exposing the supposed biases which underlie these things. Deconstructionalism is behind much of the thinking and activity of the Left in Maine, just as the Bible is behind the thinking and activity of what is called the Religious Right.
When we hear that our public schools portray great American heroes such as Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln as villains, we can be sure that deconstructionalism is at work. Applied to politics, deconstructionalism means a total overthrow of all existing institutions in favor of a society remade along socialist lines. Each traditional value is open to question. The definition of marriage and the family is challenged. Government, through the public schools, becomes the conduit for the transmission of social values, not the church, nor the parent, nor the family. Though many of you will find this hard to believe, a bill was sponsored in Augusta last year which would have allowed a child to have up to five legal parents.
We have in the Baldacci administration, a system of values which is opposed to our traditional way of life in almost every respect. While every generation of Mainers has valued hard work, independence, self-sufficiency, and local control of our institutions, the ideology which informs the Baldacci administration teaches mutual interdependence, globalism, and an ever-increasing consolidation and centralization of our institutions. The changes envisioned by John Baldacci represent nothing other than the total and complete transformation of our state, a deconstructing of, and an end to, our traditional way of life.
The Governor has made his desire for a radical transformation of Maine explicit by championing the so-called Creative Economy, which takes San Francisco as its model. Under the Creative Economy, society strives after ever greater diversity, including not only a tolerance of homosexuality, but an active encouragement of the homosexual lifestyle. No vision of society could be farther removed from our traditional way of life.
Aiding and abetting this radical transformation of Maine is an umbrella organization of liberal groups called “The Blueprint Project” which brings together every left-wing organization in the state, including Planned Parenthood, the Maine Educational Association, Common Cause, and the Maine Women’s Lobby. The “Blueprint Project” is funded by a Massachusetts-based group with the rather ominous sounding name of “The Proteus Fund.” In 2003, The “Proteus Fund” received a $50,000 grant from Hungarian billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Institute, which operates globally through two branches, OSI, New York, and OSI Budapest.
Clearly, the Baldacci vision for Maine has nothing at all to do with our traditional values. It is an attempt to deconstruct our way of life and replace it with an interdependent global community modeled along socialist lines. To ignore the basic idea which is the driving force behind the Baldacci administration would be very foolish indeed.
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