Why the left is so dangerous and what the right can learn from them

I just finished watching Annie Leonard and Book TV. She wrote the book about stuff and created a video that essentially is a blueprint to indoctrinate children into political activism. Her position is simple, 80% is identical to those on the right - sense of community, desire for a better world, limit human suffering, and become self actualized. However, she then moves in a very opposite direction than the right. She has her idea of 'truth'. Her 'truth' is for people like her to decide what is best for us and use political action and 'power' to force the structure to change. In fact, her very words talked about it is not the individuals fault, but the systems fault, except for those individuals that run oil companies of course. The scary part is she is really preaching fascism under the smiley face symbol. She appeals on an emotional level for sure, but it does not take much to see the insidious under tow. She wants to use the power of the government to make wholesale change to create her world view. 'Those of us that are helpless sheep, would not make the choices we do if they control those choices'. She lectured us on how Europe has done so much better than the US, when it comes to cosmetics, cell phones, regulations, etc. I listen to her and get the sense that she thinks that everyone would agree with her if they simply had all the facts and understood the 'truth'. I believe it is very similar to how all genocide in this world began. If you only understand the 'truth', you would think like me. "Oh, you still don't? - Bang"

Their answer is political power, increased regulation, dictation and controlling markets. There fervant desire to do this may be our downfall. Do we have the will to attempt to control the system as they do? It is not in our DNA. As we seek what feels like the impossible - reduced government intrusions, reduced government and more localized power, they are seeking to take the reigns of our ever increasing bloated government and complete the transformation that has been happening for the last 100 years. Is it easier to reverse the flow of a river or just put a levy in to make it turn to the left? Despite it being against our philosophy, we must press harder than them and flex our political muscle. If we do this, I do not believe we are being hypocrtical if we accomplish 2 goals that will slow the left and almost completely take away their ability to fundamentally change our country.

1) Constitutional amendment to limit the federal government size to 15% of GDP. It seems so benign, yet this will stop most entitlement programs. If you can't grow the government beyond 15% of GDP you can not have a giant bureaucracy and they can not control us. Some will call this juvenile, because they will say you simply create mandates pushed down to the states and to that - I would respond as part of the amendment, that 15% includes mandates that cause spending at State or local levels.

2) Constitutional amendment to term limits - 3 for congress, 2 for senate. This will stop congress from getting in bed with special interests because there will be more former congressmen and senators than lobbyists after a decade or so, so those fat golden parachutes will stop and the back room dealings will lessen. It is easy to buy off a few people, but thousands? Every farmer knows, rotating the crops increases long term productivity and the ground more fertile.

We need to use our political might, as the left is so good at doing. After all, they are collectivists and we are individualists. Harder for us, but not impossible. Because we may be individualists, but we have greater bonds that connect us - our faith, culture and partiotism, 3 things that left do not have nor respect.