Is Violence Never Necessary?
Before beginning to address such a controversial topic, let me say that I am not advocating violence. No one wants to get hurt and few are psychopathic enough to enjoy hurting others. However, it is time to consider the topic in a sober manner. In response to the passage of the Health Care Reform Bill, there were reports of threats, name calling and even violence. Whether they were planted or exaggerated, I don’t know. The point is that everyone from both sides came out and condemned even the idea of resorting to violence, even when our most basic liberties are threatened. Glenn Beck spent almost the entire week repeating that we must never resort to violence. Of course those in power repeated the same thing because for all the control they think they have, they are cowards. For them, it is fine to control us at the point of a gun but when the tables are turned, they cry "foul". There is something we need to consider, however. Our protests have fallen on deaf ears. Even if the government changes hands, realistically there is little hope for resurrecting the republic through our normal means. This government now holds absolute power of life and death. If we cannot rely on our protests or our electoral activities to motivate our leaders to respect our rights and liberties, do we just give up? If they win the battle and Health Care Reform remains the law of the land and they push forward with Immigration Reform and Cap and Trade against our will, do we simply conform to the new paradigm of totalitarianism they have created? It is our compliance with their despotism that has made any of this possible. If there is any hope of resurrecting the Republic, we need to stop complying with immoral and unconstitutional laws and exercises of power. That is civil disobedience. But is that where is ends? Consider these two quotes by Thomas Jefferson;
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."
"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Many of us rightly revere the founders as wise and courageous men. If, however, they did not go beyond protests and civil disobedience, we would still have the Queen of England as the titular head of our country. We must understand government as George Washington did;
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force: like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
Ultimately, government is force. Unless that force meets with resistance, it will continue on indefinitely until all people are brought under its totalitarian control. If our leaders are moral men and women, our protests and electoral activities will sway them. That is why Ghandi and Dr. King were successful. Those in authority had a basic respect for life and justice. Did protests and civil disobedience work against Stalin or Hitler or Mao or Che? No. These were godless men with no sense of morality and zero respect for life. Need I remind you that these are the heroes of the progressives, that Mao and Marx provide the ideology for those currently in power? That the murderous Che is celebrated? What happened to the people under the authority of those men? Those who were not killed were reduced to slavery. The Chinese people and those of Cuba remain under totalitarianism. Hitler and the USSR were defeated from the outside. Their people did not rise up. God did not miraculously deliver them. Any protests were crushed with violence. They gave up any means of resistance. Those governments have nothing to fear from the people, therefore the people live in fear.
If we declare unequivocally to our rulers that we will never resist their attempts to reduce us to slavery with force, if we declare that we will be good losers and comply with whatever they do, what is to keep them from doing whatever they want? Are we going to trust them with self restraint? Are you kidding? The Second Amendment is in the constitution for a reason. Allow me to quote;
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The founders understood that tyrants wield their power through the army and/or a national police force. It is at the point of a gun where their will is ultimately enforced. (I remember and Obama czar quoting something like that with appreciation.) Republics, however, are held together by a common morality and respect for the law among the people and their rulers. The founders distrusted a large standing army for this very reason. That is why a state militia, made up of free men who had their own means of self defense, was necessary for the security of a free State, as opposed to the Federal Government. If the federal Government sought to wield illegitimate power over the states and the people, they would be physically unable to because the state would have the "bigger guns". The "National" Guard does not fulfill this role. However, we now find ourselves in a precarious position. Individually, we can defend ourselves if we so choose but an individual is no match for the coercive power of the Federal Government. Such attempts at resistance lead to indiscriminate violence and serve only to embolden those in power and paint resistors as cooks and crazies. If we would resist tyranny we must follow the example of the original patriots whose militia provided the original resistance and who fought the British wherever Washington’s Continental Army was not. That requires planning and preparation. We all know that the shadow government of this administration is carefully plotting our subjugation. If our resistance is haphazard and disorganized at the start, we will be no match for a government machine that already controls so much of our lives.
It is my contention that we will reach the point where we will have to choose between ultimate submission to tyranny or armed resistance. If you think that is absurd, consider for yourself at which point you will stop complying with the wishes of our despotic government. Did you fill out your census form in its entirety? No, good, that was easy. Will you allow them to take a DNA sample for a national ID card? Will you allow them to take your children and place them into the indoctrination centers we know as the public schools so they can learn about the joys of Marxism and homosexuality without the option of home or private school? Will you turn in your guns when they finally require that? How much of your property are you willing to allow them to confiscate? What will you do when some bureaucrat tells you that your disease or condition is not cost effective to treat and you should just take the pain pill and die? When they openly begin censoring the media? When they load you in a truck to take you to a "reeducation" center? At what point do we stop cooperating, moving to civil disobedience, and if they try to force us, to armed resistance? When do we shake off our government indoctrination that violence is always wrong and defend our liberties with a vigor equal to those who desire to take them away?
My rights to life and liberty come from God and I am under no obligation to surrender them to any man or any government for any reason. Any man or government that desires to take those rights by carrot or stick is not worthy of my loyalty or affection. I also have the right to resist any attempt to take my rights by whatever means necessary. I do not have to submit to the confiscation of my property, incarceration or death because some despot decided his will to power superceded my God given rights. I do not have to allow myself to be beaten or intimidated by some union thug or statist supporter. If our leaders understood that "we the people" still had fangs and if backed too far into a corner would use them, however reluctantly, there would be no attempts to impose such tyranny upon us. Now is not the time to lay down our weapon of last resort. Our politics is no longer a game. Government power never has been. It is a matter of life and death, liberty and tyranny. Do we descend into the darkness with merely a whimper and condemn future generations to slavery in the hopes that one day someone will rescue us? Ask the Chinese and the Cubans how that is going. Or do we stand with our founders and tell our rulers that the line has been crossed and that if they do not retreat, our remaining liberty will not be acquired nearly so cheaply or easily.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
What To Do Now
For nearly a year we called, protested, e-mailed, wrote letters and organized. Many of us took to the streets of our town and the nation’s capitol, raising our voices in protest over what we all agreed was an attempt to remake this county in a socialist or Marxist image. We have worked within the system but our work was based on false assumptions. We assumed a fair debate of ideas, we assumed that if we could sway the public against these radical proposals Washington would listen, we assumed we were in a fair fight. All those assumptions were wrong. Ideologues who are bent on “transforming” America think nothing of lying, cheating, bribing, or threatening to get their way. The public to them are sheep to be led, not citizens to be heard. So we lost. And until we understand the fight we will continue to lose.
In the last several blogs I have stated two important things. One, no matter which party is in charge, government is going to grow. Sure, we may have another “Republican Revolution” in November but will they be able to repeal this legislation even if they want to? How many of them voted against it just because it cost too much and not because it is the last and most blatant power grab of an unconstitutional government? Name one major (or even minor) government program that has ever been repealed by either party. Don’t place your hope in Washington. Also, don’t place a lot of faith in all these lawsuits. Most of what the government does is unconstitutional yet it has been consistently upheld. Even the obvious ones like campaign finance reform and our first amendment rights to speech. Finally, how loud will all those states be in their protest when Washington starts tightening the purse strings on the recalcitrant ones. Too many states have put themselves into a dependent position to object too strenuously.
The second important thing is that we must realize that we no longer live in a constitutional republic or even a democracy. If that wasn’t obvious to you on Sunday, then you must be blind. We live in an oligarchy. The current democrat leadership will do whatever they want and do whatever is necessary to get it. Our protests have as much affect on them as do those of the people of Iran on the Mullahs. They don’t care. They have chosen a course and they will continue on that course until it reaches its logical conclusion. That, for us, is the collapse of America, the ashes from which they will build their totalitarian utopia. We are losing because we are playing by outdated rules of a republic long gone. This is not some silly legal dispute with our neighbor, we are fighting the “mob”. I’d say we are bringing a knife to a gun fight but we aren’t even brining that.
Before I go on, consider where we are. We are now subject to a government that will have the power to regulate every aspect of our lives. By acting as the gatekeepers to the entire health care system, they now have the literal power of life and death over us. Crushing taxes demonstrate their total power over our property. By continuing to participate in their system, we are acknowledging our status as slaves. They own us, our bodies, our property, our lives. It is time to stop living as if the contract “We the People” made with the federal government was still valid. That contract has been broken repeatedly by our government for a very long time. In a marriage contract, it is considered broken due to infidelity. The parties may voluntarily choose to continue in that agreement and “work things out” but the aggrieved party is under no obligation to do so. If the infidelity is ongoing, however, the aggrieved party would be mentally deranged to continue. Our government has repeatedly violated our contract and has become more brazen about doing so. We voluntarily stayed within the bounds of the contract because we were dazzled by the baubles were were promised. Now the absolute destruction of our country is at hand and we see where our compromise has brought us. The Federal Government has been exercising illegitimate authority over us and it is time we stopped recognizing it.
The real power lies with us. The government only has the authority we give it. It is we who are forging our own chains. It is we who build the scaffold upon which they will hang us. Why do we continue to participate? While we cannot hide ourselves in some remote valley as they did in “Atlas Shrugged” we can stop cooperating in the “looting”. They exercise their power through technology and by taking over the banks, mortgage lending and other financial institutions, they know all and can control all. Drop out. Deal in cash and precious metals. Put your important assets out of reach. Barter goods and services with your fellow patriots. Be ready to take responsibility for your children and your aging parents. Stock up on food and be prepared to defend yourself and your loved ones. Refuse to cooperate with government intrusion, be it the census, a national ID, or even foolish EPA regulations. If you are ever on a jury in which tax law or some regulation is being prosecuted, vote to acquit. One of the ways the colonists got Britain's attention before the war was by refusing to buy their goods, tea being the most famous. They learned to do thing for themselves and within their communities, without the government. If we refuse to participate, they will become irrelevant.
Our end is upon us. Unlike Greece, we will not have the Germans or the IMF to bail us out. Our credit rating was in trouble before heath care, now it will be in real danger. We are broke and no amount of printing or borrowing is going to get us out of it. Hyperinflation is coming and when the interest on the debt consumes all our money the government checks will stop coming. There will be rioting, cities will burn and people will die because after having relied on the government for so long, they will have no idea how to fend for themselves. Remember New Orleans and Katrina? The LA riots? Now think of it country wide.
What rises from the rubble of our insanity will be up to us. Those in Washington would be more than happy to establish their totalitarian ideology upon us as a result of the crisis. That will only happen if we are still looking to them to save us. If they are already irrelevant in our lives and we have removed ourselves from their power, they will be unable to succeed. Bonaparte, Hitler, Chavez, they all came to power in a crisis because the people were looking outside themselves for a savior. At your local TEA party next month, look around at your fellow patriots. It is our cooperation and community that is the key. It is we who must now stand together, prepare for what is to come and develop communities that will function when our government will not. It is from among us that leaders will arise at the local level with the courage to resist the plans Washington may have. It is we who will recapture the image of America as it was understood by those first patriots who resisted tyranny with their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.
In the last several blogs I have stated two important things. One, no matter which party is in charge, government is going to grow. Sure, we may have another “Republican Revolution” in November but will they be able to repeal this legislation even if they want to? How many of them voted against it just because it cost too much and not because it is the last and most blatant power grab of an unconstitutional government? Name one major (or even minor) government program that has ever been repealed by either party. Don’t place your hope in Washington. Also, don’t place a lot of faith in all these lawsuits. Most of what the government does is unconstitutional yet it has been consistently upheld. Even the obvious ones like campaign finance reform and our first amendment rights to speech. Finally, how loud will all those states be in their protest when Washington starts tightening the purse strings on the recalcitrant ones. Too many states have put themselves into a dependent position to object too strenuously.
The second important thing is that we must realize that we no longer live in a constitutional republic or even a democracy. If that wasn’t obvious to you on Sunday, then you must be blind. We live in an oligarchy. The current democrat leadership will do whatever they want and do whatever is necessary to get it. Our protests have as much affect on them as do those of the people of Iran on the Mullahs. They don’t care. They have chosen a course and they will continue on that course until it reaches its logical conclusion. That, for us, is the collapse of America, the ashes from which they will build their totalitarian utopia. We are losing because we are playing by outdated rules of a republic long gone. This is not some silly legal dispute with our neighbor, we are fighting the “mob”. I’d say we are bringing a knife to a gun fight but we aren’t even brining that.
Before I go on, consider where we are. We are now subject to a government that will have the power to regulate every aspect of our lives. By acting as the gatekeepers to the entire health care system, they now have the literal power of life and death over us. Crushing taxes demonstrate their total power over our property. By continuing to participate in their system, we are acknowledging our status as slaves. They own us, our bodies, our property, our lives. It is time to stop living as if the contract “We the People” made with the federal government was still valid. That contract has been broken repeatedly by our government for a very long time. In a marriage contract, it is considered broken due to infidelity. The parties may voluntarily choose to continue in that agreement and “work things out” but the aggrieved party is under no obligation to do so. If the infidelity is ongoing, however, the aggrieved party would be mentally deranged to continue. Our government has repeatedly violated our contract and has become more brazen about doing so. We voluntarily stayed within the bounds of the contract because we were dazzled by the baubles were were promised. Now the absolute destruction of our country is at hand and we see where our compromise has brought us. The Federal Government has been exercising illegitimate authority over us and it is time we stopped recognizing it.
The real power lies with us. The government only has the authority we give it. It is we who are forging our own chains. It is we who build the scaffold upon which they will hang us. Why do we continue to participate? While we cannot hide ourselves in some remote valley as they did in “Atlas Shrugged” we can stop cooperating in the “looting”. They exercise their power through technology and by taking over the banks, mortgage lending and other financial institutions, they know all and can control all. Drop out. Deal in cash and precious metals. Put your important assets out of reach. Barter goods and services with your fellow patriots. Be ready to take responsibility for your children and your aging parents. Stock up on food and be prepared to defend yourself and your loved ones. Refuse to cooperate with government intrusion, be it the census, a national ID, or even foolish EPA regulations. If you are ever on a jury in which tax law or some regulation is being prosecuted, vote to acquit. One of the ways the colonists got Britain's attention before the war was by refusing to buy their goods, tea being the most famous. They learned to do thing for themselves and within their communities, without the government. If we refuse to participate, they will become irrelevant.
Our end is upon us. Unlike Greece, we will not have the Germans or the IMF to bail us out. Our credit rating was in trouble before heath care, now it will be in real danger. We are broke and no amount of printing or borrowing is going to get us out of it. Hyperinflation is coming and when the interest on the debt consumes all our money the government checks will stop coming. There will be rioting, cities will burn and people will die because after having relied on the government for so long, they will have no idea how to fend for themselves. Remember New Orleans and Katrina? The LA riots? Now think of it country wide.
What rises from the rubble of our insanity will be up to us. Those in Washington would be more than happy to establish their totalitarian ideology upon us as a result of the crisis. That will only happen if we are still looking to them to save us. If they are already irrelevant in our lives and we have removed ourselves from their power, they will be unable to succeed. Bonaparte, Hitler, Chavez, they all came to power in a crisis because the people were looking outside themselves for a savior. At your local TEA party next month, look around at your fellow patriots. It is our cooperation and community that is the key. It is we who must now stand together, prepare for what is to come and develop communities that will function when our government will not. It is from among us that leaders will arise at the local level with the courage to resist the plans Washington may have. It is we who will recapture the image of America as it was understood by those first patriots who resisted tyranny with their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Courage and the Census
Courage and the Census
Within the next few weeks, we will all be getting our census forms. Many millions of our tax dollars have been spent on stupid commercials and other advertising to get us to understand the importance of filling them out. The main point of all of them is that if we don’t fill them out, we won’t get our share of government goodies. That is wrong on so many levels but it is indicative of how government, and way to many people, view government-as the repository for everything good we get. The only constitutional reason for the census is to correctly apportion representatives. To do so the government needs to know only how many people live in a particular area. It does not need to know my race, religion, income, number of toilets or any of the other questions it asks beyond “how many people live here.”
What we have in our current census form is an obvious, blatant, unconstitutional government intrusion. Not that there aren’t a multitude of other examples. In another month our taxes are due. But the census is here now, today. A government form asking for information the government has no constitutional authority to ask for. Are you going to give it to them? What are you afraid of? If we do not refuse to cooperate with this intrusion, when will we stand against this government and finally refuse to participate in their incessant push for more power and control? If the vast majority of people in this country decided that the only information they were going to give this government was a head count in their household, what would they do? They can’t throw us all in jail. They could fine us but what if we refused to pay? Again, they can’t throw us all in jail. There are three branches of government that are supposed to check and balance each other to protect our liberty. If they refuse to do so then it is “we the people” who must stand up en mass and say “NO! you may not do that.” “NO! That is unconstitutional.” “NO! My rights do not come from you and you may not take them or my property.” Sure, there are a few million government employees but there are three hundred million of us. We outnumber them and they only have the power we willingly grant to them.
We have stood up and protested, we have marched, we have complained, we have called our representatives, e-mailed, and petitioned but when we lose, we resign ourselves to the new status quo. Why? Why should we let them have their ill gotten gains at the expense of our liberty? Why should we continue to participate in their schemes that continually limit our freedom? Why do we continually allow them to steal our money to finance their totalitarian agenda? It is time we stopped tacitly endorsing their wins by accepting their new rules and regulations. It is time we refused to acknowledge their illegitimate authority. They have neglected, broken and trampled our contract. Why do we still consider ourselves under obligation to defer to their authority? The census is just one more intrusion. Just because they send out the form does not mean we have to fill it out. Just because they vote away a little more freedom does not mean we have to give it to them. When does it stop?
There is a lot more coming down the road. The national ID card is in the news again. This will give the government total control over our lives. If we allow our liberty to be reduced to what the government puts on a card, it is over. Will we stand up then? Will we refuse to get it even though it will mean we may lose our job or be unable to access our bank account? That is a bit harder, isn’t it. But if we can’t refuse an intrusive form from the Department of Commerce, what makes us think we will stand up and refuse to give the FBI or Homeland Security our personal information for an ID card? What about health care? Will we refuse to participate in their system and will there be health care workers who have enough courage to serve the people and not the government? What about when they come to put your approved, government controlled thermostat in your home or they come for your fishing poles or guns?
Every time we let them get away with it, every time they intrude over our objections and we go along with it anyway, they are emboldened. If we all fuss about the census and do it anyway, they will figure the ID card will be easy. If the ID card is easy, then each new restriction it will bring will be even easier. We are desperately holding on to the last vestiges of our freedom. It is time to stop simply trying to defend what is left and go on offense. The census may seem a small thing or it may seem a big thing. Perhaps you’ve never refused to cooperate with the government before. It is time we started because for too long we have been cooperating in our own destruction.
Within the next few weeks, we will all be getting our census forms. Many millions of our tax dollars have been spent on stupid commercials and other advertising to get us to understand the importance of filling them out. The main point of all of them is that if we don’t fill them out, we won’t get our share of government goodies. That is wrong on so many levels but it is indicative of how government, and way to many people, view government-as the repository for everything good we get. The only constitutional reason for the census is to correctly apportion representatives. To do so the government needs to know only how many people live in a particular area. It does not need to know my race, religion, income, number of toilets or any of the other questions it asks beyond “how many people live here.”
What we have in our current census form is an obvious, blatant, unconstitutional government intrusion. Not that there aren’t a multitude of other examples. In another month our taxes are due. But the census is here now, today. A government form asking for information the government has no constitutional authority to ask for. Are you going to give it to them? What are you afraid of? If we do not refuse to cooperate with this intrusion, when will we stand against this government and finally refuse to participate in their incessant push for more power and control? If the vast majority of people in this country decided that the only information they were going to give this government was a head count in their household, what would they do? They can’t throw us all in jail. They could fine us but what if we refused to pay? Again, they can’t throw us all in jail. There are three branches of government that are supposed to check and balance each other to protect our liberty. If they refuse to do so then it is “we the people” who must stand up en mass and say “NO! you may not do that.” “NO! That is unconstitutional.” “NO! My rights do not come from you and you may not take them or my property.” Sure, there are a few million government employees but there are three hundred million of us. We outnumber them and they only have the power we willingly grant to them.
We have stood up and protested, we have marched, we have complained, we have called our representatives, e-mailed, and petitioned but when we lose, we resign ourselves to the new status quo. Why? Why should we let them have their ill gotten gains at the expense of our liberty? Why should we continue to participate in their schemes that continually limit our freedom? Why do we continually allow them to steal our money to finance their totalitarian agenda? It is time we stopped tacitly endorsing their wins by accepting their new rules and regulations. It is time we refused to acknowledge their illegitimate authority. They have neglected, broken and trampled our contract. Why do we still consider ourselves under obligation to defer to their authority? The census is just one more intrusion. Just because they send out the form does not mean we have to fill it out. Just because they vote away a little more freedom does not mean we have to give it to them. When does it stop?
There is a lot more coming down the road. The national ID card is in the news again. This will give the government total control over our lives. If we allow our liberty to be reduced to what the government puts on a card, it is over. Will we stand up then? Will we refuse to get it even though it will mean we may lose our job or be unable to access our bank account? That is a bit harder, isn’t it. But if we can’t refuse an intrusive form from the Department of Commerce, what makes us think we will stand up and refuse to give the FBI or Homeland Security our personal information for an ID card? What about health care? Will we refuse to participate in their system and will there be health care workers who have enough courage to serve the people and not the government? What about when they come to put your approved, government controlled thermostat in your home or they come for your fishing poles or guns?
Every time we let them get away with it, every time they intrude over our objections and we go along with it anyway, they are emboldened. If we all fuss about the census and do it anyway, they will figure the ID card will be easy. If the ID card is easy, then each new restriction it will bring will be even easier. We are desperately holding on to the last vestiges of our freedom. It is time to stop simply trying to defend what is left and go on offense. The census may seem a small thing or it may seem a big thing. Perhaps you’ve never refused to cooperate with the government before. It is time we started because for too long we have been cooperating in our own destruction.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
What's Going To Change?
As many struggle to defend the last vestiges of the freedom entrusted to us by the founding generation, we are looking forward to the possibilities November’s election may bring. A scant eight months away, Republicans in particular are salivating over the prospect of replacing the Democratic majority in congress with their own. Some in the TEA Party movement have fostered alliances with their local or state Republican party in the belief that if they can “turn” the Republican party from “moderate” to “conservative” and that once they are in power they will lower taxes and rein in government. What in the long history of the Republican party gives them the confidence this will happen, I am at a loss to understand.
Consider what has happened in the Federal Government since the time of Franklin Roosevelt. There has been a definite pattern established that continues to this very day. The Democrat party grabs the reins of power. Since the time of Woodrow Wilson, this party has been home to progressives, socialists, communists and their sympathizers. In short, they believe in a government that knows no bounds, a government that intrudes into every area of the lives of the governed, a totalitarian government. Instead of a revolution, which the American people would never tolerate, they have taken their time, educating, brainwashing and deceiving the people to accomplish their agenda.
Big government, socialism, whatever you call it, is anathema to prosperity. The more successful the Democrats/statists were in implementing their agenda, the more the economy suffered. The Great Depression, the Johnson/Nixon recession, the Carter years, and our current recession are all cases in point. Each one, Carter excepted, followed a major government expansion. Americans don’t like anything that interferes with their pursuit of prosperity. “It’s the economy stupid” is always the case. Once the socialists in the Democrat party damage the economic engine enough to cause pain to the majority of the people, the people vote for the other guy figuring they will fix it. That’s when the Republicans get their turn.
The formula for prosperity is rather simple. Keep taxes low, don’t make any sudden policy moves and the American people will adapt to their new circumstances and prosper once again. The twenties followed Woodrow Wilson, the fifties followed FDR, the eighties and nineties followed Johnson/Nixon/Carter. Even John Kennedy cut taxes and created a burst of economic activity before Johnson destroyed it. Once these policies are enacted, prosperity returns, the American people are happy, and money flowes into the treasury. The government, however, never shrinks. Liberty relinquished under the socialists never returns. For all their talk of liberty and “small government”, the Republicans never actually make any serous attempts to dismantle any of the socialist structures the Democrats build. The pattern is so obvious it is almost as if it was planned. The Democrats grow the government until it reaches the point where it makes the people unhappy and results in economic destruction, then the Republicans take power, restore prosperity, and make the people comfortable in their new bonds until the next government expansion. I speak in generalities, of course. As I stated previously, Democrat Kennedy cut taxes and Republican George W. Bush expanded government exponentially, but in general, the pattern holds.
Allow me an analogy. The American people are like a herd of wild mustangs, free to roam the prairie. The Constitution put a fence around them, encompassing hundreds of square miles, mainly to keep predators out. Most in the herd never even saw the fence. Each Democrat/statist administration uproots the fence and encloses a smaller area. This construction annoys the herd and they resent the intrusion. Then the construction stops and the mustangs settle down, accepting their new limitations. A decade or so goes by and then the statists move the fence again. This time the area is too small to provide sufficiently for the whole herd. The statists start providing food and pacify many of the horses. They become accustomed to the new situation even though many are now dependent. Today the fence has become a corral and the current crop of politicians are trying to make it a stall. The important thing is the fence never expands, it always contracts, no matter who is in charge of it.
The majority of the Democrats are trying to eliminate liberty for the people and reduce them to serfdom. The majority of Republicans are simply enablers, although they too are increasingly infected with the statist ideology. It is almost a good cop-bad cop act. No matter what, however, the accused is going to jail. The fact is that we are, and have been for some time, ruled by an oligarchy. Real power in our nation is held by the career bureaucrats and the leaders of the two major parties. All of them are interested in one thing, the expansion and retention of government power. If health care or cap and trade become law, do you really think they will ever be repealed? Changed, perhaps, just as welfare was “reformed” for a while, but never eliminated. Reagan was right. The closest thing to eternal life is a government program. An individual congressman or even a president from either of these parties is not going to change anything, none of them are going to break down the fence. Time is rapidly running out and we don’t have the time to try to reform either major party from the ground up. It has not worked for the last forty years anyway. Once upon a time the Republican party was the new kid on the block and in less than a decade they captured the presidency. If we really want change this November, we need to “throw the bums out”, all of the bums from both parties and replace them with independent individuals who are not interested in perpetuating power and privilege but are willing to break down the fence and restore freedom to the people. If all the angry Americans in the TEA parties and other anti-big government movements really want change, they need to move beyond calling for lower taxes and simple opposition to the current expansion and seek out people to support who will actually dismantle the wall that is strangling our liberty. The Republicans have never demonstrated the courage to actually back up their rhetoric. It is time to look elsewhere.
Consider what has happened in the Federal Government since the time of Franklin Roosevelt. There has been a definite pattern established that continues to this very day. The Democrat party grabs the reins of power. Since the time of Woodrow Wilson, this party has been home to progressives, socialists, communists and their sympathizers. In short, they believe in a government that knows no bounds, a government that intrudes into every area of the lives of the governed, a totalitarian government. Instead of a revolution, which the American people would never tolerate, they have taken their time, educating, brainwashing and deceiving the people to accomplish their agenda.
Big government, socialism, whatever you call it, is anathema to prosperity. The more successful the Democrats/statists were in implementing their agenda, the more the economy suffered. The Great Depression, the Johnson/Nixon recession, the Carter years, and our current recession are all cases in point. Each one, Carter excepted, followed a major government expansion. Americans don’t like anything that interferes with their pursuit of prosperity. “It’s the economy stupid” is always the case. Once the socialists in the Democrat party damage the economic engine enough to cause pain to the majority of the people, the people vote for the other guy figuring they will fix it. That’s when the Republicans get their turn.
The formula for prosperity is rather simple. Keep taxes low, don’t make any sudden policy moves and the American people will adapt to their new circumstances and prosper once again. The twenties followed Woodrow Wilson, the fifties followed FDR, the eighties and nineties followed Johnson/Nixon/Carter. Even John Kennedy cut taxes and created a burst of economic activity before Johnson destroyed it. Once these policies are enacted, prosperity returns, the American people are happy, and money flowes into the treasury. The government, however, never shrinks. Liberty relinquished under the socialists never returns. For all their talk of liberty and “small government”, the Republicans never actually make any serous attempts to dismantle any of the socialist structures the Democrats build. The pattern is so obvious it is almost as if it was planned. The Democrats grow the government until it reaches the point where it makes the people unhappy and results in economic destruction, then the Republicans take power, restore prosperity, and make the people comfortable in their new bonds until the next government expansion. I speak in generalities, of course. As I stated previously, Democrat Kennedy cut taxes and Republican George W. Bush expanded government exponentially, but in general, the pattern holds.
Allow me an analogy. The American people are like a herd of wild mustangs, free to roam the prairie. The Constitution put a fence around them, encompassing hundreds of square miles, mainly to keep predators out. Most in the herd never even saw the fence. Each Democrat/statist administration uproots the fence and encloses a smaller area. This construction annoys the herd and they resent the intrusion. Then the construction stops and the mustangs settle down, accepting their new limitations. A decade or so goes by and then the statists move the fence again. This time the area is too small to provide sufficiently for the whole herd. The statists start providing food and pacify many of the horses. They become accustomed to the new situation even though many are now dependent. Today the fence has become a corral and the current crop of politicians are trying to make it a stall. The important thing is the fence never expands, it always contracts, no matter who is in charge of it.
The majority of the Democrats are trying to eliminate liberty for the people and reduce them to serfdom. The majority of Republicans are simply enablers, although they too are increasingly infected with the statist ideology. It is almost a good cop-bad cop act. No matter what, however, the accused is going to jail. The fact is that we are, and have been for some time, ruled by an oligarchy. Real power in our nation is held by the career bureaucrats and the leaders of the two major parties. All of them are interested in one thing, the expansion and retention of government power. If health care or cap and trade become law, do you really think they will ever be repealed? Changed, perhaps, just as welfare was “reformed” for a while, but never eliminated. Reagan was right. The closest thing to eternal life is a government program. An individual congressman or even a president from either of these parties is not going to change anything, none of them are going to break down the fence. Time is rapidly running out and we don’t have the time to try to reform either major party from the ground up. It has not worked for the last forty years anyway. Once upon a time the Republican party was the new kid on the block and in less than a decade they captured the presidency. If we really want change this November, we need to “throw the bums out”, all of the bums from both parties and replace them with independent individuals who are not interested in perpetuating power and privilege but are willing to break down the fence and restore freedom to the people. If all the angry Americans in the TEA parties and other anti-big government movements really want change, they need to move beyond calling for lower taxes and simple opposition to the current expansion and seek out people to support who will actually dismantle the wall that is strangling our liberty. The Republicans have never demonstrated the courage to actually back up their rhetoric. It is time to look elsewhere.
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