We have been going on for several months now pointing out in our commentary many of the almost overwhelming number of attacks on our constitutional republic.<\/p>\n
The thrust of the demagoguery that we are receiving is that the old ways of representative government are passe’; that state and local governments are too weak and inept to face, let alone solve, the monstrous problems that now confront our national life.\u00a0 Those telling us this are self appointed intelligentsia that think that only they are the people capable of finding and then administrating solutions to our exceedingly complex societal problems.\u00a0 If we are to believe what these leaders say, and follow what they are doing, their un-articulated cry is that we must scrap our “outdated” Constitution and let enlightened people lead the way out of the abyss of Earth ruining environmental extremis; away from medical malpractice and paucity; and let them solve those and all our other personal, social, business, labor and manufacturing problems.\u00a0 In their view, the ordinary person is not intellectually competent to care for his needs and that of his family, let alone have the capacity to understand today’s politics or to run a modern business.\u00a0 These “superior” people identify themselves by benign names like “liberal” or “progressive” … they are in truth socialists … the worst kind of socialists … command socialists … who intend to enforce the visions of their “Brave New World” by the specter of prison, or failing that threat, something worse, possibly “re-education” or even, maybe, at the point of a gun; all for our own good.<\/p>\n
The people doing this claim to be just as American as you or I, but they are not.\u00a0 They have a vision for a more perfect world, in their view, that invariably takes the treasure of our liberty, our wages, our property, our mobility, our future and that of our children from us to enrich the government, that only they, in their view, are competent to administrate.\u00a0 Listen to any liberal talk.\u00a0 He or she has this Utopian view of society that compels society to do right.\u00a0 Upon elaboration of their vision, you will find that its benefits will accrue and apply to all, except they themselves, who are in a different class.\u00a0 Because of their enlightenment, they will have to be placed in a leadership capacity at the top of the system, running the plan.\u00a0 Their answer is government and bureaucracy.\u00a0 They never seem to understand that the only asset that government has in its hands has been plundered from the populace.\u00a0 That any largess from the government to the individual has the double disadvantage of being administered by basically disinterested third parties doling out booty taken from the property of others.\u00a0 Isn’t it a non-sequitur to consider that it enhances the wealth of a person (or any other entity) by first taxing his wealth from him before enriching him?\u00a0 How can tax money create wealth?\u00a0 Socialism, in any form; Liberalism, Progessivism, Marxism, Fascism, Nazism or any other collectivism, is the antithesis of individual freedom.\u00a0 All these “isms” require that the individual be subordinate (and subservient)\u00a0 to the group; the collective, the State.\u00a0 They are all variants of Totalitarian-“ism.”<\/p>\n
Our forefathers, the framers of the Constitution, were experts in the study of their “isms,” the totalitarianism of absolute monarchy, be it from England, France, Russia, Germany or a myriad of other places where autocrats persecuted ordinary people.\u00a0 Many, if not most, of the colonists or their ancestors had come to the new world either avoiding or fleeing from those scenes.\u00a0 They, our ancestors, answered the oppression of humanity by would be autocrats or governments by first defining the problem in the Declaration of Independence and then solving it with the Constitution of the United States of America.<\/p>\n
After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was quoted as saying that we had “a republic, if we could keep it.”\u00a0 In the blog category … Solving it! … we will, in essays in the following days, explore, first what is human freedom, second how is it threatened and lastly how it can be preserved.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned!\u00a0 Think about it! Participate with your comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have been going on for several months now pointing out in our commentary many of the almost overwhelming number of attacks on our constitutional republic. The thrust of the demagoguery that we are receiving is that the old ways … Continue reading