History Lesson-Repost

The  exact time when the government ceased serving ‘We the People’ and became our  master is impossible to pinpoint. The best estimate coincides with the  beginnings of the progressive (isn’t  “regressive” a better description?) movement and Theodore Roosevelt. What TR  started, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States from 1913-1921, expanded  exponentially and the movement was on.

Those  who believe in the complete control of the masses by the state at the expense of  individual freedoms are statists or Leftists. The ‘L’ is capitalized to  distinguish the group as being its own religion, ideology, and entity. Leftists,  statists, and regressives are evolutions of the same beast and have no political  boundaries, Republican or Democrat. They obey only the rules or laws that suit  their own political ends. They are secular and against anything associated with  Judeo-Christian values, morals, or rules of behavior. They disparage limited  government and despise the Constitution with its limits and enumerated powers.  When these obvious anti-America-as-founded zealots are out of power they spin,  prevaricate, and throw hissy fits like little children when they don’t get their  way.

Usually  the tantrums are enough to get their way, because those who don’t walk the  regressive line are often badgered into silence. The rare principled  conservatives who believe in limited government and the original intent of the  Constitution invariably get rolled because of their fear of offending the  Leftists and their media toadies. The media spews Leftism, and that message  affects many low-information voters who are more interested in the Kardashians  than what is happening with the sequester or the budget process in Washington D.C.

After  100 years of varying degrees of oppressive rule by Leftists, America has sealed  its own fate by selecting the most radical Leftist in the country’s history to  be its 44th president. Woodrow Wilson started it all by expanding government and  then getting us into World War I only months after promising the opposite.  Calvin Coolidge reversed the growth of government and balanced the budget  leading to the Roaring 20’s. After the disastrous administration of Herbert  Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president from 1933 to 1945, inherited the Great Depression. FDR’s New Deal statist  agenda exposed the sophistry of socialism and prolonged the recovery. The  decade-long depression ended only after the unifying affect on the economy brought on by World War II. FDR repudiated the  Constitution and the rule of law by adapting a new Bill of Rights and a stacked  Supreme Court, not to benefit America, but instead to promote his regressive  statist ideology.

Government  moderation allowed the private sector to expand for twenty years until Lyndon  Baines Johnson reinstituted statist policies including civil rights legislation,  immigration, the Vietnam War, and the government expansion of welfare included  in his Great Society. LBJ’s unconstitutional (not enumerated) welfare and  redistribution policies have destroyed more that $15 Trillion (approximately the  size of the massive federal debt as of 2012) in wealth and prosperity, while  increasing poverty levels and unemployment, shrinking the middle class, and  reducing opportunities for a better life. One hundred percent of the blame can  be put on secular regressive government policies.

Ronald  Reagan temporarily reversed the trend of government intervention by conquering  ‘stagflation’ (double-digit inflation and unemployment) caused by the economic  slowdown of the Carter-era 1970’s. The ‘Gipper’ explained government was not the  solution to the problem, but rather the cause of the problem. Capitalism  flourished for 25 years, finally ending with the housing bust after the  post-9/11 boom of George W. Bush. The primary cause of the banking scare, the  housing bubble, and the deleterious effects on the economy was none other than  overreach by the federal government. Are you beginning to notice a trend here?

Ayn  Rand nailed it more than 55 years ago with her magnum opus, Atlas  Shrugged. The author, who spent the first 21 years of her life under  oppressive communist rule in Vladimir Lenin’s U.S.S.R., understood the  dilatory effects of statist control and regressive policies. Rand, who lived  from 1905-1982, seemed prescient when she spoke these words more than 30 years  ago:

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate  inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases,  while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest  periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”

Albert  Einstein is attributed with defining insanity as doing the same things over and  over and expecting different results. Doesn’t that exactly match the solutions  secular regressives have for government and governing? We have reached societal  insanity by re-electing the most radical Leftist of all, Barack Obama. The  country is doomed to collapse, not if, but when. It is inevitable, and the time  frame is in months, not years. It cannot be sustained by more government, more  debt, and more destruction of the Constitution and rule of law.

What  can God-fearing, law-abiding citizens do to survive the usurpation of power and  control by radical Marxist revolutionaries? What happens when Americans are  disarmed and helpless before enemies bent on replacing Judeo-Christian values  and principles with secular totalitarian rule? The United States is not  repairable at this point. The dark, dirty secret is everyone in every branch of  the federal government knows what is happening. Unfortunately, those who still  have principles either feel they can’t, won’t, or don’t dare speak out. Economic  and systemic destruction of the government is imminent. The can has been kicked  to the end of the road.

Ayn  Rand’s work of fiction describes producers disappearing as the economy collapses  from the weight of excessive statism and control. Rather than succumb to having  their unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property stolen and confiscated  by the moochers and looters, the producers quietly disengage from society and  disappear. A ‘Tax Strike’ similar to Rand’s fictional tome may be the best way  to reject the illegitimate and oppressive control demonstrated by government  today. It can range from a conscious reduction in self-employment  (semi-retirement) to a flat refusal to fund the illegitimate leviathan by  refusing to file tax returns until the criminal regime is thrown off. While this  act of civil disobedience may be considered extreme, is it going too far to draw  a line in the sand like our founders did with the Declaration of Independence in  1776? In Thomas Jefferson’s own words:

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long  established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and,  accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer  while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to  which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations,  pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people]  under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such  government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Aren’t  Jefferson’s words as timely today as they were in 1776?

Isn’t  it time to starve the beast, throw it off, and start  over?