Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Others have said it, but the problem “trying our political souls,” is Statism.
The United States has had more than 150 years of a “progressive” agglomeration of power in the hands of an ever expanding State apparatus.
Behind the Statism is the thirst for power – the power to rule, rather than to govern. As opposed to the “American Experiment” that says “No, we will govern ourselves.”
One of the major challenges for those of us believe that the country is headed in the wrong direction under Obama and Obamism is that even though the Democrats and Congress are highly discredited, the Republicans and the Republican name are not considered that much better or even overly worthy of faith or trust to bring the United States back to its Constitutional roots.
This is why we have had the rise of the Tea Party movement and it’s a movement that must succeed, but what is the best way? As Professor Alan Keyes said before the 2008 presidential election, “Obama is a radical communist and we are going to have to stop him or the United States will cease to exist.”
Call it communism. Call it socialism. Call it whatever. What does matter is that it has to be stopped and we are going to have to develop a sustainable political movement that once again believes in America, in liberty, in limited government and that freedom is the solution to the human condition.
We Americans that believe in liberty must recreate the political, social, economic, and educational culture that asserts that the wisdom and creativity of this nation lies within the American people and not within its government and its many minions.
We have to define the problem in a way that Americans who don’t feel these feelings of adoration for liberty as viscerally can understand them to their own satisfaction and level to join the fight on our side.
The symptoms of Statism are everywhere: managed economies, crony capitalism, public sector unions, the entitlement mentality, deficit spending, health care for all, the government monopoly of public schools, and the propagandizing, wasteful university educational establishment.
The best way to accomplish this would be for the Republican Party to morph into an anti-Statist organization.
We are starting to see this transpire with the rise of the Tea Party and of Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann, Chris Christie, Sarah Palin, and Scott Walker. To a significant degree, these Republicans all are running against their own party as much as they are running against the Democrats. Whether they know it or not, and I’m sure they do, they are taking the words of Thomas Jefferson from the Declaration of Independence, that “we hold these truths to be self-evident” and are stating these self-evident truths and taking their message directly to the American people.
Likely, there is a good 60 percent of the voting population who agrees these truths are still self-evident, but have as of yet not coalesced nor joined a political movement that would protect and perpetuate these self-evident truths on an ongoing basis, and defend them continually from attack by enemies both foreign and domestic.
Here’s just a short list of what we are up against:
- The public school education monopoly and its teacher unions that fight school choice and competition that sentences the poor, mostly blacks, to “failure factory” schools.
- The crushing higher education-university research partnership propaganda machine that has raised the cost of a university education 10 fold in 30 years while simultaneously downgrading its quality and value.
- A $15 trillion federal debt and a per capita debt ratio worse than Greece’s.
- A string of unbalanced federal budgets, including the current $1.3 trillion fiscal year deficit
- A Federal Reserve that has interfered with the economy for nearly 100 years only to severely degrade the value of the U.S. dollar.
- The restricting of our national resources to economic development, impoverishing us, and making us dependent on foreign sources of commodities, especially oil.
- The planned federal takeover of the best health care system in the world.
- An adventurous foreign policy that includes the folly of nation-building rather than supporting U.S. allies and vital national interests.
- A media that instead of doing its job and being a watchdog of government has become a lapdog of government.
- A river of filth from Hollywood.
It’s obvious to all United States Patriots that we must defeat Obama in 2012, but isn’t it really true that Obama is merely the ultimate incarnation of Statism, rather than its creator? Isn’t it also obvious that even when Obama is defeated in 2012, a battle will have been won, but the war must still go on?
So, let’s start talking about that. How equipped is the Republican Party to do more than defeat Obama? For the next year that’s the vehicle; there is no other. But what about for the long-term? The Republican Party that came into existence to destroy slavery 150 years ago may not be up to the challenge to restore the Republic which clearly has been lost, especially in today’s much more market-driven technological times. In other words, can the Republican brand win 60 percent voter loyalty continuously when for 40 years it has been attacked and vilified by the media and the political Left? Even if the Tea Party were to take over the Republican Party wouldn’t it be a short-lived triumph if the renewed principles of limited government were not to take hold? Let’s face it, how many Americans still know what a Republic is when for 40 years all they have heard is the word “democracy,” which equals “voting for Democrats” in most people’s minds?
The Republican Party developed in the 1850s to preserve the union of the American states by tasking itself with destroying the secessionist South and its institution of Slavery. In so doing, the Republican Party, perhaps unwittingly, aggrandized the power of the federal government, which included support for the transcontinental railroad.
Unfortunately, after the War between the States, the concept of “States’ Rights” devolved into the racism of the Jim Crow South. In other words, States’ Rights is the correct political philosophy then and now even though for most of its history it rallied around the wrong causes, Slavery and bigotry. That’s a big reason for the Tea Party movement today, to devolve the power of the federal government to the States and maintain local control, while still fulfilling Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a country in which people are judged by the quality of their character rather than the color of their skin.
I propose the Republicans change their name to the United States Patriot Party
So back to today and the political solution. I think Rush Limbaugh has described it pretty much accurately when he has called the American People, “the Country Party.” In other words, there are people who still believe in the country and want to see politicians act for the greater good and the perpetuation of American Exceptionalism. The Country Party does not want to see the United States become a second rate or even a third-rate country.
What needs to happen after defeating Obama is for the Republican Party to collapse into the most popular political movement in the country today: the Tea Party. Let them be joined by the non-Communist Liberal Left that perhaps can still be convinced to support freedom. I propose the Republicans change their name to the United States Patriot Party. Anybody running for office would, therefore, be identified as U.S. Patriot Sarah Palin, which is what she really is. If anybody has a better name for this new party, I’d love to hear it.
We still need the Republican Party to defeat Obama in 2012, which is desperately important. But wouldn’t be something if the anti-Statists could take over the Republican Party? Perhaps the Democrats would get somewhat honest and call themselves the Socialist Party. Wouldn’t that also be something?
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