As we observe that tragedy of a tyrannical President fighting with an
unequivocally worthless Congress over the Budget, Debt Ceiling, and ObamaCare
disaster, we realize that this bunch of Washington politicians are really the
result of our government’s devolution into a single progressive party system,
totally oblivious to the needs and desires of the American people. It’s
immaterial whether you refer to them as Democans or Republicrats; a vast
majority of them are evil, self serving politicians bent on one fundamental
purpose: keep the status-quo and keep their cushy membership in the ruling
elite class. The mere mentioning of the ideas of congressional term limits, tax
reform, federal budget limits, or debt limits evokes an instant condemnation
and political assassination of any upstart member of either the House or the
Senate who dares to advocate such measures.
It is time to abolish the ill-evolved concept of “career politician.”
In this past year, 2013, we celebrated the 100th anniversary
of the three most devastating governmental attacks on the future and freedoms
of our country:
§ The Federal Reserve
Act
§ The 16th
Amendment Legalizes the Internal Revenue Service
§ The 17th
Amendment, robbing the States of control of the Senate and Protection from
Federal Government Tyranny
These things happened while the ultimately
progressive President, Woodrow Wilson was in office and he got there by virtue
of Theodore Roosevelt’s failed Progressive Party (Bull Moose) campaign of 1912.
The
Roosevelt “Bull Moose” candidacy split the Republican vote and insured Wilson’s victory over incumbent
President William Howard Taft.
As Judge Andrew Napolitano rightly points out in his book, “Theodore and
Woodrow,” Roosevelt and Wilson were two progressive American Presidents who
destroyed constitutional freedom. They were sometimes labeled otherwise but
both were true big and powerful Federal Government advocates. They worked
together to guide our country into today’s era of overarching government control,
a political philosophy which both parties have consistently followed, concluding
with both the Bush and Obama administrations.
Our founding fathers started out with a two party system: the Federalists
led by George Washington, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton who believed in an
all-powerful large Federal Government and the Democratic-Republicans notably
led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who believed in a power-limited
Federal Government.
After the War of 1812 the Federalists died off and the
Democratic-Republicans soon split into the Democrat and Whig parties. By the
1850’s the Whigs were replaced by the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln
became the first Republican president.
At the turn of the century big government progressivism was in full bloom
in both parties and the Republican establishment decided they could best
suppress the exuberantly progressive views of Teddy Roosevelt by installing him
in that powerless “do nothing” position of Vice President of the U.S. That ploy
failed miserably when President McKinley was assassinated in 1901 and Teddy
became our 26th president.
A true progressive, Roosevelt (inappropriately labeled Republican) pushed
his progressive ideas through 1909 at which time he personally picked William
Howard Taft to succeed him in implementing his progressive agenda. Taft turned
out to be a huge disappointment in his conservative views and Teddy changed his
mind about running for a third term and, with the help of banker J.P. Morgan, ran
for another term as a correctly labeled Progressive. This turned out to be a
perfectly executed plan to split the vote between Taft and Roosevelt and give
the presidency to Woodrow Wilson who had promised J.P. Morgan that he would
breathe life into that “Creature From Jekyll Island” (originally spawned in
1910) by passing the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
This legitimized the happenings on Jekyll Island
where the most powerful financiers in the world (representing 25% of the wealth
on the planet) conspired to illegally restrain world trade to their monetary
advantage by the establishment of a banking cartel to control banking
throughout the world. Their goal was to establish the method of creating money
“out-of-nothing” when needed and assure that inevitable losses are paid for by
the taxpayers.
They were eminently successful and provided Progressives a powerful
controlling tool utilized to this day.
In order to accomplish the Progressive’s goal of massive Federal
Government expansion to control every aspect of its citizen’s lives, the lack
of money was a monumental impediment. The obvious simple solution: institute an
income tax which would result in the taxpayers paying for the “BIG” government.
Thus the second important part of the Progressive Revolution of 1913 was the
passage of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, The Federal
Income Tax.
Judge Napolitano commented:
“The passage of the 16th Amendment
. . . signified Americans handing over the freedoms earned by the blood of
their forefathers and entrenching themselves into a slavery contrary to the
very essence of our nation’s beginning.”
Another irritating constraint to the Progressive’s goal for absolute government
control was the inconvenience of the Constitutional mandate of continued
Federalism by the State government’s control of Senate appointments. Both
Roosevelt and Wilson advocated the direct election of the senators as a means
of furthering the power of the federal government and a strong campaign by the
Progressives in 1913 ended in the ratification of the 17th Amendment
to the United States Constitution. This amendment prevents the states from
protection from the Federal Government encroaching on their sovereignty.
Woodrow Wilson summarized his view and the view of all progressives
since:
“While we are followers of Jefferson, there
is one principle of Jefferson’s which no longer can obtain in the practical
politics of America.
You know that it was Jefferson who said that the best government is that which
does as little governing as possible . . . . But that time has passed. America is not
now and cannot in the future be a place for unrestricted individual
enterprise.”
Wilson’s view regarding the Constitution was that it
should be thought of as a “Darwinian” rather than a “Newtonian” document and
thus should evolve with changing times. The Wilson idea on leadership is summarized by his
view that a true leader should command the subservience of the masses by
stirring up their passions, not their intellects.
The Progressive Revolution of 1913 set the stage for the eventual devolution
to the single party dictatorship which exists today. The evils of progressivism
were temporarily inhibited by President Calvin Coolidge during the 20’s, but re-exploded
in the 30’s and 40’s under the tutelage of that supreme progressive, Franklin
D. Roosevelt. With the exception of the Coolidge and Reagan perturbations,
Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party of the 1850’s is officially dead.
The ingrained progressivism of the Democratic Party (as firmly
established by FDR and Truman) did suffer its own aberration of conservative
thought in the name of John F. Kennedy. By any reasonable definition, he was a
conservative.
On July 4th, 1946 John F. Kennedy, a 29 year old Lieutenant in
the Navy Reserve and veteran of the war in the Pacific, gave the keynote speech
at Faneuil Hall in Boston which exemplifies his political and governing philosophy.
He began with a discussion about the profoundly religious contribution to the
shaping of American history. He said:
“Throughout the years, down to the
present, a devotion to fundamental religious principles has characterized
American thought and action.”
He continued on to discuss the importance of the Declaration of
Independence, the First Amendment to the Constitution, and quoted both
President Washington and President Lincoln regarding the indispensable
requirement for religion and morality in governing our nation. He said further:
“The American character . .
. has been essentially
individual. The right of the individual against the State has ever been one of
our most cherished political principles. The American Constitution has set down
for all men . . . that there are certain rights held by every
man which no government and no majority, however powerful, can deny.”
Today's Hijacked Marxist Democratic Party — the home of Barack Obama,
John Kerry, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi — would instantly politically
assassinate a candidate like JFK, a conservative champion of economic growth,
tax cuts, limited government, and peace through strength.
Unfortunately that miniscule flame of conservatism and common sense in
the Democratic Party was brutally extinguished by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963
leading to President Lyndon Johnson’s willfully steering the nation onto the
course of massive government intervention into the day-to-day lives of all
Americans, and unfettered social spending. Thus the inexorable transfer of
unbridled power to Washington
and the political expedient of unsustainable promises to the American people
had begun, totally uninhibited.
Norman Thomas, six-time U.S.
presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America, Gus Hall, four-time U.S.
presidential candidate for the U.S. Communist Party, and Frank Marshall Davis,
Communist Party USA (CPUSA) member and mentor to a young Barack Obama all
contributed to today’s transformed Democratic Party. In my October 2012 article
entitled “The Hijacking of the Democratic Party” I remarked that I voted for
JFK in 1960 but “the Democratic Party
of 1960 has ceased to exist.”
The last vestige of Jeffersonian limited government conservatism died
with Ronald Reagan and Progressivism reigned supreme in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential
elections.
Our evil dictator, Obama couldn’t be more thrilled about the apparent
rift in the Republican Party. His hope is that the Tea Party will be the
equivalent resurrection of 1912’s “Bull Moose” effect and give the 2014 and
2016 elections to the Democrat progressives for the completion of the destruction
of the United States.
Obama’s recent employment of this “Bull Moose” strategy worked perfectly
for him as he paid for a “fake” libertarian’s candidacy to split the Republican
vote for Virginia’s
Governorship and gave it to the extremely progressive candidate. The Republican
establishment progressives helped out by purposely “dumping” the Tea Party
candidate as part of a nationwide plan to destroy the Tea Party in favor of
retaining the Republican Party as a progressive clone of the Democratic party.
If we allow the Republican progressives to kill the
Tea Party and suppress Libertarian thought, the single party dictatorship is
permanently enshrined. It is
excruciatingly obvious that a 3rd party revival by the Tea Party
would simply be a stupid repetition of the “Bull Moose” experiment of 1912.
Peter Schweizer, author of “Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy
Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets” described this ridiculous infighting between
Marxist Progressive Democrats and Progressive Establishment Republicans as
being analogous to the staged battles in professional wrestling. They growl at each other, and perform
controlled, fake nasty attacks on each other, but in reality it’s all about the
MONEY and retention of the status-quo!
One of our last hopes is a move similar to the 1850’s when the Lincoln
Republicans replaced the Whig Party. We desperately need a Tea Party/Libertarian
movement to suppress the leadership of the Republican establishment
progressives and form a new enlightened conservative version of the Republican
Party. The Progressive dictatorship that we now suffer under has no
relationship to the interests and desires of the majority of America’s
citizens; it is the natural response to the single loudest group of people with
a unified direction and large enough to enforce its views.
Friedrich Hayek in his monumental “Road to Serfdom” points out that such
a group will always be formed by the worst elements of any society. A high
level of education and intelligence of individuals will always counter the
formation of such a group.
Hayek says:
“.
. . we have to descend to the regions of lower
moral and intellectual standards where the more primitive and common instincts
and tastes prevail.”
“It will be those whose vague and imperfectly
formed ideas are easily swayed and whose passions and emotions are readily
aroused who will thus swell the ranks of the totalitarian party.”
TRUTHFUL EDUCATION AT ALL LEVELS IS THE ULTIMATE ANSWER!
Written by Chuck Boyde
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