CURSED SYSTEM:
We do not have capitalism or socialism. We have a “MIXED SYSTEM,” which only pretends to be a mix of free markets and of social, governmental regulation. In present devolvement, our political parties and periodic elections are more for farce and diversion, bread and circuses, than for anything very meaningful.
Our “free markets” are often stacked by “something-not-quite-governmental,” to be run by favorite (kickback) pretty boys, by enacting regulations designed, directly or indirectly, to limit, control, or steer competition.
Our “socialistic regulation” emerges less to help “the people” than to help hogs, snarfling behind the scenes, through revolving doors.
Without bloody revolution, how do we rid ourselves of being ruled, through a charade of fronting tools, by psychopathic, internationally irresponsible, snarfling hogs?
Bush was a tool. Obama will be a tool. The present system has morphed away from free markets and socially responsible regulation and tipped to an abomination, to be run by tools, for ghouls, against fools.
Still, it is not primarily our economy that we must recover. Rather, we must recover basis more than blind faith to once again have trust in one another. Those among us who would do that must make ourselves independently worthy of being trusted.
What Intellectual Samurai or Magnificent Seven can lead and deliver us from our presently accursed system to a bona fide mixed system? How do we suddenly make the leap to say "NO" to: false consciousness, false education, false entertainment, false drugs, false morality, false media, and false leadership? How do we, as one, open our eyes, free our minds, and transcend our oppressors?
Only in response to humble, willing receptivity to a higher source of personal intuition and purpose will a viable path beckon.
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Re: "In response to humble, willing receptivity to a higher source of personal intuition and purpose will a viable path beckon."
The key is on willing. We have to be willing to see the light, act on it, and not be impeded by girly, "high maintenance" men.
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/the_sweating_of_business.html:
Absolute Power behind the Throne:
BAILOUTS AND JOLTS: “What we are talking about is a golden political opportunity for politicians to use the current financial crisis to fundamentally change an economy that has been successful for more than two centuries, so that politicians can henceforth micro-manage all sorts of businesses and play Robin Hood, taking from those who are not likely to vote for them and transferring part of their earnings to those who will vote for them.” See http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/11/25/jolting_the_economy.
COMMENT: Well, MORE THAN THAT, what we are talking about is a golden opportunity for psychopaths working behind the scenes to consolidate nearly absolute power to pull the strings of “our” politicians. Psychopathic wielders of box cutters, so to speak, are holding the jugular of our economy hostage.
Let’s enact and enforce means to progressively confiscate disproportionate wealth used to manipulate markets and economies. Let’s use progressive consumption taxes to restore some semblance of competitive marketplaces for goods, ideas, and political influence. Let’s use “progressivism” not to make all people economically equal, but to restore some semblance of equality in the marketplace opportunity. Let’s roll.
BIPARTISANSHIP: As things stand, “bipartisanship” tends to mean taking turns shaking the faux socialist left hands and the faux capitalist right hands of the same puppet-mastering, “snarfling,” hoggish, international pirates.
Our challenge is: (1) to have a governing philosophy, stick to it, and teach it until it resonates, while (2) exposing and blocking as much “snarfling” new legislation and governmental intrusion as we can. Compare http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2008/11/25/bipartisanship_for_the_common_good.
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/mein_kampus.html:
To Karem Oner and Hard Way,
Much insight!
If you are saying Americans are neither innately dumb nor uneducable, I agree!
If you are saying politicians shy from trying very hard to educate or lead Americans to our own best interests, I agree.
If you are saying this is because politicians cannot run for office without becoming beholden to corruption from hoggish l0bbyists, I agree.
If you are saying politicians tend to become corrupted by this state of affairs once they have been in office more than two terms, I agree.
If you are saying we can find a way to surmount this corruption, I agree!
Talent to begin that surmount appears to be near the American Thinker.
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/11/russian_analyst_the_us_will_br.html:
Well, seriously, could there be profit in it, were a group of psychopaths to set out to seek the undermining of "the American bubble"?
Does America have enemies who would relish seeing America undermined?
Are blueprints already inferred in the minds of imaginative people, for harnessing and panicking American institutions to our own rendering asunder?
Do media and academia already hold captive a weak-minded majority?
Regarding a six way split: I doubt the likelihood, but would not be surprised at the possibility.
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Thirty years ago, I would have laughed had anyone told me:
1) Elected leaders will allow U.S. borders to become so porous as to lead inexorably to a sudden, fundamental, alien replacement of America's traditionally defining culture;
2) Drivers' licenses and sanctuary will be given to persons who have illegally crossed our borders;
3) Habeas corpus will necessitate trials for captured enemy combatants;
4) Marriages will occur between persons of the same gender;
5) Men will be having babies;
6) Tax money will be rebated to those who have not paid taxes;
7) America will transfer billions upon billions of dollars to buy energy we could produce ourselves in order to enrich countries bent on holy war to kill and undermine us;
8) America will sell infrastructure and toll roads to be run by foreign nations;
9) Loopholes will allow politicians to troll, without accountability, for large contributions from antagonistic nations;
10) America will be overrun by slackers who consider Olberman and Matthews as reliable news sources;
11) Nobel prizes will be awarded to Carter and Gore;
12) Major sources of "news" media, in pursuit of "fairness," will spend thousands of dollars in time and money trying to discredit some person perceived by them as a threat in the person of "Joe the Plumber";
13) Scientists will insinuate or assert that it is "scientific" to deny God;
14) Politicians will run for office, promising more of all of the above, even as they swear oaths to "defend" our increasingly insulted Constitution;
15) Politicians will be elected while having most of MSM assigned to a cheer leading capacity;
16) America will delude itself to having "won" the cold war, even as vast resources continue to be spent to serve and maintain fundamental institutions that are top heavy with Marxists;
and so on ...
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/mein_kampus.html:
Teleologicus,
I rather enjoyed most of your substance. But this part gave me pause:
“It is time to retire to the monasteries to study and to pray and to preserve what can be preserved while we await the inevitable deliverance from events. For there will be deliverance somehow.”
My first reaction was: study and prayer are fine and good, but made better by adding James 2:14-26 (New King James Version) into the mix: “What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?” In secular terms, regardless of deliverance, it’s not about catching happiness (meaningfulness), but pursuing it. Never surrender. Never, never, never.
My second reaction was: I think you agree. You're just advising to "save ammo" for opportune timing. Still, don't stop thinking about opportune timing.
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/mein_kampus.html:
Teleologicus,
I find your style interesting, and I don't disagree with much of your drift.
Regarding change: I don't begrudge change, even rapid change. I expect explosive change is our destiny. I do begrudge blind change when it is just for the sake of change.
Somewhat ambiguously, I believe civilization needs to be stable, sustainable, and amenable of constant, continuous surpassage (my version or counterpart to your "reality principle"). The destiny of our civilization is genetic superhumans, cyborgs, and the stars --- while we remain, all along, imbued with awe --- whether expressed or implied --- for that which is the holistic Source of consciousness.
Every cell in our bodies is replaced, perhaps every six months. Yet, something of our conscious identities transitions and transcends throughout.
That is the way I look at intelligent, meaningful civilization: Some essential aspects need to transition and transcend throughout. The way I see it, Adolescents (i.e., Leftist Liberals, Libertines, Libertarians, and Blueblood Republicans, aka "LLB's") have only a child-like clue regarding what is essential to nourish a civilization that is stable, sustainable, and amenable of surpassage.
Subject to adult balance, the pleasure principle can be a godsend. But, in the false consciousness of adolescents, the pleasure principle, when worshipped as the "be-all," will easily become our "end-all."
When adults consider God, Empathy, Family, and Civilization, I doubt they advocate men birthing babies, gay marriage, or allowing the next generation to be overrun by pied-piping adolescents. I suspect socially conservative principles will remain viable and be worth defending for quite some time, regardless of how much change we encounter.
Snippet from http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/buyers_remorse_on_the_left.html:
To repeat: what Obama's critics are overlooking is that he is a former community organizer; he prefers to work under the radar, starting from the grassroots. Those who are looking at the top layer of the Obama Administration wanting to see a sign of the "second coming of Saul Alinsky" (as one blogger put it), are going to be disappointed. Those who watched First Lady Hillary Clinton set up little fiefdoms in all the government agencies to push the policies of the Beijing Platform for Action and those who observed Senator Barack Obama utilize ACORN to build a political machine that spread from Chicago throughout the nation will recognize the strategy and tactics of master manipulators.
Even though they differ on many other fronts, Barack and Hillary are kindred spirits when it comes to using the government's legendary "soft power" and the national "bully pulpit" to achieve their personal and political ends. So, while the nation is lulled into thinking that Barack is moving to the center, his minions who are actually carrying the water will be hard-core "progressives" moving the leftist agenda forward largely out of the public's sight in the mid-level management positions of the government's sprawling bureaucracy. Much of the real action will happen behind the scenes in thousands of small decisions and initiatives that will remain nearly invisible until -- like the explosion in the number of mother-only families that followed from Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty -- the transformation of their cumulative effects begins to emerge.
Snipped comment by Randall Hoven:
The Communist Party USA has already told its fellow travelers to unite behind Obama and be patient. They know what he's really up to, and what he has to do. (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/11/communist_party_celebrates_dem.html)
This also follows with my "Ugly" scenario. (http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/3_scenarios_for_the_obama_year.html)
I'm not buying this "move to the center" stuff. He knows he has time on his side.
QUESTION:
Was Yukio Mishima, indirectly, recruited to the gay lifestyle?
YUKIO MISHIMA:
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima:
Mishima was born in the Yotsuya district of Tokyo (now part of Shinjuku). His father was Azusa Hiraoka, a government official and his mother, Shizue, was the daughter of a school principal in Tokyo.
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Mishima's early childhood was dominated by the shadow of his grandmother, Natsu, who took the boy and separated him from his immediate family for several years.
She was also prone to violence and morbid outbursts, which are occasionally alluded to in Mishima's works. It is to Natsu that some biographers have traced Mishima's fascination with death. Natsu famously did not allow Mishima to venture into the sunlight, to engage in any kind of sport or to play with other boys; he spent much of his time alone or with female cousins and their dolls.
Mishima returned to his immediate family at 12. His father, a man with a taste for military discipline, employed such tactics as holding the young boy up to the side of a speeding train; he also raided Mishima's room for evidence of an "effeminate" interest in literature and often ripped up the boy's manuscripts.
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Mishima's story Tabako (The Cigarette), published in 1946, describes some of the scorn and bullying he faced at school when he later confessed to members of the school's rugby union club that he belonged to the literary society.
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Although his father had forbidden him to write any further stories, Mishima continued to write secretly every night, supported and protected by his mother, who was always the first to read a new story.
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Although he visited gay bars in Japan, Mishima's sexual orientation remains a matter of debate, though his widow wanted that part of his life downplayed after his death.
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On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four members of the Tatenokai, under pretext, visited the commandant of the Ichigaya Camp—the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan's Self-Defense Forces. Inside, they barricaded the office and tied the commandant to his chair. With a prepared manifesto and banner listing their demands, Mishima stepped onto the balcony to address the soldiers gathered below. His speech was intended to inspire a coup d'etat restoring the powers of the emperor. He succeeded only in irritating them, however, and was mocked and jeered. He finished his planned speech after a few minutes, returned to the commandant's office and committed seppuku.
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Mishima espoused a very individual brand of nationalism towards the end of his life. He was hated by leftists, in particular for his outspoken and anachronistic commitment to bushidō (the code of the samurai) and by mainstream nationalists for his contention, in Bunka Bōeiron (A Defense of Culture), that Hirohito should have abdicated and taken responsibility for the war dead.
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QUESTIONS:
Was Yukio Mishima recruited to the gay lifestyle?
Have Gay activists adopted Marxist measures?
SKEPTICISM:
Implicated in various choices among political ideologies and scientific beliefs are opinions about whether “nature” or “nurture” is dominant for prescribing or conditioning behaviors. Obviously, the background in respect of which various behaviors emerge consists of a seething multitude of factors. Given experience and talent, some people, from quite a variety of lifestyles, seem naturally to acquire great skill in exciting loyalty and thereby conditioning behavior among subordinates. Among such people, some are pathological, feeling little empathy while using other people --- objectively, indifferently, callously --- to learn how to manipulate and abuse them (often sexually as well as manually and financially).
For a variety of such “people-users,” consider: Hugh Hefner (sensual sex), Charles Manson (hallucinogenic sex), Ted Bundy (gruesome sex), Jim Jones (religious sex), Mao Zedong (Marxist child sex), and Jesse Jackson (victim-hood “change agitator”).
No doubt, some percentage of each population seems to be genetically inclined to a gay or sexually abusive lifestyle. But, what additional percentage is pushed to such lifestyle, by naturally gifted and materially experienced pushers?
What sordid environment best facilitates such pushing, to facilitate an emergence of increasingly more pushers? (Compare http://www.marxists.org/subject/education/freire/pedagogy/index.htm.)
In Western Civilization, consider the continuing: breakdown of rule of law, deteriorating social norms, culture of victim-hood, capture of media, glorification of alternative lifestyles, belittling and impeding of socially responsible parents, promotion of gangsta rap, and promotion of gay agenda in school literature being prescribed for children.
Then, ask: How many people are recruited to the gay lifestyle who otherwise would have lived happier, hetero, more socially responsible lifestyles? How much objective, scientific, non-agenda driven work has really been done to try to answer such question? (I mean real science, not kool aid spray art.)
By definition, one who asserts scientific support must undertake a burden of proof (peer review, control for extraneous factors, and replication). Pending reasonable scientific proof, one should remain a skeptic.
As a skeptic, I believe, beyond humane tolerance, one may legitimately resist agendas for further normalizing the gay lifestyle for the purpose of spreading it among persons who otherwise may have become reasonably well adjusted parents.
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Compare Mao Zedong:
See http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/jun/04/featuresreviews.guardianreview10:
Mao had none of the skills usually associated with a successful revolutionary leader. He was no orator and he lacked either idealism or a clear ideology. He was not even a particularly good organiser. But he was driven by a personal lust for power. He came to dominate his colleagues through a mixture of blackmail and terror. And he seems to have enjoyed every minute of it. Indeed what he learned from his witnessing of a peasant uprising in his home province of Hunan in 1927 was that he derived a sadistic pleasure from seeing people put to death in horrible ways and generally being terrified. During the Cultural Revolution he watched films of the violence and of colleagues being tortured.
Compare http://pierrejoubert.blogspot.com/2005/06/mao.html:
In 1994, Mao Zedong's personal physician, Dr. Li Zhisui, published The Private Life of Chairman Mao.
According to Li Zhisui, young virgin peasant girls were brought to Mao for sex, often group sex.
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Reportedly Mao also liked sexual activity with the 'handsome young men in his guard who put him to bed.'
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Compare http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/54160.html:
“Gernreich was an Austrian refugee from the Nazis who brought with him both his left-wind politics and his knowledge of the early agitation for homosexual liberation in Germany ….”
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Compare http://www.isreview.org/issues/56/rev-childrensbooks.shtml:
“Si Se Puede! is the story of the 2000 Los Angeles janitor’s strike, told in English and Spanish. The message and the art are great, although the decision to tell the story without any antagonism makes it less compelling than it might have been.”
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“Political children’s books abound, although they can be hard to identify. Two sources attempt much more comprehensive lists of books than I could include here. Hazel Rochman’s Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World, available in many libraries, gives brief annotations, particularly of books about different ethnic experiences in America, some of which are political. And the Web site www.marxists.org has a helpful, briefly annotated bibliography of political children’s books.”
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Compare http://www.gayhistory.com/rev2/factfiles/ffcarpenter.htm:
“Long before he wrote about homosexuals, Carpenter had been a leader in the Utopian Socialist movement in England ….”
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/making_the_world_safe_for_marx.html:
The Snowden analogy was brilliant!!!
Tactics for Anarchist-Marxist-Socialists consist in exercising every opportunity to manipulate the language of “hypocrisy” and “equality” in order to undermine the existing establishment, even to the point of upending “fairness” in order to force the release of terrorists into the countryside. See e.g., http://townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2008/11/26/terrorists_restless_leg_syndrome.
For the New Socialist, inducing sheep-like perpetual surrender to shape-shifting, linguistic confusion trumps both indoctrination and education. See e.g., http://townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/11/26/bailing_out_ignorance?page=2: “Both Shenkman and the ISI pose a bedeviling question, as crucial as any to the nation's health: Who will govern a free nation if no one understands the mechanics and instruments of that freedom? Answer: Maybe one day, a demagogue.” For how to use “socialist logic,” see http://townhall.com/columnists/BurtPrelutsky/2008/11/28/the_death_of_logic.
For the Anarchist-Economy, understanding accounting and being skilled in predicting trends based thereupon are secondary to being skilled in intuiting trends among political opinion leaders (some of whom monopolize mainstream sources of information) and psychopathic manipulators thereof. See e.g., http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/11/28/the_new_political_economy. Krauthammer did not expressly link the final dot on the dotted line. Yes, we have gone from a market economy to a political economy. But, we have gone further: From a political economy to a financial-pirate-of-opportunity economy. Soon, pirates will have forced us to fight pirates with privateers, “24/7”. See http://townhall.com/columnists/OliverNorth/2008/11/28/privatizing_piracy_protection.
Intellectual Samurai can try to devise means for resisting International Pirate Psychopathology. Or, they can sell their souls and join it. Regarding soul-selling: Win-at-any-cost secular-socialists, by Orwellian techniques, have upended Jefferson’s notion of a Wall-of-Separation between Church and State. See e.g., http://townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2008/11/27/what_is_the_separation_of_church_and_state..
Red Assed Moderates (RAM’s) should be tolerant (“live and let live”) on minor issues. On major issues (issues that form backbone for any reasonably meaningful civilization), RAM’s should resist being rolled. See e.g., http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2008/11/28/five_hard_truths_for_rinos.
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MAN WHO WOULD BE KING:
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/the_odd_story_of_romance_in_dr.html:
To Rich, re: "For sake of argument lets assume this piece is 100% correct, as I suspect it is....
Then does it matter beyond our own self doubt about ourselves for letting this election happen the way it did?
Sadly, no."
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Well, to me, it matters a great deal indeed! In that, I hardly think I am rare. This is an issue that may well become, in essence, statistically proved. Were that to sink in, "change" will come. That change may be akin to the tipping point depicted in "The Man Who Would Be King," when the native asked something to the effect of, "What sort of God is he who bleeds?"
Sure, die-hard Libs will continue to want to be deceived. But an angry majority will not. A clear majority may not clamor for more blood, but their honeymoon will end, and they may clamor for impeachment. Likely, radical change will become more limited.
The romantic fate of all advocacy for "the greater good" in trade for abandoning self-reliance is to serve a masquerade for evil. The sooner this masquerade ends, the better.
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PSYCHOPATHIC CHARLATANS:
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/hindus_jews_and_jihad_terror_i.html:
Psychic Dice (“Although some Hindus still kill Christians in India, most live and let live. They, along with the Sikhs, are our allies against militant Islam. The next the word "raghead" pops into your consciousness, try to figure out whether you are dealing with a militant Islamic thug or a Sikh.”)
John Galt (“The Muslims have a saying. "First the Satuday people, then the Sunday people")
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An encompassing pattern is emerging. We incline too much to believe the Arab adage, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” is most diligently practiced among Arabs.
In fact, that adage is practiced by all who find themselves either in desperate straits or in an agitated state of unrequited ambition. We hope the ambition of America is generally restricted to nurturing a civilized world.
Regardless, the ambition of dictators (i.e., charlatans of “the greater good”) tends to be more blood-curdling hungry. I often wonder why Russia and China play so much footsie with dictatorial Islamic counterparts. Well, weighing friends in a world filled with psychopathically ambitious charlatans is not sport for the feint hearted.
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MARCH TO SOCIALISM:
Snipped comment by John, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/making_the_world_safe_for_marx.html:
This is a very important article, and must be circulated widely. I believe Randall Hoven has articulated exactly what many, many Americans believe, and fear. The infrastructure to implement the planks of Communism has been completed. As a student of revolutionary change, either violent or non-violent, there must be control of certain critical cultural "levers." Of course the challenge is how does a minority gain acceptance over the majority. The seven key cultural levers to control:
1. Media. Newspapers, magazines, television, radio (the "Fairness" Doctrine will address this one)
2. Entertainment, most especially movie, documentary just like Joseph Goebbels found invaluable.
3. Religion must be marginalized so the state can assume the vacuum. As Stalin found to be critical.
4. Schools, high schools, and colleges and indoctrinate, "re-educate" the youth. Like the N. Vietnamese.
5. Family structure breakdown down, redefined to be ambiguous so the state can assume the vacuum.
6. Judicial system with a few well paced radical judges to legislate doctrine from the bench.
7. Labor unions to control and extort critical industries for economic leverage and crisis making.
With the above infrastructure in place it is possible to set the following conditions:
1. Uninformed, and misinformed population. Distort, misrepresent, and suppress information.
2. Establish new icons to reinforce new values, attitudes and beliefs. John Wayne vs. Alex Baldwin.
3. Remove moral and organized opposition. Remember Poland and Pope John Paul II?
4. Rewrite history, espouse the virtues of Marxism vs. evil corporations. "MTV says Marxism is cool"
5. Weaken the family authority and influence on values. Aryes Annenberg "experiment" was just this.
6. Overturn the Constitution without the need for majority legislation, and enact the above items.
7. Lessen the power of capital engines (corporations), control segments of the economy / voting blocks.
With these seven "levers" in place, all that's needed is an "incident" or "crisis" to cause the launch. Something big like the current financial crisis we are experiencing. Unveiled a month before the presidential elections, created by the Marxists through enactment of the Community Reconstruction Act, and nurtured to a magnitude of national and global disaster. This concept is right out of Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's mentor, Marxist Saul ALinsky. Rhoam Emmanuel recently said that we must not waste the opportunity of this crisis . .
With a "dumbed down", uninformed, and misinformed population, a "smoke and mirrors" presidential campaign can be successful if a charismatic candidate, regardless of credentials and qualifications, could be presented. The Marxist have been waiting, that's why they called Obama "The One." With enough money, a little luck, and the above seven levers in place, the plan to move the United State of America to a Marxist country is in its end game. All this happened with most Americans not having a clue. The Republicans brought a knife to a gun fight.
This is how we got in the situation we are in. With a close to 60 Democrat majority, it's all but certain we will move Socialist under a Marxist ideology. Things are going to happen that will shock and anger many Americans, but there won't be a thing that can be done. Much damage will occur to the land of the free, that won't be even partly undone for a long, long time, if ever. The American people made a big, big mistake by not doing their civic duty of learning about the candidates. Each specific voting block, that put Obama into office could only see "what's in it for me?", "who will I get the most from?" Worse yet "who looks the coolest?" Americans did not vote as Americans, for the common good. American Idol voter mentality. "Checkmate" was called on November 4th, 2008 by the Marxist who planned the strategy, George Soros, Peter Davis, and George Lakeoff, with their front man Barack Obama. That's exactly my point, we are playing bingo, they were playing chess. God bless and help the United States of America.
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MARCH TO DICTATORSHIP:
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/shadow_world_resurgent_russia.html:
To Loosegravel:
"Take a look around the world at the nation states that proclaim themselves to be communist. China? If Marx were alive today would he describe China as a communist utopia? Is the prolatariat in control of the state? Is government withering away? It appears that they've embraced capitalism with open arms. In fact, much of their industry appears to be guility of the kind of labor abuse that was prevalent in England and the United States the period of their industrial revolution when the robber barons appeared.
How about Cuba. Now there's a real communist utopia. To each what he needs. You betcha! How is the prolatariat doing there and again, is the government withering away? The condition of the masses in terms of living standards appear to be something short of utopia. And Fidel Castro's one man rule for decades does not resemble anything that Carl Marx had in mind.
Communism doesn't exist. Dictatorial governments do and they are run by the same kind of people that have always run those kinds of governments. There is not a successful communistic government on the face of the planet, not one. However, there are a slew of governments that do their best to gain power and then keep it by the ruthless use of force. And to do so they proclaim that they are communistic and acting in the interests of the masses. It's crystal clear that the interests of the masses seem to always suffer in comparison to the interests of the ruling elite and in every case the government somehow seems to increase its authority and power and not the opposite. And these governments are in no way ruled by the prolatariat as theorized by Marx.
Calling these countries communist is nuts! They should be called what they are and that's just out and out dictatorships. Whether the dictators hide behind religiosity or poltical/religous idiologies such as communism makes little or no difference. The result is the same. Our enemies are nations who intend us harm and what they call themselves doesn't matter, only their intentions do. "
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Well put! Regimes based primarily on socialism are FRAUDS.
Their rulers do not care whether their rulings are handed down based on their interpretation of religious authority or on their interpretation of the greatest good --- either way, unless you're the lead dog, the end result of their rule is the same old dreary view.
Likewise, those personages with "power behind the throne " with control over captive media and to whom big government is beholden need not worry so much about whomever happens to be the government's figurehead.
In all shapes, the "greatest good for the community" is less a governing principle than a slogan for psychopaths, for cloaking evil that is used to mislead and benumb the masses. In reality, the "greatest good" becomes newspeak for that which serves the real ruler's whims.
A society that really wants opportunity to pursue the "greatest good" needs the liberty for its citizens that is availed by market-like checks and balances. The government that is best tends to be the one that restricts liberty only to the extent that markets have shown themselves to be otherwise unable to advance civilization or to preserve competition.
We may never get the greatest good. But we can get opportunity to pursue it --- unless, in greed or ignorance or timidity, we trade our liberty with Big Governors in exchange for their false promises to change and enrich us from the wealth of others.
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RESISTANCE:
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/the_more_things_change.html:
The best way to help Obama spread success, notwithstanding his announced leftist "hard-wiring," is to hope for peace with him while preparing for war.
To prevail, family-friendly civilization, ultimately, must win on a battlefield of ideas, where clarity of voice is given through insistently reasoned examples and discourse --- in votes, visits to representatives, media, debates, talks, pamphlets, flyers, and counter protests.
We must not shy from identifying and tracking the enemy to his lair. Somehow, we must institutionalize and impose something like "term limits," especially to protect us against those who pretend authority on behalf of communities to impose politically-correct community-thought and invasively bureaucratic obeisance upon the rest of us.
Ultimately, we must re-set free markets and representative governance by imposing confiscatory consumption taxes against so-called "liberal" billionaires of no discernible patriotic loyalty to the extent they use and abuse their wealth by applying it for gaming disproportionate, "off-the-charts," political influence and invasive social control.
We must recruit enough non-Marxist women, blacks, Hispanics, Jews, and non-anarchic gays to take the victimhood card away from Obama'ites. Certainly, we do not win by making Obama some sort of martyr for weak minded admirers of Che Guevara.
Those with enough mental horsepower and vigor must join the debate and counter-organize the rest of us. Those with minds and nerves less quick, but with energetic and solid, intuitive grasp of our challenges must dedicate their time and presence.
Regardless, networks of intelligence must be established, to anticipate and root out fascist community shenanigans. Effective means for fielding volunteers to respond to such intelligence must be organized.
We have already identified most of our institutional bastions and newspapers that propagate the fascist community. Local groups, if willing, could easily respond in pickets, waves, and internet chains to each outbreak of fascist propaganda. Surely, some charismatic college students must be bright and vigorous enough to lead student counter-groups to shame the fascist onslaught and its professoriate.
If free-thinkers do not rise to the occasion, we will be reduced to the same level as fascist and socialist slitherers. On battlefields, our forebears made grave sacrifices for our liberty, which are continued even now by our troops in the field. Do we honor their sacrifices, or shame them in trade for Twinkies?
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST FINANCING:
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/11/obama_wants_more_money_from_hi.html:
If Obama's egalitarian goal, by winks and nods, is to reduce America to status as just another member of the U.N., is he not guaranteed to reap mountains of foreign money? Regardless of citizenship of presidential candidates, when America can no longer be relied upon to assimilate loyalty to America, the enemy may as well be at the gates. To hope for peace respecting Obamaites, we must prepare for war --- and war it may come to.
For Fascism, Islamic Style --- see http://newcriterion.com:81/articles.cfm/whats-in-a-name-3602; http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/legendary_songwriter_now_march.html.
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/legendary_songwriter_now_march.html:
The underhanded and dishonest techniques used by Fanatic Religious Fascists are remarkably similar to those of Secular Marxist Fascists. The deformed minds of fascists may own the night, but their ideas cannot stand the light of day. Fascists may own the underground of anarchic violence, but free thinkers own the world of civilizing ideas. While the hidden deceits of mind-controllers (i.e., Vladimir the Mind Reducer) avail an infinity of tricks and escapes, the light of free thinkers avails a disinfecting eternity of hounds. Sic ‘em!
REGARDING GAY POLITICAL AGENDA:
By and large, many social conservatives do not much care what gays do in private. But they do care when gays try to force government (taxpayer’s money) to recognize and fund gay oriented political inclinations. There is no saving grace for the train the gay coalition political agenda is on. You roll with it, you may as well roll for anything, but you won’t roll with social conservatives. You can get run over while strolling on the tracks with Libertarians or you can ride on the Democrat Express, but you won’t ride with social conservatives while carrying water for a gay political agenda. Choose your track or train, but whining about it won’t cut any ice. Stop shape-shifting and shape up.
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/hindus_jews_and_jihad_terror_i.html:
jr ("I have pointed out the dramatic difference to folks between the teachings of Jesus and teachings of Mohammed. If one reads the gospels Jesus teaches to convert by the example of your life not by force.")
True enough. Jesus also taught enlightened tolerance, not self defeating tolerance. Jesus did not give us the New Testament as a suicide pact. Jesus debated with those who would reason; Jesus did not deem it necessary to condemn or address what should be obvious: that it is necessary to defend, where possible, against the animal brutality of those who only emote.
I am all for tolerating those who do me no harm and who return the favor. I oppose those who would annihilate the civilized life of the mind in order to replace it with Big Brother thought control. To tolerate that is to tolerate the not-very-Jesus-like obliteration of Christianity in order to replace it with Dictated Secular Religion.
Live free or die. One either learns that or one learns to stay with the other women of the porch.
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/hindus_jews_and_jihad_terror_i.html:
Mark Roth (The first step must be to stop preaching of Wahabi Islam anywhere in the US. That means interrupting the flow of funds, the inflow of immigrants of moslem origin of whatever nationality, the declaration and recognition that Islam is not a religion, but rather a political philosophy, and the closure of any mosques preaching wahabism. Before you react in horror let me assure you that I know that the "Free Exercise" clause of the US Constitution would appear to be violated, but it would not. Islam, much like communism, is far less than a religion and far more a political and economic philosophy. I also know that there are freedom of speech issues. However, both are taken care of by recognizing that Islam is no religion, but rather, is a political framework, a political doctrine, and one which, moreover, is at its core opposed to the West and dedicated to the overthrow of our form of constitutional government.")
You are quite correct. We are lost if we lack fortitude and intellect even to recognize that not every movement by which bands of nutjobs consent to whip themselves into frenzied conspiracies for undermining and destroying the fundations of our civilization can be tolerated as a "religion." Otherwise, every crazed movement of despots and anarchists would receive constitutional protection, merely by claiming to be mandated by God.
For nutjob libs: This distinction is not that hard. Our civilization does not have to tolerate the intolerance of despotic community-mind-controllers who are bent on not returning the favor of tolerance, merely because they invoke God.
Wahabism is despotic mind control masquerading as religion. Libs will equivocate, as if the same reasoning would render Christianity not a religion for purposes of our Constitution. This is because so-called liberals want to discredit all religion, except their own Illiberal Secular Big Government Religion. But, not every movement that invokes God is a religion, and not every fevered movement that denies God is a rational non-religion. Christians are not seeking to outlaw Liberal Religion. But we should outlaw conspiratorial practices of Wahabbi non-religion (i.e., open advocation of cultural thuggery).
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/11/hey_kids_lets_create_an_intern.html:
Infancy entails a process of learning how to make meaningful one’s own niche of environmental parameters within a system that avails polar extremes: (1) particularly specified parental controls vs. (2) an apparent infinity of worldly possibilities.
Achieving creative and responsible adulthood entails having learned how to inhabit one’s own niche, independently, while not conceiting to invade the independent boundaries established by others.
Eternal adolescence (liberal “failure to launch”) entails having failed to learn how to guide oneself, absent either very specific controls (big government parentage) or no-bounds freedom (anything-goes morality).
For adults, detailed control is euphemism for despotism, while no-bounds freedom (freedom without law) is an oxymoron, which never has and never will exist.
In other words, the world of “creative liberalism” exists only for the world of illusion, where one imagines that despots behind big government really have only our best interests at heart.
Newsflash for lib-kids: When you turn on the lights and dispel the illusion, you will learn that Big Government socialism (as well as Big World Government) reduces to despotism.
Grow up. Please.
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/the_great_depression_and_the_g.html:
Socialistic debt sponsored by Big Government is being built into a Trojan horse for conquest and tyranny.
The Greeks had to build their horse in darkness.
But our new electorate is too enlightened to require that; we allow the horse to be built before our very eyes.
By all means, do come in. Our Constitution? It's yours.
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Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/w_too_nice_to_be_president.html:
Re: “Partisan politics is the pursuit, acquisition, and the use of power.”
Quite right. Our Constitution is nothing if not a blueprint for checking power against power. In business, an analogy would be to check market against market. So, where have all the checks gone? Gone to global disproportion, every one.
To mangle B. Franklin, “W” is always a good man, often a wise man, but sometimes right out of his skull. W will always be remembered as having cheerfully whistled, inarticulately, while our borders boiled, energies emigrated, debts detonated, and Gini index galloped. Bush's downfall may be attributed to his total reliance on a perverse world view. Welcome to the N.W.O.
If Bush fails to pardon Ramos and Compean, it will put the last nail in his perpetual disgrace. See http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/may/15/pardon-ramos-and-compean/.
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Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/shocking_allegation_against_cn.html:
See, CNN, like the NYT and kindred sophisticates, has a higher, cosmopolitan calling to which they would be disloyal were they not to subordinate the mundane interests of individual nations and their citizens. In Cosmo-Newspeak, "true patriotism" consists in subordinating love of any country or Western Civilization to the sharing of global information. We are all patriots of humanity now. CNN sees itself as a sort of objective photographer for National Geographic, recording a python's gorging on a mere primate. You know, "all the news that's fit to print."
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/w_too_nice_to_be_president.html:
Re: "granted he was up against the dems but he never tried to get the support of us citizens by educating us"
In fairness, I think Bush did try, at least, for a time --- until the braying of donkey-asses made it too painful. At that point, it became indispensable to have someone who was not just a fighter, but an articulate, charismatic, likable one --- like Tony Blair (leftist as he is). We needed someone who could educate potential conservatives and rally them to hold to the fight.
Now, more than ever, we need an articulate fighter for smaller government and traditional values. Mitt is an articulate fighter, and modern mainstream Mormons hold traditional values. If he can build a credible record over the next four years for resisting ever bigger government, and if bigots against Mormons can be held in check, he may be our guy.
But, could Baptists be brought around without their sabotaging the movement? (What's up with some of our Baptists --- do they prefer Leftist Liberation Theologians? Sacred stories are mainly metaphorical at the human level anyway, so should we look less exclusively to Biblical literalism and try to learn to know someone by his acts?)
Caveat: Even with a likable, charismatic, articulate fighter for small government and traditional values, we would still need an internet organization up and running that could end-run our treacherously Marxist media. The Country badly needs help from some gifted, high-tech conservatives. Sadly, we can no longer trust mainstream media to be even remotely fair.
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Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/w_too_nice_to_be_president.html:
Re: “we torture prisoners in secret torture-camps, we have a Gulag on Cuba, re have walked away from treaty commitments and protocols, we have government departments that have been politicised into providing falsified information, politicised into ineptness, we attack the wrong country and kill tens of thousands, we have a collapsing economy, and so on and so on.”
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Well, do you have a clue what is going on in the rest of the world, or do you just recite your favorite laundry lists?
Re: “We have a Gulag on Cuba”: Man, do you have the remotest idea what a Gulag is? Read about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago.
Re — “politicised into providing falsified information, politicised into ineptness”: You got facts for that, or just Marxist feed for chickens? What are you saying — that “Bush lied and people died”? Please, grow up.
Re – “So we attack the wrong country”: Look, in hindsight, the value of going into Iraq may be debated. But are you aware of how Al Queda feels about whether the main fight is in Iraq? Just how long did you want the U.S. to bear the cost of enforcing the no fly zone? How much longer did you want the world to endure Saddam killing Kurds and paying off families of suicidal killers for unleashing havoc in Israel? Any idea how much cost has been incurred and how many lives have been lost because of Democrat rabble rousing, aid and comfort for the enemy, and demoralization of everyday Americans?
Re: “have walked away from treaty commitments and protocols”: What are you talking about — Al Gore warming? Do you have a clue how controversial that is? Do you know of any country that has met targeted “protocols” for reducing carbon emissions?
Re: "a collapsing economy": Goodness! Do you have a clue which party put that in motion? Even if you only get your news from SNL, did you miss that episode? Any idea how much of this is related to fear of what Obama is going to do?
For you to just recite hackneyed laundry lists, without offering factual or analytical support, suggests that you are less of a source of information than a useful tool for disseminating demoralizing dis-information you swallow from your favorite Marxist sources. Your parents must be proud.
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/w_too_nice_to_be_president.html:
To John Lofton ("American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition.")
Amen! Well said. Much truth. We need God. Libs tend to think they don't, but then they invent a secular god (either expressed or implied), as if thereby to invent moral purpose apart from God.
Regardless, their substitute god (or so-called secular moral standard) has no more testable basis in physics than God. There is not availed to us any testable "particle of goodness" or "God-particle."
To genuflect to evolution is merely to bless what IS, while being receptive to no guide for what OUGHT to be.
Or, to fall for the pleasure principle, as if to advocate that whatever IS individually enticing is what SHOULD be taken to be good (civilization be damned).
A few secular humanists may sometimes seem to take a longer view of the pleasure principle, towards what will "best" sustain a pleasureable civilization (as if "the greatest pleasure for the greatest number" were some kind of empirically testable concept).
But, that is merely to bless subjective long term desire while failing to temper it with empathetic receptivity to a greater purpose (meaning a purpose for which one is actually willing to take a stand, even when it becomes considerably uncomfortable).
Without that sort of Source for strengthening backbone, there is no protection from the slippery slope that pleasure offers.
I believe, when one actually exudes empathetic strength of purpose, notwithstanding travails (sort of like Bush?), then one is doing one's best to be receptive to God --- regardless of whether one cares to admit as much, even to oneself.
And civilization fails without that.
Bank on it!
BTW --- For one who considers religion or spirituality to consist in receptivity to an intuition of God that is based in empathy for God (and for one another, as expressions or perspectives of God), a doctrine that would denounce empathy for non-professors is, by definition, not a religion, but a mind rape and an abomination against free will. What is important is less that one profess belief in God, but more that one act consistent with respect for God (even when one does not even know why one is doing so). Belief manifested only in the symbols of action is still belief.
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Comment by Fair Jerk, at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/how_much_is_that_bailout_in_th.html:
Re: Toss in the bailouts for various as yet to be granted monies. The cities are lining up. The states are lining up. The unions are in the mix as well. I think the students are wondering in during the holidays. The seniors have been in line for a long time. Then there are the reparations. And all those African nations forming another line at the UN. And all the non-African countries falling in line behind the Africans. Don't forget the terrorists. And certainly don't forget our allies.
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Once Government, Bailouts, and Fairness all get together to lead a conga line, you're just a loser if you don't join in the action. So, let's all join in a circle for the Fair-Jerk Promenade: Ok, you put your left hand in your neighbor's left pocket, now the right, now a promenade, now shake it all up, baby! Feels good! That's the Socialist Dance!
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Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/w_too_nice_to_be_president.html:
To J Brew (“liked most about him is his determination to keep us safe from attack. bush had the stones to confront our enemies and, in this, he was very successful”)
And
To Caroline (“While President Bush has made mistakes, you are portraying him as having been worthless”)
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I haven’t read Mr. Anderson as taking President Bush to have been worthless.
Rather, I expect our stock would have been far worse had Gore or Kerrey been elected.
Indeed, we can praise Bush for having the stones to keep us safe for 7 years.
God bless W for that!
However, we are talking about substantial danger to civilization, i.e., the sort of world we want to leave our children.
On that account, we need to think and speak plainly.
Given the lineup against us for Obama’s first 100 days, we need to get ready, quick.
We need to take stock, inventory concerns, how we got here, and where we need to go from here.
We need to learn the lessons.
We need also to understand that there remain many Republicans who adhere to Bush’s failure to have more timely enforced our borders.
We need to identify them, and try to put a stop to that nonsense.
Regardless of feelings.
That’s all.
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Comment by NYT is Marxist, at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/mumbais_big_lesson.html:
If our various levels of city, state and national government coordinated a program for using strategically placed cameras to surveil for suspicious activity, the NYT could be counted on to make a FOIA request for such information, plot it on a map, and publish it on the internet. And then blame Bush for subsequent attacks. Or, until attacks came, blame Bush for invading our privacy.
Except on Tuesdays. Then the NYT would blame Bush for not having ensured enough cameras.
On Wednesdays, the NYT would blame Bush for causing so many foreigners to hate Americans so much as to make such cameras necessary.
On Thursdays, the NYT would blame America for having elected Bush.
On Fridays, the NYT would argue that attacks would not occur if we addressed root causes by providing reparations, job training, sanctuary, and driver's licenses.
On Saturdays, the NYT would run several different opinions, blaming Bush for all of the above.
On Sundays, the NYT would run specials, to mock Bush for his hypocrisy, religious beliefs, or church attendance.
On Mondays, the NYT would blame Barney, for biting a reporter.
Every day, the NYT will blame Palin for anything she may have in common with Bush.
And so on.
Meantime, Congress will genuflect to the loyal role of the press for keeping Americans informed.
Freedom of the seditious press: Guardian of liberty. You betcha!
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/w_too_nice_to_be_president.html:
Caroline,
I second many of your observations.
Re: "The financial collapse is being orchestrated at a much higher level than the Presidency."
I fear you are correct, in that the collapse seems certainly to entail cannibalistic opportunism among psychopathic giants.
We need all the help we can summon, to mount an organized retreat.
Meanwhile, we adopt rope-a-dope, in vain hope that the monster allayed against us will tire.
The course we are on carries some of the same Stockholm identifiers as the course by which Communists and Muslims are eventually conditioned to love mind surrender.
So, I am frustrated that few champions are willing even to identify our real enemies, much less to advocate effective counter measures.
It is deeply disturbing to find that a mind-surrendering globalist-agenda has been adopted by leaders of both of our political parties, with no explanation to, or consent by, even the thoughtful remnant of the electorate.
So, I see little point in holding back from giving both barrels to those who are neck deep in ram-rodding a global agenda, while offering only false apologies or soothing homilies in substitution for explanation.
Comment by Get Ready, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/mumbai_a_message_for_america.html:
We must not "mis-underestimate." The opposition has international experience for fitting terror to goals. We are about to be "protected" by an administration of green-beans, do-goodies, and root-cause commiserates. So, the saying that "all politics is local" now takes on a whole new urgency.
Joe Biden was right on one thing: The Big One is coming --- and it will define how much grit we still have, courtesy of The Greatest Generation. We are about to be caught between two giants of dictatorial mind control: Islamofascism vs. International Socialism. This will occur while we are nursing the kicking and screaming adolescent left.
Whether we emerge still in possession of our "self-evident" rights to individual expression will depend less on the Obamaites than on a concert of local actions.
Once government expands to hold debt as preferred stock in every business of significance, what business, if any, will be allowed to remain beyond the regulation by any present regime of government, such as for regulating politically correct codes, specifications, and limitations on speech and social philosophy?
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/stop_the_borrowing_theres_an_a.html:
Re: Yt Knoy (“What ended the Great Depression was the military draft. Worked for Hitler. Worked for Roosevelt. Let's see Obama try that.”)
Do not ObamaNotions already include ideas for mandatory civilian service?
Re: “borrowing from abroad exacerbated this recession, has already bankrupted many U.S. banks, and is starting to bankrupt U.S. manufacturers”
Eventually, to cover this debt, once government expands to hold preferred stock in every American business of significance, what business, if any, will remain beyond being regulated in respect of politically correct codes, specifications, and limitations on speech and social philosophy? How long before the Marxist message now being willingly purred by MSM is backed by a fist in a velvet glove?
Re: Jason ("Our fearless leaders in Washington know nothing about economics.")
But what if their handlers do?
Snipped from comment by M. Simon, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/stop_the_borrowing_theres_an_a.html:
The ideal is to have a very slightly inflating money supply to encourage investment. And the rate of growth should slightly overmatch the production of goods and services.
Snipped from comment by DaveT.:
I see now they think lowering mortgage rates will boost home prices by spurring a anew wave of borrowing.
Snipped from comment by Joe Calhoun:
We got into this mess because of excessive borrowing and spending.
See http://townhall.com/columnists/BurtPrelutsky/2008/12/05/mixing_it_up_with_left-wingers.
Comment by Dlanor, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/blame_me_for_job_losses.html:
Re: Laughing at AT (You honestly think Grover Norquist likes being poorer because the hedgefunds he was deeply invested in has tanked?? Or Mellon-Scaife?)
No. Being "poorer" is a relative thing. Regardless, individual greed has frozen brains on all levels. (Ayn Rand had half, but only half, a philosophy.)
Now, what we have is a lot more of gang style loyalty, but precious little loyalty to America.
Chalk that up to a number of bad acting factors:
1) Distraction to false priorities on account of holiday (bubble) from history;
2) Unraveling of common commitment to defend borders against enemy psychopaths;
3) Unearned entitlement ethos;
4) Dufus commitments to sacrifice enormously to try in vain to rehabilitate psychopaths;
5) Agenda driven, misguided socialists and hedonists;
6) Dufus style secular religion;
7) Political and corporate "leadership" that is lost, both in space and in short term greed;
8) Entire un-assimilated generations "educated" to hate traditional family and American values; and
9) Rise of billionaire socialists and religiously dictating charlatans, whose shared absolutist control is easier consolidated by fixing markets and limiting speech (in order to wipe out nearby classes and to widen gulfs between relative powers) than by preserving competitive free markets, free enterprise, free speech, or free thought.
So, Free Thinkers are now caught in a double vise grip: On one hand of the grip, between masses conditioned to confuse rote regurgitation of slogans with thinking; on the other hand, between powers that have risen above free markets, which now seek to undermine opportunities to challenge them by undermining free markets in themselves.
Free Thinkers will either break this vise, or the vise will break them.
Comment from A.T.:
HMHaanpaa ("I do not follow this topic because it has been out of control for so long. Avoiding situations is the only hope a person has so as not to become a statistic. We keep building more and bigger facilities for more and more law avoiders with no end in sight.")
We have more criminals for the same reason we have more terrorists: Liberals, Libertines, and Bluebloods mollycoddle and support them.
They would rather a named killer or terrorist be paroled than that his unnamed future victims be protected.
They would rather play an Inside Game than reform the Chicago Way.
They would rather enable stupendous chasms in wealth and power than bring billionaire pirates to justice.
Support criminals, get rap crap, get more criminals.
Support terrorists, get movies romanticizing Che, get more terrorists.
Support unlimited power to purchase political influence, get Soros' "Open Society," reap the whirlwind.
When we are trying to defend society against sociopaths, this pattern of behavior becomes simply stupid.
Libs, Libertines, and Bluebloods are "molly-paths."
Its time to stop mollycoddling molly-paths.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/meritalism_not_capitalism.html:
"Expressionism" may be a better word in respect of the conscious pursuit of non-collectivized, self-reliant, individually-responsible freedom of expression and enterprise within available markets.
"Merit" implicates too much subjective valuation. Also, the day is coming when many skills heretofore sharpened by hard work ("merit") will be turned over to algorithmic crunching machines.
Expressionistic freedom may be all that separates us from becoming mere cogs (or sheep to be shorn).
BTW --- "Socialists" have overwhelmed both the far left and the blueblood right. If "Expressionists" want to preserve Market-Based-Freedoms, Blueblood Republicans have become fiends who knife us as they kiss us.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/proposition_8_speak_softly_and.html:
The Mike ("the fact is, the Govt should not be involved in "defining" marriage..Period."):
Well, while we are conscious, none of us can choose not to make choices, anymore than we can choose not to breathe. This is because declining to make a choice is to make a choice, i.e., a choice to allow events to emerge without one's express participation.
In that respect, is not Government like us? That is, how can Govt not be involved in our civic choices?
If Conservatives do not define marriage, Liberals will --- and likely through non-representative, carefully selected judges.
So I don't quite get the line of thinking that imagines some sort of non-existent "wall of separation" between government, religion, laws, and cultural norms. Rather, for Conservatives unilaterally to quit any field of controversy is merely to turn it over to never-ending encroachments of degenerates.
I agree government should be as small as can reasonably be fashioned, in deference to sustainable, competitive marketplaces.
But the keys are in what are "reasonable" and "sustainable." We need to think in terms of norms that are essential to reasonable, sustainable, decent civilization and that need to be protected, either by regulatory laws or by cultural and legal checks and balances.
As things stand, we have multi-culturated to the point of dis-assimilating many cultural checks and balances.
And our institutions for separating powers have been breached, so that our judiciary has become king for the day, maybe like the mad citizenry in France during The Terror.
So, until some sort of new champion for restoring checks and balances arrives upon the scene, what does the majority of persons with moral common sense have left, if not intrusion by governmental regulation?
BTW --- even that is crumbling. Else, why, notwithstanding the great majorities for protecting boundaries in respect of borders and moral codes, do Congress and the Judiciary and their special friends of influence so often spurn the public weal?
WFB was right: Social Conservatives must continue to stand athwart history and yell, "Stop!" Keep yelling until enough Libertarians and Bluebloods who still have brain cells to rub together and smidgens of decency finally feel the close burn of the light. Then we can restore balance against the degenerate, Zombie-Collective.
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