Time for Middle Class to Bite Back:
Prog Rinos and Prog Dinos remain united in a dangerous game. Progs hope the Rino-like collectivism of a cohort of international corporatists will prevail against the Dino-like collectivism of environmentalists, nationalistic socialists, and religious jihadists.
Both Rinos and Dinos want an “open society,” i.e.: more equality in the price of labor, which will cause labor to bid itself down; diversification of industry in cheap overseas labor markets (even among regimes that are despotic, Marxist, and Islamist); international currency; more international law in support of free trade; and effective erasure of national borders. Fundamentally, both Rinos and Dinos want to bury the idea of America.
Where do Rinos and Dinos differ? They differ significantly only (1) in tax tactics and (2) in how they view the elites who are to run the masses, either via a worldwide, federal government or via variously federated monopolies to be run by corporatists.
The predominant myth among Dinos is that decent, well-educated, elite governors will look out for little guys. The predominant myth among Rinos is that decent, well-educated, elite corporatists will rule the governments that will rule little guys. Simply put, Prog rulers, whether Rino or Dino, will not be decent nor will they, in any effective way, be looking out for the little guy. The cynical hope among sociopathic Progs who actually pull the strings of both Rinos and Dinos is that they will rule the little guys, either in the style of Brave New World or in the style of 1984 -- whether the little guys like it or not.
The naive take among Libertarians is that the Prog trend will diminish if we just diminish the formal role of government. However, absent assimilation of spiritual and traditional values (an ethos for alms-giving to be private, in respect of the Golden Rule, not to turn able bodied citizens into commie bums), the diminishment of the rule of law will simply be replaced with the rule of sociopaths, who will rule either in the style of a cohort of international corporatists or in the style of centrally federalized governors.
Why do Rinos and Dinos differ on tax policies? Dinos want higher taxes, to promote centrally federalized government. Rinos want lower taxes, to promote control in a cohort of international corporatists. However, sociopathic billionaire Progs tend not to care that much, either way, so long as steady “progress” continues to be made towards: breaking labor to make it bid against itself among destitute economies, keeping the masses working under the whip of necessity, internationalizing currency, promoting free trade to make the world safe for despots, and keeping borders open.
Regardless of whether taxes are raised, lowered, or kept in a perpetual state of confused and hedged uncertainty, sociopathic billionaires expect to rule – either by owning those who run the central fed or by running the corporations that run the world.
Simply put, unless conservers of liberty see what is really going on and take action to reverse it, Progs and Libs will continue, worldwide, to pull humanity towards a new worldwide dystopia (NWD), in which the freedom and dignity of the common man will be dumped to the trash heap. Unless social conservatives keep the heat on representatives, the elections of 2010 will have done nothing to stop the Prog march.
We will not preserve freedom and dignity unless we preserve spiritual values. We will not preserve spiritual values if we follow questionable creeds or corrupt and interloping authorities or if we allow central government to marginalize respectable churches and monopolize the dispersing of alms. We will not preserve decent government if we allow it to become too central and too big. We will not keep government small if we increase legalism. We will not diminish legalism or corruption if we open our borders. We will not preserve our borders if we license international corporations to ignore or run around them. We will not preserve control over international corporations to the extent they do business in America if we allow them to buy or corrupt our politicians. We will not preserve decency, freedom, or dignity if we do not wake up and reverse the shenanigans of Rino and Dino Progs and their abettors.
We need to "cut the hair" from the Progs who are funding the burial of America. If Prog billionaires (especially non-producing hedge fund speculators with a devil’s workshop of too much liquidity on their hands) have nothing better to do with their money than to try to bury America, then we need to take away their economic power. However, if we take their money and fund government, we will be playing into their hands. Since they are so loudly promoting a need to redistribute wealth, we need to take them up on it. But we must not redistribute to more government boondoggles. Not even to pay down debt. That would only encourage more government programs and the everlasting commitment to fund them thereafter.
Instead, simply relieve all speculators who clamor for more government of their excess money, and then redistribute it directly to the rest of Americans, in proportion to their yearly reported taxable income (provided that no redistribution should increase the income of anyone beyond the cutoff point for imposing the redistribution levy). Do that only once or twice and the sociopaths among the billionaires will cease clamoring to "spread the wealth" or otherwise to increase the size or role of government. It's time for middle class Americans to bite back against those who would seek to fund the "progressive" burying of America.
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Problem is, we've turned the house and the printing of money over to those we have to bet against. We're playing one way poker: they see our hands, we don't see theirs. No matter what we play, they hold the highest and final cards. The house controls how each round is played until it changes the rules. If the house fails to foresee what wins, it makes it so, after the fact. As long as the house runs the only game in town, it owns the system and those who run it. Anytime it hankers to fleece you, the house simply deploys its Oz moneys in media and law to whip up a bubble, hedges its bets, looks which way the suckers go, and then rigs the result.
Conservatives think we have achieved victory in recent elections. Not. The game for burying America and reducing Americans to serfs will continue unabated. Borders will not be closed. The electorate will be reduced to barbarians. It will continue to be dumbed down, corrupted, and weakened, until most Americans abjectly knuckle under to those who rule and "inform" them. Until then, jobs and industry will continue to be sent overseas, and economists will be found to sell this as a good thing. Hollywood will cheer.
Skirmishes about taxes are a side-circus show to distract the electorate. The house doesn't give diddle about taxes. When taxes are high, it increases its control of government. Why not? It owns it. When taxes are low, it increases wealth of its cohort of corporate offices. Why not? All the better to buy politicians with. The real game is about territorial and trade borders and regulations. The house "enforces" the border and writes and "enforces" the trade regulations. This stuff about Keynes and redistributing wealth is a lot of horse dung. Until we do something to cut the hair of the sociopaths we have let buy the house, we're just dealing in the "science of delusions." Science. Yeah. Right. (sarc)
Of course, bubbles end. That is why they are bubbles. But as they end, new bubbles will replace them. But the frequency of bubble making probably has to do with mischief among sociopaths like Soros. It is one thing to anticipate and try to make oneself safe from bubble bursting. It is another thing to deliberately choose and blow bubbles to bursting.
I consider the ambitious idea of America to pertain to according equal dignity to each, until he proves unworthy. A distinction is worth making between Americans of ambition versus greed. One can be ambitious to provide for independence of oneself and one’s family. I suspect Rand would call that "trade for trade" among non-canibals. And one can be ambitious to help one’s countrymen retain their freedom and dignity.
Greed, however, connotes something more. Something in the vein of desiring to acquire wealth and power in order to bend others to one’s whims. Rand may have called those corporatists who trade in government pull, rather than in producing anything substantive, "canibals." Problem is, in a world with borders wide open to canibals, the raw flesh eater becomes king. I doubt Rand would have approved of America's letting down her defenses. If I recall correctly, Friedman (was he an acolyte?) may have relished the notion of a new world order populated by ruling international corporatists.
Greed connotes something in the vein of rationalizing that others would be better off, if only they would let you dictate terms. Greed may become pathological when one fears trusting to relate to others as beings of equal dignity. Such a one likely can never trust in a higher power, nor rest short of acquiring absolute power. (What demons haunt Soros' formative experiences?) Such are the sociopaths now seeking to dictate terms to Americans. They also are a bubble, or more a boil -- one that, if not soon pierced, will lay a giant mess upon America.
From A.T. -- Re: "For Rove, Graham and others it's not just winning, but winning with their plan. The organized chaos of the tea party is to the Establishment what the unplanned free market is to the leftist professor. Both represent a lack of "fascinating" control"
Well, they're not national commies; they're international corp-commies. It's not that they're against collectivizing and asserting hegemony over the easily controlled. It's that they want the collectivization to proceed under their model. They don't need the backing of any golden horde so long as they can hoodwink the new barbarians, i.e., the corrupt, the weak, and the ignorant. Why wield the sword when you can poise the pen that writes the laws that qualitatively ease the currency? For all who prefer independence, who are about to be overrun by an evil alliance of collectivizers and wannabe collectivized, the view is much the same, whether the pack is strung to follow godless corp-commies or godless commie-commies. Rinos and Dinos are fed from the same Prog hand and worship the same collectivist sickness of spirit.
There seems to be some sort of international competition to keep ordinary workers’ means ever proportionately less than the means of their rulers. In that respect, are we competing with China the nation or China the corporation? How are American corporations that have to pay for health care competing against corporations from countries that have nationalized care? As our work force is flooded with illiterate illegals, where are our educated tech workers going?
Is there some hoodwinking cooption by gang style union leaders, some commonly contrived policy, some unholy confluence of events … that is pushing America to its demise? Look around. Are American producers really staying competitive, or are they relying on government pull to artificially solidify their profits and influence? Are they getting bigger and more secure at the expense of borrowing against our grandchildren? Are they increasing the chasm between the very wealthy and the working folk to keep workers treading the mill ever longer and faster, leaving workers less time and energy to notice how their futures are being hocked?
What is happening with divorce and marriage rates? How few get married before 30? When first timers do marry, how many then carry student loan debts from value inflated educations, while looking forward to paying more so retiring boomers can draw social security? Why does an international hegemony against independent America workers seem to be tightening, even as the influence of working stiffs is waning, worldwide? What is the role in this of our policies for opening our borders and our trade? How trustworthy are the people who are rationalizing those policies? Who are the saboteurs? I suggest they are the Rinos and Dinos whose policies promote the swamping of our borders and the shipping out of our industry.
Brains among a significant portion of the electorate have been deeply grooved to believe Soros' idea for an Open Society is a good thing, and none whom they will consent to be influenced by is interested in anything that is not groovy. Blinders are up. Eyes captive to Progs will not gaze beyond Stewart and Colbert. Prog media, academia, and networks of nutroots combine to keep most eyes glued to the show in Plato's cave that is now being produced by the omni-projecting shadow man, Spookmeister Soros.
Well, I can't consider the Prog agenda stymied, much less broken, until considerably more of non-Fox media are willing to take on George Soros. Especially if (good grief!) Pelosi continues as minority leader in the House. Until then, ask: Why do Barry and Nancy still seem so pugnaciously confident? Some Thing is giving them assurance of continued relevance.
So why does Fox and only a few others tend to cover George Soros? Does Soros front a cohort that essentially owns Progs (of both the Rino and the Dino variety)? Does his cohort want an "Open Society," meaning a worldwide order that ignores America’s borders and that reduces America’s workers to compete for pay at the level of third world workers? Does this Open Society seek to bring all masses under supervision of an international, elite cohort, that can curfew freedom in order to secure the middle class against the danger of allowing it too much liberty? Evidently, Libs trust this cohort enough to give it absolute power to stretch its "benign" tentacles to govern us in all details. Why? What decent person would seek such absolute power? The Open Society is a front to submerge America, which must be unmasked and confronted. Soros’ hirelings, dupes, and zombies are quite the opposite of innocent, elite, or decent. They are certainly not suited to wear any ring of absolute power.
Regarding Soros: I much doubt that idealism is the motive for Soros in funding his open society movement. The motive has more to do with greed and will to power. Herbert Marcuse taught that modern workers tend to be too stupefied to produce a labor revolution, so revolution must instead come from students, intellectuals, and minorities. Did he mention billionaires? Consider: Why and how should a shadow cohort of established billionaires desire to co-opt a radical movement? Well, look at the Chinese model. Has not the communist society there been co-opted by collectivist corporatists? Do most of our commie radicals even know they are being delivered to corrupt whims of absolute international power?
The right can go full circle and meet the left. We can preserve a representative republic only within a modulated frequency. There's such a thing as too much of a good thing. The commie left is being coopeted by the corporatist right, and, idiotically, thinks that's a good thing. However, it's good only for the owners. It's not good for the left itself, nor for the middle class, nor for human decency. Free markets are one thing. Allowing a cohort to come to own the very markets is another. Looking at how every institution of significance is now run, the notion of free markets begins to cloud into delusions. We live in a new paradigm, but we are analyzing it in obsolete terms. Thus continueth the delusion.
Stockholders expect corporations to make money, pay dividends, and increase value. That is lowest common denominator. If those who control majority stock can make money by buying influence in government and shaping international relations, so be it. National loyalty be damned. This LCD would as soon enrich competing enemies of the nation as not. Inescapably, they become concerned with politics. There is no way completely to separate running economies from running governments.
Indeed, once corporations become influential enough, they can join to make nations tremble, to manipulate national laws, currencies, eventually, mores -- sustainable or not. Indeed, they can root profits by hedging bets on instability, even on promoting wars.
America was founded on national loyalty, individual dignity, liberty, and free enterprise, not on collectivist dictate. The loyalty part of the equation is grossly undermined by international corporations, which is impetus for the N.W.O. This produces indifference, if not outright disloyalty, to interests of ordinary Americans.
America will be fundamentally transmogrified unless Americans learn that the answer to every concern is not free trade or unbridled corporatist influence, especially when defined by those with little loyalty or concern except to increase wealth and international influence.
They are agents of a force that unites and funds Dinos and Rinos alike. That funding is why the middle class is given only lip service. That funding is why it is ignorance beyond folly for Americans to expect that Progs of any stripe, whether communalists or corporatists, will preserve America as a land of middle class liberty.
The middle class of ordinary Americans desperately needs to take action to reset a balance. We need means to let power dealers know We The People have it in us to yank and shorten their chains, even, if it comes to it, to confiscate wealth of bad actors. We ignore the imbalance and sing the la la praises of corporatists at great peril.
I do not seek to neuter bad acting corporatists out of envy of their wealth. I seek to neuter them because otherwise they are hell bent to neuter America.
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