Dear Friends,
It seems to me, that the least best form of faux democracy, is a one party State. There can be overtly one party States, like China and there can be covertly one party States, like the United States. This form of faux democracy is pernicious and it is insidious. The incentives are pernicious and the effects on society and culture are insidious.
Today the US democrat party is totally under control of the progressives. Obama, Clinton, Pelosi and Reed are leading members of the progressives. However the democrat party is not the only political institution controlled by the progressives. the republican party is also under the wing of the progressives. The old guard blue blood republicans are also leading members of the progressives, coequal with Pelosi and Reed. The progressives, both democrat and republican, along with the unbiased media and the purveyors of modern culture, make up what I lovingly refer to as, the Elite.
The Elite have set it up so that the American people have a team to root for. Lets say… the democrats are the Red Sox and the republicans are the Yankees. They are both in the same league, and in the case of the political entities, they are largely under the same management. So when the American voter casts his or her vote they have only one real choice… the progressives. The rest is just a team to root for.
Members of the progressives consider themselves to be smarter than the rest of us. You know, some of us haven’t gone to Harvard or Yale (heavens forbid, a Yale man), but it’s true. Obviously if one hasn’t had the correct schooling then one is simply not capable of governing… Of course nothing could be further from the truth. Innovation comes from out of the box thinking not down the line Keynesian demand side ala FDR. Truman wasn’t a member of the Elite but FDR was. Compare how they were each treated by the unbiased press…
The progressives have several core beliefs. That Global warming must be addressed, now, without critical review, by greatly enhancing governmental powers to control industry, (plan it). That all healthcare must be derived from the State. That the tax system should be set up so that people think it is fair, (by taxing high wage earners at confiscatory rates while sparing the wealthy Elite), but is indeed set up to keep the hoi polloi from really competing with the Elite… to hold us down. That the masses should be distracted, as much as possible with Worldly things, especially things that lower our culture- never raising it. That abortion should be on demand regardless of the personal, societal, and/or moral costs. These are a few of the major planks that the progressives hold’s dear.
That is why the Elite hate the Tea party. The tea party represents a true break with the progressives line. The first real break since Ronald Regan. It scares them to the bone. I imagine their blood runs cold at the mere mention of a Tea party rally. It is actually a grass roots upwelling of popular discord with the rule of the progressives. That is also why many republicans hate the Tea party, it represents a threat, to all they have worked together for. That threat is a rollback of the State’s power.
All republicans in name only (rinos), care about, is that power go to the government, possibly more slowly than the marxist faction of the progressives, but inexorably, more and more. Rino republicans don’t mind loosing an election or two. Remember they were totally out of power whenever a democrat was in the White House from the 1940’s up to the 1990’s. and were perfectly happy with it. Progressive republicans are actors, who pretend to be, “small government“, but in fact, are there to insure that no real threat to the progressives’ power ever materializes. Did “conservative” Nixon lower the government’s power or grow it?
Well now a threat has. The republican establishment and the unbiased media are pushing Romney and Perry. Near proof they are progressives but their actions speak louder than words. Romney, despite his rhetoric, has absolutely no intention to overturn Obama care. He helped set it up for Pete’s sake. Perry was a democrat before he was a republican. Not that that in itself is bad but having worked for the most totalitarian democrat in the US (other than Obama) Al Gore, shows a profound lack of judgment in political thought. That along with their past (present?) views on Anthropomorphic Global Warming, show them in stark relief, to be members of the progressives.
Bachmann, Cain, Santorum and Huntsman on the other hand are not members of the Elite. They all proclaim they are pro capitalists and expound a consistent, unwavering belief in small government. They are minimized and vilified by the unbiased press and the old guard republicans. They understand the global threats we face. Moreover, Bachmann and Santorum constantly call for the overturning of Obama care… and that is the first thing that MUST be done if a new President is sworn in.
Because that is the one thing that has hobbled the US economy the most. Years of uncertainty in regulation as each succeeding years new laws go into effect. Unforeseeable regulation, tax increases and insurance increases for years to come, and potentially crippling the US insurance industry, Obama care is not so much a sword of Damocles hanging over us, but a mill stone around our collective necks.
I have no problem with the progressives being an option but not the only option. It is up to the American electorate to decide if we want one or two choices. Most rational people would opt for two…
