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We Interrupt this Soiree . . . . .

I would like to interrupt your tea and cakes party for a little explication of the obvious. First and foremost, what I am trying to do is save Nancy Pelosi's life, here. Her and all of her ilk. You folks seem to think, unlike the Founders, that polite politics will be sufficient to the maintenance of your liberties. To repeat myself, this bill demands that we -- every living soul in this country -- pay or play in their brave new tyrannical system. If we refuse, we will be fined. If we refuse to pay the fine, we will be arrested. If we resist arrest, we will be killed.   Dutchman 6

Communist.  Government takeovers of banks.  Auto companies.  Insurance companies.  Radically enhancing the powers of the Federal Reserve and the authority of the IRS,  fortifying the power of labor unions and altering social relatiosnhips at the levels of life and death -- literally.  What we're witnessing simply has no precedent in American history, given its scale and the criticalness of the hour.  We have a political elite dedicated to nationalizing not just the U.S. economy, but every aspect of our lives.  It has been 15 months since Obama took office but the relentless Drumbeat of "progressivism" has only one end: POWER.   What crisis are they trying to solve?  They're not solving a crisis.  They're exploiting one.

The Dawn of Democracy.  What is left of the American Republic is being pushed to the breaking point by those who announce their compassion for an electorate of sheep who have grown accustomed to accepting Leviathan's bribery.  The results are disastrous, but predictable, as they have been assiduously courted by those who have "educated" us and provided our "news" the last 50 years and more.  In such a climate as ours, Time Magazine can freely argue:

The advocates for nationalizing U.S. banks have been out in force recently. Senator Lindsay Graham, who almost certainly does not have a PhD in economics or finance told ABC News that banks were in such deep trouble that government ownership of the institutions may be the only way to save the financial system. Economist Nouriel Roubini, who probably has several advanced degrees, wrote in The Washington Post that the Swedes set a precedent for bank nationalization nearly 20 years ago. The first counter to his argument is that it is dark over 20 hours a day in Sweden during the winter which causes a level of depression among the population that may undermine their judgement and views of how dire any economic situation is. If this theory is true, banks in Panama will never face being taken over by the government.  The Case for Nationalizing the U.S. Economy

The Stimulus Scam.  Who is this elite?  Do they hate us?  Are they conscious of their hostility toward us peons, or merely Orwellian in their porcine predilections?  The question is often more complex than meets the eye.  For example, how would you build a sewage treatment system from scratch for Los Angeles County?  You can't do that very well with a 19th Century state, as some conservatives seem to argue -- or, at least, liberals say they argue for.  You need a modern bureaucracy armed with engineers, computers, and enough cash to contract out to gargantuan, techno-centric corporations seeking profit.  But the difference between a genuine communitarian and a communist is not subtle at all: communism is necessarily about coercion.  Communitarianism will resort to force only under exigent circumstances.  The elite who seeks to rule us are not communitarians in the American colonial sense.  They are Orwellian pigs.

And then there is the ideological factor -- isn't there?

Dictatorship of the Proletariat.  How many times have you heard, "I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal"?  This is what passes for high discourse in America today.  It's mostly a brain dead thing to say, but it does sum up where we've been since the 1980s: people want a lean government with maximum social freedom.  Okay.  Then why do they tolerate exponential expansions of the State?  Decade after decade, both political parties -- see, CL? I learned something from you -- cannot address the financial and bureaucratic reform that would ensure a prosperous American future.  Prosperity is not their aim.  Control is.

Reading Mark Steyn today, he mentioned in passing one of my persistent observations about the strange new world being engineered in Washington; a world in which all, except for the elite, lead smaller, much smaller lives than ourselves or our parents. Lives made smaller because they were sold and bought stunted dreams from a wilfully diminished history. Where all are equal all are smaller.  Welcome to Your Small World, Suckers

Not a Revolution, But a Coup d'Etat?  Social Security provides the perfect analogy.  How much wealthier would we be if there wasn't a 15.8% payroll deduction in America?  Yet the minute you so much as breathe the idea that freedom would be the better course, those who say they are "fiscal conservatives" resort to Jesse Jackson mantras and the subject is closed.  This debate preceded my physical incarnation in this earth and did not get resolved with the Reagan presidency.  Reagan was a diversion, not a denouement.  Leviathan continued to grow, and American society continued its degradation.  Is leftist ideology the sole cause of that deterioration?  I don't think so.  Will conservative ideology be what saves us?  I doubt it.  We are living through a communist revolution whose ostensible root is the New Deal Class War, but in reality is the fruit of a godless, post-modern devotion to the State -- an American Maoism.  While the average American seems impervious to ideology, "liberals" drive us ever onward on the supposed moral superiority of their ideology.  We who like to say we are "fiscal conservatives and social liberals" are now under a full scale humping by Leviathan, courtesy of our "liberal" brethren.  That cute little blue jeans and microwaved bumper sticker slogan doesn't cut it now.  We're in trouble.

We are living through a Comminist Revolution.  What else can we call it?

And yet, consistent with blue jeans and microwaved dinner, it doesn't seem like a Soviet Revolution (where are the stormed barricades, the shop lootings?), even if it should.  Many in the country labor along under the impression that this is business as usual.  It is not.

What they are trying to do is to create an America very unlike the America that has existed for centuries — the America that people have been attracted to by the millions from every part of the world, the America that many generations of Americans have fought and died for.   Thomas Sowell

Obamacare Threatens U.S. Future.  Regardless of whether Obama Care passes or not, we have a team of rabid dogs in political power right now who mean to fully commandeer America.  Not just its economy; not just its people.  The whole goddamned country.  When does it become advisable to protect ourselves from them?  They will continue the fight.  No amount of wishful thinking will change that.  It is all or nothing for them:

If Obamacare is defeated this time around, look for the Alinskyites to start rioting for bigger government and more largess; the right not to work, and of course, free taxpayer subsidized education with healthcare. After all the coming insurrectionist have been practicing; lately in the University of California school system, perfecting tactics taught by community organizers who know how to stir up the easily agitated, self-indulgent sociopath dupes doing their bidding for a greater evil.   Friend Fuchs

I do not think the end will be as apocalyptic as others think.  I think America will go broke and become a 2nd -- perhaps a 3rd -- world nation:

As anyone who has ever looked at a government program knows, if HCR is this junked-up at the start, then it will take no time after passage before it becomes the biggest bureaucratic mess ever inflicted upon a free people. We all -- or or at least most of us -- will rue the day. Never mind the lost jobs, tax increases, medical rationing; that's just the tip of the iceberg that we can see from a distance. This thing will be worse. America's medical system will become riddled with government inefficiencies, politically-correct tinkering, and endless corruption. A two-tiered medical system will emerge, each coexisting as separate worlds: one for well-connected elites, and one for everyone else. Chills will crawl up your neck the first time you hear that someone in this country had to "tip" a hospital staffer in order to make sure a loved one got clean bed sheets. If government-run health care is bad in Europe, it will be a disaster here in America, where that magnificently American concept, E Pluribus Unum, went out of fashion at about the time the Me Generation got its hands on the culture.  Jed Skillman, Democrats Have Painted Us into a Corner

Government services will be cut at every level. Potholes will deepen, infra-structure problems will worsen, pension plans will become insolvent, school systems will declare bankruptcy, police and fire protection will be reduced, etc. etc. You will be "nickled and dimed" in terms of new fees and taxes. Public unions will strike, providing further disruption. But when there are no funds, there is nothing to gain.  Monty Pelerin, Is Government at All Levels FUBAR?

I believe the fighting objected to earlier today is unavoidable, but I don't think it will be the stuff of World War II movies.  I believe it will be more along the lines of  lawless sectors of the country marauding rural redoubts.  I don't think we will be able to rescue ourselves from our own moral deterioration.  We are fated, I believe, to have to live through the consequences of our spiritual emptiness.  I don't mind being wrong, of course, but as I look around at the huge evil that is being perpetrated against my country, with so many Americans' assent, can you blame me for saying YOU ARE NOT UP TO THE TASK OF SAVING YOUR COUNTRY? 

By the way, did I tell you I'm a lawyer?  No?  I need to work on that, I guess.  One thing is for sure: I want to thank my friend CL for allowing me to post here.  It is an Honor.

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