Consequences Be Damned!

When we think of the greatness of this country there are two rules of thought.  Some compare this country to what a utopia is in their own minds.  Others(mainly conservatives, but you don’t have to be to understand this basic common sense) compare America to the rest of the world.  We also consider the fact America has been a beacon of light and example to the rest of the world for over 200 years.  Through our founders dying wishes they wanted to see a country of a free people that were naturally pushed to self governance because they know this was the only way they could be free.  They knew this from experience.   They knew this from trial and error around the world.  They knew their history.  So today we must look back not only to their history, but to our history that was at their time the future. 

The saying goes history always repeats itself.  Sad part is that’s true and it shows how unbelievably ignorant we can be as a people.  When I see a groundswell of even my own friends flock to socialist ideas I have to wonder what is to be of our great nation.  They want answers they say.  They want solutions.  They’ve even warmed up to the idea of sleeping under the dragon’s wing.  Our founders may have fought and died for future generations to be free, but I wonder if they could ever picture a time where the men and women of this great country would crawl on it’s hands and knees in a rush just to call someone else master.  I can think of no greater ignorance than to live on your knees praying to the almighty government.  A government not so merciful as the God they attempt to destroy.

You probably think I am overreacting.  It’s all about the common good.  It’s all about the good of society.  Each of us sacrificing what we don’t need for the good of those around us.  Well, is it about the good of society or ones interpretation of what society should or should not be in general?  I see many of my friends try to assure me that Barack Obama does not wish to completely hand us over to socialism.  Of course, they use different words but that’s the meaning of their interpretation whether they know it or not.  They are willing to go along with it as long as it’s a slow death rather than a quick one.  Willing to eat from the hands of our master at a slower pace until we reach the point of no return.  I, for one, refuse to go along with it and will fight it at any cost.

There is America and then there is everything else.  Fascism, Socialism, Communism take your pick.  I know some are saying “but Cory, Fascism is an extreme Right wing ideal..not leftist” and you would be wrong.  There isn’t much difference between any of them.  Many describe Fascism as corporate takeover.  Well they would have to explain to me why millions upon millions of Marxists in the 1930’s became Fascists.  Kind of interesting to see millions of people believing in working class rule would switch to a corporatist ideal.  It’s not very debatable that communism is the far left(or socialism), but I would argue that Fascism is as well.  Mussolini himself was a socialist before the party threw him out over his support of world war one.  He then eased into a fascist transition and oh by the way Hitler was a great admirer of his philosophy.  You probably think I am getting off point, but I’m only furthering the point that there is America and then there is everything else. 

These fascist governments offered many of the things that these liberal politicians are promising as of right now in this historic election.  Fascism in Italy included ideas such as:

1. Lowering the minimum voting age to eighteen, the minimum age for representatives to twenty-five, and universal suffrage including women
2. The abolition of the Senate and the creation of a national technical council on intellectual and manual labor, industry, commerce, and culture.
3. End of the draft.
4. Repeal of the titles of nobility.
5. A foreign policy aimed at expanding Italy’s will and power in opposition to all foreign imperialism’s.
6. The prompt enactment of a state law sanctioning a legal workday of eight actual hours of work for all workers.
7. Minimum wage.
8. The creation of various government bodies run by workers’ representatives(unions).
9. Reform of the old age and pension system and the establishment of age limits for hazardous work
10. Forcing landowners to cultivate their lands or have them expropriated and given to veterans and farmers’ cooperatives.
11. The obligation of the state to build “rigidly secular” schools for the raising of “the proletariat’s moral and cultural condition.”
12. “A large progressive tax on capital that would amount to a one time partial expropriation of all riches.”
13. “The seizure of all goods belonging to religious congregations and the abolition of episcopal revenues.”
14. The “review” of all military contracts and the “sequestration of 85% of all war profits.”
15. The nationalization of all arms and explosives industries.

Hitler’s Germany wasn’t far off.  Notice anything familiar when comparing these policies with the policies of the liberal left today?  You should.  They are nearly identical every single one of them.  Why do we regard these dictatorships in history as evil and then turn to the same exact policies as answers for a free society?  We are repeating history once again.  In the name of tired cliches such as “get things done” we are trading our freedoms in for government handouts.  These policies are the visions of men in power not the results of a free society.  The visions of those men are to shape society as they see it.

Doing for the common good of society is a noble concept.  However the only answer is to let society move with the trends of a free public.  We are deciding to turn over those decisions to men ruling over men and these ruling men refuse to abide by the founding document of the country they serve.  This is irresponsible on all sides.  This is why as I wrote earlier that the founding fathers were strict believers in self governance.  It’s not perfect.  It’s not easy, but it’s freedom.  I wonder at what point will we wake up and realize that there are consequences to the actions of giving too few too much power over our lives.  I wonder when we will discover the attitude of confidence in our own God-given abilities.  Abilities that will be suppressed by a strengthening fiat if we are not careful.  As many as there are strong and true to the founders warning there will always be those that walk down the path to the master’s answers.  Consequences be damned.