The "Get Government out of the Way" yields itself to being completely full of s**t. The Conservative establishment desperately needs the protection of Government to maintain its position. Though not as bad as the Latin American version (which has absolutely no problem rolling out the tanks and pointing their guns at the people to maintain the "property rights" of their establishment) the American version is just as hypocritical.
The "Conservative Movement" came in response to the "Liberal Movement", not the other way around. Liberals sought votes from the poor, and Conservatives sought money from the rich by promising each to protect one from the other. It was a pretty simple model.
The elected officials cared little for either constituency. What these individuals really wanted was the power of office. And they have perpetuated the war ever since in a battle for our political soul. Each group's moronic constituents have sustained the carnage without noticing that each has lost the war. The collapse of "wealth" around the world has left the spoils to neither, while stranding their adherents in perpetual group think that has left them unable to see that the ground has shifted beneath their feet.
The "Intelligentsia" of the Left will find themselves bereft without their trust funds. They will now actually have to WORK for a living. The "Moral Leaders" of the Right will actually have to walk the walk that they have been talking, and they, too, will actually have to work for their daily bread.
These 2 fleas arguing over who owns the dog they have been living on have yet to notice that the dog just died.
That dog is the Trillions of "wealth" lost over the past 6 months. This process is not over.
Conservatism and Liberalism were the defining movements in American politics in the Post WWII era. They are dead men walking along with their ugly offspring.
The next epoch will be Libertarianism vs. Fascism. The Conservatives and the Liberals together nearly guarantee the emergence of Fascism with their CENSURESHIP and INCESSANT BOOK BURNING. Let us hope that Fascism's nemesis also emerges.
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Politics doesn't have to be "redefined" like this. Pure democrats and pure republicans are black and white opposites of each other, with not much in common except in emergencies. I just happen to think I'm right as a democrat :) but the other side has some valid points too (giving out welfare for nothing in return is a bad idea). Obama was never going to find a middle ground, cause there really isn't one. I don't believe in "independents", "bisexuals", "bringing people together", etc. People have different viewpoints -- always will. Majority rules with minorities having protections. But let's not take your inevitable result, "fascism," to be anything more that "thuggish-ism" and "gangsterism" redefined. Hilter must have pulled every hard-core criminal out of the German jails and made them Gestapo. Nazism would not have gotten away with its crimes today -- too many cameras and too much Internet. We will just have to live with a reduced standard of living till the costly but lovable baby boomers naturally pass from the face of the Earth.
George Orwell wrote in 1944:
The word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else... almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. – George Orwell, What is Fascism?. 194
In the sense of being a "Bully" America has been Fascist for a long time, overthrowing foreign governments, pressuring others into submission, invading countries etc. Which brings me onto my next point, most of the puppet governments in south America that point their guns on their own people have been put in place by America.
In another sense of fascism being the merging of state and business leadership, America has also been a fascist country for many years. Just look at all of the ex oil execs who used to be in power.
On a side note, I prefer your economic and resource analysis posts to the political ones, but maybe that's just me.
Peace.
We are looking at a period of rapid elite turnover and while ugly it is absolutely necessary. Without new blood the elites tend to become ossified and divorced from reality over time. For the last several years they have put in place effective policies to protect their position and the net result is now there will be a rapid turnover one way or another.
For a really good look at how it works and why, I recommend : The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham
Read that and let the scales fall from your eyes.
Dan:
The "elites" are like the NFL. There are many franchises, rivalries, and turnover. There are Left and Right franchises. The Right have always been just a bit meaner and more violent.
"These 2 fleas arguing over who owns the dog they have been living on have yet to notice that the dog just died." - Best quote in ages.
Great post sir, very well said.
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