Are We Becoming Totalitarian?

"The chance of imposing a totalitarian regime on a whole people depends on the leader's first collecting round him a group which is prepared voluntarily to submit to that totalitarian discipline which they are to impose by force upon the rest." (The Road To Serfdom, F A Hayek, edited by Bruce Caldwell; The University Of Chicago Press, 2007; p 159)
Is this where we are heading or at least where BO and the ruling class is trying to lead us?  It is beginning to look like the ruling class would love to have a totalitarian regime.  BO has said he wants to drastically reform America.  He never said where he wanted to take us, except to spread our wealth around.  And he has certainly collected around him a group which is prepared to voluntarily submit to the totalitarian discipline and to impose it by force on the rest of us.  Why do you think they bought so many double barreled shotguns for the IRS after BO became president.  They obviously are expecting to force us to submit to the totalitarian regime at the end of a barrel of a double barreled shotgun.
The excuse they give so often is that we need to move faster than the Constitution allows the government to move.  Gridlock in WDC really distrubs the totalitarians because it does not allow them to move with speed to accomplish their tasks.  And so FDR admired Benito Mussolini because he accomplished wonderful things in a short period of time.  And so BO followers admire Mao Tsetung because he was a wonderful philosopher who could accomplish marvelous things with great speed.
Aha! That is exactly why our Constitution was written to tie government up.  Haste makes waste and also totalitarian regimes.  Isn't it interesting that today when our government needs to get something done, it is under the duress of an emergency.  They use deadlines to make everyone feel like we must move with speed and as a result no one gets a chance to calmly consider whatever legislation or executive order is being proposed.  This is a wonderful environment for creating a totalitarian regime, one that rules from executive order and not from carefully considered legislation.  But to get the work done with speed and haste we need to delegate to czars the power to make decisions for the rest of us.  The problem is we have czars who are self-proclaimed socialists/communists/nazis/fascists.
But a bigger problem for us are the ruling class in Congress who will not resist the movement toward totalitarianism in our executive branch.  Is it because they feel the need for totalitarianism or is it because they have no spine and just wilt in the face of these totalitarians.  Either way, we need to find a way to move that ruling class out and move in some who will shrink our government back to Constitutional size.

Who Are The Intelligent?

We who are constitutional conservatives have hope according to Angelo Codevilla.  In his book The Ruling Class he states: "(O)ur Ruling Class recruits and renews itself not through meritocracy but rather by taking into itself people whose most prominent feature is their commitment to fit in...Thus does our Ruling Class stunt itself through negative selection.  Each succeeding generation is less competent than its predecessor.  But the more it has dumbed itself down, the more it has defined itself by the presumption of intellectual superiority.  In this way, too, it has discredited itself." (The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America And What We Can Do About It, Angelo Codevilla; Beaufort Books, 2010; p 15)
How many of the Ruling Class comes to mind when you read these words?  How many times as you have listened to them being interviewed have you had these thoughts occur to you: "What world did they come from?  What universe did they come from?  What kind of Kool-aid are they drinking?  What kind of drugs are they on?"
But it would seem from these words that the Ruling Class is going to get more and more strange.  Soon they will be off in another universe and we can get back to the business of living in the real world.
This description is so fitting because the stranger they become the louder they shout: "WE are the intelligent ones."  Those comments that the American people just don't understand should sound a bell to us: here comes some more "intelligent" talk from them.  And what happens when they do that?  People just shut off their ears because they know that the Ruling Class is going try to feed us some more nonsense. Those with superiority complex always scream the loudest when they are challenged by us inferior kind.
What do we do?  We just cling to our Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and our guns, and our religion.  We keep voting out the Ruling Class and find some citizen candidates like Al West, Herman Cain, Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, Nikki Haley, etc.

Career Politicians?

"(T)he Ruling Class is largely professional---in the sense that ruling is itself its business...The Country Class can hope to cut that knot only by mobilizing itself against it on a principled, moral basis---understanding that the system of priveleges is dishonest, and being willing to dispense with whatever threads of it they hold...(T)he revolutionary choice for the Country Class has to be: are you willing to upset the apple cart from which you get your ration of apples?" (The Ruling Class, How They Corrupted America And What We Can Do About It, Angelo Codevilla; Beaufort Books, 2010; pp 68-70.)
Angelo Codevilla touches on several points in section of his book.
The first is that the Ruling Class is a professional class.  We have career politicians and they just revolve between the government and the higher echelons of business.  This is not good.  This is not healthy for our country.  The government needs to be made so small that it wouldn't pay for anyone to be a professional politician, a career politician.  Elected officials should not have health care benefits, retirement benefits or other such benefits.
"But if we won't do that, then we will not get the best for elected positions."  Really?  Is that why George Washington served his country?  Is that why the delegates to the Constitutional Convention served their country?
AND how well has it worked with the class of career politicians we have developed?  What have we ended up with?  Politicians who exempt themselves from laws they write, who exempt themselves from paying their taxes, who cheat on their tax claims, who treat the rest of us, the Country Class, as if we were a bunch of uneducated bumpkins who need the wisdom of the Ruling Class to guide us through life. Worked well, hasn't it?
Second, how do we untie this Gordian knot?  We do NOT untie it by creating another class or career politicians.  We as unelected citizens of this country stand toe to toe with the career politicians and confront them with the principles that come from our Constitution and Declaration of Independence.  And if they don't seem to understand, if these principles are too difficult for them to understand, we use the ballot box to get rid of them.
Third, we realize that when we upset the apple cart, we run the risk, indeed, we most likely stop getting our ration of apples from that apple cart.  That is not pleasant, but that is necessary in order to TRANSFORM our country back to the republic it was created to be.  It will be hard work if we "can keep it."(Benjamin Franklin)  But it is well worth it.  Restoring this country back to small federal government, back to a republic of states, is well worth it because that structure is what has brought us this far and given us this rich and exciting life that we have experienced so far and can experience if we are willing to put the work into it. And if we are willing to work at this, we will enjoy apples like we have never enjoyed before.