Thursday, June 30, 2011

"My Favorite Philosopher is Mao Tsetung"

In 1944, F A Hayek wrote: "(T)he rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.  This is a truth which most people were unwilling to see even when the similarities of many of the repellent features of the internal regimes in communist Russia and National Socialist Germany were widely recognized.  As a result, many who think themselves infinitely superior to the aberrations of naziism, and sincerely hate all its manifestations, work at the same time for ideals who realization would lead straight to the abhorred tyranny." (The Road To Serfdom, F A Hayek edited by Bruce Caldwell; The University of Chicago Press, 2007; p 59) So who are the real Nazis?  Those who admire, who want to follow Mao Tsetung, Marx, those who want the nanny state of socialism/communism?

Totalitarian?

In 1944 F A Hayek wrote: "The enemy, whether he be internal, like the 'Jew' or the 'kulak,' or external, seems to be an indispensable requisite in the armory of the totalitarian leader." (The Road To Serfdom, F A Hayek, edited by Bruce Caldwell; The University of Chicago Press, 2007; p 161)  Notice how many internal enemies our government has, big corporations, big banks, constitutionalists, conservatives.  They are nothing but "racists, Nazis, fascists."  Do you suppose that the left is projecting their hatred on those who oppose them.  Is the left fascist, Nazi, racist?  Notice the right does not call the left that.  Who are the real socialists?

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Conspiracy?

"There is no national movement for socialism or dictatorship in America...nothing but fumbling compromisers and frightened opportunists.  Yet we are moving toward full, totalitarian socialism, with worn, cynical voices telling us that such is the irresistible trend of history.  History, fate and malevolent conspiracy are easier to believe than the actual truth: that we are moved by nothing but the sluggish inertia of unfocused minds...Collectivism, as a social ideal, is dead, but capitalism has not yet been discovered." (For The New Intellectual, Ayn Rand; Signet, 1963; p 45)
Talk about hope!  Colectivism, statism, socialism is dead.  Now what we need to do is discover capitalism.  We need to focus our minds, pick up some momentum and keep the steam roller moving ahead.

Hatred

"(P)eople hate not because of anything others do, or even because of who others are, but because they tend to blame others for their own unhappiness.  Hence, it is not in the power of America or of any other country to reduce others' hate for it." (No Victory, No Peace; Angelo Codevilla, Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers; 2005, p 98)
So that is why the left hates and detests the right.  The left is blaming the right for their own unhappiness.
So what do we do?  We can't change them.  They can only change themselves.  They are filled with hate because of their own failures.  They detest that the right has had success.
That is why Obama looks like such a fool going around the world apologizing for America.  He says he is trying to convince those who hate us that we are not so bad.  And he does it by admitting to "mistakes" the USA has made in the past and admitting to "mistakes" he claims we have made that we didn't make.
What he does not realize is that such groveling will NOT stop the hatred. In fact, it will make it worse.  It will invite others to attack us because Obama makes us look weak and weak-kneed.  To project weakness before those who hate us just invites them to take advantage of us.
What a fool Obama is!  Why doesn't he do us all, including the ones who hate us, a favor and just fade into the woodwork?  The only way to deal with such hatred is with strength like President Reagan did.
And that is what the right needs to do to the left, deal with them in strength.  Let's bowl them over with the next election, because we cannot change them.  We may be able to change their outward behavior, but that will only happen when they get run over by the right.

Constitution

"Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals---that it does not prescibe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government---that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens' protection against the government." (The Virtue Of Selfishness, Ayn Rand; Signet, 1964; p 133)  The Constitution protects us against Obamacare; it does not give the government the authority for Obamacare.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Czars


"In the progress of despotism the authority of the executive power gradually absorbs that of every other power in the state,and assumes to itself the management of every branch of revenue which is destined for any public use." (The Wealth Of Nations, Adam Smith, Bantam Books; 2003, p 924)  This book was first written in 1776.  Do these words sound familiar?  Can you say czars?  President Obama has assumed to himself every other power in the government, including the power of Congress and the power of the courts.  Other words that come to mind are "tyrant", "despot", "dictator" and a few others.  We need to stop this man as soon as possible.

Silent Majority

In 1965 Ayn Rand wrote: "All over the world, while mowing down one helpless nation after another, collectivism has been steadily losing the two elements that hold the key to the future: the brains of mankind and its youth...This is not to say that the anti-collectivists represent a numerical majority among college students.  The passive supporters of the status quo are always the majority in any group, culture, society, or age.  But it is not by passive majorities that trends of a nation are set.  Who sets them?  Anyone who cares to do so, if he has the intellectual ammunition to win on the battlefield of ideas, which belongs to those who do care." (Capitalism:The Unknown Ideal, Ayn Rand, Signet, 1967, pp. 303, 304; italics in original; bold underline added.)
This explains why we have gotten into the predicament we are now in with our government.  We were the "passive supporters" of what was the "status quo".  So we were not setting the trends of our nation.  Those who were setting them were the ones who cared "to do so".
What has happened now is that the majority has awakened and the advantage this majority has is that it has the "intellecual ammuntion to win the battlefield of ideas", because this majority does care.
The collectivists (i.e. the liberals, statists, believers in the nanny state) are losing or have lost the brains of mankind and the youth.  That is why they are screaming bloody murder.  They see the steam roller coming and they are pleading to stop it.
Sorry! We are not going to stop it.  Indeed, we hope to give it even more steam.  We do not want our country destroyed by the "leeches", because if it is destroyed by them, we all will be destroyed INCLUDING the "leeches".