Now listen up because I’m going to throw a block quote at you from Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and I want you to pay attention. In this age of the drive for a single payer government sponsored health care and social security as the main source of retirement; I want to make it clear that I don’t believe that the Left in this country is a conglomeration of stupid people. I don’t even think they’re crazy. Deluded maybe but crazy–no. Now, this blockquote goes all the way back to the German Hohenzollern empire which Hitler called the Second Reich, where the Prussian army-state seized power in Germany and turned it into a military dictatorship. So dig this:

To combat socialism Bismarck put through between 1833 and 1889 a program for social security far beyond anything known in other countries. It included compulsory insurance for workers against old age, sickness, accident and incapacity, and though organized by the State it was financed by employers and employees. It cannot be said that it stopped the rise of the Social Democrats or the trade unions, but it did have a profound influence on the working class in that it gradually made them value security over political freedom and caused them to see in the State, however conservative, a benefactor and a protector. Hitler, as we shall see, took full advantage of this state of mind. (p 96)

It is also interesting to note that the Social Democrats, within the Bismarck’s time, went on to become the dominant political party yet they held no effectual political power in the Junker’s Germany where the army was king and the king of the army was the god on earth as far as the Second Reich was concerned.

But history is worth nothing if we cannot extrapolate the actions of the past, lay them over the events of the present and recent past, and draw conclusions, lessons, and what not to dos for the future.

I believe the American populace, and the average individual American citizen, is every bit as complacent and suckling to the teat of State as the fist-waving Second Reich citizen in Germany at the turn of the century. These are the same lunatics who went on with the First World War which sparked an entire century of misery like a biological fabric rip across the social evolution of our species.

Look at how many people are dancing on the strings of minimum wage laws, socialized medicine, federal law enforcement trumping local militias, and you will see how the ingredients for the ultimate recipe of disaster are ripening in the mixing pot of America’s decline.

The answer, fellow citizens, is the same as it has always been for America–individual empowerment. This was a country built for individuals by individuals, not a country built by denizens for corporations. It’s a country built by merchants and farmers to protect their land, their lives, and the sanctity of their search for happiness in the open exchange of goods and services, not a military market specializing in the outsourcing of war profit disguised as the seeds of democracy.

The man who jumps off a high cliff may fool himself into believing that he is outside the claws of the laws of gravity but only for so long, until the ground catches up with his ignorance. Likewise, there are social laws that govern the existence of a species in relation to all other life on this planet and we can fool ourselves only so long before the inevitablity of total self destruction catches up with us.

Now, with that happy thought out of the way–who do you think will get kicked out on American Idol tonight?

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