The Democratic Party’s Plan for Attaining the Leftist Agenda: Ignore the Will of the People
With the shellacking of Barack Obama in the recent election, the left wing of the Democratic Party is getting ready to advance their agenda, despite all the evidence that the American people reject big government and big programs, especially ObamaCare. They are fully aware, however, that the time is hardly ripe for them to achieve their ends by scoring any more legislative victories in the House of Representatives. How, then, do they intend to gain victory for what they call the “progressive agenda,” or as Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage call it in The Nation, the “progressive game plan”?
The first thing to note is that these self-proclaimed “progressive” intellectuals know they have been shellacked, along with the Obama administration. As the two Nation writers observe, it was “the worst rout in postwar history.” So they present their twisted answer. Obama didn’t do too much; nor was he “too liberal.” The reality is that he “wasn’t radical enough.” For example, instead of ObamaCare, which ceded a role to the insurance companies, the administration should have supported socialized medicine developed through a single-payer program, which, as we all know, Obama himself originally supported. This didn’t happen because there was no “independent progressive mobilization,” and hence the right tapped “into the populist temper.” In their eyes, Obama “chose not to level a searing critique of conservatism” — a leftist equivalent of what Ronald Reagan did to liberalism when he took office.
But, in their narrative, “voters provided no mandate for conservative ideas.” In other words, they believe, as Marxists always do, that the people voted against their own real interests — what Marx called “false consciousness,” since only the radical intellectuals really represent the people’s interests. The writer Thomas Frank put it this way in the title of his book What’s the Matter with Kansas? There is always something the matter when the people vote in another way than the radicals think they should vote.
So what is their next step? The answer, to put it in a way these authors and others try to hide, is to bypass democracy by ignoring Congress and urging the president to put through his entire program by executive fiat. Vanden Heuvel and Borosage write that Obama would “be wise to focus on governing and invoke his executive authority to further progressive reform and strengthen allies.” He should use his “formidable powers on his own.” He must not support any kind of Social Security reform; must lay out a “bold” program — meaning a radical one, or as they call it, enact “progressive reform.” Hence they call for an “inside-out strategy,” using the defeat of the Blue Dog Democrats as a sign that now the most liberal Democrats have complete power in their party.
This should also by reinforced by “movement protests.” In other words, taking the fight to the streets through “outside organizing,” calling out the ACORN troops and the radical youth for the kind of action, I assume, we saw in Seattle a few years ago. They want nothing less than a “poor people’s campaign” for “immigration reform,” a fight to “recruit true progressive champions” who can “challenge those who stand in the way.”
Joining them in calling for implementation of their program while ignoring Congress is John Podesta and the Center for American Progress, whose strategy is outlined in their new report, “The Power of the President: Recommendations to Advance Progressive Change.” Noting that debate will take place over whether or not the president should “tack to the left or to the center or compromise with or confront the new House leadership,” John Podesta issues the following rather shocking agenda for what Obama should do:
Obama’s ability to govern the country as chief executive presents an opportunity to demonstrate strength, resolve, and a capacity to get things done on a host of pressing challenges of importance to the public and our economy. Progress, not positioning, is what the public wants and deserves.
The U.S. Constitution and the laws of our nation grant the president significant authority to make and implement policy. These authorities can be used to ensure positive progress on many of the key issues facing the country through (my emphasis):
• Executive orders
• Rulemaking
• Agency management
• Convening and creating public-private partnerships
• Commanding the armed forces
• Diplomacy
You can read the entire report for yourself. But what is important is not the specific proposals, but the assumption again that the president could and should ignore the message the people gave in the recent election, and do what he and the “progressives” want without going to Congress and exclusively through use of executive power.
The Democrats may have missed a bullet in the recent elections because of the disarray at the RNC. Michael Steele’s pathetically awful leadership arguably cost the Republicans some fifteen to twenty additional congressional seats and losses in other key races. In other words, the results of November 2nd might have not completed reflected the anger of most Americans at the policies of the Democrats. It remains my opinion that the Democratic Party can no longer be able to win a national election. Victories will be generally limited to blue districts and a handful of purple ones. The crazies are now even more influential and will pull the party even more leftward.
Furthermore, such districts will be harder to come by due to the reapportionment and redistricting this cycle. I expect the Republicans to pick up an additional 20 House seats due to redistricting and reapportionment in 2012, beyond what they would otherwise have picked up.
I don’t know, David. I think the Republicans simply suck at the ground game. They are four decades behind in preparation. The DOJ will not investigate, much less prosecute offenses by one side of the fence.
Democratic Party-led states have voter rolls that were filled with the dead, the fake and the invisible.
Districts had been gerryrigged in favor of the Democrats and are only now going to be undone.
The lapdog media does everything, anything, and above and beyond the call of duty to tilt races in favor of Democrats.
In spite of all this (and partially because of it)the grass roots anger stormed the polling booths and gave the Republicans the biggest House change since before I was born.
The leftists signaled what they would be willing to do when they took ObamaCare into reconciliation, passed it without reading it and said we had to wait to find out what was in it. This strategy is already in full view.
The next article that Ron or someone should write, is what the Republicans should do about it, how the people should organize against it and how to confront the “street” tactics by ACORN and the rest.
Michael Steele is a minor player in this play. I happen to think that Pete Sessions did a spectacular job, but the Republicans still don’t have a ground game. Certainly none that can currently take on the vile and despicable stealth Marxism of the left wing of the Democrats…the only wing remaining at this point.
Stanley Kurtz is going to be on PJTV this week, it’s high time we listen to what he has to say about this…and develop a plan to stand up to the leftist fascists.
The Progressives are in power, ready to implement their Plan…
and they cannot pay for it, because they have bankrupted the
country buying that very same power; That way lies madness,
and desperate deeds: Warning is fair.
The madness and the destruction is quite deliberate. It has a piurpose and the ideas behind it have a pedigree. It’s the Gramscian praxis (if I may steal a marxist term) of demoralization / destabilization / ‘normalization’. But it’s really older than that. Here’s what Niccolo Machiavelli, 15th century advisor to Florentine nobles had to say when it came to conquering those who lived in relative freedom:
–This, from Machiavelli’s most famous work, The Prince, bedtime reading for the likes of Bill Clinton and 0bama.
Machiavelli’s point is quite simple: you cannot rule a free and prosperous people. You must first lay them waste as he said. This is one of the only contexts in which recent political and economic events make sense. No one wants to believe this, however. To do so means giving up a great deal, not least of which is our fantasy of living in a safe, stable and predictable world. And along the way, perhaps, abandoning some deeply held and cherished beliefs regarding human nature and history.
At the end od the day, it’s not about money or ideaology. It’s about power – the acquisition and exercise of pure, naked absolute power.
If President Obama “governs” solely by executive orders, then he will complete destroying himself well before 2012; thus far, every move Obama has made is a self-inflicted wound. Continue to ignore the will of we the people will just make 2010 look like a small rain shower to 2012. However, I do expect Obama to follow Van Der Heuval’s advice; they speak the same Marxist language.
Make no mistake about it – The doyens at “The Nation” and their “progressive” ilk are serious about this. They are following the Stalinist mantra of “Heads I win – Tails you lose.” If the recent elections had ended in a draw or even resulted in the preservation of the “Blue Dog” element they would be crowing about the “popular groundswell” for the Obama agenda. Instead they got smacked around so it is the voters fault for being insufficiently “educated.” It must be said, long and loudly, that these people despise democracy, hate personal freedom (except for themselves) and would gladly put a facist straight-jacket around all of us if it would further their political goals.
The crowd at “The Nation” has always seen themselves as some sort of Leninist “vanguard elite” who must force, trick or cajole the lumpenproletariat into doing what is best for them. However they are also cowards. You can bet your rear end that neither John Podesta nor Ms. Vanden Heuval will be manning any barricades if the Left decides to “take it to the streets.” Like all proponents of civil wars, the folks at “The Nation” believe the fighting and suffering will all be done by someone else.
If Obama does decide to rule by executive fiat and the whole thing blows up on him (which it will) you can bet that the elite progressive element who have advised this course will be nowhere to be found.
Vote fraud and other factors cannot be ignored. Still, Michael Steele’s incompetence hurt Republicans considerably on Election Day. Many viable Republican candidates were unable to raise sufficient money. The RNC was in near complete disarray. Dick Morris hinted at this, but had to be discrete about his concerns. There were probably something like 900 GOP Candidates needing professional advice and funds. Many had to be abandoned!
The crazies literally believe that Barack Obama was not sufficiently leftwing. They refuse to listen to reason. This may especially be true regarding radical black Democrats. These activists demand “payback” and a higher place at the table. It is ironic that much of time the focus is on the so-called radical right who supposedly will split up the Republican Party. The reality is that the Democrats are much more vulnerable. Genuine rightwing extremists are relative small in number. The leftists likely represent minimally thirty percent of the Democratic Party.
If there’s one thing for which the Left can always be counted on, it’s impatience. History is littered with the horrifying results of their obsessive compulsion to dominate and mold the lives of their fellow man…now. From Marx’s rantings about the need for murdering huge swaths of humanity…to the eugenicists like Sanger who wanted to “exterminate the Negro population”…to Soviet collectivization…to Mao’s Great Leap. In the end, “the people” whom they claim to care about so much are nothing more than a mental abstraction – a great, unwashed mass of idiots and dolts who need to be sheparded through their dreary lives by their obviously superior Leftist overlords.
Here are a few choice quotes from prominent Leftists throughout the ages regarding their views of “the people”:
“Distrust the judgment of the multitude in matters of reasoning and philosophy; its voice is that of wickedness, stupidity, inhumanity, unreason, and prejudice…” — Denis Diderot, author of “L’Encyclopedie”
“For men, as they have been hitherto educated, are incompetent to form a correct or sound judgment on any subjects except those which are connected with the certain sciences in which they have been instructed. On all others, in consequence of being compelled from infancy to receive the absurd doctrine of free will and responsibility, they have necessarily been rendered irrational.” — Robert Owen, father of American socialism
“Psychologically, this talk of feeding the starving masses is nothing but the expression of saccharine-sweet sentimentality characteristic of the intelligentsia…” — Vladimir Lenin
Any of that sound familiar? It should.
“We have Democrats for one reason – to drag the ignorant hillbilly-half of this country into the next century, which in their case is the 19th.” – Bill Maher
“I’m not endorsing the American voter. They’re pretty damn stupid.” – Charles Franklin, University of Wisconsin political scientist
“It’s absurd. We’ve lost our minds. We’re in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don’t weigh in. It’s all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics.” – John Kerry
Those examples are from just the past month.
The Left began as a club of snobbish European intellectuals who resented the power held by the aristocracy and the church…but make no mistake about it: they had no desire to get rid of the aristocracy, only to replace the aristocrats with themselves. A few hundred years later, not much has changed. It’s for this reason that the notion that Obama represented “new ideas” and “a break from the failed policies of the past” was laughably ridiculous to anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of history.
Professor Radosh,
This sounds like another manifestation of the Brecht Center type ‘thinking’. For the case of the Brecht Center enrollees, they are obviously unaware of “The Resistible Rise of Adolph UI”. ( It was performed by the Arena Stage, in D.C. around 1980.)
Do you mean “The Resistible Rise of ARTURO Ui”?
Yes, you are correct. Arturo UI it is. Sorry, a senior moment.
In 1968, after the schism in the Democratic party created by these very same leftists put Richard Nixon in the White House, they immediately went into “Revolution NOW!” mode. Meaning not just protests, but bombings, shootings, killings, etc., culminating in the SLA/Patty Hearst kidnap/conversion psychodrama.
It is a constant with the far left that when they fail to get what they want at the ballot box, they switch to the bullet box. (Please note that their opposition to gun ownership applies to everyone else, never themselves or their minions.) It’s always a case of “If you are too stupid to do what’s good for you, we will force you to submit.” How egalitarian of them.
What this episode proves is that the difference between the “mainstream progressives”, the “deep-ecology” crowd (who are already going the “submit or we blow you up” route), and the hard-core leftwing extremists is so slight as to be irrelevant. The Democrats’ progressive leaders exulting over having had their “ideological backsliders” booted from office confirms that when they’ve been talking about “bipartisanship” all these years, they were lying.
They will now expect The One to pull out all the stops, and rule by decree. I expect him to try.
When the law, and the Constitution, get in their way, I do not expect them to obey either one.
Their track record clearly shows that it just isn’t their style.
clear ether
eon
Lets dream for a moment.
Suppose there was a country that was primarilly responsible for increasing the wealth of the world by more than tenfold in about 200 years. Suppose that country defeated several militaristic empires bent on world domination. Imagine that the country abolisched slavery and that within a few generations, descendents of slaves easily won prestiguous governing positions in the country. Visualize such a country that would keep the oceans safe; one that would be the primary care-giver when natural disasters struck around the globe; one that would occasionally intervene when people in oppressed countries were particularly abused; a country that had eliminated poverty within its own borders; one where every adult citizen had the opportunity to partcipate in the country’s governance; a country where freedom of speech was treasured and exercised; a country where the survival rate for almost every disease and malady led all the nations of the world; a country that produced 25% of the world’s food with 5% of the world’s resources; a country that was far and away the leader in amazing new medical technology that has already increased life spans by more than 20 years in the last couple of centuries.
Imagine that there was a country like that. What would be your recommendation for the future?
Would you INSIST that the country be dismantled? Would you castigate the country at every opportunity on the world stage? Would you subvert it in every way that you could? Would you lie, cheat and steal to undermine it’s political system? Would you consort with the failed rulers of foreign country’s to bring your country to the ground, so that they could ravage its riches?
If you would, then you would be an American progressive.
But of course, it can’t happen in our country.
Victor Davis Hanson rendered one of the clearest and succinct descriptions of the motives of the majority of the Left:
“What I am getting at here is that there is a malicious and sinister objective within the heart of the Left. It craves totalitarianism, because totalitarianism will suffocate freedom and, ultimately, human life itself – which the Left hates the most.”
Put absolute power – which is what they crave – in the hands of these monsters, and the gun, the gulag and the mass graves surely follow. There is only one way they can be stopped.
Proreason and Ward:
Hate is the operative word. The Left is all about Hate. It’s what gets them out of bed in the morning and what fuels their thirst for power. They Hate people, our lives, our families, our cars, our homes, our friends, our lifestyles, our country, our flag, our military, our (fill in the blank).
Ann Coulter also spoke words of wisdom when she asked, rhetorically, “Have you ever met a happy liberal?”
I think the two things that liberals hate most are faith in God and courage of convictions. The first gives conservatives comfort. The second makes life’s difficult decisions easier to make and live with.
The most extreme hate-mongering liberals exhibit a pathological jealousy of the quiet convictions of conservatives.
Holy leftists Batman. That’s, I don’t quite have words for it I guess. Mind boggling? Not in touch with reality? All I have to say is thank God for USA Culture and where it came from. As long as our culture stands, so will our ideals and fruits like those you listed will be blocked and hopefully removed from power.
In the meantime I have plenty of ammunition and enough guns at my immediate disposal should it come to that and I will know when the time is right to use them to repeal madness!
On my way to the range in the morning to do some more practice, my belief is that gun control is hitting the intended target which I can quite well!
Politically I might not be very powerful but tactically and practically I am prepared, and shall remain so till the day I become incapacitated or deceased!
I have been saying this for at least one year now. *Now* that these Leftist ‘intellectuals’ have come out in the open with their eternally dictatorial dream, Ron Radosh suddenly wakes up and says it.
If we loose this war—and war it is—it will be primarily the fault of the RIGHTIST intellectuals who either failed to see the writing on the wall and/or if they did see it, they miserably failed to scream it from the rooftops for such a long time. I hope this article of Radosh will start a trend and soon other RIGHTISTS intellectuals and commentators of some renown will start screaming this truth in unison.
Let me recap what i have been saying all along. Winning the Congress (even if we had won both chambers) is totally useless. The two years of legislative agenda making has multiplied Executive Powers to the levels similar to those held by Hugo Chavez. Now Obama is primed to use those powers. By hook or by crook. (for example FCC is about to go ahead with “Net Neutrality” despite strict Judicial ruling that they don;t have such authority.) One can appeal in judiciary, and IF it strikes down the Executive edicts and/or ‘regulations’ promulgated by agencies such as FCC, EPA, HHS and such, they will simply change a token word or two and REISSUE those. They have already demonstrated this tactic in case of the Drilling Moratorium. So folks. Not only can you not repeal anything (you simply don’t have that kind of numerical power in the Senate), but also you can not STOP further agenda being enacted. You folks fought (and partially won) a battle over a hill already abandoned by the enemy. He doesn;t need the Hill (pun intended). Any questions? No? Okay. I have one for you:
What is THE constitutional remedy against a runaway government that we have NOT yet tried? Look up your copies of Constitution, Bill of Rights, AND Declaration of Independence. Then THINK. This also goes for Radosh, and Hanson, and all those luminaries in the Rightist galaxy of stars. To this gentlemen i throw a challenge—find out about this remedy, and if you have cajones, PREACH it to your audiances. You have a platform that obscure intellectuals such as myself do not have. USE IT. Or, as to paraphrase Rush a little, “Just like teeth, if you ignore your rights, they WILL go away.”
Progressives and liberals are desperate to trigger their Holy Grail of all Holy Grails: a VAT tax. With it they will have all the money they ever dreamed of wasting. Only thing is the Democratic Party, the party they have been hiding behind for decades, is slowly losing power. Progressives will get their own progressive party in the near future—once the Democratic Party is extinct—and they won’t have to go completely crazy to get it. But it might help if they did.
Actually, their “Holy Grail of Holy Grails” is the utter destruction of Western civilization, so they can build a new, prefect, egalitarian, agrarian socialist Utopia on the ruins thereof.
Their mindset is precisely that of the “compound” architects like Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, etc., described by Tom Wolfe in “From Bauhaus To Our House”. They saw themselves as “Silver Princes” limned against the ruins of post-WW 1 Europe, “starting from zero” to remake the world into a socialist paradise. So naturally, they came to the U.S. to do it. (That was where the money was, you see.)
Like the Silver Princes, the modern left still seeks rebirth after the destruction of all they despise- namely, the rest of us. And to achieve the full effect, they need the ruins to pose dramatically in front of.
They never think about the corpses, except those who dream of large samadhs of same.
clear ether
eon
Of course, trying to make sense of the Left’s actions presumes that they make any sense at all from any perspective, and that they’re not just stumbling in the dark following a misguided plan that cannot possibly work.
The Democrat strategy for generations can be summed up in one word, “incrementalism”. It is quite simply the socialist version of the boiling frog analogy. As long as the Left was content to make small but always “progressive” steps toward their socialist paradise the American people by and large didn’t notice. Consider how far we’ve come since FDR. But with the election of Obama they got impatient and attempted to speed up their plan and the sleeping majority of Americans finally noticed. Now I only hope most people will keep their heads out of their butts and start paying attention to the statists end goal, total government control of our lives. If you don’t believe that’s the goal simply ask a Liberal how much taxation is enough, how big should government be, what limits are there on government power? They won’t be able to answer.
The statists/progressives,Liberals/Democrats MUST be fought as if this were a war for our very lives because we are. I for one will never be forced to be an indentured servant to the parasitic Democrat voters.
The real question for me is how far will the compliant media carry water if Obama follows the advice of the progressive kooks and attempts to rule through administrative fiat and executive order? The hard left journalism sources will no doubt cheer him on although they will do so by ankle biting and egging him on but how much cover will the drive-by media provide, ie WaPo, ABC, CBS, AP, etc.?
The reason I think this is crucial is because the drive-by media still influences the non-ideological Democrats, those who don’t pay that much attention but are easily swayed by the framing of “news”. I believe they still account for some 15-20% of the Democratic vote in this country by those who just don’t understand what is happening. The hard Marxist left is 20% of the population at most and I suspect the Democrats have a lot more to lose than what they just witnessed on Nov 2.
What’s delusional is that these “progressives” think that the productive majority, that also happens to vote for the GOP, is simply going to allow ourselves to become indentured servants of the progressive state. It ain’t gonna happen. If Obama and the Marxists in the executive branch decide to rule by diktat I expect to see a significant resurgence in the enforcement of the 10th Amendment. Conservatives simply will not allow ourselves to be forced into a socialist existence. If the Left wants to experiment in socialism then I suggest they support those of us that support Federalism. That way they can do whatever they want at the state level. If this ever leads to armed confrontation the Left cannot survive.
And lest we forget, self professed Liberals account for only 20% of the population. They are in a small minority but we’ve allowed them to take over the institutions of power and influence. It’s time to take them back.
“The answer, to put it in a way these [Marxian] authors and others try to hide, is to bypass democracy by ignoring Congress and urging the president to put through his entire program by executive fiat.”
Zogby has Obama’s approval number, today, at 39%. If Obama were to attempt this, his numbers would tumble another ten points, or more, and he would be impeached by the House, at the very least. I don’t think he is cognizant of how thin the ice is that he treads on. But he would soon find out.
Some responses from the Left that I predict are that the “homeless”, who have been a non issue during Obama’s first two years will become an issue again. Hunger and need, which were also non issues during the first two years, will again be trotted out. There will be articles on senior citizens having to eat dog food or some such stuff. All this of course will be laid at the feet of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives no matter what they do. The Senate will be held blameless and obviously so will Obama who will be cast as an innocent victim of right wing repression. And then, the biggie; the professional demonstrators and rioters paid by Soros and the rest will become active once again. The House Republicans are in for a season of demonization like we have never seen. They better get their communication skills in order and do it fast.
The Democratic Party’s Plan for Attaining the Leftist Agenda?
Same plan it’s always been—lie, cheat & steal.
I hear more and more from the Left about taking their fight to the streets. Are they serious? I did not know that street fighting was their forte. Are we conservatives to shudder at the thought of Frank Rich, Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi et.al., manning the barricades?
i agree totally dub– lefties are pansies but their proclivity to agitate the “mob” is a dangerous tactic that must be addressed
their “too the streets” means phony protests (at the moment the student protests will do— btw, shouldnt it be the parents of all these “students” doing the protesting? they are the ones that have to pay for their kids’ school and if the students’ had to work to pay for school they wouldnt have time to protest)
the phony protests will contain elements of the handy global anarchists and the msm will try to give it credibility
if the anarchists do enough damage then you get the “backdoor” dream of statists among the world— totalitarianism— in the form of benevolence and crisis solver
No, but you may shutter when you see masses of illegal immigrants, scary minorities, and others crowded around your stores, your offices, your restaurants. Its not hard to imagine, but a few buses and the show of force (even without violance) in public places, will put all of the rest of us into a cower. Who will pull the trigger first (i.e. initiate violence)? is the only remaining question. I doubt it will be the patriots, the lure of the status quo is still too strong.
Remember, he who can destroy a thing controls the thing. In this case we have already seen how non-mainstream humans are able to destroy freedom (re: muslims birthing the TSA nazis). Control is but a Presidential signature away.
In a way, I totally get how they see this. If Republicans had endured such a slaughter, and the RINO’s were the ones all gone, leaving just the Conservatives, I would rejoice! I would see it as a sign that if you are to be a Republican, you have to run more to the right, not to the center. I would see it as real hope for the future.
I would also see the country voting for all these Dems as ignorant, no matter how much they protested Conservative policies. The difference is, I would not think that the solution is to game the system, use any legalistic trick possible. THAT is the difference between the Left and the Right.
Below is the CORE of reality in your article!
["Obama would “be wise to focus on governing and invoke his executive authority to further progressive reform and strengthen allies.” He should use his “formidable powers on his own.” He must not support any kind of Social Security reform; must lay out a “bold” program — meaning a radical one, or as they call it, enact “progressive reform.” Hence they call for an “inside-out strategy,” using the defeat of the Blue Dog Democrats as a sign that now the most liberal Democrats have complete power in their party."]
Since the 60′s congress has been giving to the Executive Branch and the Judicial Branch more and more of their own constitutional mandated authority. Bypassing the constitutional authority of the congress by the Executive Branch is playing out daily in the most covert means possible…..Executive and Agency Orders and policies which [shall] be effective as law. We the people have no clue what they have done or are doing.
Without the constitutions [commerce clause], as it has long been interpreted by the congress and the executive, socialism would be killed in its tracks in America. NOTHING in the advancement of socialism can occur or be implemented without the use of the abused and expanded interpretation of the commerce clause!
The Constitution’s commerce clause should be ameneded giving the States the EXCLUSIVE RIGHT to [REGULATE] DOMESTIC COMMERCE within the LIMITED and defined confines of federally legislated CRIMINAL and CIVIL TORT laws. This would end all of the anti American Democratic Republic and Capitalism movements….PERIOD!
Anything less than this constitutional amemendment, the 100 + year old socialist ideology and strategies to implement in America will succeed…STEP BY STEP, over whatever period of time it takes. The enemy should be the socialist ideology…not the people behind it.
The socialist heirarchy and their followers come and go by generations so developing a simplictic strategy of replacing faces in the congress and government is a futile strategy…especially since the socialist have succeeded in finding a home inside the Democrat Party for the past several decades now.
The “old” GOP can’t even bring themselves to call the socialists…socialists and, as such, an enemy of America. The Tea party and the “religious right” of the GOP are perpetuating the advancement of the Anarchist Libertarians into the GOP branding themselves as a collective, to be “conservatives” which only convoludes America’s problems for the future.
Since the late 50′s the socialist have quietly succeeded in consolidated and centralizing Americas economies. In doing so, they have brought massive relocation of the population to certain States. Today, these 11 or so States heavily populated by “democrats” (lol) [can] control the majority of congressional House seats and [can] prevail likwise, in the Senate as we just witnessed from the 2006 election cycle creating a one-party, one ideological government.
The constitutional Congressional House representation mandate by [district population] has been manipulated by consolidation and centralization and is subject to the congress and the Executive being that of a one-party ideological government….stacked against the majority of States, towards socialism. Time to look at a constitutional amendment for the House of Representatives towards something more along the lines of the Senate for representation….IF a constitutional amendment of the commerce clause is not forth coming.
Q. Before appearin’ in public on behalf of his latest Party, ought not the former Comrade Radish of the Seventh (or thereabouts) International learn a little of its (the Party’s) neohistory?
A. Not at all. Quelle idée! That was then, and this is now, and therefore neohistory is bunk that corrupts absolutely. Q.E. D.
Q. But I was only trying to (pretend to) aid and abet!
A. Sure. Tell me about it.
Q. OK. It goes like this: Neoradish (as he now is) attempts to give the impression that he has perverted to le populisme en Amèrique or, in the uncouth but hardy patois of Wasilla, to “givin’ the kiddies what they want.”
A. What’s wrong with that? I thought you were a Demoncrat yourself. You ought to adore Ronnie the Less when he (pretends to) mouth one of your own favorite dogmata.
Q. Come along, Dr. Bones! Did you ever catch me saying anything like “the [P]resident c[annot] and should [not] ignore the message the people gave in the recent election.”
A. Possibly in November of 2006? Or of 1994? Or how about 1840?
Q. You do this coarse and illiterate keyboard too much honour, sir, when you attribute to me whatever cliché seems likeliest to catch the eye of “the Democrat party.” Actually, I spend most of my political hours wondering how I became entangled in an organization that does not know its own name.
A. You spoof.
Q. ’Deed I do. And I might have spoofed your cheapjack neoradishism in one of those off years, had I thought of it. I’d have started off just the same, but added that, far from ignoring the Epistle from the Televisionlanders, POTUS ought to rip the damn thing to shreds, stuff it back in the envelope, and toss it in a letter box marked not only RETURN TO SENDER but POSTAGE DUE.
A. What stopped you?
Q. I just told you I simply never thought of it. Fortunately, however, somebody else did, somebody far more ever-august than I.
A. And that would be?
Q. Neocomrade Viceroy R. B. Cheney, Firstlord Powergrab in the peerage of Foxcuckooland.
His firstlordship was a very strong example of that side to the Party of Grant and Hoover (an’ Goldwater ’n’ Atwater) which the neoradish “must have overlooked” before it leaped onto the careerin’ juggernaut.
A. “Must have overlooked”?
Q. Confucius say, “One fin of the carp of sarcasm breaks the placid tranquillity of the Pond of Discourse.”
A. He does?
Q. No. Next question?
A. You were saying about their proto-Biden . . . ?
Q. Perhaps “A great [example], but not a great American” would do? You will remember that Comrade Prof. Wilson pasted that label on both Gen. Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson, which leaves one with the moral equivalent of a soccer score. Let us therefore toss in the Firstlord of Powergrab and achieve a definitive resolution: America’s Otherparty gets a monopoly on greatness, we get 100% of Agrarianism (whatever that was) and maybe a 60-40 edge on representativeness in the statistical or “look like America” sense.
A. Cannot political jennies and jackasses be great, then? What would Comrade Gen. Jackson say to that renunciation, sir!
Q. Look, Dr. Bones, though we are not base ethical and intellectual neovegetables to blind ourselves deliberately, yet we certainly cannot have it ALL. At least a few of those who described themselves (accurately, for their day [1]) as lieberals and demonocrats must be tossed off the back of the sledge if our politics is to be coherent enough to be pronounced sane. Ronny here choses to adhere to the Grant-Hoover-Goldwater-Atwater axis, and whatever other criticisms we bring, we do have to admit that the GHGAA is a vera causa, a thing actually out there to be adhered to. Whereas if everybody and everything that ever (with subjective honestly and tolerably good will) called itself ‘Democratic’ in America, from President Summers and Mr. O’Bama and Speakeress Rosa Pelosiburg at the moment all the way to the late Sen. Calhoun of SC and Mr. Van Buren of NY, were added together . . . I mean, what would it come to that anybody *could* adhere to?
A. Not a hard question! Obviously you would get Will Rogers and “I belong to no organized political party; I’m a Democrat.”
Q. Very funny.
a dictatorship made possible by thuggery… we are not in America anymore.
Mr. Radosh, please stop calling the Social(ist) Democrats “liberals”. Time to take our language back.
The economic forecast is none too good for the forseeable future, and I don’t see anything in this administration’s policies that are going to improve that. The Republicans could still blow it, but it is going to be difficult. I’m looking forward to 2012.
Blaming Bush wasn’t a winner in 2010, but the Democrats might just try again in 2012. They keep using the same failed economic policies. Maybe the new healthcare bill will pay hypnotists to convince the unemployed how good they have it.
Two words: 2nd Amendment.
“progressives”, they call for force and rule by fiat and that’s progressive. If sane they wouldn’t flatter themselves with the lie. That’s apart from the fact that the term has been around for over a hundred years.
Ronnie: I can’t help it. My elitist genes keep doing their thing. I can’t
seem to get the Menken quoteout of my mind that ” no one ever went broke underestimating the
intelligence of the American People.”
For a little more history on the use of Executive Orders, see
http://robbservations.blogspot.com/2009/10/unbridled-authority-of-presidential.html
The history goes back a long way for the President to **claim** extra-Constitutional powers, including the right to use them for any kind of emergency he wants to declare. EO’s on the books today provide de facto dictatorial powers, only waiting for a crisis “moment” to assert. (Some have argued Obama has been looking for his own crisis — N. Korea might be one.)
Under EOs, for instance, the President claims the right to take control of any and all elements of the private economy, and any and all materials, supplies and human labor he wants. Yes, human labor. (See EO’s 11000 for “work brigades” and 11002 for national registration.)
The EOs started from the emergency of nuclear war (it’s clear from Kennedy’s flurry of EO’s on February 16, 1962 that fully 9 months before the Cuban Missile Crisis *officially* was discovered that he knew about Russian missiles in Cuba) but morphed over the next few decades to include any kind of emergency, including a flu pandemic.
But the legacy of the arbitrary assertion of power (there’s no basis in the Constitution) is that Presidents now routinely claim authority they simply don’t have, and until we start prosecuting Presidents and anyone else in the Executive Branch for abuse of power (including low-level minions in the TSA), it will continue until we’re living under a dictatorship. There is no brake on power except consequences. (Obama should be prosecuted for his takeover of GM and other aspects of the economy.)
Uh, does the left realize that this time they’ll be all in? No going back and sponging off of Mom and Dad. No going back to cozy tenure on some college campus. No writing of “learned” articles for some leftist rag. No nice little position at some “think tank” or foundation. This trip will end with one group either standing against the wall or serving on the firing squad. The other side understands this, do they?
When you have a rabid animal backed into a corner, it is at its most dangerous.
Beware the Reichstag fire.
If all you folks don’t think Obama isn’t above allowing Al Qaeda, Iran, North Korea or any combination of them and their proxies commit a major act of terrorism on our own soil that would lead to a takeover via Marshall Law you had better get a grip.
He could easily point the finger in the wrong direction and silence FOX, the Internet, talk radio, seize property, arrest just about anyone at a whim, and much of this would be done with enormous volumes of public support from a terrorized and furious American public who wouldn’t even know who the real enemy was for months or years.
If you doubt this is true, ask the average Jane or Joe on the street who really attacked us on 911.
If you find one in ten who actually knows the truth (SAUDI ARABIA) I’d be amazed…and that was under Bush’s reign.
So the question is what do we plan to do about it. we know they will push their adgenda ahead despite the vote. So what good is the vote? We need to shit or get off the pot. We need to quit being polite and take it to the streets our selves. No morw remember in november or whoever 2012. At this rate 2012 won’t mean a damn thing. We need to prepare for violent revolution. not just theirs but our own retaliation as well. No more toleraton and cooperation. But resist resist resist. Time to act like a free man or a slave…choose!
The problem here is that most of you good people. Are thinking logically and with common sense. You better start thinking like Obama and his comrades think. They believe that they can do anything they want to do and get away with it. So far Obama has been right, that is why he is pushing hard against the Constitution and Americans. In Obamas mind he is already the dictator in charge. Violence is what Obama is pushing the American to do so he can call in Marshall Law. Ask yourself even if you have a lot of ammunition you still need food and water. Do you really want to fight other Americans. Obama is ready to fight Americans, he already has a shadow government to go around congress and is setting up a military style police force. Do not believe me check it out for your self. Remember it is easy to talk tough till you and your family is being shot at and it is Obamas police force is the ones shooting at you!