On being Progressive.

While breakfasting in a hotel earlier this week, I got a dose of CNN as they bemoaned the government shutdown and blamed it wholly on the Republicans and especially the Tea Party candidates, as if by magic the Democrats were saints and the Republicans evil sinners.

Knowledge and information are what form people. We must have accurate information to properly evaluate our decisions. Yet here are ‘news reporters’ voicing their ready-made opinions for us, judging the situation so that in order for us to determine for ourselves we must turn to other sources perhaps also tainted by some agenda, or we must perform our own investigations with resources not readily available to us. We don’t have the time to do this and perform all the other roles that life has given us. This is the danger and power of media. It is also the power of education. With education steeped in political propaganda, information will always be ignored if it fails to meet the agenda. Today’s children are taught not to question Global warming, gay ‘rights’ and are offered revisionist histories designed to inflame racial tensions and don’t forget to throw in some ‘scientific’ realities. Progressive reality.

Prepackaged Spin is the new progressive media.

Forgotten in the CNN reporting were the reasons for this obstructed process. Forgotten was the fact that the vast majority of the people had openly opposed the Affordable Health Care Act that the Democrats forced upon the Nation. The Democratic legislators didn't read the Bill, claiming there was no time, as if the jaws of Hell were going to open up and swallow the nation if they didn't pass it right then.

Why the hurry? The media failed to ask. They didn't need to. They are progressives.

Why would they push such an unpopular law into existence? It was politically stupid. Many that voted for it secretly hoped that the Supreme Court would take the fall and declare it dead in the water. When that didn't happen, then the end game became clear: Blame all subsequent failures onto the Republicans!

But why do it at all? It is because the Democrats are progressives.

Political progressives are only slow socialist. Socialism relies upon capitalism for survival, like a cancer upon a body. Much like cancer, the more aggressive the socialism, the harder it is for the capitalist to survive. If Capitalism dies so also dies incentive, innovation, and opportunity, in other words, Freedom. Socialism relies on the efforts and abilities of the successful to provide for those with none of their own. Take away freedom, and whatever else is left will not spell success, it will only spell disaster. We now know that there are power seekers who exploit failure for ever more power. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” What does that spell? Tyranny.

This emerging tyranny will be more dangerous and pervasive than any other in history. Never before had a tyrant had more information than what our government has available to it now. It has complete access to phone, fax, e-mail, internet usage, medical and financial records, including your age, weight and height. It can monitor your personal and vehicle movement, family and social contacts, photos, work information, housing status, marital status, educational proficiency, religious preference, skills and any other fact that it wants. Instantly, starting with now and going back for years, building a case built upon whatever prejudice they want to produce. Give me several years of your records and I can make whatever you are into whatever I want you to be, using selective editing. It won’t be hard. Then I can come for you. If you are white, I’ll shop a black jury. If you are a Republican, I’ll shop for a partisan Democratic jury. If you are Jewish, I’ll use Muslims; for Catholics, anti-Catholics. Christian Protestants, Atheists. They have already divided us into factions, making it all the easier to ply racial and demographic prejudices into the judicial system.

Once you have been identified as a less desirable character, as defined by the ruling elite, they can seize your property and/or incarcerate you. It is only another baby step for these to end your life or hold hostage the life of your loved ones, or use their new found control to your health access to ensure your cooperation. I am not being wild-eyed alarmist or even cynical. 

Slavery is only the next ‘progression.’ What did you think being progressive really meant?

The Hoax, the socialism of America

The American Hoax

The notion of the America Dream in a land where Citizens have basic natural rights protected by Law with a non-partisan system of Justice has been a lie for many years now, and the fiction is growing increasingly thin. The rise of an increasing Federalism is proportional to the rise of the welfare state, started with the introduction of the Social Security Program. This program required a new tax system that increased an ever growing dependent class of citizens, enabled by the generosity of politicians who saw opportunity to seize power from the citizens. Expansions of this program followed accelerating this transition of power from the citizen to the Politician. The successful passage of the ACA continues this social reinvention leads us to a dangerous precipice, an every growing concentration of power and its abuse.

This brings a loss of rights and privacy of the citizen, the loss of sovereignty. Second to this, but no less deadly to the world at large is the spiraling expense that threatens the collapse of the economy due to over spending, redistribution of wealth and effort from citizens, industry, and business, almost all of it going into the black hole of social programs. The percentage of people working for government as opposed to private business has escalated to the point we must wonder who is paying for the salaries, retirements and benefits of Federal, State, County and City employees (as well as School teachers and other occupations supported by the tax dollar). Also, government had been much more transparent and simple. It has now become complicated and murky. An iron ball is more transparent than what we have now and it is not improving.

An arrogant, domesticated press ensures the continuation of this trend.

The Affordable Health Care passage demonstrates this whole problem clearly as the vast majority of citizens opposed it, but had it forced upon them by legislative tyranny. Why these Legislatures were not impeached baffles me. The negative results of this program are only now being seen and will increase over time. The implementing of this program will devastate the health care system as a whole, the damage perhaps impossible to unravel. The loss of privacy of the citizen from government is now absolute. The citizen now stands naked before his government; no secret will be kept as to level of income, race, age, gender, education, income, health parameters, residency, occupation, religious preference. Any indiscretions, physical weaknesses or genetic traits you have will be accessible to be extorted by whatever political force is in power. Recent events demonstrate a willingness of Government to exploit these powers over perceived opposition to their absolute rule. Using the health care excuse, they will tell you what medicine is available for you, what medical devices or interventions will be rationed for you. Basically they have the power of life and death over each citizen. You better be a very good citizen! If they continue down this path (and Bloomberg has already proven it in New York), they will soon regulate portion sizes of consumables, perhaps even what foods you may or may not consume. At some near point, the government may be able to reach into your checking, savings, and retirement accounts and take what it will, your prior knowledge or permission no longer required. The IRS already has some of these powers, are now responsible for the overseeing the Health Care boondoggle and we know they would never abuse their responsibilities!

Never in the history of the world has the power of governmental abuse been more enabled or as far reaching. Technology has made possible a tyranny never imagined before. We must obtain permits for starting a business, a home, and are monitored on income, taxes, and can have our computer usage, phones, and emails spied on, photographed during our movement, what aircraft we travel, what we purchase, goods and services that we utilize, whether we have had the kids inoculated or not and they cannot locate and deport illegals? Really?

The Federal Government through the Common Core Education Program will exactly dictate what your child learns and will propagandize these new minions against their own parents. These children will become the new slaves supporting the tyrant(s) in control. They are being taught what to think and what is politically correct to say. Is it any leap of imagination that they will be told what to do? Their lives will be dictated from cradle to grave. Will the day come when they will be told what parents they belong to, what dwelling they may live in, how many children they can raise (if any) what pets they can or cannot have? Who they must associate with? Already they are being told what they should think, eat, drink and how much of that is acceptable. They are told that parental interference into the child’s private life is ignorable, especially if the child engages in sexual activity. They are being channeled into what is acceptable for recreation and belief, that the environment demands their whole allegiance, that global warming is theirs and their parents fault and that they must support the causes that will correct that. Your input into the forming the character, thought or faith of your child is no longer acceptable and will be discouraged, but in the meanwhile, you must support with your labor these social engineering programs that will render you obsolete and discarded. Your children are becoming the soldiers, technicians, farmers, laborers, servants of political Masters. Some media figures openly view them as property of the State.

A new level of thought control has descended as Orwellian new speech has formalized, first by the news outlets, the education system and down into the work place, to where any man or woman speaking their minds can be charged, incarcerated and (only the next step away), killed for ‘societal justice.’  Verbal and visual filth, disrespect, including disregarding Deity in and by the media is accepted and common place, yet a man using politically incorrect names now becomes a bigot and guilty of a hate crime, which is a special class of offense.

But don’t worry about this, protected political classes will soon cease, because that usefulness will have passed. The new slavery will be universal and those not following strictly in line will be the ones on the ‘out’, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religion, political affiliation, fame, income level, age, race or level of education.

This is no local problem, for if America fails in defense of Liberty, so goes the world.

We have gone from the American Dream to the American Hoax. Most will call it Hell.

Marriage, Government, and Freedom

Much has already been said about all three topics, but little is understood about the importance of marriage in the traditional sense. Marriage is more than the creation of children, more than the merging of time and interest of spouses, it is a joint responsibility assumed by both parties to become a micro society. It means that both spouses will do all in their power to assume the liabilities of the other as well as contribute toward the new family unit that marriage creates. It is the caring for aged parents, the nurturing of children, the combined effort to manage the finances, cleaning and repair of home, a joining of body and soul to a unified family. Together they seek to protect the family unit from all outside hazards, and when all those needs are satisfied, they benefit the community. Currently, marriage is portrayed in the media to be little more than a blending of selfish interest in entertainment and activity. Marriage is not a springboard to legitimize sex and fun. It is a sharing of responsibilities and struggles on an epic scale with someone you must be able to trust not only with your own life but those of your parents, siblings and offspring. Marriage is more than a simple walk with a lifelong friend. It is the merging of self into a greater whole. This can be the most satisfying experience anyone can have, the mutual love and support of a life time. It can be a heaven on earth.

Marriages can fail. Partners stress out from reality after the chemistry of attraction is insufficient to sustain their interest because a wholesome marriage doing what it is supposed to do is often hard and many people find themselves unable to commit a lifetime with the same person that they were once attracted to. There is no guarantee of success,but it is much easier for the complementary nature of man and woman to adjust to this new role of mutual support and sustaining, it is what nature provided us for. When a spouse is irresponsible and selfish or cheating, trust is lost and harms the whole family and the community at large. Such leads to unhappiness all around. When this cannot be mended, it must be adjusted. It can be a personal hell. At such times it is needful for a neutral outside arbitrator to reconcile or legally sever the family. This is when Government is needed.

Government is intended to protect, to furnish a safe orderly structure for all citizens. It is not a substitute for the family. It is not the father, mother, nor the big brother. It should keep itself out of this debate—it is not a forum for determination of belief, a referee for ideas and social feelings. It is a protector of basic human rights. Some, in their ignorance, consider that marriage, which is the basic social structure of society, a function of government. After all, the government can forbid marriage between nearly related couples; it taxes the union through the costs of a license and accommodates the legal recognition of a family, having once understood the mutual benefits that this relationship brings to the world. Marriage is not a function of government, though government can perform the legal joining, or in failure, a separation of the legally recognized structure of a marriage. It can also perform the legal framework when both parties agree to a ‘civil’ marriage. This involvement became necessary to provide order when the great diversity of faiths or lack of it emerged. Do not slip into the notion that government involvement equates to government sponsorship. Government should not be taking on the role of mothering, nurturing, educating, housing, healing and feeding children. That is what families are responsible to do. Confusion of these roles adds to the burdens to society exponentially, gives license to those who are lazy and irresponsible and discourages those who would fill community or extended family needs during a crisis. Government has for too long stretched its fingers into sacred grounds. When it does so, it takes away the freedoms and responsibilities that others should have found. It undermines the whole community when it intrudes upon the role of the parent. There are of course, exceptions, but that is what they should be: exceptional circumstances, not the norm. These exceptions increase with the increase of government involvement. Some people will always default on responsibilities when given opportunity. If unwed mothers provided for their own children, (without government assistance) there would be far fewer unwed mothers. One only needs to look at the numbers of single parents before welfare programs and then again after welfare programs took affect. A simple cause and effect can be seen. In the early 1950's about 18% of black children were born to unwed mothers. In 2010, the number reached 72.5% (sources: U.S. Census Bureau, National Center for Health Statistics, 2011). Google "unwed Mother" and behold for yourself the numerous and expensive social programs that try and fail to substitute for the father! It cannot be done. To provide what a father should, the government must take away what a father earns. To provide as adequately as a family, it must assume family identity and becomes a twisted parody of a tyrannical parent, for it must determine then what role it must assume and will decree what others will and will not do. It cannot take any role without assuming all the responsibilities. No government has sufficient resources to care for all of its citizens from cradle to grave equally.

When government fully involves itself as parent, citizens will no longer be allowed freedom of self choice.

Those who care little of freedom will endorse government intrusion into these roles, but for those who understand the precious gift of self choice and determination; these things ring alarm bells. As a society, we need to reinstate and rededicate the core of our society: Marriage and Family.