AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

Thomas Sowell is a clever fellow who has made important contributions to any number of debates. Alas, he seems to have abandoned the ship of sanity to swim with the loonies. A sad business.

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Logically, then, you'd think Sowell must coclude that Obama is the worst president in American history. After just six months! At the very least, this seems a premature verdict. And yet that's where so many so-called conservative intellectuals - to say nothing of National Review itself - seem to have ended up. To repeat, it's only been six months: what are these people going to say in Years Two, Three and Four of the Obama administration?
But, if Obama really is this dangerous to the United States, wouldn't the US military be justified in intervening? If the army can't save America, who can? And since America must be saved, it stands to reason that the military must do its duty. Surely it can;t be long, that is, before some conservatives start the drumbeat for a coup d'etat in Washington? Will no-one save America from this treacherous, appalling, more-than-just-troublesome President? Well?

The Worst President In American History?

TUESDAY, 30TH JUNE 2009
Thomas Sowell is a clever fellow who has made important contributions to any number of debates. Alas, he seems to have abandoned the ship of sanity to swim with the loonies. A sad business.

A quadrupling of the national debt in just one year and accepting a nuclear-armed sponsor of international terrorism such as Iran are not things from which any country is guaranteed to recover.
Just two nuclear bombs were enough to get Japan to surrender in World War II. It is hard to believe that it would take much more than that for the United States of America to surrender " especially with people in control of both the White House and the Congress who were for turning tail and running in Iraq just a couple of years ago.

Perhaps people who are busy gushing over the Obama cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under sharia law.

The glib pieties in Barack Obama’s televised sermonettes will not stop Iran from becoming a nuclear terrorist nation. Time is running out fast and we will be lucky if it doesn’t happen during the first term of this president. If he gets elected to a second term " which is quite possible, despite whatever economic disasters he leads us into " our fate as a nation may be sealed.

Logically, then, you'd think Sowell must coclude that Obama is the worst president in American history. After just six months! At the very least, this seems a premature verdict. And yet that's where so many so-called conservative intellectuals - to say nothing of National Review itself - seem to have ended up. To repeat, it's only been six months: what are these people going to say in Years Two, Three and Four of the Obama administration?

But, if Obama really is this dangerous to the United States, wouldn't the US military be justified in intervening? If the army can't save America, who can? And since America must be saved, it stands to reason that the military must do its duty. Surely it can;t be long, that is, before some conservatives start the drumbeat for a coup d'etat in Washington? Will no-one save America from this treacherous, appalling, more-than-just-troublesome President? Well?

Despite whatever the left may say, or even believe, about their concern for the poor, their actual behavior shows their interest in the poor to be greatest when the poor can be used as a focus of the Left's denunciations of society.

When the poor stop being poor, they lose the attention of the Left. What actions on the part of the poor, or what changes in the economy, have led to drastic reductions in poverty seldom arouse much curiosity, much less celebration.

This is not a new development in our times. Back in the 19th century, when Karl Marx presented his vision of the impoverished working class rising to attack and destroy capitalism, he was disappointed when the workers grew less revolutionary over time, as their standards of living improved.

At one point, Marx wrote to his disciples: “The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.”

Think about that. Millions of human beings mattered to him only in so far as they could serve as cannon fodder in his jihad against the existing society.

If they refused to be pawns in his ideological game, then they were “nothing.”
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I'm back and continue to be interested here in discussing why and how to return to America's Constitutional Republic!

I recommend you all read and study Liberty and Tyranny A Conservative Manifesto a book by Mark R. Levin. This Book was published in 2009.

I particularly recommend its last chapter: EPILOGUE, A Conservative Manifesto, page 193 - 205.

A CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO BY MARK R. LEVIN


1. TAXATION

Eliminate the progressive income tax"replace it with a flat income tax or national sales tax"for its purpose is to redistribute wealth, not fund the constitutionally legitimate functions of the federal government.

All residents of the country must be required to pay the tax so they have a stake in limiting its abuse.

Eliminate the automatic withholding of taxes, for it conceals the extent to which the federal government is confiscating income from its citizens.

Eliminate the corporate income tax, for it is nothing more than double taxation on shareholders and consumers, and penalizes wealth and job creation.

Eliminate the death tax, for it denies citizens the right to confer the material value they have created during their lives to whomever they wish, including their family.

All federal income tax increases will require a supermajority vote of three-fifths of Congress.

Limit federal spending each year to less than 20% of the gross domestic product.

This is not a new development in our times. Back in the 19th century, when Karl Marx presented his vision of the impoverished working class rising to attack and destroy capitalism, he was disappointed when the workers grew less revolutionary over time, as their standards of living improved.

At one point, Marx wrote to his disciples: “The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.”

Think about that. Millions of human beings mattered to him only in so far as they could serve as cannon fodder in his jihad against the existing society.

‘Combinations and the trades unions they would give rise to are of the utmost importance not merely as a means of organising the working class for the struggle against the bourgeoisie " just how important is shown among other things by the fact that even the workers of the United States cannot do without them, in spite of franchise and republic " but in Prussia and indeed in Germany as a whole the right of combination also means a breach in the domination of the police and the bureaucracy, it tears to shreds the Rules Governing Servants and the power of the aristocracy in rural areas, in short, it is a step towards the granting of full civil rights to the “subject population” which the Party of Progress, i.e. any bourgeois opposition party in Prussia, would be crazy not to be a hundred times more willing to permit than the Prussian government, to say nothing of the government of a Bismarck! As opposed to that, however, the aid of the Royal Prussian government for co-operative societies " and anyone who is familiar with conditions in Prussia also knows in advance its necessarily minute dimensions " is worthless as an economic measure, whilst, at the same time, it serves to extend the system of tutelage, corrupt part of the working class and emasculate the movement. Just as the bourgeois party in Prussia discredited itself and brought about its present wretched situation by seriously believing that with the “New Era” the government had fallen into its lap by the grace of the Prince Regent, so the workers’ party will discredit itself even more if it imagines that the Bismarck era or any other Prussian era will make the golden apples just drop into its mouth, by grace of the king. It is beyond all question that Lassalle’s ill-starred illusion that a Prussian government might intervene with socialist measures will be crowned with disappointment. The logic of circumstances will tell. But the honour of the workers’ party requires that it reject such illusions, even before their hollowness is punctured by experience. The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

That's the way I read it. Yes. Perhaps you would like to explain how he was wrong. Put it in your own words. Take your time. I can wait.

Sowell was not speaking of political parties. He was not speaking of the sociopoltical climate of Marx's time. He was speaking to Marx's philosophy of revolution that would destroy the existing sociopolitical structure and how the targeted subjects must be focused on disatisfaction and anger with the status quo in order for that to happen.

Your opinion is noted,