It can be a lot better

Americans have an opportunity to begin a new era of peace and prosperity that extends to everyone willing to gain an education and put forth effort. It's widely understood and accepted in the US that all people deserve a shot at an education, and that all people should have equal opportunity to succeed. It now depends on Americans demanding the opportunity to make that happen in the private sector. Under a Progressive, statist regime we're headed for collapse. We have to make things happen outside government, so that government can concentrate on what it does best, protecting our rights and our country. Government has expanded its powers beyond Constitutional limits and has abused its legitimate powers.

What's being drowned out by one scanadalous, statist consequence after another is that progressive interventions have shut down our economy, created more poverty and stopped all middle class progress. We've wasted lives and resources in the Middle East, and now political class war-mongers are beating war-drums once again over Syria and Iran. If we continue down this Progressive path to collapse, we'll have thrown away what has made America successful. Progressivism might be the most egregious political misnomer in centuries.

Moving along the path laid out by world powers designing a new order is suicide for politically disconnected Americans, which is the great majority of Americans. Americans have to insist on non-intervention along with a 21st Century remaking of defense. Yes, we live in a dangerous world because of technological advancements, but it's technology that can move us forward in peace. Obama has shut down all missile defense initiatives, so, for that and many other reasons, we need new representatives and a President who understand the need for innovative, defense initiatives that make all large threats basically impotent.

We can share these defense innovations with other nations who agree to a new era of peace and prosperity -- production, peace and creativity not war and destruction. It's sort of like the immigration deal now being considered -- if border security is not done first, all immmigration plans will make matters worse. If we're going to enjoy peace and prosperity, we need to innovate in defense and we need to reject Progressivism. We need a revival of liberty, economic freedom, global free trade, universal cooperation rather than universal spying and gamesmanship that helps no one. The war and spy games of the past have got to end so that civilized human beings can go about the process of providing the opportunities necessary to end poverty and stop repressive regimes and unscrupulous, corporate crooks from rigging the game.

It's ludricrous for the US to entangle itself in the Mideast, to waste money on cronyistic defense contractor relationships building useless and redundant weapons, to put up obstacles to energy production, to allow radical environmentalists to have their way with EPA regulations, to create montrous subsidies like the recent Farm Bill, to hammer small companies with government controlled healthcare regulations and costs, to tax businesses at uncompetitive rates, on and on. The US economy is victim to government regulations and inventionist stupidity from all sides.

It can be a lot better. Our brightest minds in defense can build the defense systems necessary for peace of mind, and we can share this technology with other peace-loving nations -- we can announce to the world that America is retiring as Global Police, but that we won't allow mindless brutality and senseless terrorist attacks. We can make it clear that if our security is truly threatened, we'll neutralize or destroy all such threats, and we won't stay for years to rebuild what we destroy. We can announce that government priority is to create a free environment that allows production and creativity, peace and prosperity, and that we beg the world the join us. Isolationism? Hardly -- what this is about is global liberty, human interactions and mobility on the grandest scale the world has ever known.

Government power and control

Those on the Right and Left who support the NSA and make excuses for the loss of privacy are really supporting a powerful government for different reasons. Most on the Right want to protect America from radical Islamists, terrorists. The Left is basically protecting the Democratic Party and the administration. At least the hawks on the Right have been consistent with their desire to keep America safe from terrorsist attacks, while the Left is mostly hypocritical since Obama is doing what the Left criticized Bush for doing, yet, now, the Left supports Obama's methods of surveillance and fighting terrorism.

Some of the Left's justification for NSA snooping is incomprehensible, like when they say we've already given up privacy when we use Google email, for instance. The apologists say that Google uses the content of our emails for marketing purposes. These Leftists surely understand that people choose to use Google, and that marketing tennis shoes is different from government gathering information that could potentially be used to silence dissent or destroy political oppponents. Government secretly gathering information is not the same as voluntarily allowing Google to use personal information to send us ads regarding stuff we're likely going to buy.

So, these smart intellectuals on the Left making these arguments surely know the difference -- they just hope we don't know the difference. The Leftist apologists for abuse of Americans' personal information is nothing but an apology for a powerful surveillance State that's able to control beyond Constitutional limits. The Left is using government power under the guise of fighting terrorism to attain permanent power and transform our system of government to meet the demands of the Progressive agenda.

In order to systemically create redistribution of wealth in an attempt to counter income equality and offset the power of large corporations, Progressives are creating a powerful State machine that manipulates information against opposition. Strategically, the Democratic Party is using large corporations, favoring them, to suppress true capitalism in order to later turn on and drain these corporations when payback is demanded. Some of America's largest corporations are selling themselves to the government for protection, just like Americans are selling freedom for protection. We'll all lose soon. The Republican Party is weak, because for years the GOP has enjoyed State power far too much. Now when Old Style Republicans talk about "small" government, it's laughable. The Left points to Bush's expansion of entitlements and government power and it defuses any anti-statist approach.

A new Republican Party has to emerge, but from the looks of the immigration bill and the weak opposition to Obamacare, it appears the GOP is impotent, although Republicans like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee are making progress. The Constitution is under attack, because Constitutional limits thwart the Progressive agenda. The Progressive agenda hasn't been hidden -- if you've followed the thought of leading intellectuals on the Left and the leaders of movements like Occupy Wallstreet or the founders of Moveon and other Leftist organizations, they've told us what they plan to do.

Republicans aren't natural political activists, so the Left has a huge advantage as they work 24/7 toward expansion of State power.  Obama can do anything in the Mideast to creat diversions, and Obama can violate the 4th amendment, and Obama can lie over and over, and Obama can allow politics to prevent saving 4 Americans, and Obama can do pretty much anything he wants, and once the obligatory soft resistance from civil libertarians on the Left has faded, the support on the Left remains and the desire for more power drives them forward.

Will the GOP snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?

The GOP has a lot of soul searching to do, but not the type recommended by Joe Scarborough, Michael Steele, Mike Murphy, David Brooks, David Frum, and by lower level critics like Josh Barro and Megan McCain. After the 2012 Democratic Party victory, Centrists, neocons and establishment types fell over themselves blaming the Tea Party and making recommendations how the GOP can modernize and be more like Democrats when it comes to relating to women, young people, minorities and the LBGT community, to name a few groups. Nevermind that Democrats have made things worse for all of us, including the special interest groups, the Tea Party haters called for compromise and government policies that will attract voters.

As the suggestion box filled up the Democrats were imploding, and many people who were amazed at Nate Silver's scientific genius, starting realizing, like some of us knew from the start, that the Democratic Party victory was due to tricks, community organizing based in class warfare, welfare state promises and, mainly, information control, not scientific strategies. It would've been nice if Americans had known the truth about Benghazi, the IRS attacks on Tea Parties and all the underhanded efforts to control the flow of information. Media aided the administration in controlling information. MSM were complicit in a dishonest campaign which had the backing of the entire State machine to keep Democrats/Obama in power.

Now that statism is failing big time and Progressivism has shown itself as banal power-mongering (young people, the poor, the middle class, unions, minorities, are all suffering while "Progressive" power-mongers arrogantly enjoy and revel in the perks and priveleges of power), there's an opportunity for an enlightened GOP to take power back so that power can be limited. It will do no good for the GOP to gain power only to do as Bush did, create a new, big entitlement program, raise the debt and violate the principles of economic liberty to save economic liberty, or whatever craziness he uttered as he bailed out Big Banks and turned the US into a statist nightmare.

The soul-searching needed by the GOP is the soul-searching pointed to by the hated Tea Parties who tried in 2010 to turn around this power-crazy government. We need more in government like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Justin Amash, and we need less like John McCain, John Boehner, Lindsey Graham and all the others who've driven the GOP in the ground.

Does the GOP need to reach young people, women, minorities, unions, etc? Yes, but with a message of private sector cooperation, charity, responsibility, innovation, creativity, reason, economic growth through a free market, non-interventionism and limited, honest, efficient government.

Up with Steve Kornacki 5/19/2013 -- Statism revealed

Steve Kornacki is more partisan than Chris Hayes, which I didn't think was possible. That's fine, but it really limits what can be accomplished on his shows. This show is like all MSNBC shows -- it's predictable, intentionally and unintentionally ignorant, and politically stunted. The Up panel this morning pushed the Democratic Party talking points and had no trouble with the lies which Obama and his administration have told that are being revealed with regularity.

In fact, Kornacki's guests praised Obama for his honesty. This is completely out of touch with reality, and it reveals the nature of our statist system which at this points supports modern Progressivism. Progressivism is America's form of Democratic Socialism. However, as happens to all statist systems, the ideology devolves into authoritarian control and violation of individual rights. When the advocates of Progressivism, propped up by our statist system, are confronted with their authoritarian practices and violations of individual rights, they have to deceive the public in order to prevent widespread backlash. Democratic Socialism orginally rejected authoritarian practices and old-style centralization, but it soon found that statist omelettes require cracked eggs, just like the old socialist omelettes.

First, Progressives attempt to win hearts and minds by promising economic security. Progressives attack the capitalist system as a cartel of old white rich men who care nothing about America's poor, middle class, minorities, gay population, women, environmentalists, labor unions, intellectuals, artists and so forth (I'm sure I'm leaving out some group the capitalists hate). When there is a backlash against Progressives attacks, such as the Tea Party and some Libertarian movements which didn't fall for the Progressive's empty promises to protect civil liberties, Progressives follow the playbook of all statists -- they use government power to silence their "enemies" in the political realm, but also their "enemies" in the private realm. Ironically, Progressives need Big "Capitalists" to consolidate their power and control, so they pick winners and losers and collect the cartel they can control.

The Progressive group on Kornacki's show this morning had no problem with the IRS discriminating against groups who were identified basically as anti-government groups, mostly groups on the Right. The Progressive group on Kornacki's show used obscurtantist tactics to create a circle of confusion that ended with rightwing groups deserving more scrutiny because they don't disclose their donors, so "dark money" enters politics and influences people unfairly. The Progressive group on Kornacki's show dismissed Benghazi, the AP phone spying and the IRS acts of discrimination and political bias, just as I predicted Progressive media would do after the first initial reaction by MSM. All MSM will follow, and even Fox will moderate their coverage.

For the moment, the State has succeeded in creating a protective shield around high level political leaders. The public, in general, may have a poor opinion of Congress, but this is by political design. If the State machine can keep the American people divided and confused and insecure, the overall promises of State protection against capitalist power-mongers is enough to prevent recognition of the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem is the statist system itself. Progressivism is an empty social cover for the faux-elite in the political realm to maintain control over the many. The battle between domination and freedom is as old as time. Whenever those who dominate are threatened by those who desire freedom, the power-elite fight back by any means necessary. There has yet to be a sustained liberty movement that can withstand the force and deception of those who wish to dominate.

One would think that in the 21st century, as the Information Age reveals the egregious flaws and anti-social nature of Statism, and as history has presented over and over the horrors perpetrated by powerful States, at least intelligent men and women would move away from State dependence and search for private means to innovate and find improvements in the social realm. How can anyone who watches what happens in our government believe government officials have the answers to social problems? How can anyone not accept that all of us working in liberty will find much better solutions to widespread prosperity, peaceful trade between nations and assistance for those who can't help themselves?

There is a lack of moral courage in the US, caused by decades of State propaganda and fear-mongering. Americans have to gain courage and vision. We're quickly losing freedom to statist control, and regardless of what Progressives have taught, the poor and those who are different and weak will suffer the most. The State is basically anti-social, and it will trample all resistance as it expands power -- it will trample many just because it's what powerful States do.

America's turning point

I've been writing here for a long time, and most of it has been about exposing the dangers of statism. Statism exists on the Right and the Left. George Bush showed his statist side as he expanded the welfare/warfare state and increased government interventions into the economy. It's safe to say that neither party has represented limited government or free market principles. Republicans have talked about limits on power and economic freedom, but their actions have worked against both.

Although the Republican Party has slowed the expansion of State power, the GOP has ultimately supported the expansion. Now, Progressives are poised to make the final changes which will institutionalize Progressivism and fundamentally transform the political realm in the US. The State will have total control, if it doesn't already, in effect, have total control.

It will be a modern form of totalitarianism, because it will be comprehensive. The State will overtly control with an arrogance that's been partially hidden. I don't presently see resistance strong enough to stop it. The revelation that the IRS has attacked organizations which basically work to promote liberty has not caused appropriate outrage across party lines. It looks like media will minimize the travesty as the work of a few rogue employees. Anyone who believes this will believe anything, and anyone who accepts it and promotes it knowing it's untrue will say or do anything to protect State power. Between immigration reform and Obamacare and Dodd-Frank and EPA regulations, the framework is in place -- now all Progressives have to do is finish the construction. The 2014 elections are critical.