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Steve Farrell, Editor In Chief

Rambling …. Lenin’s prediction: The establishment of a worldwide fascist styled government that would on a sudden, a dime, a snap of the fingers turn to full blown communism. Whether that will happen or not remains to be seen; and while I think that not every one involved (in fact very few) really have this sort of a thing in mind, such people really do get into power, and really do have such plans. I’m less concerned about how I will prosper or not under socialism (which is a grave problem as well) as I am concerned about centralized power structures — it is in the latter that liberty is all the more easily crushed. You mentioned in one of your notes about Republicans legislating from the bench, and that is a great point. For those who trust the Republicans to bring them Constitutional government they are so wrong for that trust. They establish abuse of power precedents that are sometimes used at first in what seem to be positive ways, but the violation of principle, once established, only takes an activist to take that same power in a radically more abusive direction.

I agree with you wholeheartedly that both parties are ultimately in on this, though at least for the moment the national Republicans are opposed for strategic (the 2010 elections) reasons. I truly do not believe that on the National level any of these Republicans are very different from their Democratic Party foes, I mean in fine print legislation, not in the propaganda they push on us.

On the other hand I do believe it socialism is enslaving and that fully socializing medicine is a big step toward interfering in the most private of decisions. The fact that we are already far down that road isn’t the point for those who are trying to preserve the Constitution, they are rather excited that finally an awakening has come and hope that this will go far beyond rejecting national healthcare but rolling back the entire state influence on this and other industries.

Another point to consider, and maybe you will agree, I was reading something about 18th and early 19th Century socialist experiments in America, the reviewer observed that what success they had (which wasn’t much) had much to do with the fact that it was surrounded by a prosperous capitalist system. I’ve argued this for some time about let’s say Switzerland that has quite a bit of capitalist money over the years stored in its banks — and how many socialist states have stayed afloat with American grants, investments, loans, and technology? But what happens when America finally goes the distance, what happens to those countries, and to what free and prosperous nation will we lean on? This is, I believe, a legitimate concern. Some used to say that when the lights go out in America the lights will go out on the world. I tend to believe that.

Ben, have a happy New Year and thank you for your thought provoking comments!

Thank you for sharing. As to the “merchants have no country” comment, this is what I long likened unto “capitalists without a conscience,” who become precisely what Marx accuses them of becoming. I attribute that to the Marxian mandate to rip out the moral foundation from under America, and her schools, and her legislative halls and courts, to be replaced with the moral relativism and or amorality of the humanist ‘faith.’ Call it striving for a “self-fulfilling prophecy.” In other words, I’m saying the root problem for all this is more than our ignoring our Constitution and the wisdom of the Founders, it is the decline in morality among our people. We reap what we sow.

Any real solutions must appeal to both a political and moral reform among our people.

Steve