March 2, 2013
Fighting the Real Enemy

By Bruce Walker

Creeping totalitarianism is silently supplanting normal human thoughts and beliefs with an omnipresent and soul-destroying moral pathology. Although many wish to find another name for totalitarianism -- something that suggests that it has a purpose beyond power -- that is a mistake.

"Socialism" for example, is a dull, empty word. Orwell's horrific 1984 described a state based upon "Ingsoc" -- English Socialism -- but the Inner Party did not believe in redistributing wealth or helping the poor. The Inner Party believed in power -- limitless power -- and sought that power to make misery.

If our enemy is not some incarnation of socialism -- a system which no one really believes in any longer -- then our enemy is not the state, per se, either. This was another theme in 1984. The state was the hand puppet of those who controlled information, thought, and recreation. To us today, the "state" is the toy of those who feed an invented reality with their version of entertainment, information, and knowledge.

History repeats itself. The state in Soviet Russia, Fascist Italy, or Nazi Germany was pitiful: the party, not the state, wielded power. Mussolini, the first totalitarian, is often believed to have promoted the worship of the state. Yet the Fascist leader in the April 1, 1919 edition of Popolo d'Italia, the first Fascist periodical in Italy, wrote: "Down with the State in all its forms and incarnations." This attitude did not end when Fascists gained power. Mussolini stated in 1935 of Fascism: "We are not a ministry; we are not even a government; we are a regime."

Nazis had the same view. Hitler said: "The National Socialist Party is the state" and "The state does not command us. We command the state." The state was simply a tool used by the real villains in Hitler's Germany: the Nazis. The Reichstag under the Nazis almost never met, and although there was in theory a cabinet, it also almost never functioned.

The same was true of Communism. Howard Fast, a Hollywood screenwriter who was a communist and won the Stalin Prize, after he left Communism, noted: "Russia provided the world with a new situation[.] ... A modern industrial complex was created within a nation that literally had no functioning government, as we know government, but merely a framework for the administration which the Communist Party controls" (emphasis added). Further, "[t]here was no Soviet government; there is none today." Lenin agreed: "Without instructions from the Central Committee of our party not one state institution in our republic can decide a single question of importance as regards matters of policy and organization."

That is our situation today. We have a federal budget law which is simply ignored, and immigration laws are not enforced. The Tenth and Ninth Amendments, intended to preserve the autonomy of states and of individuals, have been scrubbed out of the Constitution. We have no "government" in America at all any longer; we have a regime of intimidation whose real masters do not hold public offices.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/f...l#ixzz2MQlUggee

All true, and a republican house that is scared shirtless. You may correct the spelling. They can shut down the government until the laws they have passed is enforced, but they only enable the lawless conduct of the 1st community organizer. Slowing destroying the country.

There are two groups of people who blame the Republicans for everything wrong in the world....

Leftists, and Libertarians.

And they're both dead wrong.

We are dealing with radical leftist extremists, and they are concentrating on overweight Fox News commentators and advisors.

It's a waste of energy, and diverts attention from getting the job done that we need to be doing. Of course the Republicans have problems. Of course we need to keep on their tails to quit being cowards, but the source of the problem? A ridiculous claim.

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They (House Republicans) can shut down the government until the laws they have passed is enforced....

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I see you're back at it.

The House Republicans have a slim majority in 1/2 of one of the three branches of government, but everything's their fault for not summarily shutting down the entire government under the conditions you prescribed, something which has never been done by any House in the history of our country, right?

Do you honestly and realistically believe that's a viable solution?

Or have your bosses instructed you to resume your anti-GOP campaign of dissension and demoralization?

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I have to go with Cedric here on this issue. Seriously, the GOP aren't the ones ramming their agenda through without any regard to the legal process and the constitution. The Dems are winning because they have figured out a way to divide the GOP and make them the scapegoat.

Just think how much more damage could have been done had 2010 not happened where Pelosi was fired from the SOH position. Now if there would have been fewer nutty Tea Party favored candidates in the Senate races that year perhaps with control of the Senate we wouldn't be here today.

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I have to go with Cedric here on this issue. Seriously, the GOP aren't the ones ramming their agenda through without any regard to the legal process and the constitution. The Dems are winning because they have figured out a way to divide the GOP and make them the scapegoat.

Just think how much more damage could have been done had 2010 not happened where Pelosi was fired from the SOH position. Now if there would have been fewer nutty Tea Party favored candidates in the Senate races that year perhaps with control of the Senate we wouldn't be here today.

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Counter to the Party loyalists: Graham, McCain, Snow, Lehman, Etc. The GOPe is more to blame then the enemy for the same reason traitors do more damage to you then the enemy. So Nerd has a point. With GOP still having open Primaries there is no reason to be loyal to a party where they are elected in major part by the opposition. That being said, there is no way to fix the democrat party because its too far gone, but there is still some chance to fix the Republican party by voting out the Rhinos and voting in conservatives. There is no chance to have a 3rd party representation since the rigged electoral system and state run press will not allow for it no matter how we feel or vote, at least not in the foreseeable future.

Well how many Libertarians are doing anything to actually STOP the steamrolling of the Dems?

Give me one name. I'm not talking about pundits and talking heads. I'm talking about people in the position to make policy decisions. That is the reality.

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I have to go with Cedric here on this issue. Seriously, the GOP aren't the ones ramming their agenda through without any regard to the legal process and the constitution. The Dems are winning because they have figured out a way to divide the GOP and make them the scapegoat.

Just think how much more damage could have been done had 2010 not happened where Pelosi was fired from the SOH position. Now if there would have been fewer nutty Tea Party favored candidates in the Senate races that year perhaps with control of the Senate we wouldn't be here today.

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http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/02/bedfor...e-virginia-gop/

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I have to go with Cedric here on this issue. Seriously, the GOP aren't the ones ramming their agenda through without any regard to the legal process and the constitution. The Dems are winning because they have figured out a way to divide the GOP and make them the scapegoat.

Just think how much more damage could have been done had 2010 not happened where Pelosi was fired from the SOH position. Now if there would have been fewer nutty Tea Party favored candidates in the Senate races that year perhaps with control of the Senate we wouldn't be here today.

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http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/02/bedfor...e-virginia-gop/

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I didn't say the party was perfect at all. I am saying that the Libertarians have a great record of whining but don't have anything else to show where they are at least honestly trying to win elections and building a viable party. Until they get serious about that all they are is hot air.

Just think how things could have been had they spent the time and effort in building the local and state party to the point that there would be some in Congress who could be there to help stop the dems?

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There is no chance to have a 3rd party representation since the rigged electoral system and state run press will not allow for it no matter how we feel or vote, at least not in the foreseeable future.

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http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/02/bedfor...e-virginia-gop/

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“We’ll get something that everybody can live with,” Mr. Saslaw said after the Republicans sacrificed redistricting. “Everybody probably has to give a little.”

So what we have here is <b>a state party with complete control, who surrenders continued political dominance and expands Medicaid so they can pass what may be the biggest tax hike in Virginia’s history.</b>

And before that, they busied themselves with sinking a bill that would allow home-schooled kids to try out for school sports teams, and derailing a bill that would allow farmers to sell more types of their own homegrown produce.

I guess we missed that chapter of ancient strategy where Sun Tzu advised “To make friend with enemy, first kill self, then spread own guts all over wall.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/02/bedfor.../#ixzz2MUjO6lDE

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With 'friends' 'iike this . . .

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There is no chance to have a 3rd party representation since the rigged electoral system and state run press will not allow for it no matter how we feel or vote, at least not in the foreseeable future.

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It should be clear that a three party race favors a minority victory.

1992 Bill Clinton 43% vs Perot 19% and HW Bush 37%.
1996 Clinton 49% Dole 41% Perot 8%.
2000 in Florida, George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by 537 votes while Ralph Nader received 97,421 votes.

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