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Nov. 3, 2008 To here, most insightfully, paraphrase the wise and thoughtful words of a 19th century economist and thinker, Claude Frédéric Bastiat: The State is the great modern myth by which everybody believes they can live at the expense of everybody else. Get well prepared for the 1970s nostalgia of the Carter Era reincarnated but, now, on invigorated hyper-steroids and rushing quickly toward postmodernist collectivism. There will surely be soaring taxation, fast-rising inflation, and ever-zooming interest rates for massive stagflation galore. Economic weakness at home and military failure abroad, moreover, will logically abound, as in the 1970s. In the forever immortal words of that great entertainer, Al Jolson: “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” As the massive misery and pandemic suffering spreads, the underground economy, AKA black market, will rapidly expand as, for example, in Italy, (with its absurd and fraudulent social market economy), where most of its real/black economy is necessarily conducted underground or else it would, in practice, simply collapse. It will be an incredible, spectacular, four-year, guaranteed, living nightmare supreme, unprecedented since at least the years of FDR during the 1930s. Promises after promises of (false) recoveries will be made again and again as, year by fruitless year, the hopelessness and lingering despair caused directly by the Obama Administration and its Democrat-controlled US Congress continues. The Great Lord Obama, the Most Merciful, truly wants a social market economy for America; of course, the assumed Workers’ Paradise will definitely not result; it is a purely utopian abstraction and fiction, after all. After he, the Great One, e.g., nationalizes, socializes, the major oil companies, there will be the expected rationing, long gas lines, and many (pre-planned) government-created shortages. Many more aspects of American life will be fully and thoroughly regulated, on a continuous basis, through the regimentation of the populace in the ideological causes of fighting: global warming, homophobia, sexism, etc.; this will be the transvaluation of all values for a postmodern, nihilistic, Brave New World. The Obama-Nation, naturally enough, matches very appropriately an understanding of abomination before God. The secularist government bureaucracies will, moreover, be handsomely enriched through certainly confiscatory taxation and so wildly proliferate, meaning that there will be eagerly developed the super-construction of the “New New Deal” as many people are already logically calling it. This sorry nation will, however, be exceedingly fortunate if our great leader does not mess up terribly on the frightening scale of his long- deceased soul mate, Salvatore Allende, concerning what had sadly happened in Chile. Perhaps, at the least, only a (degenerate, atheistic, nihilistic) new Weimar Republic will, in effect, functionally result as such. It might just become the case that develops. Who really knows? Many people, then, eventually, the vast majority of the Americans, will be awaiting the hope that a new Ronald Reagan (Gov. Bobby Jindal?) will, therefore, arise to get the country out the idiotic and vicious socialist hole; this will be dug by various ideologists, principally the Great One, dedicated toward joyously jumping from the proverbial hot frying pan of the presently mixed economy, meaning the welfare-warfare State, into the terrible fire of a basically socialist-oriented economy. However, will it be, finally, much too late, after four years of greatly dedicated and progressive and thoroughgoing Fabian Socialist transformationism? In fact, the New Deal firmly had established the obvious and existing reality of the welfare-warfare State; the new and forceful version of a supra-New Deal will then, if our fearless leader is even mainly successful, permanently install a social market economy, meaning, in essence, a collectivist State; FDR, after all, didn’t get “all” that he finally wanted; but, it is obviously known that most of the essentials were, nonetheless, successfully put into place, remained as such, and the transformation of the USA had, in fact as noted, truly occurred. The same general and realistic case, therefore, will be both ideologically and empirically true if Obama just basically obtains the fundamental change that he urgently wants for this country. Due to the basic corruption of the American character, when the final test comes, as to whether or not the so-called Silent Majority will effectively fight for freedom and liberty against an expanding domestic tyranny, not enough people will care; it’s like, one may say, boiling a frog slowly, in cooking the thing, so that it does not come to realize that it is being killed. If someone could be brought back from 19th century America, moreover, that person might marvel at how the American people had supinely resigned themselves to a form of slavery more insidious than any imposed by foreign invaders, with evil intent, because it will seem to be a self-imposed enthrallment; the enslavement will appear as if people then would regard (many of their former) civil liberties and civil rights as being abnormal and, thus, unjust impediments against all State power and its ever logically growing and atheistic needs. The horrible transition to a full-scale, social market economy will, in most minds, seem so essentially gradual, natural, necessary, and, of course, so democratically obtained, just as things had happened, analogously and historically, with the institution of the New Deal of FDR; that successful revolution (and have no doubt that it was really a revolution) was carried on, in the main, from the top down, as Garet Garrett, author of The People’s Pottage, had correctly noted long ago. And, certainly, that is how Obama and his so dedicated armies of true believers will, thus, come to accomplish their always much desired ideological work by socio-psychologically making it truly seem both simply inevitable and unchangeable at the same time; enough weak brains will have been effectively “washed” by then to make this revolution appear absolutely a product wanted and even vehemently demanded by the masses, instead of having been actually instituted, on the whole, by and for a power elite. If so, then one can fairly reasonably paraphrase the interesting and highly evocative words of T. S. Eliot, taken from his poem: “The Hollow Men” in appropriately saying that: This is the way the American republic ends This is the way the American republic ends This is the way the American republic ends Not with a bang but a whimper. ------------ About the author: Joseph Andrew Settanni, CRM, CPC is a Certified Records Manager and Certified Professional Consultant with 30 years of professional experiencein data, archives, records and information management. Email: mkeegan311@earthlink.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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