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As
America sinks deeper into the tyranny of bureaucratic corporatism via today's
incestuous relationship between Washington and Wall Street, it is inspiring
to see thousands of Tea Parties spring up to express outrage. Unfortunately
the "new deal" campaign approach still works as it has been malefically doing for over 70 years since FDR came to
visit us. Every election season artful political pitchmen hit the hustings to call for "change" and "more
prosperity for the people," in which millions get swept up.
The
promise of change is, of course, a con. Legitimate change from the burden of
big government would necessitate a move toward smaller government. But this
is not what the statist mentalities have in mind when they preach change.
They wield the word "change" as a shrewd angler wields an alluring
fly. It's a deceptive hook that works because much of humanity is always
looking to get more out of life than it is willing to put in. Both Democratic
and Republican regimes realize this. Consequently both promise the voters
more entitlements, more pork, more privileges.
Slouching
Toward Gomorrah
Thus
the politics of usurpation proceeds as usual. Mendacity and decadence win
out. The abomination of government health care is forced upon us. Our borders
become more porous with each passing month. Amnesty for 20 million aliens
looms over the horizon. Washington's imperial overreach stretches to 140
countries throughout the world. Our society slouches toward Gomorrah and the
death spiral of ancient Rome. Yet incredibly neoconservatives congratulate
themselves with annual celebratory dinners paying tribute to their
"successful stand against the enemies of freedom and high-minded
culture."
Our
schools, our churches, our publishers, and our entertainment industries are
being infested with the serpents of Cultural Marxism. Political correctness
dominates the herd mentalities and philistines who overwhelm the perceptive and
productive at the polls every other November. The ignominious despotism that
Tocqueville warned would come from "unbridled democracy" is
stealing over our lives like the debilitating paralysis that invades the
bodies of the arthritic. Yet our pundits revel in hosannas to their phony
"engineered economic recovery" and how the upcoming century will
finally bring us that "heaven on earth" that Rousseau, Marx and
Keynes so naively promised, and that the huckster economists and social engineers
of the West have been trying to stuff down our throats for 100 years now.
This
is certainly not the governing philosophy in which Jefferson and the Founders
meant for us to engage. Gushing hundreds of billions of tax dollars to slimy
Wall Street bankers so they can puff up their bottom lines and appear to be
rightful entrepreneurs is an unspeakable outrage; and it is not the way to
bring about legitimate economic recovery. If we want a legitimate
recovery, we need to let these dinosaurs go the way of Joseph Schumpeter's
"creative destruction" so that real productivity (rather than debt
induced stimulation) can come about.
In
the cultural arena, giving amnesty to 20 million Central Americans, who have
been indoctrinated under socialist / fascist regimes into believing they have
a right to cradle to grave security, is hardly the way to restore the
American Republic of self-reliance and free enterprise. It is, however, the
way to pound the final nails into freedom's coffin, which is what Obama, Reid
and Pelosi understand very clearly.
Allowing
our leaders to get away with this kind of political-economic quackery is what
the novelist Ayn Rand meant in Atlas Shrugged when
she spoke of the "sanction of the victim" being the harbinger of
dictatorship. It is what Aldous Huxley meant in
Brave New World Revisited when he wrote that a "really efficient
totalitarian state" would be comprised of "a population of slaves
who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude." They
have been taught to love it by society's reigning intellectuals in the
schools, the churches, and the media.
Signs
of Hope
Yet
despite the insidious decadence confronting us at every turn, there are signs
of hope, significant signs of an awakening desire to face up to the truth --
in other words, to face the root causes of our problems.
The
response to the Ron Paul campaign was the first such sign. The Tea Party
revolts were the next sign. And now we are beginning to see a few intrepid
MSM pundits speak openly about the corporate-statist collusion of Washington
and Wall Street and its connection to our economic problems. The reason why
this is grounds for optimism is that if ever MSM catches on and begins to
venture out from the "politically correct" statist herd, then the
jig is up for the corporate-statist authoritarians and their Machiavellian
hold over us.
A
promising example of the new MSM intrepidity can be found in a recent
12-minute report, The Great Con Job, by Dylan Ratigan
on MSNBC. This is a powerful attack upon the banking / bureaucratic con game
that has been orchestrated over the past 15-20 years in America. CLICK HERE to view this remarkable video. Ratigan is one of MSM's more fearless TV journalists. How
deeply he grasps the root causes of our political-economic problems I don't
know. It is doubtful that he has connected the dots all the way back through
the fraudulency of Keynesian economics and FDR in the 1930s, and then to 1913
where the root causes were laid for America's
destruction with the inception of the Federal Reserve and the progressive
income tax. But Ratigan is sharp and amazingly
articulate, and he has demonstrated throughout his career that he will not
play lackey to the establishment as 90% of his journalistic brethren are
doing. This is why I maintain there is room for optimism.
We
must remember that the Berlin Wall did finally fall. The monster state of the
Soviet Union came crashing down with it -- all because the ideological
monopoly (which must always precede any political monopoly and dictatorship)
became impossible for the communists in the Politburo to maintain. The
ideological / political monopoly here in the West is not the same kind as
that which plagued the USSR. Ours is voluntarily accepted by the journalistic
and political players, rather than coercively enforced through legislation
and police suppression. Our submission is more of what Rand and Huxley wrote
about 50 years ago. It has been ingrained into us through intellectual
sophistry over the decades in the schools and then reinforced by a compliant
priesthood and media. Thus it will be more difficult to discredit because it
is self-imposed. But unlike the Soviet patriots, we have the Internet which
will help immensely.
The Ratigan Report is a very hopeful start toward building
that awareness among the intelligentsia that is necessary for statism to be thwarted. Dictatorial government cannot be
brought down without such an awareness among the
perceptive and independent of the populace. The herd will do as it always has
done throughout history -- obey its masters. But the rebels, the doers, the
dissidents are a breed apart. They will do the right thing once the truth has
been shown to them. Then the revolution begins. And I think it has now dawned
upon great numbers of American intelligentsia that the Emperor in Washington
is naked, and that its rapacious godfather on Wall Street is equally and
despicably devoid of legitimacy.
A
Grassroots Uprising
This
awareness can be built into a major grassroots uprising throughout America.
This is what I have written about in The Conservative Revolution: Why
We Must Form a Third Political Party to Win It. The oppressive rule of the statist
elites cannot maintain itself if we will muster the backbone to stand up to
it. But this will take a far more rational approach than the present level of
political activism in America. It will take an exposition of the root causes
of our despotism, which are the institutions of infamy enacted in 1913 -- the
Federal Reserve and the progressive income tax. But most importantly, it will
take an effective third-party political strategy that can circumvent
the corporate-statist elites and their control over our two major parties in
America.
Such
a plan is outlined in The Conservative Revolution, and is the
foundation of the newly formed Conservative American Party. It is called the
"Two Pillars Strategy." It is a unique, never before envisioned
approach to politics that will go to the root of our problems and bring back
sanity to our country. The key to its success will be its genuine reform of
our tax and monetary systems. It will lower tax rates to 10% for everyone,
simplify tax preparation to 10 minutes every April, neuter the Fed, and
reduce inflation to zero. The "Two Pillars" reform plan will bring
back millions of jobs from overseas, dramatically restore the productivity of
our nation, and because of the way the tax plan is designed, it will stop the
growth of the Federal Government cold and begin its automatic reduction.
A
second key to the plan's success will be because of its universal appeal, the
"Two Pillars Strategy" will easily get the Conservative American
Party 15% in the polls, which will qualify it's
candidate for the National TV Presidential Debates. This will get a vital
third voice -- a true limited government voice -- in front of 70 million
voters that can challenge the corruption and obtuseness of our two major
parties. This has never been done in the 48-year history of the debates. It
will electrify the country.
Conventional
pundits scorn the concept of a third-party as "unworkable in
America," but they are oblivious to the two major mistakes of "marginalization"
and "cloning" that all third-parties have made for the past 150
years, which when corrected will allow a third-party to succeed. The Two
Pillars Strategy corrects these two major mistakes. The Conservative
Revolution demonstrates that a third political party (espousing freedom
and headed by a candidate with gravitas) can indeed work, and that those who
think otherwise are immersed in a fallacious darkness that is greatly
contributing to the stultification of America.
Is
this all a pipe dream, "delusional rantings of
reactionaries that refuse to accept modernity," as the leftist
establishment will surely say? Not at all. It is a thoroughly researched,
powerfully designed, revolutionary plan to take back America starting in 2012
with the two pillars of tax and monetary reform, along with two additional
pillars of immigration and foreign policy reform. Eminent scholars and
pundits have endorsed the "Two Pillars Plan." A 90-minute
documentary is presently being made about it by the acclaimed film maker,
James Jaeger, of Matrixx Entertainment. It is
titled Spoiler: How a Third Political party Could Succeed. CLICK HERE to view a 2-minute "Trailer."
CLICK HERE to visit the Spoiler website.
To
give the reader an idea of the exciting potential of this documentary,
Jaeger's film, Fiat Empire, has been viewed by over 5 million people.
If we can get the same numbers for Spoiler, the Demopublican
establishment and its destructive grip over America will be ended.
In a
front page USA TODAY article, Tuesday, April 20, 2010, Richard Wolf writes
that, "The nation's fastest-growing political party is 'none of the
above'….For the first time since Gallup started asking in 1992, both
major parties are viewed unfavorably by most Americans. Nearly four in 10
voters call themselves independents, Gallup says."
It is
from this rising sea of discontented independents (40% of the electorate),
combined with fed up Republicans and Democrats (probably another 20%), that
the impetus will come for the third-party revolution necessary to save
America. All it takes is 35% of the vote to win in a three man race.
If we
as citizens want to stop the runaway freight train of debt and delusion that
is consuming our myopic politicians in Washington, if we want to stop the
suicidal immigration policies and imperialistic militarism that are
destroying the last vestiges of the American Republic, then we must challenge
the monopoly that corporate-statists have over our politics. We must open up
the system by injecting a rational third voice into the process.
Breaking the
Monopoly
Democrats
and Republicans will not tell the truth to voters; they are bought off by the
corporate-statists. Our schools will not tell the truth; they are controlled
by the corporate-statists. Our media will not tell the truth; they are owned
by the corporate-statists. Only a third political party can break this
monopolistic grip. But it can't be a Libertarian style party. It has to be a
REAL third-party that can garner the necessary 15% in the polls so as to
qualify for the National TV Presidential Debates where it can forcefully
contest the philosophical fraud and political perfidy of the Demopublicans in front of 70 million viewers. This, the
Conservative American Party can do because its revolutionary "Two
Pillars Strategy" will circumvent the two flaws that have doomed all
conventional third-parties (such as the Libertarian and Constitution Parties)
for the past 150 years.
Imagine
Ron Paul (representing Constitutional conservatism) and Patrick Buchanan
(representing cultural conservatism) -- one as Presidential candidate and the
other as Vice-President -- on a Conservative American Party ticket in 2012.
Imagine them confronting the Democratic-Republican monopoly in front of 70
million viewers on nationwide TV during the 2012 Presidential debates.
Imagine them giving half-hour lectures on the major TV networks prior to each
of the three debates like Ross Perot did in 1992. Imagine a Paul / Buchanan
ticket campaigning throughout the heartland. It would inspire conservatives,
libertarians, independents, blue dog Democrats, and Tea Parties everywhere.
Imagine the potential! They might not win in 2012, but they could launch a
true patriot party that could win with 35% of the vote in 2016. What's
important is that the restoration of the Republic would begin in 2012. The
ground is being laid right now. A passionate book has been written, and a
galvanizing film is being shot. The grassroots of our country are being sown
for a momentous paradigm shift in American politics. The Conservative
American Party is, in the words of Victor Hugo, "an idea whose time has
come."
Nelson Hultberg
Americans for a Free
Republic
www.afr.org
Also by Nelson Hultberg
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