In early 20th century Paris, violent street gangs called Apaches became a popular cultural fad. Apache shirts and argot showed up in cabaret entertainment, fashion, and movies. Most famous was the Apache Dance, a pas de deux mashup of seduction and feigned violence in which the man slapped his paramour around and she pummeled him until the couple reconciled. The audience all knew that when they left the stage, they were heading for the same bed.
The recently passed omnibus budget bill that capped 2022 is a good reminder of the essential unity of our political guild, one obscured by the theater of “divisive partisanship” frequently decried by pundits. This current bill triples-down on the earlier near-trillion-dollar Inflation Reduction Act, and the near-third of a billion CHIPS Act that subsidizes the semiconductor industry–– “an embarrassing stew of accountability-free corporate welfare and government spending,” as the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel reported on July 28. Republicans–17 Senators and 24 House members–voted for the bill.
Now comes the $1.85 trillion omnibus spending bill crammed with pork, aka once-banned “earmarks,” for Senators’ home states and House members’ districts. Additionally, the bill contains policies Democrats couldn’t pass through the “regular order” process of committee hearings, debates, amendments, and votes on individual bills. Republicans again, 18 Senators and nine House members, voted for the bill, with 226 House members voting by proxy. Rather than chagrin for facilitating this subversion of Congress’s Article 1 powers, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he was “pretty proud” of achieving Republican “priorities” with yet another spending binge of money we don’t have.
How can a Republican who professes to be a conservative and champion of the Constitution be “proud” of “woke” Leftist policies and “priorities” like “family planning/reproductive health including in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species”? We all know that “family planning” and “reproductive health” are euphemisms for abortion. So taxpayers are going to be fleeced for $575 billion to sacrifice more human beings on the altar of “biodiversity.”
And don’t forget funds bestowed on other progressive policies and clients. Commentary’s Noah Rothman catalogues other “woke” lucre: “Embedded in [the bill] are earmarks for ‘coworking and community’ spaces, but only for ‘women and gender-expansive people of color.’ Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars are dedicated to ‘Pride Centers’ and ‘Non-Conforming housing.’ There’s funding for ‘antiracist training’ and ‘antiracism virtual labs,’ ‘workforce development programs’ for transgender, intersex, and non-conforming migrant women in Los Angeles, and whatever an ‘equity incubator’ is.”
As Kimberley Strassel commented December 22, “Never has Washington contemplated such a monstrosity. If a satirist set out to describe a once-admirable institution in decline, its members cheerfully passing off their laziness, secrecy, cowardliness and graft as “success,” it’d be hard to compete with this week’s Senate show. The omnibus is everything that is broken in D.C., dumped in one steaming pile.”
So why did so many Republicans hand the Dems such a victory? Yes, the bill increases defense spending, but not nearly enough to correct the neglect of previous years when we stinted defense and increased spending on entitlements, even as China has year after year been spending billions on building a military powerful enough to bring closer its dreams of replacing us as the world’s most consequential power.
But here we are, spending more for Ukraine’s national security, the total of our gifts now reaching $100 billion. Have any Republicans supporting this bill done a long-range, cost-benefit analysis that shows how fattening an already $30 trillion debt, and throwing more fuel on the inflation bonfire, serves conservative “priorities,” as McConnell boasts?
The answer to that question is that for all theatrical displays of “divisiveness” between the two parties, in fact there is a fundamental progressive consensus. The Constitutional structure that divides and balances the power of a limited federal government in order to protect the political freedom of the sovereign states, has become passé.
As Woodrow Wilson said in 1913, Constitutional laws “have not kept up with the change of economic circumstances” and “political circumstances.” For the Founders, Wilson continues, the Constitution was “a variety of mechanics” that followed “the law of gravitation.” But “government is not a machine, but a living thing . . . . It is accountable to Darwin, not it Newton. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.” It should evolve and adapt to create greater efficiency.
This is the bedrock assumption of progressivism. The Founders, however, believed in a constant and corruptible human nature that makes utopia impossible, and so must “set ambition against ambition” to protect freedom. In contrast, progressives believe in a plastic human nature that can be shaped to achieve social justice and equality. It looked to apply to human beings Darwinian evolution of organisms through time to improve human nature and its social environment.
To achieve this aim, government must become the purview of “experts” guided by “science”––“architects and engineers,” as Wilson called them, who have the technical knowledge necessary for guiding the state, the “hundreds who are wise,” as Wilson later said, to direct the thousands who are “selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn, or foolish.” Thus as a “science,” government administration “lies outside the proper sphere of politics.” Government administration’s “questions are not political questions,” and “it [politics] should not be suffered to manipulate its offices.”
Here we see the theoretical beginnings of the federal Leviathan. The Constitution was designed to minimize the power of the federal government in order to forestall tyranny, and left the task of “solving problems” as much as possible to the states and civil society, who could better know the varied needs of the diverse peoples of the United States. Now a centralized, concentrated federal power––the very definition of tyranny––comprising “experts” housed in huge complex bureaucracies, are unaccountable to the people and wield the power of law to create and enforce rules and regulations encroaching upon civil society, private business, and personal life.
Nor is that power, as Wilson idealizes it, beyond politics and partisan ideologies. It is inherently political, as we have seen especially over the past six years, and more starkly in the recently exposed Twitter Files, in which allegedly apolitical “offices” and “public servants” including the IRS, the DOJ, the Pentagon, the CIA, the State Department, and the FBI have “manipulated” Twitter to neutralize political enemies and censor dissent.
Meanwhile the House of Representatives for the last two years has squandered its time on fanciful conspiracy theories of “insurrection” in order to prevent a former president supported by over 70 million citizens from running for office––one reason the 12 bills necessary for funding the government were ignored until the last minute, providing an excuse for monstrosities like the current omnibus bill.
Finally, the progressive paradigm has been expanding since FDR’s 12 years as president, because the Dems know that the technocracy has prevailed, and enough Republicans de facto endorse its opportunities for plundering the nation’s fisc. Using one’s office to secure spoils for one’s political clients is an age-old habit of democracy, but now the spoils are not just federal contracts, entitlements, and subsidies, but political ideologies and policies that are blatantly anti-Constitutional and mortal threats to our freedom.
The Republicans should know better. The party’s legislators did show some spine with the preposterously named Inflation Reduction Act, not one of whom in both houses of Congress voted for it. They should have done the same thing with the next two budget-busting bills, especially the omnibus bill, which they should have obstructed with all the limited powers available to them, rather than helping the Dems to hamstring for several months the incoming Republican-led House and its power of the purse. But some lost their nerve, their virtue, or their Constitutional ethics, and voted for yet another feckless bill that redistributes the wealth of the unborn.
So don’t be fooled by the bipartisan Apache Dance. Most of the time, below the rambunctious theater of partisan conflict lies the progressive consensus, which benefits the bipartisan political guild and their clients, not the people and their rights and freedom.
Below the bipartisan Apache Dance dance lurks another GOP waltz with Trump/Kevin McCarthy. Don;t be fooled. Maybe McConnell has served out his term of usefulness. That doesn’t mean this garbage of opposition is offering anything but a name change. I guess there are term limits but not really.
You think we don’t see you coming for miles? And if we see you coming for miles the other side see’s you from Mars.
You have taken over the comments section again, cut down on your drinking Una.
So here’s my sub-comment
“one reason the 12 bills necessary for funding the government were ignored until the last minute, providing an excuse for monstrosities like the current omnibus bill.”
That was clearly a deliberate act and its not the first time.
Close down government? I can’t think of a better way to improve it, the professor of organisational change John Kotter stated that the best way to introduce change is to CREATE A CRISIS.
Conservatives need to learn that in order to preserve what is good then the new thing needs to be seen to fail.
“The Founders, however, believed in a constant and corruptible human nature that makes utopia impossible…”
If human nature is constant and corruptible then it stands to reason that human nature is constant and perfectable. If free will is constant, and it is, then man — every man — is constantly free too choose personal corruption or personal perfection. This does not mean that achieving an automatic, permanent, and eternal utopia is possible, but it does mean achieving a day’s moral perfection, a moment’s utopia, a day’s utopia, IS possible. Moral perfection is contextual, within a certain context, a given time and place, it is achievable. And men have achieved it. But like a perfect dinner, a perfect meal, it does not last forever. A man must get up the next morning and achieve perfection again with no supernatural, cosmic, guarantee that he will. And no supernatural help. There lies man’s glory and his heroic stature but only if he constantly chooses to rise to that stature.
Moral perfection is not something a man achieves forever. That idea comes from religion and mysticism, the idea of an eternal, supernatural, God. Human moral perfection is something a man has to achieve every day, every hour, even every minute.
Maybe it stands to your reason THX. Still waiting for “demonstrable”. This doesn’t mean I necessarily disagree with some sentiments expressed but still waiting on “demonstrable”.
Actually I think you are full of crap.
Demonstrable moral perfection? Apollo 11, life saving brain surgery, or try eating an ice cream cone of delicious vanilla ice cream on a warm summer day. Just because utopia doesn’t last automatically and eternally, does not mean it is not achievable.
It is religion and mysticism that has corrupted the meaning and definition of moral perfection, specifically the religious, supernatural, mystical, otherworldly, moral code of altruism and self-sacrifice. The secular and religious mystics claim that moral perfection is impossible for man and by the standard of altruism it certainly is.
“You are told that moral perfection is impossible to man—and, by this standard [of altruism and self-sacrifice], it is. You cannot achieve it so long as you live, but the value of your life and of your person is gauged by how closely you succeed in approaching that ideal zero which is death.” – Ayn Rand
You need to read some of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writings.
Godspeed
try reading the Bible for moral standards rather than an atheist like Ayn Rand.
Apologies THX was completely uncalled for.
Apology accepted.
The minority communities who support this utopia will be disappointed when they learn that they are still ashamed of their behaviour despite having a pride month.
Coloured people will still consider themselves victims despite their history month.
Women will still put their relationships with others ahead of their careers despite what the feminists say.
And when they discover these utopias are not utopian they will get angry and if they have been given positions of power because of their skin colour, sexuality or victimhood we will then return to a less utopian tyrannical government.
Sounds familiar.
You are arguing from an implicit premise of COLLECTIVISM without even realizing it, so deeply entrenched is mysticism in Western culture today, most people implicitly, subconciously, and automatically, view and explain human nature and moral action from the mystical, collectivist, premise. Moral perfection is an achievement of an individual not a mob. Moral perfection can only be achieved by an individual as an individual, not by a collective as such. If a group does achieve moral perfection in a given context on a given day it is the result of each individual in that group achieving moral perfection individually. For example, Apollo 11, when Americans reached the moon. For example, life saving brain surgery by an O.R. surgery team.
Moral perfection is CONTEXTUAL and INDIVIDUAL. It is achieved by a real individual, in real time, in a real context.
As Ayn Rand was fond of saying, “Check your premises”.
Check your moral perfection……..
they’ll be disappointed and what will you be? Don’t worry though just support Trump. You know???
Ah yes, the perfectable man.
The New Man Der Neue Mensch
The New Soviet man новый советский челове
Unfortunately for the rest of us poor shleps we have things to do, other than thinking about our own perfection, every day, every hour, even every minute.
But when you are seated atop your objectivist lotus flower there probably isn’t lot to do except thing about utopia. Sounds like your Objectivist cult is taking shape just fine, Herr THX
I’m not German but your German Lutheran cousins back in WW2 were staunch supporters of Hitler and the Nazis. If you wonder why, it was because mysticism, supernaturalism, faith, unreason, and Christianity prepared the ground for modern totalitarianism.
Today, in America, your fellow American Lutherans are engaged in the same mystical, altruistic, sacrifice of America to illegal aliens as the German Lutherans of the Weimar Republic were dedicated to sacrificing Germany, every German, every Jew, and the whole world to the mystical, supernatural, organism they called the Aryan Race.
Altruism declares that no man is an end in himself but that he is the sacrificial means to the ends of others, to the ends of the collective. It can not be said that Hitler and his Nazis, with the support of the German Lutherans, failed to sacrifice enough indiviuals.
“Christianity prepared the ground. It paved the way for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind: in metaphysics, the worship of the supernatural; in epistemology, the reliance on faith; as a consequence, in ethics, the reverence for self-sacrifice….
As for the Lutherans, most had followed the lead of such figures as Pastor Adolf Stoecker; they had rejected capitalism as an evil, Jewish idea, incompatible with the spirit of Christianity….
Religious writers often claim that the cause of Nazism is the secularism or scientific spirit of the modern world. This evades the fact that the Germans of the time, especially in Prussia, were one of the most religious peoples in Western Europe; that the Weimar Republic was a hotbed of mystic cults, of which Nazism was one; and that Germany’s largest and most devout religious group, the Lutherans, counted themselves among Hitler’s staunchest followers” – Leonard Peikoff, “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom In America”
Same old crap just a different day. You never really do grow as a person, do you.
It’s obviousl you don’t, and never will ave anything to say that is relevant. Your pathetic attempt to run the guilt by association game is just more of the same crap you have been trying to pull with me for over a year.
Take it up with Lutheran Social Services, if you have the guts.
Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota
2485 Como Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
800.582.5260
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
8765 W Higgins Road
Chicago, IL 60631
There is really not all that much going on upstairs with you is there.
OMG you are so boring. So boring I’m going to have to consolidate all my inner Autism/Retard to respond to you. Wait for it.
The Fall from Grace is evident, and Biblical, so what are you doing purporting the truth of Gerrymandering and Motor Voter Mail in Ballots as anything Constitutional or of our Founding Fathers. What utter Hypocrisy this article is pure Oppositional Hopium!
“Finally, the progressive paradigm has been expanding since FDR’s 12 years as president, because the Dems know that the technocracy has prevailed, and enough Republicans de facto endorse its opportunities for plundering the nation’s fisc.”
The progressive paradigm is collectivism-socialism-fascism. As Ayn Rand wrote some 50 years ago, “I have stated repeatedly that the trend in this country is toward a fascist system with communist slogans.”
What has prevailed is not a technocracy, a technocracy is only one possible final result of many. A theocracy is another. What has prevailed is the moral code, the moral basis, for collectivism in all its different variants of the welfare-state, full-blown-socialism, communism, fascism, Nazism, Christian theocracy, tribalism, racism, feminism, etc. That moral code is ALTRUISM, the moral code that claims that man — every man — is NOT an end in himself but the means for the ends of others.
“What is the moral code of altruism? The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value.” – Ayn Rand
Obviously your girlfriend isn’t influencing anyone these days. Time to get off the lotus flower and enter the real world with real solutions.
People like Ayn Rand is why I never majored in liberal arts in college – they just dish out the bs and make it up as they go along.
TOTQAL MIsQuote! ” These times and those people are upon us!” a true Ayn Rand quote from Atlas Shrugged!
“and enough Republicans de facto endorse its opportunities for plundering the nation’s fisc.”
There are many run-of-the-mill AMORAL crooks, moochers, looters, and parasites in the Republican Party. Mitch McConnell is probably one. But what makes this self-destructive orgy of altruistic plunder of America possible are the Republicans that are motivated by, inspired by, or PARALYZED by the moral code of altruism.
For example, look at G.W. Bush’s “faith-based intiatives”. This was welfare-statism, socialism, collectivism, altruistic PLUNDER, based on Judeo-Christian faith, religion, and ETHICS. The ethics of altruism and sacrifice.
For example, look at Ronald Reagan’s illegal alien amnesty, also based on the ethics of altruism.
“If the “conservatives” do not stand for capitalism, they stand for and are nothing; they have no goal, no direction, no political principles, no social ideals, no intellectual values, no leadership to offer anyone.
Yet capitalism is what the “conservatives” dare not advocate or defend. They are PARALYZED by the profound conflict between capitalism and the moral code which dominates our culture: the morality of altruism . . . Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.” – Ayn Rand, “Conservatism: An Obituary”
“Conservatism: An Obituary”
I think she’s right that capitalism and altruism are incompatible, that’s why I oppose capitalism.
Thank you for the honesty. A committed altruist will climb over millions of dead bodies without batting an eyelash. As the altruist-socialist Alexandria Ocasio Cortez put it, “Facts don’t matter when you’re morally right”, not even the fact of 100 or 500 million dead bodies.
Altruism is an INTRINSIC theory of virtue. It is based on an infantile, magical thinking, evasion of the facts of reality. Capitalism is based on an OBJECTIVE moral code of rational self-preservation, rational self-interest, rational selfishness, facing and accepting the facts of reality.
“There are, in essence, three schools of thought on the nature of the good: the intrinsic, the subjective, and the objective. The intrinsic theory holds that the good is inherent in certain things or actions as such, regardless of their context and consequences, regardless of any benefit or injury they may cause to the actors and subjects involved. It is a theory that divorces the concept of “good” from beneficiaries, and the concept of “value” from valuer and purpose—claiming that the good is good in, by, and of itself….
If a man believes that the good is intrinsic in certain actions, he will not hesitate to force others to perform them. If he believes that the human benefit or injury caused by such actions is of no significance, he will regard a sea of blood as of no significance. If he believes that the beneficiaries of such actions are irrelevant (or interchangeable), he will regard wholesale slaughter as his moral duty in the service of a “higher” good. It is the intrinsic theory of values that produces a Robespierre, a Lenin, a Stalin, or a Hitler. It is not an accident that Eichmann was a Kantian.” – Ayn Rand
If you’re referring to the depredations of communism, it’s irrelevant, because I also oppose tyranny of any kind, whether capitalist or communist.
You also seem completely indifferent to the enormous collateral damage of capitalism as it became the dominating economic system, including: destruction of traditional societies, closure and consumption of the commons, mass immiseration, horrendous exploitation of the newly created class of wage-laborers who were forced to sell their own bodies to survive, astounding inequalities of wealth and thus power, environmental damage, waste and destruction of natural resources, etc. etc.
While many of these problems have been somewhat ameliorated by government intervention, many of them have not been, and they continue today in full force in many parts of the world.
None of this exists for you, however, because Ayn Rand told you it didn’t exist, and you believe anything and everything she says without question.
You will have to more specific and precise for me to understand and refute what you are claiming are the evils produced by capitalism. Let’s begin with an objective and precise identification of what capitalism IS.
What is capitalism, according to your thinking? What is your definition of capitalism? Are you sure your definition of capitalism is OBJECTIVE? Are you objectively certain that the evils you claim are produced by capitalism really are produced by capitalism?
Two of the biggest do-nothing atheist idiots on this site yabbering at each other.
Gotta love that.
One couldn’t organize lunch and the other one always wants a free lunch.
The Communist speaks. Every once in a while you let a crumb of leftist stupidity out for all to see and we learn more about you and what a complete lowlife you are.
Ok capitalist running dog.
Capitalist running dog? How very Fidel of you. You have to go all the way back to the ’60’s to get that kind of tired rhetoric.
Better a capitalist “running dog” than a communist leech who needs a free lunch.
As I’ve pointed out, you’re the leech, living a rentier life while consuming enormous amounts of products made by exploited workers. Quite parasitic of you. What would you do without your cheap lunch?
Rentier? Really? How leftist of you. I wonder how much in the way of cheap Chinese junk you buy everyday. Do you have a little Mao cap?
Some days I have an expensive lunch, which I pay for. Some days I have a taco or a burrito at the local taco shop. Maybe you should email the taco shop and tell them not to serve the horrible white folk that eat there. They would probably go out of business if they did.
As I have pointed out, I earned the money I have. If I live a rentier life (whatever that is) I have never been bothered by it. Exploited people need to figure a way out of their dilemma. Not my problem. But I’m not surprised it bothers you. You are such a bleeding heart loser.
Hey, FENY is up today so I am making a few bucks in the oil biz. I have been buying and selling the ETF for about two years and have not been affected by O’Biden’s war on oil, coal or gas. I buy it low and sell it when it goes up. It’s like free gas. When FENY goes down I buy it again. It’s called market timing.
So go be an altruist on your own shilling so you can virtue signal what a superior person you are to a world that doesn’t care what/who you are.
What are you talking about? Make yourself CLEAR.
I’m sorry, but due to the strange nature of this comment section’s structure, I don’t know what you want me to be clear about.
I’m making the assumption you produce nothing yourself beyond waste products, and you admit you live off investments at the moment, so you’re obviously part of the rentier class.
But you don’t care, so fine. Everyone but you can f— off and die. That’s your prerogrative. You do you, just don’t come whining to me about being a leech and wanting a free lunch, parasite.
What a shame so now you endorse Satanic principles just like Islam!
Get good or get lost. This isn’t a game. Do you think we are here for our own amusement?
And through it it all we have to put up with this Trump puke
Just get on track or the hell with you
As if anybody cares whether you’ve come to the collective Trump decision to throw McConnell to the wolves figuratively. Pukes.
What are you a Fed Troll, full of Controlled Opposition and and Hopium!
I’d make a lousy writer if I were paid by the word. The simple answer to the question is: For a piece of the pie.
Both parties are raping the nation. But the Democrats are willing to kill it too.
Both parties are in agreement. National survival under our Constitution is not on agenda.
Both parties agree the U.S. will be transformed into the New World Order. The NWO is just the return of the Old World Order of paganism with all its horrors – sacrificing of babies, sexual perversions, punishment of apostates, and mandated worship of the new gods, who are the old gods with new technology.
At this point, it is all theater. “Apache dance” is a perfect metaphor.
Paganism? Greco-Roman paganism never resulted in one-thousand years of abject misery, poverty, pain, and death that Christianity created for the Western world — the one-thousand years of the Christian Dark Ages.
Aristotle was a Greek pagan despised by the Christian church fathers Tertullian and Augustine. It was the introduction of Aristotelian rational philosophy, of Aristotelian reason and logic, by Thomas Aquinas to the brutality of the Christian Dark Ages, that finally ended the stranglehold of mysticism, supernaturalsm, faith and superstition, that Christianity had on the Western mind.
The Greco Roman pagan world didn’t have to result in the Middle Ages. It did just time creating that when they were both in full flower.
You really are losing it since Christmas day came and went this year.
Maybe that lotus flower utopia needs watering.
Wrong not all Smoke and Mirrors is Kabuki!
It was a rhetorical question, was it not?
“The Constitution was designed to minimize the power of the federal government in order to forestall tyranny, and left the task of “solving problems” as much as possible to the states and civil society, who could better know the varied needs of the diverse peoples of the United States. Now a centralized, concentrated federal power…”
Sorry, but that’s nonsense. The purpose of writing the Constitution was to create a stronger federal government that could provide centralized authority, thus ensuring effective governance in a manner that the Articles of Confederation (which were very decentralized) failed to do.
Centralised government means centralised decision making and as most businesses realise is suboptimal by a country mile. Why? Because the central government does not have every answer in fact it loses 99.999999999% of options and only has the government employees feeding it what it wants to hear.
To the extent I can untangle that, it’s ridiculous. Every major business corporation in the world is basically a highly centralized monarchical system in which all executive power is invested in the CEO and the only check on his power is an oligarchy of board members. The average business is a million times more centralized than the US or any other democratic government.
“Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, or freedom from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state—and nothing else.” – Ayn Rand
There are corrupt businessmen, and mean, nasty, evil bosses who will try to harm employees. But in a free and capitalist society employees are free to leave those corrupt places of employment and sue them for restitution. In a capitalist society citizens are free to expose and boycott corrupt businessmen and corrupt businesses. In a capitalist society corrupt businesses can be legally prosecuted, penalized, or shut down.
You seem trapped in your subjective ideals of what capitalism entails. Here’s three realities about capitalism:
1. Workers are existentially dependent on their jobs and often find it very difficult if not impossible to leave them.
2. Due to inherent instability in the market, people often find no way to find other employment, let alone employment that meets their qualifications and talents.
3. Since money is the supreme value in a capitalist society, rich people and companies are almost never held responsible for anything, and can easily financially exhaust the resources of any average person in any lawsuit.
Gee, I wonder where it says that in the Constitution? You really are a monarchist aren’t you?
Um, if the decentralized Articles of Confederation hadn’t failed, the Constitutional Conventional would never have been convened and the Constitution would never have been written. You seem somewhat ignorant of the history of your own country, which of course you want to destroy anyway, so it’s not very surprising…
You seem ignorant of what freedom and limited government is all about. But I’m not surprised since you have never experienced freedom and limited government is.
“Every major business corporation in the world is basically a highly centralized monarchical system in which all executive power is invested in the CEO and the only check on his power is an oligarchy of board members.”
Thank God we aren’t a a highly centralized monarchical system of government, as much as you would like us to be over in that dink country of yours.
I notice you don’t refute anything I said about the nature of the Constitution and why it was adopted. You just go off on yet another of your irrelevant rants.
I don’t have to refute anything you said about the Constitution in that it fixed what was wrong about the Articles of Confederation. The Articles failed because they really didn’t create a nation.
The Constitution succeeded because it was stronger than the Confederation, but not so strong as to create an out of control tyrannical Uniparty government, which is what we have now. But given your fascistic tendencies and your love of big government, you seem just fine with that. After all, that is all you have ever known.
We really do not need a lecture from a foreigner re: our Constitution. It has mostly worked just fine, until the left in this country started to undermine it back in the ’50s with that “living breathing” constitution garbage.
As to your warped ideas about capitalism, you can choose or not choose to participate in the system. I assume you have never participated in a capitalist society, having generally failed at everything you ever tried and that is why you are so obviously, a bitter miserable leftist.
I’m actually a fairly successful professional, but you won’t believe that because you think everyone to the left of Trump is a bloodsucking welfare queen communist, so sure, go on assuming I live in my parents’ basement. Like I said, you do you.
My point, which you ignore once again, is that the very purpose of the Constitution was to create a strong central government, contrary to the claims made by the author of this article.
I await your next bitter irrelevant rant about… well, you’ll find something.
Man get me a bowl of what you are smoking that is some delusional Sh&t!
1913 and the 17th Amendment disenfranchised the interests of each state, as expressed by their elected assemblies, from exercising their interests at the Federal level. The people send the House members to the people’s house, and the state legislatures sent the Senate members to the states’ chamber. The people of the state elect their governmentl and since 1913 their representative legislature has had no say in the operations of the Federal government. Sad. Very sad.
I know this is childish but why does this maggot McConnel always have a look on his face like he just pooped in his pampers diaper?
To what extent is a man’s face indicative of his character? That is a very interesting question.
““At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.” ― George Orwell
Yours must be twisted and upside down.
The Republicans you are referring to are not RINOs. A more appropriate name is Judas Republicans. I heard this term last week and find it more appropriate than RINO.
America is a failed State, the ashes are gathering with Socialists (Commies) in control
of Democrats and half of Republicans. The decline is rolling downhill faster every day,
the crash is not far off. Dark days ahead, pray if you can. The book of Daniel in the
Bible is complete.
The $1.7 trillion spending bill just passed:
-no money for the U.S. border wall as the invasion gets worse each day, but
-money for the IRS to hire those 87,000 new gustopo agents
thanks Tom Cotton – our newest member of the rino club.
A lot of interesting comments were made in relation to this article. In the final analysis, we are losing our freedom little by little. The political, economic, and social system does not work anymore in America. I do not have all the answers to solve the problems in the United States because they have become too big to solve.
I realized a long time ago that America is on the wrong pass, and it eventually it is all going to tumble down whereby America will become an unfit fit place to live or raise a family. America has a government that doesn’t work anymore. We have a financial system that doesn’t work anymore. A Socety whereby the moral standards of many individuals have decline to a lower level.
It is time for each individual to change for the better. It is time to stop the corruption in the financial and capitalist system in America. It is time to stop the corruption that exist in the U.S. government and also at the state and local level as well.
Check your premises!
America is NOT a capitalist system anymore. In fact America was never fully capitalist. America was the closest to full-blown capitalism beteween 1865 and 1890, but even then it was not fully capitalist. The first major blow against semi-but predominantly-capitalist America came in 1890 with the passing of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by REPUBLICANS! By RINOS! Senator John Sherman was a Republican. From then on its been a slow, down hill, collapse of America into a collectivist dictatorship.
“We are not a capitalist system any longer: we are a mixed economy, i.e., a mixture of capitalism and statism, of freedom and controls. A mixed economy is a country in the process of disintegration, a civil war of pressure-groups looting and devouring one another.” – Ayn Rand
Please ignore my nonsense comments.
Compared to “Intrepid” your comments seem highly intellectual.