Wealth Redistribution Leads to Liberty’s Loss

Thomas J. DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War may be a quite interesting book that explains perfectly why Obama admires Lincoln so greatly.  It would not be really surprising, furthermore, to think that Clinton Rossiter’s Constitutional Dictatorship is a favorite book that the Anointed One keeps usefully in the back of his mind in solid support of attempted Lincolnesque grandeur; this now critically concerns, in particular, the heightened empowering of the Federal government significantly well beyond all present realities and conditions imaginable. 

The so-called stimulus bill will, over time, integrally wreck the private sector and expand permanently the aggressively growing public sector, which is its quite obvious intention.  The act ought better to be, thus, more honestly called the “Guaranteed Economic Depression Act of 2009” or, perhaps, the “European-style Socialization of America Act of 2009.”  And, as always, it need not be feared that it will totally fail because the Republicans will surely find the ways and means of making the social-market economy “work” in some odd manner.   They will do what they did, of course, to equally support the welfare-warfare State whenever it might seem to be failing.

How Liberty Is Usually Lost

Many people foolishly think that liberty, if lost, must always be lost dramatically at one shocking instant of time, not gradually over a long period of time.  America’s Fabian Socialists, as rather highly skilled Machiavellians, are held as wise, however, in knowing that it’s better to boil a frog slowly, so that it does not ever have a chance to notice that it is being gradually cooked to death.  This bold statist grab for power, under the pretext of an economic crisis, must significantly rank as one of the more successful acts of Fabian Socialist “revolutionary” achievement.

Those among the predominant political class, the technocrats, the state-capitalists, and those connected to the overall power structure of the ascendant collectivist State will, of course, prosper enormously.  The rest of the society, meaning the vast bulk of the American people, will have to live with a lower standard of living for themselves and, in the future, their descendants must expect lower and lower standards of living; there is to be the basic sociological transition backwards from the formerly free, republican society of contract to the status society of the decadent socialist future.

Little by little, therefore, the solid majority of the American people will lose basic control over more and more aspects of their lives, without giving out much of a protest; step by step, it will seem merely a simple and natural progression of logical events, built upon various consecutive levels of rationalizations, for what others, in earlier centuries, would have recognized clearly as the convenient construction of a tyranny within a country.  As Lord Acton had rightly said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

The many inadequately educated products of the public and most private schools, in this country, do increasingly lack the needed intellectual resources for correctly knowing what will be happening to them, as they go down the road to a new form of serfdom; former free citizens of a free republic will, therefore, become mere enslaved subjects/ciphers in increasing debt to the ever-centralizing government power controlling most aspects of their necessarily much diminished lives.

The brave revolutionaries of 1776 must be turning in their patriotic graves.  A liberty-loving revolution fought to prevent a tyrannous monarchy from imposing its terrible dictates upon the then oppressed colonists may end up having been done completely in vain, meaning by the early 21st century.  How cheaply men and women are willing, it can be remarked, to easily sell their birthrights for a mere bowl of soup.  The mighty and greatly evocative words of Benjamin Franklin will, nonetheless, come forever to properly haunt this then new collectivist America: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty, nor safety.”

The Obama Economy: Dream into Nightmare

The economy, as manifestly seen by how the markets notably drop, again and again, after each government announcement that these Leftist politicians wish to boost the creation of a recovery, will not be greatly stimulated; the recession will, however, logically grow into a prolonged depression that, supposedly, manufactures the plaintive insistence that the government “do something” to help the economy recover, which it will not do— if such “stimulus” packages keep on depressing the financial realities, the Obama economy. 

This notably super-mega-pork bill is like a dagger to be plunged into the heart of the free-market economy to be done, of course, in the odd name of saving capitalism from itself.  With such insane reasoning, moreover, one wonders why anyone with a truly rational intelligence ought to then believe these progressive politicians concerning their anti-free-enterprise plans for an assumed national economic recovery.  

When the expected upturn of the economy does not substantially develop, then there are to be more and more demands for yet further spending, on a still greater scale, to supposedly improve the economic climate. So, there is to be a self-justifying collectivism brought forth ever more triumphantly to create the illusion that prosperity is just around the corner.

The mass media/drive-by media will, suitably, help to mainly propagandize on the behalf of the Administration, which is surely their ideological creation, to try to fool the people into thinking that some kind of basic success has been, more or less, achieved.  Orwellian standards of much “creative” judgment, concerning the many dubious achievements and accomplishments of this new “New Deal,” are to be cleverly manufactured for various occasions, depending upon how much political cover is actually needed.     

As conditions go from bad to worse, there will be political-ideological attacks on the capitalists, on Big Business, those who were called the “economic royalists” in the 1930s, who will be blamed whenever the government fails, as it logically must, to deliver the promised recovery.  Free-market economics (by them) is to be scorned as reactionary and as being the real cause of what ended up happening to create the crisis, not the many past, present, and future acts of government interventionism, meaning, thus, the fundamentally true cause involved. 

The New America: Liberty’s Betrayal

Forgotten is the thought that a government powerful enough to personally assist someone must be as equally equipped for oppressing individuals as well.  The future appears close to Hilaire Belloc’s The Servile State as to its proper depiction   However, there will be much more of a Big Mother State, rather than Big Brother as with Orwell’s 1984, concerning the pervasiveness of an interventionist State extremely well beyond a mere welfare-warfare State. 

The latter really didn’t care too much about what people generally thought; the former, however, now urgently wants to both greatly control and exactly know what people are thinking, so as to then correct any “uncontrolled” or irregular thoughts.   This will have certain consequences. 

The new and different understanding of a changed citizenship is to be ideologically measured by how well someone conforms to proper ways of thinking that significantly affirm the notably forever expansive needs of the government, of the New Order.  It will be seen, therefore, how the modern State exists as the absurd economic myth by which everybody thinks they can exist at the expense of everybody else.

The new America, therefore, may just be the assumed creation of the new heaven and new earth, a utopian regime dedicated to necessary falsification of truth, for the higher sake of the awaited New Eden on earth. Verily, Obama will be, increasingly, thought of as the Fearless Leader, the Great One.  But, in a (degraded) nation where the exalted leaders are axiomatically held to be great, the people are kept small and normally oppressed as well.   Farewell, the old America!