There is a dirty little secret that has been hidden from you in plain site for 73 years now. Education, media, politicians – they all use it to confuse and misdirect you.
Everything you hear about government breaks it down into a horizontal rule. There exists the “right”, the “left”, and the “moderate”. Your ideologies, beliefs and desires place you somewhere on that line. As a basic psychological principal it’s true. The French origination of the idea of left and right considers left the “party of movement” and right the “party of order.” That meant monarchical, strong government supporters on the right, and republican, personal freedom revolutionaries on the left.
In today’s terms we generally hear the far left as socialist or communist and the far right as fascist. There is a trick to the new order though. It leaves big government alive and well at both sides of the spectrum, and creates the belief that your choice is between big government A and big government B. Robert Maclver pushed this idea in the 1940′s and made a right v left determination that implied a class struggle – big government rich executives on the right, and big government welfare on the left.
Since there is no officially defined terms of right and left in the world, or even in the U.S. as it stands, I propose it is time to look at this in a different light. Move fascists, communists, socialist, Democrats and Republicans to the left and call that “Big Government”, and move Libertarians, classical conservatives and anarchists to the right and call that “Little Government.” Now the common man has a choice in how much control his government exerts over him. He can bow to welfare, war, taxes, conscription, laws, and pressure of big government, or he can attempt to find the self-control and respect necessary for little government. The choice becomes how much the common man can provide to government and not a choice of what big government should provide to the common man.
Tag: Politics
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Right v Left -The Truth
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We lied to protect you
Yes, we lied. But they were lies of omission, confusion, obfuscation, and nominclature, and thats ok. That is the claim of Congress about the health care bill. Of course the bill that will introduce “no new taxes” is now being called (by the same person mind you) a “new tax” as a way to justify its existance. $569,000,000,000 of new taxes at a minimum, with $529,000,000,000 in cuts to medicare, while simultaniously increasing Medicare enrollment by 16,000,000 users. I’m all in favor of cutting Medicare funding, one of the most poorly run programs in the US today, but the Rube Goldberg replacement makes Medicare look like a Kazimir Malevich painting.
A new chart released by the Joint Economic Committee shows 1/3 of the new system at play.
Keep in mind this only represents the first 33% of the bills additions. There was not enough room to add the next 66% of overhead. We can expect to see at least 2 more flowcharts, or perhaps something larger than 100′ x 100′ to represent our dismal future.
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Age old extremism
Most of us should remember, though many of us block completely from our minds, the overly angry, threatening, and violent anti-Bush protests that the 2000’s decade was dominated by. Undoubtedly, you walked by signs and groups of people, even in a typically quiet neighborhood, that called him Hitler, Nazi, said he should be killed, aborted, etc…
Of course, though we all saw (or took part in) it in life, most of us will struggle to remember any media coverage of it. Yet, now that a new regime is in power, the whole idea has changed. The media loves to show rallies of “tea partiers” especially when there happens to be one guy with a pro-gun rights, or pro right to life sign being held up. Government forbid we try to protect the lives of children, or protect our right to protect ourselves from said government. Not to mention the media reviews themselves tend to use derogatory terms like “tea-bagger” when describing these fairly low-key gatherings.
