Two Types of People, Politically Speaking
Simplifying issues and distilling them down to their simplest forms is among the best ways to inform or educate people. This is such an attempt. We tend to divide people into various groups and label them simply to understand them and discern differences and similarities. Sorting people into extroverts/introverts or givers/takers etc. give us a prism through which we can view others from our own perspective and experience. For instance, if I were to mention my left-wing neighbor, it would immediately expose me as a right-winger and convey that he most likely votes in certain, perhaps predictable ways. Although descriptive, it is hardly a precise summation of my neighbor’s politics.
Now, if I were to discuss, my Republican friends, it could mean anything from RINO-electing “Republobots” to Alex Jones-worshipping conspiracy theorists on the far right. Again, helpful but not very precise or descriptive. And perhaps not very productive either.
People have often spoken about getting away from labels and left/right, liberal/conservative, Republican/Democrat paradigms and the obvious question is then; “in favor of what?” What could adequately differentiate various groups and individuals politically that is descriptive, discerning and non-offensive? Well, simply put, all schools of political thought are based on a single consideration. All depend upon whether one considers that government is a solution or whether, like America’s Founders one sees government as the problem. King Charles, from whom we won our independence as well as Napoleon Bonaparte, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Richard Nixon, Saddam Hussein, and Barak Obama are some of the world’s notables to enforce government “solutions” on those they considered their subjects. Subjects are ruled by their government while citizens stand as sovereigns over theirs. That is the simple truth of it and the basis for all our political differences. Those who realize that government is the greatest cause of human death and suffering see government as the evil our Founding Fathers called it. When Thomas Paine said, “Government is at best a necessary evil; at worst an intolerable one,” HE MEANT IT! EVIL…EVIL That’s what he called it because that is what he meant. And that is EXACTLY what it is! Those who would want EVIL caring for their elderly parents, educating their children, OR DOING ANYTHING NOT SPECIFICALLY ENUMERATED IN THE CONSTITUTION are rightfully considered statists, liberals, regressives, socialists etc. The bottom line is that their destructive solutions all stem from the misconception that government is not evil and is somehow an acceptable solution. What they share is an irrational faith in a benevolence of government, never borne out in history. In fact we have very few serious problems today that have not been created and/or perpetuated by government. Without federal interference, there are no problems we could not solve at the state level. Even America’s worst polluters can be sued by states or private citizens without the intrusion of “Big Envio”. Ever heard of Erin Brockovitch?
So where does this leave us? It leaves us with the simple knowledge that people are to one degree or another statists or constitutionalists. The more one demands government solutions to the problems it creates, and the more someone denies personal responsibility in life, the more statist one can be said to be. The more one realizes that government is in fact the problem that creates more problems to justify taking our money and liberty to “solve” them, the more self-reliant, the more constitutionalist one can be said to be. Clearly, if government programs worked, fewer Americans today would be “poor” after decades of “wars on poverty” instead of more. Teen age pregnancies would be declining as they were before sex education was foisted on our schools, which would be improving with government funding and intervention rather than quickly disintegrating as they are. Examples of government’s destruction of America abound, such as state-sponsored racism called ‘affirmative action” destruction of the black family through slavery to welfare, rising murder rates from gun control, banishing businesses, manufacturers, and jobs from our shores through punitive regulation and state-sponsored union destruction.
American government was constituted ONLY to protect the nation, defend the liberties of INDIVIDUALS, not groups or constituencies, and see that laws and contracts are upheld. That is all they have mandates to do and everything government has attempted outside that has been destructive, misguided, unconstitutional, and disastrous for America and Americans. Constitutionalists have the Founders on our side, the statists not so much. If there are examples of great statists who have brought prosperity to their fellow man, their great accomplishments are certainly no where to be found in history. Ronald Reagan showed great wisdom when he observed that, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’”. Government “help” has proven to be as “helpful” as the physicians who attended George Washington in his final days. Their intention was said to be good but in the end, they bled him to death “to cure him.”. And that is a perfect analogy of government “help.” In the end it will always kill the patient, no matter what the stated intent. Today we are suffering an accelerated death-by-government, and those who collaborate should be rightfully recognized as statists and those who seek to regain citizen sovereignty, constitutionalists or patriots.
"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: `I, the state, am the people.'... Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth. "-- Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900) Source: from "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Friedrich.Nietzsche.Quote.A20E
"The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed ,industrious and decent men."-- H. L. Mencken(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.40FE
"If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed."-- Michael Parenti(1933- )Source: "Inventing Reality" (1986)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Michael.Parenti.Quote.A213
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July 22, 2012
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