I think I would trust Madison.
“The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label… Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to “End Poverty in California” I got 879,000… There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.” ~ Upton Sinclair
I don't care whether they call themselves evolutionists or revolutionists or advocates of imaginary "social justice." All they've ever worked for is the raw power to turn most people into serfs of the state and murder the rest.
summary of Breitbarts book -Righteous Indignation, chapters that dicuss our enemies and the history.
The "progressive" attack and takeover of the education of children and subsequent censorship of America's founding ideas from the schools' curriculum has prepared the way for 2012.
Not only the words of Madison, but Washington's Farewell Address, in this excerpt, contains a warning for all who love liberty:
"This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
"All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community, and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans, digested by common councils and modified by mutual interests.
"However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
"Toward the preservation of your Government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown." (End of excerpt)
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Any form of collectivism - ANY - is exactly like bleeding the patient.
Arguing about collectivist forms is like arguing about how fast to bleed the patient, or whether the cuts should be left to get infected, or whether the sick patient should be made to exercise or sleep, etc.
It’s murder. Murder of civilization. And the ONLY reason Leftists discuss it, is to try to find a way to describe it and implement it that people will accept. To find the lie-of-the-day that will work with whatever social group they have to convince to go along with their own destruction.
That’s it. That’s all of it - every shred.