Posted on 04/20/2012 5:55:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
That is Friedman and it is about collectivism but it is only 8 minutes long. By chance, do you happen to have another URL for the vid you mentioned?
Many thanks for this, you’ve well summarized the drift of our society over the past century.
Along with this is a video, “The American Form Of Government”
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE )
that lays out just what type we should have - and the warning that we are headed to a tyranny of the elite!
Romney will create a Mormon theocracy if elected! BOOGEDY BOOGIE BOO! Are you scared now, all you wimpy, wobbly Romney-butt-kissing freepers out there? Vote Newt and we will never again bow to a Mormon bishop.
I’m sorry. The URL is perfectly fine. It was my mistake.
I think the progressive / neo-liberals / communists did it by building from within and from without. The outsiders, that is, the radicals, knew how to use power and they are succeeding. They are now in the process of making their party a good facsimile of historical totalitarian parties, at least thats my judgement. They had and have a seeming advantage over us: they are entirely amoral and will do anything to accomplish their ends. We have an advantage over them. We can make our case in the light of day rather than under the cover of darkness. What is needed is the willingness to try and the intelligence to come up with a plan. By the way, what I have just said about the amorality of the radicals in the democrat party also goes for the republican establishment / rinos. They also are amoral and thus have a weakness that can be probed: they can only lie about their true agenda. Play to the weaknesses of the enemy and to our strengths. Seems to me, in a general sort of way, that’s the key. Don’t burn your bridges by foregoing the structures that already exist. The structures are fine. What inhabits them is not.
Another key: conservatives are not good leaders or followers because they just want to be left alone, but, we need leaders and an army. We are going to have to change. If we want to change the world, we need to start with ourselves.
This is a time to come together, not split apart. Recognize that each one of us has talents and experiences that can be valuable to the cause. Like I said in my previous post, 95% of Americans do not understand the problem. If I’m right, that means 5% do and are available for conscription into our political army. What do you think a united 15,000,000 man American political army can do? I think it can turn the entire world upside down.
It’s been done before. It can be done again.
I just wanted to expand on the idea of leadership a little.
It seems to me we keep hearing that Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican party. It seems to me this idea is put out there by the enemy. It seems to me there are many amongst us who accept this idea and as a result expect something from Rush he cannot give while we expect we need do nothing until Rush calls us to arms.
This is ridiculous. Rush Limbaugh is not a leader. Those of us who think he is and who are dissapointed because he did not give something we expected need to realize the problem is not Rush. The problem is us for expecting something from Rush he could not give and thereby foregoing our responsibility to do something positive for the cause.
And of course, the enemy knew just exactly what I just said. I mean really, why do you think they drafted Rush as general? It is because he is not along with the fact they want to put a target on his back.
We need leaders, real leaders, not ones picked for us by the enemy.
We'll know that for sure once Obama taps him for the Veep position in late Oct and he accepts...
Because conservatives (most of us) have four major problems.
1. Poor organization. (Not that RNC is much better)
2. Absolutely no patience and little knowledge of tactics and rules of the game.
3. Most people look for leaders instead of being leaders.
4. The perfect is the enemy of the good or at least acceptable.
I can't speak for your state, but here the Republican party is elected. Precinct delegates run for office and pick their leadership in local and state parties, as well as RNC committee members. Most of the time, that position has no candidates. Most of us don't run, or at least heavily back good people to run for party leadership. Most of us sit and bitch. (Not directing this at you since you actually have been active). One of my best friends is about as conservative as it gets, and he's accepted or at least tolerated in mid-level leadership because he's a hard worker who is active. He'll probably be state party treasurer someday because he's an expert on campaign finance regulation. Those active and who pay their dues earn respect of the grass roots party members.
The other thing is campaign knowledge. How many people have run a campaign? A serious campaign that isn't for what is known as "some dude" in insider circles and had a serious chance to win AND had serious opposition. It can be for local office even. It's not cheap, either in finances or manpower. If you have one and not the other, the other costs much more than it otherwise would. If you have neither, you will lose outside of a miracle. If you are poorly organized, both will cost more. Good name recognition is key.
As far as Romney goes, the seeds were planted for Mitt back in Iowa when conservatives not only failed to find a strong anti-Romney (Santorum and Newt were blips on the radar until the others dropped out or crashed), they repeated tore down the other non-Romneys over and over. That is in addition to many trying to rip all candidates in an attempt to clear the path for Sarah Palin who wasn't even running. If Tim Pawlenty was in, he would have been in the nominee. Not exciting, but a competent manager who is at least pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, better than Mitt on fiscal issues, and known as a one of the few real decent guys in politics.
Our founders created a system where the individual that wanted to make his own way in the world could do just that and be protected from the "collective". The system's final safe guard was supposed to be the SCOTUS. The SCOTUS was to be the watch dog so the individual could concentrate on his own life and not have to constantly look over their shoulder to see how the statist were creeping up on him/her. This system allows personal productivity to skyrocket, buy alas it has never worked. THe SCOTUS has been a dismal failure since the beginning.
The purpose of our three-headed system is to divide power in order to protect individual rights. In that sense, none of the parts is final IMHO. The final protection is the very fact that “We the People” are sovereign, the very thing that makes America “exceptional”. It is and always has been our duty to be vigilant to protect gainst a day when it is necessary to reclaim our rights thru something other than the ballot box. We are our own final guardians. We are the ones we have been waiting for. Did I just say that? :-)
Don’t ignore the role played by the media.
An unbiased, fair media would and should keep ALL political hopefuls in line. If a candidate had any skeletons in the closet, we would know about them, if the MSM hadn’t been corrupted.
Now, we have a Leftist media (the Big Media, anyway) that goes to great lengths to PREVENT us from knowing any dirt about their loved ones. Have we ever seen that video the LA Times refused to release during the 2008 contest? Obummer should have never made it past the 2008 primaries, but for the loving assistance of the MSM.
Also, the Leftist media quickly attacks and obliterates any Conservative who dares raise his or her head. Just look at Herman Cain for recent proof. They must be rummaging through trash cans trying to find something, anything, to pin on Allen West.
Not enough people get their news through the alternative media, like we do.
Welcome to the United Soviet States of America..where the Pravda State Media vet the candidates to the pleasure and needs of the RinoCrat UniParty.
This election will be a non-election...featuring the state approved candidates-whose only distinction is whether they are black or white.
The “two-PARTEY” system merely means that the R & D in DC gang up on Flyover Country....and laugh all the way to the bank as they do so
The MSM has become our worst enemy. All we get from them is lies and propaganda.
” Now, we have a Leftist media (the Big Media, anyway) that goes to great lengths to PREVENT us from knowing any dirt about their loved ones. Have we ever seen that video the LA Times refused to release during the 2008 contest? Obummer should have never made it past the 2008 primaries, but for the loving assistance of the MSM.”
The entire MSM covered up for Obama!
” Why would the Republican Party do this? For some time the leadership has been convinced that the nation was heading Left, and it didn’t see any possibility of Conservatives being elected. Rather than look at our rich history and notice that our widest victories were realized when we played on our differences with Leftist policy, they decided to adopt more Leftist policy in an attempt to look more appealing. And as this took place, the information dispensed to the public heralding Conservatism ceased. And as the push for Conservatism ceased, the nation moved farther left.”
Take a look at the fossils we have in the House & Senate. They have been there for decades. All they care about is themselves. We need TERM LIMITS, so these people don’t get too comfortable and come to believe that their office belongs to them!!
Lugar age 80
Hatch age 78......still RUNNING!!
Where is everybody?
Sheesh..
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