This is an old thread, about an even older booklet called The Revolution Was, from 1938 by Garet Garrett regarding FDR and the New Deal. ALMOST EVERY WORD COULD BE WRITTEN TODAY.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
Some excerpts from the intro (caps are my highlights:
There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom......
Worse outwitted were those who kept TRYING TO MAKE SENSE of the New Deal from the point of view of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy, economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern.
But it could not be so embarrassed and all that line was wasted, because, in the first place, IT NEVER INTENDED TO MAKE THAT KIND OF SENSE, and secondly, it took off from nothing that was implicit in the American scheme. It took off from a revolutionary base......
No matter how carefully a revolution may have been planned there is bound to be a crucial time. That comes when the actual seizure of power is taking place. In this case certain steps were necessary. They were difficult and daring steps. But more than that, they had to be taken in a certain sequence, with FORETHOUGHT AND PRECISION OF TIMING....
Having passed THIS CRISIS, the New Deal went on from one problem to another, taking them in the proper order.....
THE END HELD CONSTANTLY IN VIEW WAS POWER.
At the end of the first year, in his annual message to the Congress, January 4, 1934, President Roosevelt said: “It is to the eternal credit of the American people that this tremendous readjustment of our national life is being accomplished peacefully.”
Peacefully if possible of course.
Until it was too late few understood one like Julius C. Smith, of the American Bar Association, saying: “Is there any labor leader, any businessman, any lawyer or any other citizen of America so blind that he cannot see that this country is drifting at an accelerated pace into administrative absolutism similar to that which prevailed in the governments of antiquity, the governments of the Middle Ages, and in the great totalitarian governments of today? Make no mistake about it. Even as Mussolini and Hitler rose to absolute power under the forms of law... so may administrative absolutism be fastened upon this country within the Constitution and within the forms of law.”
Excellent analysis. In fact, we are in a counter revolution that started with Reagan and took out the mother ship (Thatcher and Kohl were a big part of the effort, as was John Paul II). We’ve suffered a setback but, as usual, the Libs are pushing too fast and too far. The momentum is shifting back to the Right but the war is not over. G-d allowed Liberalism to spring forth in the 1800s and we are still fighting the fight today. Some say this is the beginning of the End Times. With millions dead from Communist and Nazi dictators, they may be right.