Posted on 11/20/2011 7:36:22 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
At 5:30 of Mark Levin's speech at the Defending the American Dream Conference(Full speech courtesy of Right Scoop, please click here and watch the whole thing), Mark Levin had some comments regarding Fabianism in the United States. Here is a short clip:
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What he is referring to comes out of Woodrow Wilson's book "Constitutional Government In The United States". There are two things, actually. One of them is from page 16, which I made a posting about some time ago.
The other begins on page 4
The ideals of liberty cannot be fixed from generation to generation; only its conception can be, the large image of what it is. Liberty fixed in unalterable law would be no liberty at all. Government is a part of life, and, with life, it must change, alike in its objects and in its practices; only this principle must remain unaltered, — this principle of liberty, that there must be the freest right and opportunity of adjustment. Political liberty consists in the best practicable adjustment between the power of the government and the privilege of the individual; and the freedom to alter the adjustment is as important as the adjustment itself for the ease and progress of affairs and the contentment of the citizen.There are many analogies by which it is possible to illustrate the idea, if it needs illustration. We say of a boat skimming the water with light foot, 'How free she runs,' when we mean, how perfectly she is adjusted to the force of the wind, how perfectly she obeys the great breath out of the heavens that fills her sails. Throw her head up into the wind and see how she will halt and stagger, how every sheet will shiver and her whole frame be shaken, how instantly she is "in irons," in the expressive phrase of the sea. She is free only when you have let her fall off again and get once more her nice adjustment to the forces she must obey and cannot defy. We speak of the 'free' movement of the piston-rod in the perfectly made engine, and know of course that its freedom is proportioned to its perfect adjustment. The least lack of adjustment will heat it with friction and hold it stiff and unmanageable. There is nothing free in the sense of being unrestrained in a world of innumerable forces, and each force moves at its best when best adjusted to the forces about it. Spiritual things are not wholly comparable with material things, and political liberty is a thing of the spirits of men; but we speak of friction in things that affect our spirits, and do not feel that it is altogether a figure of speech. It is not forcing analogies, therefore, to say that that is the freest government in which there is the least friction, — the least friction between the power of the government and the privilege of the individual. The adjustment may vary from generation to generation, but the principle never can. A constitutional government, being an instrumentality for the maintenance of liberty, is an instrumentality for the maintenance of a right adjustment, and must have a machinery of constant adaptation.
Wilson is wrong on all accounts. Levin's explanation of this is fabulous. Even the use of the word mastermind, is worth note. A progressive by the name of Edward House(who was Woodrow Wilson's favorite go-to guy) wrote the book "Philip Dru, Administrator". Mastermind is exactly the phrase used to describe Dru: (Page 148)
GENERAL DRU began at once the reorganization of his army. The Nation knew that the war was over, and it was in a quiver of excitement.They recognized the fact that Dru dominated the situation and that a master mind had at last arisen in the Republic. He had a large and devoted army to do his bidding, and the future seemed to lie wholly in his hands.
This is not accidental. This is how central planners look at themselves. They're all masterminds.
obama’s occupy wall street movement will be ginning up for next year.
it will be a permanent drag on american democracy, increasingly shrill when the republicans are in power.
On that last, please add me.
Your link in this sentence does not work. I hope you are able to provide a working one? Thanks for this article. Glad to have it.
What he is referring to comes out of Woodrow Wilson’s book “Constitutional Government In The United States”. There are two things, actually. One of them is from page 16, which I made a posting about some time ago. (link embedded in last 3 words)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2770000/posts
Thank you for mentioning it, but I don’t know how to fix it in the original posting.
Glenn Beck’s been going on about the evil that is Woodrow Wilson for several years now.
The people and mechanisms involved in the deliberate subversion of American liberty are pretty obvious to the informed observer. Woodrow Wilson is indeed an early malefactor. We would have to root out bad artifacts going back least a century to restore something approximating what the Founders envisioned. The odds of a sweeping, sudden, authoritarian Washington government coup d’état against the Constitution, the People and the States, or an open and many factioned civil war, are at least as great as a Restoration.
Out own fellow FreeP “LS” has written a REALLY thick book the should be required reading about US History: http://www.amazon.com/Patriots-History-United-States-Columbuss/dp/1595230327/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321806074&sr=8-1
Domestically, he deliberately neglected to take any action about the Spanish flu. Even worse, he squelched news of it, so people across the country were unaware of the danger until it hit their own communities. Who knows how many thousands of Americans died because of the way Wilson handled the epidemic.
In foreign policy, he got us into the European war when he ran for reelection on a promise not to. The Spanish flu was already bringing an end to the war, and we got into it very late. Our entry wasn't necessary, and I believe it was just an excuse for what he did when the fighting stopped. He doubled down on his treachery by pushing the League of Nations -- the first primitive attempt at world government, which we're still stuck with today. His ham-handed mess in Versailles led directly to the rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II.
There's circumstantial evidence to suggest he caught the flu while in Versailles. Then he had his stroke and set another bottom-feeding precedent. He didn't resign the presidency, but essentially let his wife become de facto president. Today we still have politicians hang on to their offices long after they become severely infirm or incapacitated.
There's more, way more in Wilson's record that harmed not only Americans of his time, but is still harming us today.
I agree
Excellent post - thanks! And Goldberg’s book needs to be promoted whenever possible - it’s a masterwork of info every thinking American needs to digest.
He also segregated the military, after it had been desegregated.
Yes, he sure did. Wilson was a severe racist. Another thing that happened on his watch...the Russian Revolution. More accurately, the Communist takeover of Russia. He also pushed through the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, and the first income tax law (after the amendment was ratified). He began the first military draft since the Civil War, took control of the railroads, suppressed anti-war movements, began the first federal intrusion into the agriculture and food production industries.
The list of his prototypical Leftist achievements goes on and on -- and we are still paying the price today.
He is the one that launched the Nation into this final, unstoppable, death-rattle spiral that will culminate in a centuries-long marxist tyranny...
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