Posted on 10/25/2014 8:07:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rob Stein is the founder of the Democracy Alliance, an umbrella a group that organizes the funding of left-wing causes by rich liberals and interest groups. In The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado by Adam Schrager and Rob Witwer, at page 7, Stein explains candidly what politics is all about for the Left:
“The reason it is so important to control government is because government is the source of enormous power,” Stein continued. “One president in this country, when he or she takes office, appoints…5,000 people to run a bureaucracy, nonmilitary nonpostal service of 2 million people, who hire 10 million outside outsource contractors–a workforce of 12 million people–that spends $3 trillion a year. That number is larger than the gross domestic product of all but four countries on the face of the earth.”
“So the reason we’re doing what we’re doing…and the way we get progressive change, is to control government,” Stein said. “That’s what this is about.”
This will to power explains why the Left, a clear minority among Americans, consistently punches above its weight, politically.
Glenn Reynolds once commented on the seeming paradox of liberals who are terrified at the prospect that libertarians might take power and leave them alone. Actually, liberals probably do want to be left alone; they just don’t have any intention of leaving you alone. Liberals hunger for power so that they can enrich themselves, in many cases, but more generally, so they can remake the world according to their own preferences. This doesn’t mean that they will have to change, but it does mean that you will have to change. As long as liberals’ hunger for power is stronger than conservatives’ desire to be left in peace, the Left will continue to dominate our public life.
STEVE adds: I’d never seen that Stein quote before, and I’ve never seen a liberal ratify so directly and so clearly Michael Oakeshott’s great warning of this disposition:
To some people, “government” appears as a vast reservoir of power which inspires them to dream of what use might be made of it. They have favorite projects, of various dimensions, which they sincerely believe are for the benefit of mankind, and to capture this source of power, if necessary to increase it, and to use it for imposing their favorite projects upon their fellows is what they understand as the adventure of governing men. They are, thus, disposed to recognize government as an instrument of passion; the art of politics is to inflame and direct desire. In short, governing is understood to be just like any other activity – making and selling a brand of soap, exploiting the resources of a locality, or developing a housing estate – only the power here is (for the most part) already mobilized, and the enterprise is remarkable only because it aims at monopoly and because of its promise of success once the source of power has been captured.
As Oakeshott concluded, the conjunction of dreaming and ruling generates tyranny.
Eleven days.
Meanwhile I see government as quoted in 1984: "But always -- do not forget this, Winston -- always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever."
Wouldn’t ya’ just love one free punch?
I sure would.
I believe it was Andy Stern who said “If we can’t use the power of persuasion, we’ll use the persuasion of power”.
Frankly, anyone willing to sit back and let these people have even more power better buy a shovel. They’re going to need it when they dig the ditch they’ll die in.
Only people who don’t pay taxes or the parasites that feed on them empower the obamanation.
We are the largest, best equipped army (save for artillery & heavy weapons) on Earth, but most don’t realize it. There’s a reason they’re always trying to confiscate our weapons.
Thank you for posting this... I was just explaining this exact thing to my daughter the other day. It will be great to hand this to her and show her a liberal stating this clearly as their intent.
Unfortunately the horror of a civil war is almost as bad as what the left has planned. Thousands of non combatants (mostly children and the elderly) would die due to the loss of power, electricity heat, food and medicines.
A true last resort.
should the reins fall back into our hands, we need to go about dealing with the leftist agenda much differently.
And then you'd like to remind libs of the last century when the atheists i.e. the communists murdered about one hundred million people.
Oppose the Government—get the IRS on your neck. This abuse is real—Or get the MSM to attack you—think its not true just ask Sarah Palin.
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
DEFUND/DISMANTLE socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
Some socialist collectives…here…(pick one any one…DISMANTLE and watch them whine)...
http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G022
Whenever some liberal sneers, “But you don’t NEEEEEEED an assault weapon or a thirty round clip!!”, you can be sure you’re looking at a would-be Revolutionary Peoples’ Commissar who longs to be the boot stamping on the human face that Orwell described.
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