Posted on 03/04/2016 1:47:56 PM PST by molewhacka
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me …. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are ….” — The Rich Boy, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The above also can be said regarding Establishment politicians, media, academia and corrupt crony capitalists. In fact, there are alarming similarities between the cloistered Establishment apparatchiks of today and various royal courts just prior to the culmination of revolutionary backlash.
In their overweening arrogance, they enact policies that strangle the working and middle classes like a bureaucratic boa constrictor.
They fail to comprehend that “the peasantry” no longer accepts the premise that our God-given freedoms and the fruit of our labor are the Establishment’s to divvy out at their whim.
Pundits nervously assert the ascendancy of Donald Trump’s unconventional campaign has shredded the Establishment rulebook.
More accurately, Trump simply recognized the majority of Americans are mad as you-know-what and are not going to take it anymore.
After all, why should we follow Establishment rules that violate the very principles upon which our nation was founded, endanger our future and are primarily designed to enrich the elitist oligarchy at our expense?
For decades, Democrats have contemptuously treated minorities and the working class as mere slaves on the Democratic plantation.
Democrat regressives rely on class warfare and racism — envy and strife — to enrich ‘the chosen few’ even as they scatter seeds of oppression and destitution to those foolish enough to fall for the “Democrats are for the little guy” scam.
The rise of socialist Bernie Sanders and retread of Hillary Clinton serve as a flashing neon sign illuminating the current Democratic base as little more than an amalgamation of those lusting to use government force to take other people’s stuff.
Regardless of who wins the nomination, the Democratic standard bearer is an old, white, rich (from the government trough) socialist playing the class and race cards.
Likewise, Establicans regard social and fiscal conservatives as their own private cheap-labor, zombie army.
During campaign season, their ads interject “conservative” every other word; yet once they squirm under the election-day tollgate, they are back to selling their votes and their souls to the highest bidder.
Both wings of the Establicrat Party fail to realize the magnitude of their malignant malfeasance has metastasized to the extent the stench of their corruption overpowers the populace’s hear-no-evil-see-no-evil normalcy bias.
Establicrats plunder the wealth of current and future generations; set fire to our freedom to live in peace and support our families; entice swarms of illegal aliens with handouts of our tax-dollars;
Grant special “rights” exalting immorality and enshrining free-loaders while trampling our actual God-given, constitutionally-protected rights; and set us all on the Road to Serfdom.
As the Establicrat cornered rats rip asunder the fast-fading freedoms and wealth of our constitutional republic, we the people rise to say, “We are not dead, yet!”
The whites of the Establishment’s eyes are showing, and they have every reason to be afraid.
Not only are they losing control of the “redistribution” of trillions of dollars, their loss of the narrative is putting to death any delusions the masses have of “working through the system.”
The people have arrived at the Emerald City, yanked back the curtain, and found the self-declared Great and Powerful Establishment not only does not know what is best for us, but also does not even know us.
The worm has turned.
Americans are awaking to the realization that we are not genetically predisposed to heed the Siren call of the Establishment Pied Piper or join Sisyphus on his hill.
We are a people yearning to breathe free, and freedom we shall have, even if we have to wrest it from the clutches of an Establishment whose greed cannot be slaked. Inherent in the very nature of corruption is that it cannot help but fail. Institutions built upon fraudulent foundations are preordained to crumble.
Yet even as they disintegrate and decay, their detritus can serve as catalysts and nutrients for new life to spring forth — rot to roots.
Even were the Establicrats to achieve some measure of success in derailing the candidacy of Trump and other pro-America candidates, they cannot hold back the tide that is rising to sweep the Establishment out to sea.
As a wild eagle released from a trap or hostages set free from Establishment chains, we not only have no desire to return to captivity, but also are emboldened by the will to remain free.
The 2016 elections represent an indictment and repudiation of the amoral, immoral and outright evil currently ensconced in positions of power and influence.
Whether Trump is a paladin or opportunist becomes almost irrelevant with respect to the mood of an electorate crying, “Throw the bums out!”
Establishment tyrants and their crybully sycophants can attempt to portray themselves as disadvantaged “victims” all they want.
The truth is the Establishment is panicking as their grip on the power to engorge themselves on other people’s wealth and freedoms grows more tenuous with each passing day.
Mounting numbers are on to their subterfuge. The time is past when they could push-poll or spin their way out of their tangled webs of deceit.
Actions have consequences, and an enraged electorate is raising high their proverbial pitchforks.
As for we the people, 2016 is akin to awakening from the plot of a clichéd Establishment horror movie overflowing with imminently bad choices.
We no longer need to stumble into the creepy unconstitutional/immoral basement or stagger into the runaway debt/tyrannical government dark woods. But simply clambering from the Establishment pit isn’t enough.
Freedom is not for the weak of heart. We must now build upon a foundation of repentance, revival and reformation if we are to have any hope for our future.
[The worm has turned.
Americans are awaking to the realization that we are not genetically predisposed to heed the Siren call of the Establishment Pied Piper or join Sisyphus on his hill.]
Correct. Welcome to the political revolution, boys (DNC / GOPe).
The country is awakening.
Bump
“...................But simply clambering from the Establishment pit isn’t enough.”
The pit must be concreted over. Everything unconstitutional must be removed, and the bureaucracies laid to waste.
We must renew our Constitutional government.
I’m not sure what the short term consequences are if the current establishment falls, but I DO believe it’s a ‘God Thing’.
The Repubs are supposed to be the more Godly half of the two parties, and they haven’t been. They’ve been liars and deceivers.
[They’ve been liars and deceivers.]
Absolutely. And thrown us all under the bus.
It’s way past time to dethrone them and their DNC buddies.
By ANY means necessary.
Good luck with that. Sanders or Clinton would get almost 50 % of th vote!
HOLY HEDGE FUND! Jeb-You/re-Next spent over $125 million on his failed campaign. The GOPe power brokers must be choking on the chilled Cristal, Oestra caviar, and stuffed lobster in the country club Grill Room. Jeb left the presidential race after two humiliating out-of-the-running finishes in NH and SC.
Once upon a time,the RNC brought together a brain trust of GOPe party elders to figure out what had gone wrong. Obama had just throttled Romney, the party lost ground in the Senate, and voters just weren/t into the Old Christian White Man demographic. So the Big Tent of gays, abortionists, secularists, feminists, was resurrected.....and conservatives were herded onto an ice floe set adrift in the Arctic Ocean.
IMHO, the ignominious collapse of Jeb-You/re-Next drove a huge stake into the heart of the establishment GOPe. Forget erectile dysfunction. The fallout of being politically castrated is devastating to a Big Buck power broker.
The GOPe de-b***ing began when candidate Jeb said he didn’t need the Republican base .... and proceeded to carry on, business as usual, as his numbers sunk into oblivion.
Jeb telling a key bloc of Republican voters to take a hike is the consequence of the country club GOPe demeaning and dismissing conservatives as not being worthy of their elite party.
The entitled Jeb-You/re-Next took it as Gospel when he heard the Bush elders condescending attitude towards conservatives....people to whom the aristocratic Bush/s feel socially superior.
But the GOPe should know this: they will get no pity from conservatives for their woes.....and we aim to stick their noses in the mess they made every frickin’ chance we get.
Is there any doubt left that the Republican Party and its media lackeys have been stage managed by forces and factions that spit upon the founding principles of this nation. Oligarchs - America’s aristocracy, American’s monarchy, unmerited power derived from birthright- not ability or intelligence or ethical standards. A state of mind governed by the accumulation of wealth and control of human destinies with allegiance to no nation, no people, no history, no tradition other than the exercise of dominion over the minds of otherwise free and unfettered beings. Now it is their time to watch America rise up in defiance standing shoulder to shoulder against the very evils that our Founding Fathers warned us against in word and deed. Sons of Liberty, grab your manhood and advance upon the forces of Ultimate Stupidity.
Didn't want to have to do this, but you forced me into it.It won't slip away completely until we install TERM LIMITS that prevent them from spending decades in office, and make all political donations ANONYMOUS so they can't sell influence while they're there.
It's supposed to be about SERVICE, not about POWER.
The analytical part of this piece is really well written, however the ending is weak. The real question is where does all of this lead? A Second American Revolution resulting in a revitalized republic or French Revolution style chaos resulting in even greater tyranny.
As the country is awakening, the GOPe is reaching for a handful of pills and a bottle of Jack Daniels. That wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact they are still behind the wheel.
2016 may well be the last opportunity to move back toward constitutional government. Incrementalism favors the Left, and even when they lose, they never give up or go away.
The only decent attempt to correct the federal power grab would be the administration of Calvin Coolidge.
One thing is for sure, if we don’t at least try, we are only going to run out of other people’s money sooner rather than later. You can bet Bernie and Hillary’s fan club is not going to take that without burning down some businesses.
“The pit must be concreted over. Everything unconstitutional must be removed, and the bureaucracies laid to waste.”
Absolutely true! If Trump is successful in serious cuts and/or departmental closures, we stand a fighting chance to retreive our republic. He should start with the EPA, Dept of Education and the Post Office. He should also go through the State Department and make serious cuts, because administrations come and administrations go, but the State Dept, at the working level cruises along it’s liberal path. But, I would submit that the first order of business is the SCOTUS. Trump needs to apoint Scalia’s successor and ole Ruth Buzzy Ginzburg has one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel, so that’s two!
Good post.
From a related thread …
Consider that the mostly wealthy delegates to the first Constitutional Convention actually put their money where their mouths were with respect to the Constitution that they had drafted. They did so by committing themselves and their rich friends to uniquely paying for the federal government to operate.
“The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied [emphasis added]. … Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.” —Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
H O W E V E R …
What protected the rich from high federal taxes in the early days of the Republic was the knowledge, evidently forgotten generations ago, of the following Supreme Court clarification. The Court had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, basically any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In fact, regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers, the justices who had written the Gibbons excerpt above had also clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
But since rich people evidently no longer understand that the feds do not have the constitutional authority to regulate how they run their businesses, I presume that they are unthinkingly bribing corrupt federal lawmakers for loopholes in the federal laws that the post-17th Amendment ratification Congress actually has no constitutional authority to make.
So let the rich once again pay all the taxes needed to run the federal government. But let the rich also police the feds to make sure that the feds are appropriating taxes only for what they can justify with Congress’s Section 8-limited powers.
Again, corrupt federal lawmakers must be laughing all the way to the bank to deposit their bribes made from making loopholes in laws that “benefit" the wealthy, the feds actually having no constitutional authority to make many of these laws.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who accept bribes for putting loopholes that favor the rich in unconstitutional intrastate commerce regulatory laws along with it.
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