From the founding of our nation through the late 1800s, the word liberal meant to hold constitutionally libertarian principles found in the U.S Constitution. In the late 1800s intellectuals began to chafe under our representative republic. The concept of “We the People” enshrined in our Constitution meant the common man had the right to choose their leaders through democratic elections. Intellectuals adopted the ideas of Karl Marx because they appealed to their belief that government should be left with those people possessing superior intellect. Just as the corrupt monarchs of old, they believed in their right to rule over the less intelligent. Communists believed in the violent overthrow of government, while Socialists and Progressives believed they could more “progressively.” transformation of democratic republics into socialist utopias
Rich Lowry’s wrote in National Review … Benito Mussolini was a socialist and earned the title “Il Duce” as the leader of the socialists in Italy. When he founded the fascist party, its program called for implementing a minimum wage, expropriating property from landowners, repealing titles of nobility, creating state-run secular schools and imposing a progressive tax rate. Mussolini took socialism and turned it in a more populist and militaristic direction, but remained a modernizing, secular man of the left.
As more and more people begin to find fault with today’s liberalism, liberal politicians are beginning to call themselves progressives. Students educated from text books written by progressive professors during the last hundred years have never been taught the corrupt history of American and European progressives.
Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican progressive, believed in an expansive military and enlarging Americas’ role as a military power. He supported taking of vast tracks of private land and transferring it to the government, some as national parks and some as land held for future development by government. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, was both a self described progressive and a committed racist. He fired all black people from federal government jobs when he was elected and he re-segregated the U.S. Military into a black and white army. He instituted minimum wages laws which made it easier to exclude low skilled black workers from employment and make minimum wages, “good” jobs, more available to whites. Wilson was such a proponent of America entering the European War I, he sent thousands of newspaper editors and journalists to prison for their anti-war writings.
Republican progressives supported Woodrow Wilson’s 16th amendment to our constitution, which gave us the “progressive” Income Tax. The 17th amendment reversed the constitutional provision in which state legislatures could select U.S. Senators to represent the interest of the states. The 17th amendment to our Constitution allows people direct election of Senators. This amendment is the source of federal unfunded mandates on States. State ledgeslatures no longer have a check on federal government power in our system of checks and balances. This amendment has allowed the federal government to expand out of control.
Progressives who followed in Woodrow Wilson’s footsteps became very associated with government tyranny. As the name progressives fell out of popular favor, progressives began calling themselves liberals. They adopted some of the concepts of freedom and liberty of the founding fathers but tried to achieve it through big government programs to “aid the poor.” Now after decades of Liberalism, common people associate Liberalism with the loss of freedom and loss of property through incessant taxation and eminent domain. Liberalism has now developed a bad name, so modern Liberals once again are calling themselves progressives. There’s even an insurance company that proudly calls itself Progressive. Unless you learn the true history of Woodrow Wilson, America’s first and worst progressive, you will never know the depraved policies of America’s first progressives.
Progressives believed they had to eliminate God from public schools and rewrite curriculum based on their secular ideals. Progressives rejected God because they wanted to be god-like rulers on earth. (King James the first was believed in the divine right of Kings to rule over his subjects, just as socialists seek to rule as a humanist intellectual’s right.) Progressives read Karl Marx and sought ways to implement his ideas within our representative republic. Over the last hundred years, they have instituted Marxist ideas: the progressive income tax, Darwinism and the survival of the fittest, eugenics through means of sterilization of racially and intellectually inferior people and abortion of the same inferiors. They believe a strong central government has the right to confiscate private property and use the progressive income tax to take from the rich and redistribute as they see fit. Taxes take on a whole new meaning. Taxes were once used to provide for the common defense are now used to redistribute wealth between the”social classes.”
In his brilliant new book Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg (a colleague of mine) demonstrates how the opposite is
the case, that fascism was a movement of the left and that liberal heroes like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were products of what Goldberg calls “the fascist moment” in America early in the 20th century. How we think of the ideological spectrum — socialism to the left, fascism to the right — should be forever changed.
In World War II, Franklin Roosevelt also believed in concentration camps but did not believe in euthanasia. Americans of Japanese descent were interned in prison camps, denied constitutional freedom, denied their property rights, and denied their rights to defend their new adopted country. In contrast, the national socialists of Germany chose to house “inferior people” like gypsies, Jews, and obstinate Christians in concentration camps and eliminate them in gas chambers. Other citizens were just put in slave labor camps to do work for government tyrants. Franklin Roosevelt and Adolph differ only in the levels of extremism practiced. Socialists, Progressives, Marxists, fascists, and communists are all tyrants by different names. They believe in the absolute power of the state to rule, and the common man to be their servant. A way to greater freedom would be to reverse these constitutional amendments and restore our freedoms as a republic.
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Oligarchy and Republic
There are only 2 true forms of economic systems
monopolistic state-controlled capitalism
competitive free market enterprise capitalism
Communist Manifesto
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have”
– Thomas Jefferson
Since 1913, the presidents of both parties and congressional members of both parties have embraced the ten planks of the Communist manifesto. One by one they have chipped away from our constitutional limits to an all powerful central government. Congress and the presidency have shifted power to the central government that our founding fathers never intended.
The founding fathers designed a government that would limit the power of central government because they knew a strong central government would strip citizens of the blessings of individual liberty. The founding fathers knew what it was like to live under a dictatorial king whose absolute power was an hereditary right. They designed a new sort of government that empowered individuals to achieve prosperity and success by their own efforts.
Politicians wanted to take power away from individuals and give it to themselves and over the past century have gradually enacted the planks of the communist manifesto. The only hope for the future is to start rolling back these socialist planks, one by one,until we get our freedom back.
The latest outrage of this Obama administration was to surrender our national sovereignty to world government at the G20 summit of global socialists. How close are we to achieving all the planks of the Communist Manifesto? I Googgled “Communist Manifesto” and “10 planks” and found this list. Notice how close we have come to achieving them in America. These ten planks read like the Obama’s Democrat party platform.
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school & property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land Management
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933; and various State “income” taxes. We call it “paying your fair share”.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance
We call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels
We call in government seizures, tax liens, Public “law” 99-570 (1986); Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of “terrorists” and those who speak out or write against the “government” (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
We call it the Federal Reserve which is a credit/debt system nationally organized by the Federal Reserve act of 1913. All local banks are members of the Fed system, and are regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). This private bank has an exclusive monopoly in money creation which in reality has ended the need for revenue from taxes. So why do they tax? To FOOL YOU into thinking they need them.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State
We call it the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Transportation (DOT) madated through the ICC act of 1887, the Commissions Act of 1934, The Interstate Commerce Commission established in 1938, The Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, and Executive orders 11490, 10999, as well as State mandated driver’s licenses and Department of Transportation regulations. There is also the postal monopoly, AMTRACK and CONRAIL
7. Extention of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
We call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture. As well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Evironmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations.
8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
We call it the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two “income” family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920’s, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000. And I almost forgot…The Equal Rights Amendment means that women should do all work that men do including the military and since passage it would make women subject to the draft.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
We call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public “law” 89-136.
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
