We have been trained to think in extremes. Our public school indoctrination has convinced us to always have an "Us Versus Them" attitude, and if you are not fully in line with the collective, you are an enemy.
The liberal left teaches that if you are not in line with their policies that expand the size of government, then you are anti-government, a radical, an extremist, a domestic terrorist, and as Harry Reid put it when referring to the Tea Party Wing of the Republican Party, anarchists. Therefore, you believe in not helping the poor, you want to take food out of the mouths of hungry children, and you are determined on leaving grandma with nothing but cat food to subsist on. Of course, you are a hypocrite, according to these people, because according to them having police services, fire protection services, and other emergency services are all socialist in nature, and therefore if you are truly anti-government, you would do away with those things that government provides for, as well.
As a result of our education in extremes, and political absolutes, on the right side of things, the opposite is often true. If you believe government should provide services, then you are a communist. If you participate in the political realm, or have any association with politicians, you are the enemy - because these people that have formed a coalition on the extreme opposite side of the liberal left have determined that there is no difference between the two parties, all politicians are corrupt, and it will probably result in blood in the streets to get us back on the path the United States Constitution originally intended.
The left extreme sided with the Bureau of Land Management during the Nevada Ranch ordeal we recently experienced, and the right extreme was ready to pull the trigger and kill any federal employee that dared stand against Cliven Bundy.
To the extreme left, everybody not in their camp is racist. To the extreme right, everybody not in their camp is a part of the big government problem. Both sides are reactive, jumping to conclusions, and believing the tripe their news sources provides them. . . without necessarily studying the reality of the situation for themselves. Oh, and both camps are convinced that we need to legalize marijuana.
I have nothing in common in the extreme left, and much in common with the extreme right but not necessarily to the same exact tune. I don't consider myself a moderate, for that is a term the liberal left uses for those that claim not to be liberal, but are. I don't adhere to the political spectrum the liberal left provides us with, which is more in line with the French model of secularism versus religion and change versus preserving the status quo.
I am a classical centrist. The United States Constitution, based on the American Political Spectrum that places 100% government on the far left, and 0% government on the far right, is at the dead center. It takes a big government idea (creation of a central government), and a small government idea (limiting principles) and places them together in a contract between the States. It is from that position that I write this article.
This post was inspired by a number of people. I am writing this to Nathan in Orlando, a loyal listener and reader for many years, who has decided that since I am not as critical of the Republican Party as I am of the Democrats, I must have sworn an oath to the GOP. He sees Romney as being as liberal as Obama, and though I agree that Mitt was no champion of conservatism, he was still a better choice than the fascist in the White House right now. Despite their flaws, and trust me, the republicans have plenty of them, they are still the horse we need to be riding on. The thing is, if you shoot the horse you are riding on because it doesn't run the way you want it to, in the end, you wind up with no horse. A slow horse, for the time being, it better than no horse at all.
I am also writing this to a group of folks I love, and hold close to my heart, but they have decided it is too late to use politics to turn this thing around, that there is no difference between the two parties, and it will take another American Revolution to steer this baby back into the right direction. They are calling for a Second American Revolution (historically, it would actually be the fourth in some people's opinions, if you call the War of 1812 our second, and the Civil War our third) and they believe this is going to be done without parties, by independents infiltrating government, and taking drastic actions to change how government functions. They believe the corruption, and the problems in government, are because of the two parties, and the only way to reset everything is to eliminate the party system, and keep it gone.
When there are no parties, there is one party, and that is even more dangerous. That is an oligarchy. That was the thinking behind the French Revolution.
I am not a huge fan of the political parties. I am a registered republican, not because I love the GOP, but because I believe of the two parties, it is the one we have the best opportunity to turn around.
If it is not possible to turn around a political party, as the anti-party crowd claims, then how is it possible to turn around a larger thing, like an entire country?
Political Parties are a natural phenomenon. Our human nature dictates that we form political parties. George Washington chose not to be a member of a party, but then again, he didn't need to be in order to be elected with 100% of the electoral votes. Every president since has been a member of a political party.
Hypothetically, if we were to make the party system disappear, we would wind up with parties again. With no parties, an issue would come up, and there would be two opinions regarding that issue. The people supporting that issue, or against it, would congregate (birds of a feather flock together), organize, choose leaders, and boom, you would have two political parties again.
We are, therefore, thanks to our human nature, stuck with a system of political parties. It is a reality we must live with, whether we like it, or not. Therefore, if we are to turn this country around, it must be within the system.
Strength in numbers is a concept that everyone is familiar with. The more people you have fighting a battle, the more likely it is that you will win that battle. This is why, during times of war, nations ally together to defeat a common enemy. These countries working together may not be completely in agreement with each other regarding how to run a government, or the way the world should be configured internationally, but they are in agreement that the enemy is an enemy to them both. So, because they have a common enemy, they find the things they can work together on, and they work to defeat the enemy. Their minor differences can be ironed out, later.
In the Republican Party, a number of factions have arisen. The TEA Party has gained a significant foothold in the GOP, challenging the old guard of establishment republicans. In that establishment there are also a number of factions, from a fairly conservative group of politicians, to those that would not seem too out of place if they were democrats.
The Democrat Party, however, operates on a narrative of collectivism. The members of the party are less likely to act individualistic, as you may see in the GOP. The agenda supersedes everything, to the liberal left, including, sometimes, their own personal feelings on an issue. Unity and an allied front is necessary to push their agenda forward, and the members of the party act like drones of a collective, mindless automatons with one goal in mind. . . the advancement of the Democrat Party. The advancement of the party includes putting the agenda before all other things, and silencing, and ultimately eliminating, all voices that dares to stand in opposition. The Democrats have a lot in common with tyrannies in history, because their playbook is the same, and their goals are the same. Utopia. A system driven by a ruling elite, with citizens that are drones in a collective. No possessions, no achievement, and no wealth for the masses. Only a mediocre life guided by a ruling elite that provides everything the worker bees need to barely subsist.
The problem with growing government is that once the process begins, it never stops. It grows and grows and grows until it can't grow any more, and at that point, it is a totalitarian system ruled by gun point, with a population of serfs that are nothing more than slaves to the system. Dissent is not allowed. Anybody that bucks the system must be restrained by the body politic, and forced to conform, or be eliminated.
So how do we stop it, if we have to use the very system that is at fault for the degeneration of our system?
I agree with the TEA Party, in that we must stop this madness, and take drastic actions to do so. I agree with people like Ted Cruz who claims we must shut the government down to defund unconstitutional federal actions and laws, and we must be willing to take a hard road to get things turned around. But on the same token, we don't have a switch where we can instantly change things. It took us two centuries to get here, and it will take generations to get us back.
Which brings us back to that concept regarding strength in numbers. The liberal left has been winning recent battles, not because they have the numbers, but because they have convinced a large number of people to mindlessly support them. The liberal left has used the education system to train our children to be good little collectivists. They have used the entertainment industry, news media, and political tactics through legislation and by judicial and executive fiat, to desensitize the public regarding American principles. They have indoctrinated an entire nation to support them, without the people even realizing that they are raising the red flag of socialism themselves.
Can we gain control of the education system, or the entertainment industry, or the mainstream media?
Not instantly. It will take generations, which means when we are gone, our children, and their children, and their children, must continue to carry the torch.
So how do we educate an entire generation without being able to gain control of the institutions the liberal left has hijacked?
We do it from the underground. We teach them through constitution classes, home schooling, and communications. We do it through websites like this one, in meeting halls, in the churches, and in the pubs. . . as did the Founding Fathers.
We must teach Americans about what America truly means, but not just Americans like you an I, but the younger generation, the ones that must carry the torch, and continue the fight. That is where clubs and groups and classes in gun stores and upstairs conference rooms come into play. We do indeed need a new revolution, but we must educate ourselves about the tools available to us through the Constitution, and then use the vessel available to us, the Republican Party, to ensure those strategies are put into place.
The Constitution is our only solution. Once we get back on constitutional footing, the nation will correct itself, and the darkness will abandon its cause for a season.
But we must remember, it will not be easy. In the style Kyle Reese said to Sarah Conner in Terminator, the liberal left can't be bargained with, can't feel pain or mercy, and will stop at absolutely nothing until all opposition is silenced, and ultimately eliminated.
The liberal left is determined to eliminate its opposition, and enslave the population under a totalitarian system of big government control and social engineering. That is an enemy worth becoming allies against, if the different right-of-center factions are willing.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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