Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility 

What Republic?

I’ve made the comparison here and in other places on several occasions that our federal government is looking more and more like the communist ideal. I’ve said that what we are living under is less a constitutional republic than a socialist state.

After all, our judges no longer honor the plain words and meaning of the Constitution, written for plain men to understand. They’ve so twisted it that in some areas it now means the opposite of what it actually says. Congress hasn’t abided by the Constitution in over 150 years, and the Presidency for even longer. While on paper we live in a constitutional republic uniting the several states, in actuality the states have little or no power, and the people are ruled by unelected, unappointed bureaucrats – most of whom live thousands of miles away from the people whose lives they manage.

I’ve complained endlessly about the unfair taxation scheme that we live under. That the “progressive” tax we have is nothing less than a socialist wealth redistribution program. I’ve railed about the “welfare” program built into our tax code that gives people money for fornicating – have a baby you can’t afford to raise and the federal government gives you money from other peoples taxes as a reward. I’ve complained that the federal government has no business in the social welfare business.

I’ve illustrated in great detail how our federal government programs parallel the Marxists plans for overthrowing democracies and replacing them with first socialist then truly communist states. And yet I’ve been told that none of this is happening. I’ve been told that this isn’t the rise of socialism. I’ve been told that it “cannot” be socialism because the government doesn’t control the means of production.

Well, that argument isn’t true anymore, at least in the case of General Motors. Now that the federal government holds a 60% stake in General Motors, as the majority shareholder they do control the means of production for our largest domestic auto maker. It’s almost as if this was the plan all along for our industries.

The government already controls the banking industry. “Bail out” money came with strings. Some banks didn’t even want it, and now they can’t give it back! They (the federal government) have controlled auto makers through bureaucratic “standards” for decades. Now they control one directly as majority stockholder.

There is no industry, no business in our nation that the federal government doesn’t have its regulatory hooks in. Auto manufacturing is just the latest example. Even the creative industries like software engineering are regulated and controlled by bureaucrats in the federal government. We’ve even ceded creative control over software packaging and licensing to foreign governments in some cases.

The majority of our people have come to expect the government to be in everything. Once, long ago we were free to run our own lives with minimal government interference. That was what our founders wanted for us.

Liberty, once surrendered, cannot be recovered without paying the price in blood. Our liberty is gone. What little liberty we have is but an illusion. The ancient Greek democracies lasted only a couple of hundred years. The illusion of American democracy may last a little longer, but the substance is long gone.

Welcome to the “Brave New World” of the socialist bureaucracy. The “revolution” is complete. Now it’s just a matter of refinement.