The Destruction of the US Constitution So ‘Equality’ can be Forced Upon the Masses for the Benefit of Leftist Government and their Political Allies.

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Karl Marx was very correct in his summation that “The history of all hitherto existing society [2] is the history of class struggles.[1]” The footnote “[2]” relates to some sophomoric writings that “showed” that communism was the primitive early human ground state before government and capitalism destroyed that pristine system and forced antagonism among the newly formed classes. This is in fact a truism if you stipulate that the ‘poor’ have not benefited from the elevation of humans from ignorance, fair  government and trade from the pitiful ground state of poverty and disease. But, this form of egalitarian politics cannot allow such an advancement as it only widens the spaces between the inevitable social strata that spontaneously form.  The elites must intervene and conquer or suppress capitalism if they are to restore ‘natural’ society.

Our social systems were founded not upon equality, as there is no such thing in groups above a count of say 20[2], but on capitalism[3] [even in primitive societies] where jobs and performances on those jobs were assessed by local leaders and adjustments to the work force  made if necessary.  In cases where individuals have an ‘equal chance’ to be decision makers, this notion  allows blunders, sometimes fatal to the community, and burdens those remaining to suffer from bad decisions  resulting with  an alteration  of the food supply or war with other locals.  We are clearly not equal as we can see form standardized cognitive skill tests [IQs] [4] that are now suppressed belief that  they ‘discriminate’ against certain minorities. This a fact because, strangely, IQ tests sort out people by the cognitive tendency “g” and indeed sort out averages[5] in races according to the average scores for any tabulated society taken from those tests. The fact that Asians score an average of about 101-102 compared to 100 for  Caucasians[6] is not illustrative for the left who know that many of their constituents, aligned in racial groups, have an average of only IQ = 85, a full standard deviation [15 points] below whites and Asians. Indeed, if even part of the IQ differential is accepted by the left then that argues for more ‘education’ to help bring up the average.[7] The salient fact that IQ can be accurately measured in 5-7 different ways and does not depend on advanced education is ignored. The nostrum that IQ can be enhanced with education is a farce that is perpetuated by liberals.

Marx and his rants may be taken at face value only if we ignore capitalism. Thus, we note that capitalism is the premier barrier to advances in the so-called socialist theories of governance.  Marx is focused on demonizing those who are successful in assembling teams with jobs given to match those with the appropriate attributes because such teams are frequently successful and, in competition on any scale, rise above the chaos of primitive socialism.

The placement of people in key jobs is central to the notion of efficiently and this effect tends to allow a concentration of wealth among the gross masses if interactions among classes are allowed. This interaction allows the evil ‘exploitation of the masses’ to proceed and the zero-sum rule is necessary to add in with the complaints as proof that any comparison of assets among all groups is proof that that wealth was gained unfairly.

The solution to this dilemma is two fold: [1] destroy capitalism and [2] institute a government of enlightened persons who will force a sharing of wealth so that every citizen might be essentially ‘equal’ to all others. Now, back in 1775 when those skilled in history and politics began to construct our Constitution these forces were clearly understood. King George III was a leader at the top of the feudal system in England and made decisions along with Parliament about laws, taxes and such. The methods used by  this king and others are typical of tyranny and the Constitution was written so as to remove those powers that might allow the American Colonies in this experiment to ward off such advances in offensive government. Thus the Constitution ad the Bill of Rights became a barrier to those who would usurp power and advance toward tyranny.

Government was then changed into a form where the separate colonies operated a federal union with a host of barriers against the growth and power of government tending toward tyranny. Thus the representative governments in several states might use their power to control the federal government and prevent abuse to the citizens.

This process did what it was supposed to do: it enabled capitalism and proscribed the power of government that might threaten this economic process and hand power to a few who would ‘govern’ according to whatever they thought to be correct at the time. This process made the USA the biggest and most successful nation in history and almost any positive average of any attribute can be found to be the highest or near the top for the US.  This is unacceptable to the left because the US is an engine that tears apart any notion of equality and dwarfs nations who leaders select socialist options. They are publicly punished by the US successes.  Publicly demonstrating that the social works and expensive legacy of leftist elites are worthless only invites a crusade to curtail capitalism and that means circumventing the Constitution in the courts or with Executive Orders. Thus they turn vicious and demonize capitalists wherever possible.

This leads to phony interpretations of the law as we see in the case of defeating 7 million votes in California who voted against gay marriages:

“"Proposition 8 violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by taking away the right of same-sex couples to marry, without a sufficient governmental interest," Brown said.”[8]-- District Judge Vaughn Walker, a gay who should have recused himself.

This ‘right’ is arbitrary and could be applied to any endeavor such as smoking dope or prostitution or sexually abusing children. All it takes is some radical activist judge to ‘find’ that right somewhere in the dumpsters and change the law. They found such a stooge.

Apart from that, the far left needs to buy off the voters with monies stolen or abstracted from the right and the current notion of paying off mortgage holders whose mortgages are  higher than their current house price is a classic:

“An estimated 15 million U.S. mortgages – one in five – are underwater with negative equity of some $800 billion. Recall that on Christmas Eve 2009, the Treasury Department waived a $400 billion limit on financial assistance to Fannie and Freddie, pledging unlimited help. The actual vehicle for the bailout could be the Bush-era Home Affordable Refinance Program, or HARP, a sister program to Obama’s loan modification effort. HARP was just extended through June 30, 2011.

“2) Wall Street banks are alerting their clients privately to this possibility. Here is what some are cautiously saying publicly. This from Goldman Sachs:

GSE [e.g. Fannie Mae ed.]  policies are one of a dwindling number of policy levers the administration has left to pull, so it is conceivable that changes could be made, though there is no sign that a policy change is imminent. The Treasury’s essentially unlimited ability to provide financial support to the GSEs creates an interesting situation over the next twelve months: the GSEs could potentially be used to provide additional support for the housing market and, to a lesser extent, the broader economy in 2H 2001.”[9]--An August Surprise from Obama? AUG 5, 2010 00:26 EDT By James Pethokoukis

This would be  a direct transfer of money to potential constituents using debt as the vehicle and sticking the taxpayers with even more debt that the 14 trillion they have now that equates to 14 t/65 m or $215,384.62 for every taxpayer above the median. [10] This is a socialist’s dream come true.

This is how it works so get set to watch more of your wealth and assets transferred to the ‘poor’ guided by the gentle hands of the liberals.

rycK Comments to ryckki@gmail.com

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[1] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Manifesto of the Communist Pary 1848. The footnote [2] refers to some attempts to show that communism was common and natural before government and capitalism destroyed this savannah. With the dissolution of the primeaval [sic] communities, society begins to be differentiated into separate and finally antagonistic classes. I have attempted to retrace this dissolution in _Der

Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthumus und des Staats_, second edition, Stuttgart,

1886. [Engels, 1888 English edition]

[2] The Futile Attempt of Forcing Equality Among the Masses.

http://ryckki.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-futile-attempt-of-forcing-equality.html

[3] The Pyramidal Theory of Capitalism Explained in Simple Terms. http://ryckki.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-pyramidal-theory-of-capitalism.html

[4] Unintelligent Design in the World Economic System and the Economic Path Downward.

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/28/unintelligent_design_in_the_world_economic_system_and_the_economic_path_downward.thtml

“One of the main follies in the human process is that workable ideas and social systems cannot work effectively for everybody so the necessity to redesign or improve the existing system draws power and strength from the dissatisfied.  When given a chance to vote, the lower classes always strive to vote money for themselves.[4]This process proceeds even though the disgruntled may become worse off from the effects of the new design. The solution thus, monotonously, becomes an urgent need for more government.  When we hear that we must ‘do something for the people,’ the people, whoever they are, eventually absorb the full brunt of the failure from this ‘something’ and suffer from starvation, government, poverty or disease. Part of this frantic quest for alternatives to proven viable economic and social systems has produced disasters like the French Revolution^[4], the Russian Revolution, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution^[4]  and many others. Many of the citizens of these movements fell under programs like The Reign of Terror^[4], Dekulakization^[4], The Russian Purges,^[4] the famine in the Ukraine known as Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор translation: death by starvation)^[4] and events such as in the sadistic genocide of innocents by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge political party in Cambodia[4], There are too many examples of this madness to even list by title. So, the quest for power and wealth by political operatives goes on under new names, the current one being ‘economic stimulus’ or, in my wording, unintelligent design.”

[5] Not individuals.

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_American

[7] Johnson asked the academic community for an answer as to why his programs failed and Arthur Jensen of University of California at Berkeley assessed the reason as being related to low cognitive skills of African-Americans. His article: “How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?” caused a political fire storm and was instantly refuted by ignoring and making excuses for the standardized test results. The data were reinvestigated and reanalyzed at Harvard and further substantiated in The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life , which was also ‘refuted’ with emotion and political action. The attack on the authors was actually an attack on legitimacy of the testing data, known well since 1905 and discussed in a book entitled The Measurement Of Intelligence by Lewis M Terman.  Nobody had questioned the facts about cognitive differences among races until it became a hot political issue. Thus, the refutation of hard scientific facts such as IQ testing now follows by strident political mechanisms as we see in the phony Global Warming Follies and other political nostrums.  If the truth from sound scientific data violates some leftist political tenet then they must be lies and some counter process is needed to ‘correct’ the political view. 21,000 scientists can take issue with Al Gore on global warming, which recently had to be embarrassingly changed to ‘climate change,’ but he declares the matter ‘settled.’ His adventure is in the realm of global taxes—not science. He is the new Lysenko.

[8]  Prop 8 Ruling Divides Political Candidates Posted by Stephanie Condon  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20012768-503544.html

[9] An August Surprise from Obama? AUG 5, 2010 00:26 EDT By James Pethokoukis http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2010/08/05/an-august-surprise-from-obama/

[10] People below the median pay little or no taxes so out of 130 million workers the upper half will be stuck with repaying the debt.

Has Buffy the Bozo Been Reading My Blog? Buffett Predicts Inflation—Bernanke Does Not.

Has Buffy the Bozo Been Reading My Blog? Buffett Predicts Inflation—Bernanke Does Not.

Originally From 5.05.2009

If you watch carefully and listen to people natter about themselves you can frequently construct a caricature of some interesting outer shell this person might  possess and, in the case of Warren Buffett, this apparition materializes to be a piece of moldy cheese with torturous caverns that contain forbidden cashes of truth. The object has an interesting glittering surface patina on the exterior with a lot of hidden rot on the inside. Buffett is known as a slick and far-seeing investor who made billions with his investments. He is actually an inside influence peddler who made a vast fortune with privileged information and intimidation of those with lesser finance muscle  although his public advice, egocentric posturing and grand self aggrandizing performances  and ostensive  “wise counsel” defiantly omit basic facts about finance and economics. He now confesses that massive government spending of the O’Bozo variety will sink us in inflation. We already knew that. Where was his wise counsel before all this?

We should live in a world where, like physics, some reasonable laws are known to govern many of our interactions and economics is clearly one of them. The elementary tenets of capitalism are well known since ancient times and the salient fact that massive spending by governments lead to inflation is obvious. Such warnings are common[1] such as outlined in the book Money Mischief by Milton Friedman published some 20 years ago. But, there are economic ‘experts’ and investment ‘oracles’ like Buffett  who criticize much about our economy [mostly for political reasons]  and Republicans in particular yet seem to get sweetheart deals with preferred stocks in companies like Goldman Sachs , Dow Chemical,  Rohm & Haas and wallow unobserved in other deals that the public is not privileged to participate in. [2] Warren relishes his perch on Olympus as the Sage of Omaha and boasted that his tax rate was only 19% in federal taxes for 2006.[3] While posing as an investment guru he taught [4] this.  He and many other Democrats supported the massive Obama spending follies that will surely sink our economy with silence about the cliff we are approaching. His politics is more important than our economy although he wants to make money from the current chaos.

Buffett own words on inflation:

“The arithmetic makes it plain that inflation is a far more devastating tax than anything that has been enacted by our legislatures. The inflation tax has a fantastic ability to simply consume capital. It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation, or pays no income taxes during years of 5 percent inflation.”

He hates gold like Keynes, but current gold spot prices tell us that an ounce of gold sold for $19 in 1805, about the same price in 1905 and after FDR costs $900 per ounce. So, we get an O’Bozo Tax and an Inflation Tax combined in one neat political bundle of ‘change.‘

Facts from yesterday:

“After a testy exchange with Sen. Judd Gregg, who suggested that President Obama’s plans to hike federal spending would only increase the nation’s staggering national debt, Buffett relented by stating that, in the end, the U.S. government simply will do what every other government has done in such circumstances. [Emphasis is mine in all quotes]

“A country that continuously expands its debt as a percentage of GDP and raises much of the money abroad to finance that, at some point, it’s going to inflate its way out of the burden of that debt,” Buffett said.

“Experience proves that, he points out.”

“Every country that has denominated its debt in its own currency and has found itself with uncomfortable amounts of debt relative to the rest of the world, in the end they inflate,” Buffett explains.

“That becomes a tax on everybody that has fixed dollar investments.”[5]--Buffett Sees Massive Inflation to Handle Staggering Debt. Monday, May 4, 2009 2:34 PM By: Dan Weil

A translation: This means your annuities and pensions will become worthless. Your long term CDs and bonds will crumble away. High taxation in an inflationary era will mean a transfer of wealth to the government, the least adept entity to handle any social or financial problem in my view. Has anybody noticed the 30-year Treasury bond soared to 4% from 3%. It is going much higher.

The Real Buffy the Bozo:

Here we have a sage that omits predictable terminal economic and financial events while reaping applause from his subjects and big profits from troubled corporations. He peddles his trust like a North Beach hooker. He can see the pit ahead and yet drives us into the depths with his positive blather about Obama and his taxes. His omission of such basic economic fundamentals in finance while offering himself as an expert and opening his Oracle for the unwashed masses is deliberate and criminal. He is some kind of self-styled philanthrocapitalist—what ever that means. Oh, let’s listen to Warren Buffett—he is so successful and wonderful and egalitarian. He didn’t mention any inflation. We can trust him.

His lust for money is illustrated in this quote:

 “I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s fantastic brand loyalty.”[6]

This reads better as:

I’ll tell you why I like politics. It costs a penny to make a tax bill that swells into a dollar, then a million, then a billion, then a few trillion. And there’s fantastic brand loyalty from the low-class voters who get paid for their votes. Just keep the welfare payments high and the jail terms light. It’s addictive.--rycK

I hate to be one of the persons to say: “I told you so![7]” but this was predictable. I have several blogs in this point in the references below.

There is no way to recover from this massive debt but to print more money, probably default on some bonds here and there as O’Bozo wants secured bondholders to do to save the UAW at Chrysler and other instances. Our currency might collapse.

We will test the luster of gold again and very soon as our currency becomes worthless. The government will rush to limit ownership of gold if they can.

A quarter hour ago one of the case stooges, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress this about inflation:

“However, he added that even after the recovery begins, "the rate of growth of real economic activity is likely to remain below its longer-run potential for a while."

“That will leave slack in the economy, keeping inflation low, which in turn suggests that the central bank will keep interest rates low for some time”[8]-- Bernanke says U.S. recovery ahead, housing near bottom.” Tue May 5, 2009 11:32am EDT

If Bernanke knows, and he must, that massive spending is inflationary then how does he know the inflation and interest rates will both be low?? These policy vectors generally run in opposite financial directions. He is either lying or has some ‘secret ‘ plan to claw back the Fed money from the banks at  propitious moment or, more  likely, he is just stooge parroting the O’Bozo political line about spending and that is not a problem.

What is slack? Is this a mental disorder or a physical ailment such as slack jawedness? Did Buffett give us some ‘slack’ when he held back on the impending massive inflationary pressures by his silence? I will cut Bernanke some slack and suggest is just a lying stooge thus encompassing both ends of the argument. This slack appears to be some kind of Neo-Marxist cramdown. We are going to pay big time for all this. Those who wanted ‘change’ are going to get a bundle.

Where do we get these fools?

rycK

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[1] Friedman Predicts the Destruction  of the Dollar.  The late, great Milton Friedman in his classic book prophetically revealed how Obama's reckless monetary policies will cause hyperinflation and destroy our nation https://www.newsmaxstore.com/nm_mag/free_mischief.cfm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett#cite_note-83

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett#Becoming_a_millionaire

[4] How Inflation Swindles the Equity Investor, Warren Buffett, FORTUNE, May 1977

[5] Buffett Sees Massive Inflation to Handle Staggering Debt. Monday, May 4, 2009 2:34 PM By: Dan Weil http://moneynews.newsmax.com/headlines/warren_buffett/2009/05/04/210480.html?s=al&promo_code=7F1D-1

[6] ^ Burrough, Bryan; Helyar, John (1990). Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-060-16172-8.

[7][7] Oh, that was hyperbole. I really don’t. I like to ridicule liars, incompetents and people who peddle half truths to trusting citizens. Here are some of my blog views on this point:

The Shrinking Capital Base  and Our Very Grim Future.

http://ryckzrantz.blogtownhall.com/2009/04/27/the_shrinking_capital_base__and_our_very_grim_future.thtml

Our Choice Now: Cut Expenses or Go Down the Road to Financial Oblivion.

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2009/04/07/our_choice_now_cut_expenses_or_go_down_the_road_to_financial_oblivion.thtml

Our Economy is Crashing as the Liberals Celebrate. Print Money and Increase Government!!

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/12/our_economy_is_crashing_as_the_liberals_celebrate_print_money_and_increase_government!!.thtml

The Babbling Brooks of the NYT Babbles Blunders into a Financial Reality Zone.http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/10/the_babbling_brooks_of_the_nyt_babbles_blunders_into_a_financial_reality_zone.thtml

Protectionism and the Beginning of the End for the World Economic System Explained.

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/05/protectionism_and_the_beginning_of_the_end_for_the_world_economic_system_explained.thtml

Battling Nostrums at The New York: Herbert and Krugman Argue at Cross Purposes on How to Bankrupt the Treasury. http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/03/battling_nostrums_at_the_new_york_herbert_and_krugman_argue_at_cross_purposes_on_how_to_bankrupt_the_treasury.thtml

[8] Bernanke says U.S. recovery ahead, housing near bottom.” Tue May 5, 2009 11:32am EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5443G620090505

Is it Time for Some Undocumented Capitalism Yet? Lots of ‘Persons’ Practice that in the US Now with Favors from Our Government

From 10.20.2009.

Is it Time for Some Undocumented Capitalism Yet? Lots of ‘Persons’ Practice that in the US Now with Favors from Our Government.

Governments prostrate themselves and dive into crime and worse when their survival depends on culturing and supporting degeneracy, crime and sloth.  All their wonderful promises and speechifying tend to evaporate when they realize they might lose power. California is the latest example. The ‘glorious’ October Revolution in Russia  produced only chaos and a frantic search for a stable food supply and seemed to fail to association of  splendor and glory with  the rule of the proletariat; cheap thugs ran the government. The kulaks[1], frequently wealthy but not of the aristocracy and closely identified with the bourgeoisie[or more accurately petite bourgeoisie[2] in this case],  were summarily murdered when they refused to just give their land, food and animals to the Bolsheviks so Lenin was forced to conjure some plan to placate these ‘peasants’ and produced his New Economic Policy (NEP).[3] They were depicted as ruffians with silk top hats in the 1919 Bolshevik posters[4] plastered everywhere in public. This failed movement, of course, as most far leftist plans do, and when food was scarce capitalism flourished in the very faces of the Marxists when peasants were encouraged to sell their food and wares openly in the market place thus defeating the very principle of socialism. Liberals tend to try to perform a similar trick with ‘education’…‘ejukashon’?? We eventually witnessed how the USSR system of a command economy failed to produce even one quarter of the food necessary and those who would ‘manage’ the economy and pick the correct time to dig potatoes finally just ignored the kiosks that were providing most of the food.  Lenin would rather have shot these people, but needed the food and other products. Duranty Papers[5] would have sanctioned their holocaust as a necessary step to advance socialism ["…liquidated or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian mass]. Such poetic flair! Maureen Dowd should study this example.

In our country Hispanic Parasites have a cozy arrangement with the liberal whereby he can enter the country illegally, work where he wants, supply false Social Security numbers to employers (who are looking the other way any way) and then just not submit state and federal tax returns because that would cause  interferences at the federal and state levels anyway. But, registering to vote in states where ID checking is as passé as virginity, Poncho can make money tax free by working or hustling drugs and send back as much as he wants without interference from our federal government.

But, our government is stuck at this time as they cannot exactly raise taxes on the working stooges who believe in their hokum and fluff so we just print money and tax whomever at the highest rates possible. This doesn't work well in either the long or short terms for several reasons:

[1] Higher taxes increase business costs and results in lower tax revenues.

[2] Government rules and regulations do the same thing and discourage job creation by small businesses.

[3] Big businesses have more flexibility and if they are ‘too big to fail’ then they can ask for a bailout with some consideration stuffed into the pockets of the politicians. 

So, the squeeze is on and what is left are those who can run efficient business operations and keep people employed and pay their inordinate share of taxes to support the habits of the politicians and their clients. That group is not responding well to the Obama Fascism we hear all about on CBS and other in-the-tank state news services.

One of the reasons proffered to not go after Poncho and his jolly friends is that it would cost too much to deport 10-20 million souls and they are needed to scrub the toilets and pick berries anyway. Their obvious crimes are thus ignored and we can then wonder what the equal protection clause[6] actually means.  What happened to the Rule of Law? The 14^th Amendment has limitations so we might look at the enumerated commerce clause [7] listed directly but vaguely in the United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, and Clause 3). These two angles let the federal government sneak around the 9^th and 10^th Amendments that would give states the basis to decide to accept [or not] all unnumerated laws not reserved to the federal government. All this is complicated but the words ‘regulation’ and ‘commerce’ have been so distorted that several opportunities in the law exist for both the left and right to continue to blowtorch the Constitution.

One then wonders if some others  are borrowing some of the tactics of the California marijuana growers and wantonly  flouting the narcotics laws and avoiding taxes but serving the politicians all at the same time with dope and gifts. These Mary Jane types successfully beat the federal law in Mexifornia, [8] and now make big profits even thought they are supposed to be non profit and such baloney and operate in cooperatives and, we might suspect, be subject to taxation and extensive record keeping. There eventually comes an encounter with a knife-edge decision where the risk of being sent to jail for some ‘crime’ is balanced by the risk of losing your possessions and career because of confiscatory taxes of the income, fee and inheritance classes—particularly old white folks.[9]  What we might expect would be a growing trend where professionals would trade their respective services in a barter system devoid of paper and 1099 forms.  We have seen recently that USB [Swiss Bank] has yielded only about 4500 names and account numbers to the IRS of those felons would hide tax-avoidance monies and make good profits with no tax burdens.  Can I offer a bet that no Democrat member of Congress is on that list? Out of a country of 310 million it seems that this number is inordinately small although it only covers a bank in the original Dirty Money Country and avoids such places as Luxemburg and the Cayman Islands and a few other spots. And, if California wants to tax pot at 30% to save their budget and credit ratings we can wonder why former criminals who are adept in evading such fates might want to pay such a high tax and just break a few more laws as California may have to furlough many of their drug enforcement yoyos anyway. The feds are busy hunting down white terrorists anyway.

It is not clear how much of a problem this is now or what it might be in the near future but when unemployment is high and rising and the number of people who might be forced to practice some ‘undocumented capitalism’ might ascend to several million while our jails are already stuffed to the rafters with violent criminals now so where would be put all these errant entrepreneurs? Or what do the federal and state tax collectors do if people refuse to pay their fines? Seize their property and bank accounts? What if they refused like Gandhi?

An oppressive and tax hungry government might compel a societal change in the average citizen’s behaviour in this country and force people to conduct commerce underground like they did in the USSR for 74 years until that wreckage rotted away in a blizzard of worthless rubles. Then, like magic, the economy flourished and a thousand new millionaires were created in Moscow alone all financed with US 100 dollar bills. Their mattresses must have bulged as dollars were illegal in the good old USSR.  Are some of our more clever entrepreneurs hiding gold bullion in safe places? If our currency crashed who would have liquid assets? Certainly not  the bank account holders in frozen or defunct banks.

What would our government do if modern ‘peasants’ just refused to ship their food and produce to the cities and set up kiosks along the highways? Tear them down? Burn the crops? What if the food supply was scarce? Seize farms and let government officials perform honest work in the fields to produce milk and lettuce and corn for the city crowd?

Big government is a big failure on this planet so we wonder just how far the average citizen can be pushed before he or she becomes interested in ‘undocumented capitalism’ because the illegal aliens seem to be making this work very well and are the darlings of the far left and they are certainly not being deported in great numbers and are not fined and are not rotting in jails for 5 years. The current leftist treatment of the Rule of Law is a joke.

If our economy crashes we may get instant answers to many of these questions. Our society will scarcely tolerate the notion that the government should own everything and just give orders like they did in the old USSR.  Only half of us are that stupid.

rycK

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoise#The_petit_bourgeois

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia#Industrialization_and_collectivization

[4] The Bolshevik Poster  by White, Stephen Yale Univ Press, New Haven & London, 1988. Softcover., color plates and other illustrations.  (ISBN: 0300048696) 159pp.

[5] In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.

“He said that these people had to be "liquidated or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian mass". Duranty claimed that the Siberian labor camps were a means of giving individuals a chance to rejoin Soviet society but also said that for those who could not accept the system, "the final fate of such enemies is death."Duranty, though describing the system as cruel, says he has "no brief for or against it, nor any purpose save to try to tell the truth". He ends the article with the claim that the brutal collectivization campaign which led to the famine was motivated by the "hope or promise of a subsequent raising up" of Asian-minded masses in the Soviet Union which only history could judge.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause#Significance_.E2.80.93_federal_rights_in_navigable_waters

[8] http://www.apostle1.com/daily-news-2008/february2008/02-25-2008-american_suicide.htm

[9] A Leftist Plan Exists to Rob and Euthanize Old White Folk in America?

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2009/08/16/a_leftist_plan_exists_to_rob_and_euthanize_old_white_folk_in_america.thtml

The Necrotic Demise of Democracy

Published 7.09.2013

Politics defined

Politics is the process by which groups make decisions. Although the term is generally applied to behavior within governments, politics is observed in all human (and many non-human) group interactions, including corporate, academic, family, clubs, the workplace and religious institutions.

Discussion

Democracy, as a concept, and it has been shown to be little more, was conceived upon the novel idea that people in a group could make decisions that would benefit the entire, or mostly, of the group thus bringing prosperity when compared to the natural opposite situation. Here the voting members of the polis would poses some form of intrinsic equality.[1] The notion of any form of ‘equality’ has been the subject of debate and many serious failed demonstrations in the years since democracy was condemned by Plato. Indeed, there is no such thing as equality.[2]

Why, then, do we persist in this quest for the unattainable? The answer, simply, is that this quest offers potential powers to those who can persuade those with lesser belligerent attributes to follow them like sheep. Thus, vast power bases can be established where the strong leaders live in splendor while the masses suffer from shortages.[3] Even in the USSR, where the will of the proletariat was deemed supreme, the leaders lived the high life and there was so much wealth it took 74 years to squander it all and stuff a large fraction of that into Swiss banks.[4] Today, Vladimir Putin is reported to be worth $40 bln dollars—a few shekels short of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet but way behind Carlos Slim Helú.[5]

Failure, even when backed up with unlimited cash and military firepower seems to lead to a string of failures such as the United States has caused in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt and now focusing on Syria. This is not to mention Viet Nam, Cambodia, Philippines, Taiwan, Dominican Republic, with the possible single exception of Japan.

Let us look at the mess in Egypt, an outcome of ‘democracy’ where some side won and attempted to subvert the new constitution to their advantage—a not uncommon theme in politics where voting is a major factor in the game.  The Egyptian Constitution[6] is a convoluted mish-mash of power sharing measures enabled by rubber language and tossed between the elected leader, the military and religious authorities that derive extra powers from  “… defining the “principles of Shariah” in the terms of Muslim Sunni jurisprudence,” whatever that could mean. Ignoring the legal snarls here we can listen to those in the streets and learn that they, at least, thought and think that Morsi was trying to take over the government and force Shariah upon the masses.  We have splendid examples of this in Iran for instance. When we look at the lack of succession of leaders with examples like Nehru, Sadat, Mubarak, now Morsi and their counterparts in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Libya over the many decades it should be clear that, on average, when someone comes to power in the Middle East they seem to stay in power until they die or are ousted.

Extending this to places like the US under the FDR regime, we can see that simply making promises to the masses, who are not encouraged to understand politics, government actions or much else, leads to an ever-increasing collection of power leading, always, to corruption and social unrest.  All that is necessary is to print money and spread it around and make more promises to the Ignoranti who vote blindly for their alms.

Taxation on the Knife’s Edge: The Lower Half Will Always Vote for Higher Taxes[7]

Your vote has no value or worth unless you are lucky to belong to a party where your party is in close competition [in numerical votes discounting fraud and ballot box stuffing, of course].  There, being on the edge forces the opposing parties to pander for your vote in the anticipation you will switch and give one side the majority. This is exclusively factual when two large parties of, say; %49 each compete for votes from a small party of only %2. Here, the smallest fraction of the electorate can exercise enormous power as they can become king makers. If you belong to a very large party with a significant majority you might as well not vote as the party elders will make all decisions. They do not need you and you actually become expendable. You are, collectively, a rubber stamp.

Conclusion

Now, the idea of forcing a regime change seems to relate to the cases where some minority of citizens, or non-citizens for that matter, are being, in their own view, or the view of the leftist media, marginalized and need ‘justice’ or something similar. Syria is a case where some civil war started and sophisticated weapons appeared nearly everywhere to battle the existing government. It is difficult to find where this started in Syria itself and may have originated in Al-Qaeda camp. The flimsy case of the use of chemical weapons, certainly not proven according to the UN and Russia, gives the US the excuse to remedy injustice and prevent war crimes by the fruitful use of military might or the threat thereof.

But, any time there is social unrest leading to revolts, marches and some terrorism or military action the process now must be determined as to who the players are. If they are leftists in rebellion then the left will wander by with slogans and such to support their interests and the same holds for the opposition in each case for the right. Once the political vectors are clearly aligned there is a temptation for the super powers to assassinate or summarily remove or undermine certain leaders if they refuse to cooperate as was the case with Diem, Hussein, Marcos, Quadaffy, Fujimori, Garcia, Salazar, Pinochet, Kai-Shek, Somoza, now  al-Assad  and others. This forces two avenues of supply and resupply of money and weapons from different sides, mostly the USSR and US [from the past], but now also France, the UK and others. The leftist media can be relied upon to support the left or far left in any encounters.

Thus, we have powers, prejudice, religious groups, leftist and right political groups, unions, the military and more to consider how the ballot box yields some choices that conform to any reasonable concept of democracy. Forget it.

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[1]  Democracy and Its Critics by Robert A. Dahl, Yale University Press, 1991, 1^st ed, 1^st printing, p 84 ff.

[2] The Futile Attempt of Forcing Equality among the Masses.

http://ryckki.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-futile-attempt-of-forcing-equality.html

“Cognitive equality is an oxymoron. There is no way you can give standardized tests and ensure that everybody gets the average test grade with nobody getting a higher or a lower test result. The much maligned Bell Curve , sometimes accused of actually causing the ‘problem’ of cognitive mal-distribution in the US, actually states the blunt facts about our societies and the distribution of mental skills. This salient fact that half the people who take the standardized test will score below the median is the rallying point for ‘change’ in ‘education.’  That is not fair. Society must be equalized.  Thus propaganda must replace education. The Bell Curve correctly predicts who will pass high school, college and who will excel in the work place—and who will not—on a group basis. This fact commits millions to menial jobs but is casus belli for the political left.”

[3] USSR, Cuba, North Korea, Rome, the UK, Spain, Portugal and Holland.

[4] Brezhnev family.

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Slim

[6] The constitution ends Egypt's all-powerful presidency, institutes a stronger parliament, and contains provisions against torture or detention without trial. But it also give Egypt's generals much of the power and privilege they had during the Hosni Mubarak era.[9] Human Rights Watch noted that it provides for basic protections against arbitrary detention and torture and for some economic rights but fails to end military trials of civilians or to protect freedom of expression and religion.[10] The organization also stated that the Chapter II draft, entitled Rights and Freedoms, provides for strong protection against arbitrary detention in article 35 and torture and inhumane treatment in article 36, and for freedom of movement in article 42, privacy of communication in article 38, freedom of assembly in article 50, and of association in article 51, but defers to objections from the country's military leadership and has removed the clear prohibition of trials of civilians before military courts.[10]

Article 2, makes “the principles of Islamic law the main source of legislation,[11]” a statement defining the relationship between Islam and Egyptian law, essentially unchanged from Egypt's old constitution.[12] At the urging of Islamists, another article was added to the constitution strengthening the relationship, defining the “principles of Shariah” in the terms of Muslim Sunni jurisprudence[9] i.e. "evidence, rules, jurisprudence and sources" accepted by Sunni Islam.[13] Liberals fear "Islamic punishments for things like theft, adultery, and blasphemy are not far behind".[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Egypt

[7] Taxation on the Knife’s Edge: The Lower Half Will Always Vote for Higher Taxes.

http://ryckki.blogspot.com/2012/05/taxation-on-theknifes-edge-lower-half.html