The very essence and sole aim of the established Democrat-Republican duopoly in modern politics in America today is perpetuating oneself in power at all costs.  The ends justify the means for both the Republican and Democrat parties; hence the critical situation these treasonous miscreants have created.  Whether one or the other is elected, the end result is the same – more government encroachment, more unconstitutional activity, and an ever-increasing threat to our individual liberty.  No one in government, save very, very few men and women of honor who are knowledgeable of the growing danger to our republic and our liberty – indeed to our continued existence as a nation of freemen – are willing to stand up and speak the truth to the people.   What is telling about the real agenda of both the Democrat and Republican parties is the fact that those who do speak out against the unconstitutional and tyrannical actions of the government and its officials are labeled as “extremists” and “fringe” candidates and either ignored, ostracized or silenced by their own parties. 

 Indeed, the sad truth of the matter is that for at least the last hundred years of our history, the truth of our national history and the proper role of government has been intentionally obfuscated by those in power so that they might remain in power.  Crises are intentionally created and managed for maximum benefit to the ruling party, the tactic of fear mongering is shamelessly employed in an attempt frighten the masses into compliance, to coerce them to cede their God given rights to a government promising security and stability.  It would be most prudent for all citizens to remember the words of Benjamin Franklin, who once stated that a people who are willing cede their liberty for the promise of security deserve neither and will lose both.

One need not be the most astute student of history, politics and economics to seek and find the truth. One need only approach this quest with honesty and as open a mind as one can muster given the context in which this information has been heretofore presented to the public over the course of the last hundred years.  Interestingly, upon studying pertinent and largely omitted factual information one will quickly realize that the actual historical facts do not agree with the claims of politicians and other government officials, with the presentations and interpretations offered by most influential and mainstream news media, and certainly not with much of what passes for acceptable curriculum in government schools and in universities throughout the country. 

It is no small thing to make such an assertion, to declare that the modern American political system, economic system and a substantial portion of the news-media is based upon a lie; a lie well known and understood by those who perpetuate it and manipulate it to their advantage and to the detriment of this republic.  The lie itself is rooted in a political movement whose objective has always been Statism: that is, the elevation of the rights and authority of the State superceding and ultimately usurping the rights of the individual.  In the case of our republic, the process is manifesting itself by “giving” rights to the State, specifically the federal government, while simultaneously and necessarily abrogating the rights of individuals.  The transfer of power is transformed from a “bottom-up” system of popular representation to a “top-down” system of administration (czars, anyone?) according to the design originally devised by the early American Progressives, most notably Wilson, the Roosevelts, Goodman, Croly, Beard and Dewey.

 The lie itself is the very history of this nation, political and economic, as it is now popularly explained, understood and accepted.  As outrageous as this claim may seem on the surface, I expect that the reader will find the documentary evidence as powerful and irrefutable as I did, simply because it is true.

Now that the election is over and the American people have spoken, the task for the Right becomes at first obvious. That first task, ultimately, is to find and define itself – and to do so as expeditiously as is practicable. This much is obvious. What is not so obvious, of course, is how this all-important task will be or ought to be accomplished – if at all. 

To the question of whether this can even be accomplished, whether or not a new conservatism can be first, defined, and second, molded into a cohesive movement solid enough to accomplish what it must, that being nothing less than arresting the rise of tyranny and arbitrary government through the advancement of government-imposed socialism, I would submit that it can only be accomplished outside of the duopolistic hegemony of the current mainstream party system. The cause of the new conservatism must be begun and advanced wholly and entirely apart from the Republican Party. More pointedly, the new conservatism must be held as sacred and kept secure from contamination by the Republican Party, because for the foreseeable future, that Party, even if it survives its current implosion, will continue to be entirely void of true conservatism and, as such, poison to any true conservative movement that has the unfortunate occasion to be defined as affiliate with it. 

To succeed, the new conservatism must find a home where it is wanted – outside the mainstream of politics and nonsensical parties – in the realm of what we recognize as third parties, such as Libertarian, Constitution, Conservative, etc. Indeed, it would be most beneficial to the larger movement to have members and activists within all of these third parties taking responsible and active roles in defining the path and goals of the new conservatism, for healthy debate amongst the various legitimate schools of conservative thought and discussion and proper understanding of the significance of the varying trends and norms from the various parts of the nation will be essential to the success of such a movement. That much is, or at least ought to be, obvious.

What is also obvious is that in its infancy this new conservatism and the war it wages will be largely a war of words, that is, words employed to convey and explicitly define ideas both for our side as well as for the opposition. Thus, it is essential in this war of words to not be the one defined by the rods of the other, but to first define the other employing those words that best convey the message intended.

To that end, I would suggest a definition of this new conservatism: that socio-economic and socio-political thought which is analogous to the classical liberalism of such great minds as Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Jay, von Mises, Hayek, Hume, Locke, Bastiat, Montesquieu, etc. I suggest this particular definition for, while it is necessary to divest ourselves of any connection whatsoever to the “nouveaux” or simply “faux” conservatism currently embraced by the Republican Party and its surrogates, it is just as necessary – if not even more so - to define how the opposition is intended by us to be perceived. I do not intend to suggest that any sort of deliberate deception be employed to that effect; on the contrary, I submit that the language and terminology employed be selectively vetted so as to best convey truth, for if it is truth that is the very essence of what we wish convey to the general populous, then if we should employ duplicity and deception to as to achieve our end, then the truth becomes that we are no more righteous than those who would oppress us, and thus the intended affect is obviously lost. It must be, then, that this war or words be fought from the very beginning with the overtly expressed desire and intent to shine ever brightly the light of truth so as to expose the darkness of the authoritarian form of socialism that surely awaits us given the current trend toward “change” at any cost. If the people will not accept truth and still choose willfully to subject themselves to tyranny, only then ought other, more questionable methods and tactics be employed.

Having stated that, then, and keeping in line with professing the truth of the current political climate, my conclusion and suggestion is to redefine the Progressive Left not as they would define themselves (the Progressive Left) but as what they are: new-socialists. To be sure, they are not “progressive” in any sense of the word, with the possible exception of the fact that their “newness” is found in bringing socialism to the United States for the first time. They are, in fact, “regressive,” falling back to the worn rhetoric and failed socialism of past ages – all of which has ruined the respective societies that have embraced such ideas. They cannot be called “liberal” because true “liberalism” is found in the newness of the great minds listed above. 

“Liberalism,” in the classical sense, is analogous to the advancement of new ideas and the promotion of Liberty. It goes without saying that the present self-proclaimed “Progressives” are anything but open to dialogue and advancement of new ideas. Therefore it is all the more fitting to tag them with the most appropriate label and effectively chain them to the erroneous ideology they embrace as their truth, and which is wholly and entirely antithetical to the principles upon which our Constitution is founded: The Democrat Party ought now be termed the “Neo-Socialist Left,” with all the negative connotations of regressivism inherent in such language.

To be sure, those of us advancing the New Conservatism should not shy away from defining the Neo-Socialist Left as such but should immediately adopt such terminology and employ it to the benefit of our cause. Likewise, we should not resist embracing new or, for that matter, old language to clearly define our ideas. Therefore we should not be ashamed to employ such terminology as “Classical Liberalism” or a “Liberalism of the Classical School” in conjunction with the use of the word “conservatism” to that the desired perception be projected. Indeed, the words themselves attest to the truth we seek to convey. Thus, it is our present duty to properly employ them to our desired end.

Since today is Respect Life Sunday I felt the need to repost an article I wrote some time ago. It is an article about Obama’s extreme pro-abortion stance and his support of infanticide. It has been modified slightly from its’ original form. I believe Obama’s pro-abortion extremism and activism warrants not merely revisiting the subject over and over again, but indeed speaking and writing of it so often that the average citizen with their head in the sand cannot help but to notice. 

For me, from my Catholic Christian perspective, it is an obligation to illuminate the unspeakable evils enabled by men and women of Obama’s ilk, yet all too sadly such discussion of the truth fall on deaf ears even in many Christian circles. This truth is ugly and must be told and acknowledged. What is perhaps most disturbing to me is that as Americans so many profess to be Christians, believers in the salvation of humanity bought by the price of the Blood of Christ, yet so many of these self-professed believers also either actively sanction the unjustifiable slaughter of the innocent unborn in their own mother’s wombs or they take the politically correct approach and claim that it would be wrong to “impose” their moral beliefs on others. I submit that such a weak excuse will not win the favor of the Almighty when at judgment the tens of millions of holy innocents fill the Holy Courts and ask, “Why?”

Indeed, for those who profess belief in God in general and in Christ as Savior in particular there cannot be any validity found in what we Catholics term the “cafeteria” approach where one accepts all the warm-and-fuzzy sentiments and rewards of Christianity while rejecting either tacitly or outright the difficult moral stances required in order to obtain even the possibility of attaining such rewards.

To say that Americans have become complacent in their faith is an understatement, for it is increasingly clear that many do not see the inherent and irrefutable connection between the moral evils being perpetrated in this country and our collective woes as a nation. To pass such things off as merely coincidental is not only naïve but deadly – both to one’s soul and to our republic. I readily confess that I am no theologian; however, to deny the correlation between, say, the tens of millions of abortions that have been allowed to take place on American soil – something we know as Christians is inherently evil and unjustifiable under any condition or pretext – and the idea that disobedience to God by the continuing perpetration of grave moral evils will ultimately result in the loss of His grace to sustain us is completely and utterly stupid, not to mention hypocritical. When we turn our collective backs on God and His Commandments as a nation should it be any surprise, then, that He withdraws His grace and leaves us to our own devices in our imperfect and fallen condition, subject to our own concupiscence to fend for ourselves? It is any wonder that the more prideful we become as a nation the less guidance and assistance we can expect from our humble and living God? 

If we are to regain our footing and return our nation to prosperity it is necessary to acknowledge God and His commandments, to honor them, and to collectively repent of the evils that go on within our boarders. Darkness cannot withstand the light of Truth, and it is indeed His Truth that will once again set us free from slavery to sin. We can illuminate the darkness by speaking the truth and here is a good place to start: actions have consequences in the eyes of God, for Jesus tells us as much throughout the Gospels. Remember the wheat and the chaff?   Let us not mince words, then.

 

A reflection on Isaiah 3:1-15

They say that mixing politics and religion is like mixing alcohol and guns. So, here goes nothing.

Last Monday morning as I was praying the Office of Readings the first reading from Scripture was Isaiah 3:1-15. I was struck by the relevance of this passage to our modern condition, and the prophet Isaiah clearly shows the consequences for a nation that turns its back on God. 

Isa.3 Verses 1 to 15

A few of these verses really jumped out at me:

[8] For Jerusalem has stumbled,

and Judah has fallen;

because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD,

defying his glorious presence.

[9] Their partiality witnesses against them;

they proclaim their sin like Sodom,

they do not hide it.

Woe to them!

For they have brought evil upon themselves.

I have been reflecting upon these words all week. Isaiah and many of the other prophets and, indeed, our Lord Jesus, tells us time and time again of the inevitable and imminent consequences resulting from our disobedience to the natural law and commandments established by God for our own good. God does not condemn us or condemn the nations for such disobedience – we condemn ourselves by our actions or inaction. Indeed, neither does God “punish” by bringing evil down upon us – He is all-good and does no evil. He does, however allow such evil to exist and to influence the world. He does not send down evil upon His creation; rather, He leaves us to our own devices to deal with the consequences of our choices, and this, it can be argued, is far worse. 

Can anyone argue that there is not a constant attack upon the foundation of our society by the radical Leftists and “progressives” looking to redefine everything from “relationships” to “marriage” to “family?” Is it not obvious that they would have us all to believe that little children being promiscuous because they have been educated by Planned Parenthood is just fine? Can we all not see through their efforts at rewriting textbooks to “normalize: same-sex parenting and relationships, and sexual relationships even among children? Have we not noticed a marked increase in the number of lawsuits filed to “equalize” and “normalize” what cannot, by natural law, be on equal par with the traditional family? Have we not seen these attacks aimed at the schools - at our children in order to indoctrinate them into the globalist, relativist ideology where nothing is “wrong,” and everything is OK? In California, homeschooling by parents was declared unconstitutional by the courts. Why? Not because the state was overly concerned about parents having the proper and suitable “credentials” to teach their own children, but because of what these children were being taught. It is because these children were being taught the truth about virtue, values and morals, and unadulterated history; and, by virtue of their avoidance of the California government school system were exempted from the socialistic agenda and radical secular humanism and relativism being pushed by some very influential people in that state and indeed around the country. Let me be clear: the agenda is NOT to educate our children, but to re-educate them, and kudos to those who have entered the teaching profession to fight this nonsense and get schools back on track to doing what they are meant to do – teach academics. 

If we continue to blur the lines of reason, especially for the children, telling them that “good” is “bad” and vice-versa; if we continue to allow government sponsored promiscuity –education to be forced upon our children just because Planned Parenthood tells them it is OK; if we continue to allow government to play a central role in desensitizing children to sexual promiscuity, to violence, to the abuse of women through a pop-culture that celebrates these things, and if we continue to treat lies as truth and call truth a lie - is this not our nation turning it’s back on God, the same God who conceived it and blessed it for over two-hundred years? 

If we continue to allow judges to legislate from the bench and remove God from the public discourse because non-believers are offended, what will become of us? The more we exclude God then the greater the degree to which we exclude ourselves from His grace and blessings – and make no mistake about it: American ingenuity and workmanship and ethics were and still are something marvelous to behold, but without God being included as a real partner in the mission of America, there is nothing of permanent worth that will be accomplished and our standing in the world will suffer, and we will continue to suffer from division from within.

[12b]O my people, your leaders mislead you,

and confuse the course of your paths.

[13] The LORD has taken his place to contend,

he stands to judge his people.

Until Truth is once again recognized as Truth and acknowledged as such we shall continue to remain divided and suffer. What is needed is leadership – and at present there is very, very little in the way of meaningful leadership that will unashamedly and boldly proclaim the Truth about America with conviction and from the heart; that America was meant to be a virtuous nation, a beacon of light and hope to a world enslaved by oppression and tyranny. For a very long time we were that beacon, but once we began to lose our moral compass, that light began to dim, and as we steadily hurled our nation toward the abyss of rampant immorality and licentiousness that light somewhere along the way has seemingly extinguished, and we now suffer the consequences of this: scandal, lies, perversion, war, usurpation of rights, the evils of globalism and socialism pounding as a battering ram at America’s door. The rampant and wonton immorality becoming ever more acceptable and normalized in this country is the greatest threat to our national security that can be conceived.

[4] And I will make boys their princes,

and babes shall rule over them.

[5] And the people will oppress one another,

every man his fellow

and every man his neighbor;

the youth will be insolent to the elder,

and the base fellow to the honorable.

You see how we are? You know also that it was not always so. Once there was a middle ground called virtue. Once we had leaders who rose up and brought this nation with them to great heights. Once we endeavored, now we wait. Once we made our voice heard, now there is apathy. Once we ran Washington, now Washington runs us. Once we were citizens of liberty, now slaves to licentiousness. Once we were untied, now divided, and you know what is said about a house divided. A moral collapse begets a culture of excess that always precedes an economic collapse, and throughout history an economic collapse will always bring about a political and structural collapse, and necessitate a rebuilding – like the New Deal. 

You know that as a republic of laws, built upon the bedrock of a Constitution which itself seeps of the natural moral law and acknowledged as such by its Framers that as long as we have that Constitution, no matter how bad things may become, there will always be a flicker of hope to re-kindle the flames that once burned so deeply in the very heart of this republic and made it the great nation it was and still is. 

We seem to have lost our moral compass as a nation. It is within our power to undo the foolishness of the past and prepare the way of the future by acknowledging that which our Founding Fathers acknowledged in order to stoke the fires of virtue and promise and plenty in advancing the cause of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as envisioned by the Framers. We were established as a nation in the form of a republic rooted in Judeo-Christian tradition and principles. We would do well to remember those principles, for if we do we shall once again endear ourselves to God and show ourselves wanting truly and sincerely for His blessings. Then, and only then, will we have nothing to fear.

[10] Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them,

for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

[11] Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,

for what his hands have done shall be done to him.