We should be grateful to Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Rahm Emanuel. For, in their audacity, they have done what their predecessors feared to do; and, in the process, they have made the tyrannical propensities inherent within the progressive impulse visible to anyone who cares to take notice.

Posted by Monty Pelerin 10-23-2010 Monty Pelerin’s World

I have been consistently pessimistic with respect to both the economic and the political future of this country.

Regarding the economy, we long ago passed the tipping point that ultimately ends in sovereign insolvency. That does not mean the economy will not recover, although it will not do so as quickly or fully. The government will do everything they can to prevent the inevitable which will only worsen the eventual defaults on obligations and promises.

Pessimism regarding the political situation has diminished somewhat. The most positive development is the tangible return of the American spirit and its love of liberty and freedom. This spirit appears to be driving what may be an historic outcome in the upcoming election.

Dr. Paul Rahe, an historian at Hillsdale College, was prescient over a year ago when he correctly sensed the change in the mood of the people. On August 8, 2009, he recognized the building anger brewing in the body politic and its implications:

We should be grateful to Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Rahm Emanuel. For, in their audacity, they have done what their predecessors feared to do; and, in the process, they have made the tyrannical propensities inherent within the progressive impulse visible to anyone who cares to take notice. What Franklin Delano Roosevelt falsely charged in 1936 is visibly true today. “A small group” is intent on concentrating “into their own hands an almost complete control over other people’s property, other people’s money, other people’s labor – other people’s lives.”

The only question is whether the Republicans have the wit to take full advantage of the opportunity that Barack Obama has handed them.

A year later, Dr. Rahe’s call appears to be coming true. In this article Dr. Rahe describes the reasons for optimism. In short, Dr. Rahe explains why the pollsters are apt to be underestimating the results of the upcoming election.

Indications are that we may be in for a tsunami election. While that is likely to be an improvement, it is in and of itself no solution. Kicking the Dems out and replacing them with Republicans is akin to booting out the Crips and replacing them with the Bloods. Both, when in charge, operate criminal enterprises. Both cooperate to cover up the corruption of their opponents so that the game of exploiting citizens may continue.

Few citizens probably know the name Albert J Nock. However, it appears that many citizens are moving closer to his generic assessment of government:

Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.

In the US, government has never been more powerful, harmful, inept and corrupt.

This election is meaningless if it does not signal to the arrogant politicians that the citizens have had enough. Republican rule means nothing, per se. It is the message of the election that is important. If the message is interpreted solely as a defeat of Democrats and their policies, the election is meaningless. As discussed in the  American Thinker:

… all that is necessary for America to sink further into the morass of economic stagnation, moral decay, and heavy-handed federal control is for congressional Republicans to mistake their impending victory in the fall elections for a vote of confidence.

More people now understand government, at least as it has been practiced in their lifetimes. It is fraud, filled with waste and operated in the fashion of a criminal enterprise. Its gang members make themselves and their cronies rich at the expense of hard-working citizens. That is the real message of this election.  The people are no longer fooled; they are fed up.

Corrupt, abusive and giant government must end. For many career politicians, this message is probably incomprehensible. After all, they have never operated any differently. Many have never had real jobs.

The American people have awakened and change will come regardless of what the political parties want or think.  ”Hope and Change,” a clever campaign slogan, is now a bad joke. The change that has been produced is move toward dystopia.

Change is wanted but it is a change back, back to a time when government was more trustworthy, less intrusive and less corrupt. It is not a return to Bush that is desired, but more like a change to Eisenhower.

On November 2, the politicians receive what may be their last conventional chance to absorb and react to the wishes of the people. Proper political response could save the country a great deal of unnecessary strife and turmoil.

The sleeping giant has awakened from a fifty-year economic fantasy. If the ballot box fails to provide demanded reforms, people will not stand by and continue to be raped by the political elites.  We are in for some tough times ahead, regardless.

So long as the people have their spirit and love of freedom, the country will survive one way or another. Feckless politicians have a less rosy future.

We live in interesting and likely dangerous times.

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