Sword and Sextant

The greatest social experiment in the modern history of man is in trouble.  Collectivists, socialists, and progressives have once more begun a full frontal assault on the cherished liberties of the Constitution.  Our government, driven by the intentions of radical thinkers, once more seeks to control ever more of our citizenry.  This path leads unerringly toward fascism as it is defined in the dictionary.  The evil has penetrated both parties of our system, and the leaders of each partisan coalition no longer argue whether the government should illegally seize more rights from the populace, but instead how it should be done, and to whom they should redistribute wealth and benefits.

Currently, our overbearing government controls federal funding for an unconstitutional Department of Education, numerous foreign aid programs (some even to enemy states sworn to defeat us like Iran), and a tax system that coerces citizens to give up ever more of their money for the benefit of the nebulous “general welfare.” Each day, the federal colossus lurches toward complete fascism, a state in which all things flow through the national government according to the principal that all elements of a society should be controlled by a ruling class, rather than the free will of a people.  The Tenth Amendment was written exactly to prevent this particular evil, but the Radical propaganda of a “living Constitution” fools the slanted media and voters into letting our government continue its war on freedom.

This system’s more sinister elements are revealed when one takes into consideration the reality of government spending.  They would have us believe that funding a needless bureaucracy, constant wasteful spending and rampant corruption regularly tainting a system that lulls weak-minded citizens into believing that a federal system, despite its evils, is necessary because no other entity can support the education of our children.  The federal education budget is also the most blunt of funding instruments.  The need to appropriate all funds doled out to each state removes any possibility of being responsive to the needs of each unique state educational structure.  This is only one example of the federal government seeking to control our lives to the detriment of our lives, seeking only more power to feed its demonic addiction.

The problem is everywhere.  When given the “political capital” to implement his agenda, our President Bush has created massive spending increases and entitlements in education and Medicare, both of which limit state powers while also stealing the very freedoms that we spend untold trillions fighting the “war on terrorism” for.  Why fight if our leaders are merely going to steal our liberty in a piecemeal fashion anyway?  He ran as a Compassionate Conservative, but this was clearly not remotely close to Conservative, except for his sweeping tax cuts, which freed men and women to spend more of their money than before.  Notably, they did, and we were not only saved from certain recession, but thrown into unprecedented growth over several years, despite the insistence of the media that we’ve been in a recession for months.  (They have publicly declared against the Republican Party already this year, even suggesting that it is hard to remain objective in the messianic presence of Barack Obama.)

What can be done to save our wondrous country that loses its luster each day?  When will a candidate run on conservative principles, and then follow through with an agenda and program that returns rights to the states, shrinks the role of the federal leviathan, and turn back the totalitarian clock?  When will successful citizens be freed of the chains that bind them to the average man, and the anchor of the welfare state?  When will conservative principles return to the Republican Party and excise the Christian Right from the party tent, at last recognizing it for the cancer it represents?

We at S & S do not have an answer for this.  It is a dark time in this land, as we watch every Democratic candidate further the totalitarian nanny state via universal health care programs.  There is solace for us, however.  After the political and economic destruction of the Johnson and Carter administrations, in addition to the ineffectual Ford tenure, we were rescued from near certain defeat in the Cold War by a man who saw a “shining city on a hill.”  Much as the Scientologists await the return of their fallen leader L. Ron Hubbard, true conservatives must wait for Ronald Reagan to reemerge from the mists and deliver us from fascism.  Come back to us, Mr. President.