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A prophetic but chilling warning about how America is repeating the history of past Republics by accepting and preferring  a totalitarian form of government.

“…Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and … accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ” The Declaration of Independence.

Many Americans are awakening to a reality that the country they once knew is gone, replaced by a “Progressive” Marxist/Socialist Oligarchy.  The past week reveal that the Obama regime has used the government’s agencies to wage war on Americans, silence Christians and Conservative groups, spy on the media and private citizens, harass citizens who attempt to involve themselves in politics, and punish political opposition to the ‘fundamental transformation’ Obama is imposing on the country.

Ambassador Alan Keyes asks a question this author has been asking since 2008 – can this country awaken itself from it’s stupor?  Can this nightmare of a totalitarian Marxist state be stopped? Or are we too late and comfortable with it already??

Methinks it’s the latter.  A majority clearly prefer tyranny to liberty, and yet they will call it freedom.

Totalitarian Subversion- Can we Awaken from the Nightmare?

Whatever Obama, Hilary Clinton, Susan Rice and other Obama faction officials were seeking to achieve with their lies about the terrorist murders of U.S. officials in Benghazi; whatever the full extent of the ideologically motivated political abuses at the IRS, one thing is clear. Except for mindless apparatchiks, thoughtlessly loyal to the Obama cult, (like Chris Matthews and Al Sharpton, for example) no sane person can now consider it crazy or irrational to distrust the words and actions of those presently controlling the U.S. government. These scandals show the self-serving ‘chutzpah’ of Obama’s snide dismissal of people who “warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems….They’ll warn that tyranny [is] always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”

In one respect, Obama’s words ring true. Tyranny isn’t just around the corner. It is already upon us. Its forces are not yet confident enough to employ the ‘Gestapo’ tactics routinely associated with socialist dictatorship. But they have obviously been using their control of the Federal bureaucracy to repress and intimidate individuals and grassroots organizations, preoccupying their time and depleting their resources. Should we be encouraged by the fact that these abuses are now being openly discussed and decried? Only if the stir actually leads to actions that effectively curtail them, while establishing am oversight mechanism that assures continually formal and public scrutiny, to make sure that they cannot be repeated without an immediate outcry.

But what if no such action is taken? Inaction is likely, given the collaborative mindset of the GOP leaders in the U.S. House, and the Obama faction’s solid majority in the U.S. Senate. If it happens these abuses will recur in a more virulent form. And they will spread, like an infection treated with an inadequate course of antibiotics. People will realize that the abuses are still in train, and that their elected officials have done nothing to reduce each individual’s vulnerability. Increasingly tinged with fear, the angry public reaction against the abuses will wane. Spreading from one individual to another, as episodes of abuse proliferate, this individual fear will gradually intensify until it dominates the public mind. This is the way tyranny subverts peace of mind.

Is this part of the reason the Obama faction volunteered these revelations? Is it part of the reason elements of the elitist faction are so willing to air this dirty laundry? If no effective controls are put in place, the result could generate a corrosive atmosphere of fearful expectation, that predisposes people to forestall abuse by submitting to those responsible for it. Was it from wise precaution against this corrosion of the spirit of liberty that, unlike Barack Obama, America’s founders saw it as ”…proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties”; and went on to praise the “free men of America” who “did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise…They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle.” (James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments)

Barack Obama is a man whose ruthless ideological consistency leads him to disdain the natural rightness of human life, in its most affecting and helpless form. For example, his advocacy of unconstrained access to abortion is so extreme that he countenanced infanticide in order to assure it. He understood and frankly accepted that this ruthless position was a necessary consequence of the logic that justifies so-called “abortion rights”. The heartily soul destroying effect of his logical extremism was recently revealed at trial, in the jocular morbidity of Kermit Gosnell, who now stands convicted of such murders.

Given his calculated fanaticism, Obama is just the type to deploy the heartless bureaucratic, police and military forces of government against citizens whose only crime is to exercise the rights that are their birthright, under God and the Constitution. Today public attention focuses on the IRS, abused to attack the resources and curtail the political activity of those who oppose the design for despotism. Soon and very soon it will be the IRS and the police, abused to attack free speech and the free exercise of religion. Then it will be Homeland security and local police forces, under the guise of anti-terrorist martial law, abused to arrest and detain evangelical Christians, Catholics, homeschoolers, and those who exercise their 2^nd Amendment rights. Then it will be OBama’s fondly imagined domestic army, as large and well-funded as the military, moving against States whose officials who refuse to acquiesce in the unconstitutional abridgment of the residual sovereign rights guaranteed to the States, respectively, and to the people, by the U.S. Constitution’s 10^th Amendment.

Please don’t make the mistake of believing that this design for despotism is exclusively the sinister ambition of Democrats like Obama. For years I tried to warn people in the GOP about Obama’s commitment to totalitarian communist approaches to politics and economics. For years I tried to help them recognize his rejection of the principles whereby the requirements of God-endowed right limit the just powers of government. For years I inveighed against his pro-abortion extremism; his disdain for the God-endowed rights of the natural family; his hostility to America’s international and national security requirements.

I gradually came to realize that the leadership of the Republican Party is incapable of responding effectively to Obama’s treacherous betrayal of constitutional self-government, or even admitting it. Why? Because that leadership is itself in the grip of forces that differ from Obama only in the more openly self-serving style of their betrayal. They purport to represent and speak for the large plurality of Americans loyal to the Constitution. They pretend to respect the ideas of God-endowed unalienable rights and limited government from which the Constitution derives. But they have in fact abandoned every goal of political life except the successful pursuit of governmental power, and the self-aggrandizing abuses it makes possible.

In the WND article published on Friday I argued that, because the IRS “overturns the priority of natural right over humanly instituted authority”, it is a design woven into the fabric of tyranny. In similar fashion, because it has substituted power for justice as the end of civil society, the elitist faction’s sham two-party system is also a design woven into the fabric of tyranny. When America’s founders framed our form of government, they did so with justice in view (see Federalist #51). Institutions like the IRS and the elitist faction’s sham two-party system are like viruses. Though written in the language the founders used, they have been introduced into the program of American government in order to rewrite its code for a different purpose. They exist, as it were, to reweave the whole cloth of American life. They are part of a phalanx of similarly viral mechanisms, including now the public schools, and much of the news and entertainment media, that have been transformed from factors of liberty into engines of elitist totalitarian indoctrination and control.

This is, in the tactical sense, the realization of the Antonio Gramsci’s comprehensive vision of totalitarian, socialist, political subversion. We can awaken from it, as from a stifling nightmare, but only if we are willing to exert our minds to see all its fabrications for what they are. Only then will we cease to be manipulated and subdued by the delusory hopes and fears they represent.

As the economy twists downward for most of us — as the politics of money tightens like a noose around everything we love — I think about the disintegration of human values, which insane logic and the Republicans tells us we can no longer afford

The Separation of Profit and State

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The Morality Brigade

We’re still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America. What powerful people do in their boardrooms is the public’s business. Our democracy needs protection from the depredations of big money

What Would RFK Do?

The nation is once again polarized, but I don’t hear our politicians talking about social justice or the public good. They’re talking instead about the budget deficit and sequestration. At bottom, though, the issue is still social justice

On Partisan Echo Chambers

There was a time when the lines between the practices of politics and journalism were clear-cut. Professional politicians did their thing; professional journalists did theirs. Seldom did the two meet in public opinion forums

Campaign Finance Reform Brings About Strategic Shifts

Multiple-match public financing has the potential to deliver a government that takes the side of the people, not the side of money. On that hope alone, it’s worth a try

Big Sugar’s Subsidy — How Sweet It Is

Not everyone who depends on the federal government is suffering in these austere times. The USDA is on the verge of purchasing 400,000 tons of sugar in a massive bailout of domestic sugar processors. It’s the sweetest of deals for the big companies

Dr. Ben Carson, New Right-Wing Hero

Whenever somebody says something like, ‘Now, I know this isn’t PC, but…,’ watch out. It probably means they’re about to say something rude. In the case of Dr. Ben Carson, the world-famous neurosurgeon, the rudeness was pointedly public

One of These Things is Not Like the Other

Just because things can be put on the same list doesn’t mean they are necessarily similar. I bring this up for the simple reason that we’re hearing a lot about how the GOP must deal with ‘abortion and gay marriage’ as if they are almost the same issue

GOP Assault on Workers’ Rights Continues

Today’s GOP believes its solemn duty is to mow down workers’ rights and wage protections. The onslaught is incredibly well-organized, particularly at the state level, where the well-manicured hand of the American Legislative Exchange Council is all over it

One More Bush?

The ruminations of Jeb Bush, son of one former president and younger brother of another, on maybe seeking the presidency in 2016 raises among other possibilities another campaign clash of the Bush and Clinton dynasties

Gun Control’s Timid Advocates

For all the clamor from the White House and many in Congress to address the American scourge of gun violence, signs continue to point to a half-measure solution at best

Gun Lobby Defends Their Cynical Business Model

There’s a little known fact about guns in America, and it’s one that the firearms industry and its political allies don’t like to dwell on: The rate of gun ownership in America is declining. This has been the case for decades

Right Decision, Wrong Reason

Let there be no cheers for Rob Portman. The Ohio senator, a conservative Republican, did something conservative Republicans do not do. He came out for same-sex marriage. And what prompted this? The senator made his U-turn because of Will

Obamacare: Unhappy Anniversary

Recently, politicians who helped craft the Affordable Care Act celebrated in self-congratulatory style the third anniversary of that monstrosity which will soon extinguish health care as we’ve known it

Fighting the Last Political War

Paul Ryan’s revamped plan to balance the budget includes a pledge to ‘repeal and replace Obamacare.’ With slow economic and job growth continuing to plague the country, a decision to pivot back to that first-term battleground challenges common sense

RNC Power Grab

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, in an ambitious effort to direct a party makeover in wake of its defeat last November, has targeted the next presidential cycle’s debates and primaries

The GOP Goes Under the Knife

In what unfortunately has been labeled an ‘autopsy’ of the Republican defeat last November, surgeons of the party establishment and its most conservative offshoot had their scalpels out recently, carving up the corpse

GOP Reboot: A ‘Grand Open Party?’

Will Republican leaders listen to their own report that calls for minority outreach? First, they have to convince their party’s right-wingers to avoid making younger and nonwhite voters feel about as welcome as a cheeseburger at a vegan buffet

The Demise of Moderate Republicanism

Among the casualties of the 2012 presidential election, along with Mitt Romney, was the vanishing breed of moderate Republicans of which he once was a star, until his embarrassing lurch into conservatism

GOP Needs to Make Up its Mind on Immigration Reform

Jeb Bush, has long advocated a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, roughly in line with current thinking of a bipartisan group in Congress. Yet in his new book, Bush has flip-flopped on the question of the path to citizenship

Fusion Power on the Right

Libertarianism has a better brand name than conservatism these days, particularly among young people. Conservatives shouldn’t be freaking out about this any more than libertarians should start a victory dance

Greatest Generation the Most Entitled

Perhaps it’s time for both sides to consider an underappreciated fact of American life: The system we are trying to perpetuate was created for the explicit benefit of the so-called greatest generation, the most coddled and cared for cohort in American history

Michael Bloomberg: Freedom to Make Stupid Decisions

It is the very definition of liberalism run amok, a good idea (people should limit their intake of sugary soft drinks) driven headlong into the weeds of overkill, overregulation and basic preposterousness

Chuck Hagel Survives

After all the thunder and lightning signifying nothing but more Republican obstructionism, former Sen. Chuck Hagel has taken over at the Pentagon, vowing a realistic approach to America’s military role in the world

American Recessional

Republicans and Democrats are blaming one another for cuts to the defense budget. But with annual deficits of $1 trillion and a total debt nearing $17 trillion, the United States was bound to re-examine its expensive overseas commitments and strategic profile

On Talking Things Out

Obama takes a bunch of Republican senators to dinner and invites the losing GOP vice-presidential nominee to lunch. Meanwhile, a Republican filibusters for 13 hours against theoretical use of unmanned drones on our own soil. What’s going on here?

Rand Paul’s Stunt Misses the Point

If you took Rand Paul duck hunting, he’d probably shoot the decoy. That’s the impression he gave when he took the floor of the Senate for a 13-hour rambling real-life imitation of Jimmy Stewart’s filibuster in ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’

What Rand Paul Got Right

A Democratic president clings to his constitutional right to rain death from the sky on American citizens drinking Frappuccinos, and conservatives attack the Republican senator who complains about it

Flight of Fancy

President Obama should listen to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the ‘founder’ of shuttle diplomacy. Kissinger sees little hope in the ‘Arab Spring,’ nor is he optimistic about peace in the region following the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood

The Downside of Conservative Orthodoxy

Shouldn’t conservative Republicans be ecstatic by New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie’s record? Not the folks at CPAC, which decided not to invite one of the party’s superstars to its annual gathering

CPAC Unwise to Snub Chris Christie

What can you do with a man like Chris Christie? The answer, according to many with the conservative movement: Throw him overboard. The popular governor of New Jersey has certainly angered many conservatives

It’s ‘I Told You So’ on Obamacare

The Iraq war justifiably led to a lot of media soul-searching about how journalists were too credulous of the Bush administration’s arguments. A similar discussion about how we got stuck in the Obamacare quagmire seems long overdue

Mitt Romney’s Surprising Post-Mortem

After three months of licking the wounds of his defeat, Mitt Romney surfaced on Fox News with a somewhat unexpected rationale for his disappointing election outcome. What cost him the White House, he seemed to say, was Obamacare

Do We Need to Maintain A Dole For Former Presidents?

In this era of debt and fiscal dysfunction, it’s less than heartening to learn from the Congressional Research Service that the nation’s four living former Presidents received $3.7 million in pensions and operating expenses last year from American taxpayers

Sequesterville

We’re back in ‘Hooverville,’ the name given to shanty towns that popped up during the Great Depression. It isn’t that bad yet, though the Obama administration is forecasting gloom and doom if Republicans don’t cave on another tax increase

Extortionist in Chief

At the end of 1995 and stretching into January 1996, the federal government ‘shut down’ because of an impasse between President Clinton and House Republicans. The issue was increased taxes vs. less spending. Sound familiar?

The Sound of Inevitability

Given his track record, former President Clinton is not the person I would consult about ‘committed, loving relationships.’ Clinton used those words in a recent op-ed, urging the Supreme Court to overturn the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act

Bringing California Back

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The California ‘Mordida’

California now works on the principle of the mordida, or ‘bite.’ Its government assumes that it can take something extra from residents for the privilege of living in their special state. Gov. Jerry Brown made that assumption explicit in his latest back-and-forth

GOP Governors Still Know a Good Deal When They See One

You have to credit Rick Scott for coming around on Medicaid expansion. I never thought it would happen. Yet now Scott is one of eight Republican governors to announce their support for it. How refreshing to see fierce opposition give way to reasoned acceptance

Governor Scott to Voters: Never Mind

Governor Rick Scott was one of those tea party stars whom voters believed had the courage of his convictions to block The Affordable Care Act. But recently, Scott made an abrupt about-face, embracing a three-year expansion of Medicaid coverage

Another Scandal in Tallahassee? You Bet!

In Florida, not much is asked of the lieutenant governor. It’s a sham job, devoid of responsibility. Your typical day is spent attending dull functions that the governor chooses to avoid. Unless you end up like Jennifer Carroll

This Florida Citizen Outraged by Citizens Insurance

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Visions: America after Hegemony

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High Court Ponders: Is Racism Over?

Sometimes Supreme Court Justice Scalia reminds me of the grumpy old cranks in the balcony of ‘The Muppet Show.’ And talk Scalia did during oral arguments over the survival of a controversial provision in the 1965 Voting Rights Act

A Ruling on Racial Progress

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Signs that the NRA is Losing

Now that they’re facing Washington’s first serious push for new gun violence prevention laws since the Columbine massacre, gun lobbyists are grasping at straw

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