Supremacy worldviews are like peas in a pod. So, learning that Hitler was a big fan of Islamic Jihad shouldn’t be surprising. Well, not to our regular readers.
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DISCUS Doodlings – “Totalitarian govt is not just one where police and soldiers overwatch with guns”
Reading that title, one should be thinking, at least, of North Korea. China, as well. Those of us who are older remember the Berlin Wall and the East German army and the Western Allies decades long standoff with thumbs ready to put their Safeties to off. I also think of the Stasi, keeping tabs on … Read more
DISQUS Doodlings – You will live this way (Part 2)
OK, I’m not going to repeat the list I put up here of one Eco-Socialist’s plot to achieve the UN’s IPCC plan to 45% decarbonize in 12 years. But go over there and read it again as a refresher. Otherwise, the comments below may not make much sense: I tried to warn the TreeHugger denizens “be careful of what you wish for.”
NH House Democrat Status Report: Freedom much, Regressives?
How Democrats voted, through March 20, 2019 To set the stage, these from my post “Progressives and The Proper Role of Government – and your subservience to it“: Referencing the new law criminalizing the use of plastic straws, Councilman Jesse Dominguez said, “Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s … Read more
DISQUS Doodlings Part 2: “If we want to make better decisions or do things in our society’s self-interest, we need to be tricked into doing them”
“If we want to make better decisions or do things in our society’s self-interest, we need to be tricked into doing them,” explained Steve Valk from the Citizens Climate Lobby. Yeah, these folks think just SO highly of their fellow citizens. Yet another Jonathan Gruber type; just outright lie to folks in order to fulfill your political … Read more
Notable Quote – Tyler Cowen
Market economies and market reforms look better as more weight is placed on the relatively distant future. A free society is better today than a corrupt and totalitarian one. But one hundred years from now, the difference in human welfare and other relevant values will prove far more pronounced. -Tyler Cowen (Stubborn Attachments)
Notable Quote – Tom Palmer
“As you go through life, chances are almost 100 percent that you act like a libertarian. You might ask what it means to “act like a libertarian.” It’s not that complicated. You don’t hit other people when their behavior displeases you. You don’t take their stuff. You don’t lie to them to trick them into letting you take their stuff, or defraud them, or knowingly give them directions that cause them to drive off of a bridge. You’re just not that kind of a person.
Showing, once more, that Totalitarians have a very diminished sense of humor
We all know that NYC Mayor Mikey Bloomberg is both a sour puss and has a predilection to make choices for peoples’ lives (as opposed to letting Citizens do that for himself) that seems to be rivaled only by his billionaire wealth. His outlook is that of NH State Rep Kris Roberts (“Government has to … Read more
DNC: You Belong To The Government
Democrats believe that “The government is the only thing we all belong to”. Firstly, speak for yourself you crazy old man. Secondly listen to the way he says “Government”. There’s something eerie about it.:
OCCUPY WALL STREET FOR DUMMIES
“In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.” —Larry Niven
How does one become an Occupy Wall Street Protestor? A quest for understanding in a somewhat complicated topic. Why? Because there are some who seem to demonstrate a modicum of intelligence and articulate usage of the language when the camera is rolling. And, there are some who dress reasonably normal (normal meaning, no obvious hygiene challenges, maintaining a groomed appearance). Those folks are in the vast minority. And certainly it would not be an accurate statement to say these slackers are all “youth generational.” The camera has caught some old enough to be peers of my parents.
But the task at hand is an immediate one. How do I blend in? How do I become an OWS protestor. I suppose I should start with something superficial. Ah yes! you say, “Things aren’t always as they appear.” and how right one might be to make such a characterization. But any good leftist will tell you, honesty is a relative term. “Your views are your views.” Kind of akin to calling people racists because they don’t like Obama… Yet, when it is pointed out that these same “racists” like Herman Cain, the argument shifts to, “you only like him because he gives your racism cover.” Rank dishonesty is the domain of the left. And outward appearance is what we first see from our friends in the lame stream media.
As a segue into my OWS protestor journey, I neither shave nor shower for an extended period of time. (if I wish to wholly embrace this slacker look, I don’t brush my teeth, either..If a casual observer spies a chive stuck in my teeth when I smile, I have arrived) It is important to engender that, “rail against the establishment” appearance. Smelling ones’ own smell, is sufficient validation one has achieved parity with the OWS appearance.
DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE YOU UNDER SURVEILLANCE?
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” —Justice William O Douglas
Perhaps some will read this and the knee-jerk reaction might be, “Oh, there goes one of those tin-foil-lined hat rants again…Like the government doesn’t have anything better to do than watch, “me.” Perhaps on some level, thinking of the government having citizens under surveillance harkens back to Soviet-style citizen oppression, much less being an inefficient and wasteful use of valuable resources. This issue, however, focuses on the incidental happenstance of average citizens and the likelihood of being caught up in something few contemplate or even envision.
You’re watching the news and a story about bombs and explosives airs and part of the interview features some law enforcement mouthpiece claiming, “The bomb was constructed from instructions readily available on the internet…and materials bought at local hardware and home goods retailers…” You have never given thought about building a bomb, much less how to build one. So, being bored you grab your laptop and Google, “How to build a bomb” Sorting through the various hits the topic garners, you spend all of ten minutes searching and reading. All you really want to know is if the claims made have any credibility.
How Much Is Enough? (And Other Problems With Left Wing Policy)
Why can’t democrats trust their own constituents to do the right thing? Their first response to every problem is to institutionalize it with more government, typically as far up the legislative food chain as possible. That means as far away from you as they can manage, even to the point of giving control to unelected bureaucrats you can’t punish, just to keep you from messing with it. They entrench it in a bureaucracy, make it impossibly inefficient and expensive and then refuse to let anyone touch it ever again, while charging you more and more to maintain it.
The only reason I can think of for that kind of knee jerk behavior is that Democrats use themselves as the template for the rest of us. The left by their very nature must be selfish, insecure, inconsiderate and un-trusting. Only people so un-giving of themselves or simply incapable of volunteering their time and energy would have to mandate volunteerism and "giving" by legalizing the taking of other peoples time or property through mandates.
A Real Separation Of Powers
Separation of powers is something of a throw-away phrase for the Socialist-Democrat-Progressives. They hand it out like a comfort object to the public, a sort of well-worn teddy bear for the masses. It is meant to remind you that no matter what they do (or did) that bear will be there to help you feel better.
So what if it is a highly regulated bear, made by dues paying union workers, stuffed with warning labels, wearing a little red hat with a hammer and sickle on it, and maybe even an Obama T-shirt for good measure.
Separation of powers is also this idea where the three branches are divided to ensure that the tyrannical might of the federal government is divided to protect the rights of the people. This used to work, right up until someone wrote the seventeenth amendment, and then politicized the national court system. At that point we no longer had separation of powers just the separation of parties, except where the two parties agree; in which case we are looking at an Oligarchy by direct democracy, which is one of the shortest paths by which little Red Totalitarian-Riding hood arrives at Comrade Grandma’s house.
Why do you think both parties appear to be moving to opposite extreme’s? Why are states rebelling against the federal government? Because the system was broken on purpose, by progressives, who need direct democracy so that fear and intimidation can drive the polity to allow top down federal rule as the only viable solution.
So our central planning friends view separation of powers to mean separating you from their power, so they can go about the business of managing your lives, and no one has worked harder or longer to excise the power from the people than democrats, though the ruling class Neo-Cons have done plenty to help fill the picnic basket for grandma.
But there is a solution to this problem, one that can relieve the pressure of special interests, the boys club mentality, and the lack of responsiveness by the federal legislature to the state and the people.
Taquiyya : Political Strategy of Democrats and Islamists
Thesis Question: What unites the Democrat political Left with the violent Jihadi Muslims?
Thesis Conclusion: It’s clearly not religious compatibility or shared opinion about homosexuals or women’s rights. Still they support one another here in the U.S. and even moreso in Western Europe. It’s more a sharing of Taqiyya and their shared desire to bring down Western democracy, Capitalism and Judeo-Christian culture and faith.
Answer is: They both have a hatred of authentic democracy, of Judaism and Christianity and of individual liberty over one’s life because both are hyper-authoritarian. But, most interestingly, what binds them together apart from the reasons above is their love of the use of the same political tactic, which in Islam is called Taqiyya. Leftists would regulate all human activity through a Leviathan state which takes and gives rights based on the whims of a centralized politburo elite, whereas Islam does the same through a politburo of Mullahs and Ayatollahs who interpret Islam in lieu of Das Kapital.
As we’ve seen in this election cycle and in many other recent U.S. elections, the Democrats dissemble and use public deceit to hide their past votes, and true future intentions which they put forth only after they’ve won election and don’t fear another day of accountability for some time. They never run as proud Liberals, Progressives and Socialists. They saw what happened when Michael Dukakis tried that holding up his ACLU member card. They are anti-free-market, collectivist, kleptocrats and secular-atheist tyrants, only different from Castro, Kim Jong Il, Stalin and Mao in degree and tactics which are much more in line with the Muslim Jihadists and Chinese Communists who believe they will conquer in the long-run, but are willing to take an incrementalist approach.
Like the Chi-Coms