Not Communism -- Rather, Dictatorship!

A must-read guest post by Victor the Contractor

A lot of people these days are talking about the changes that the Obama Administration is imposing upon the financial, automobile, manufacturing and the (very healthy) health care industries. The folks, both on Main street and Wall Street, are fearful that our left-leaning government is trying to nationalize as much of the economy as possible before the mid-term elections while passing difficult-to-reverse legislation before the housecleaning, so to speak, begins.

Every day I find some article warning of the coming Communism or the emergence of the 'Nanny State' as the consummate arbiter of spending and the loss of independence and choice those policies will inevitably foist upon us. Now that the Liberals own the guns will they be stuffing flower stems down the barrels or rather turn the weapons on their own populations? Will the symbols and almost incomprehensible power that the US Government wields now be an instrument of enslavement of ideas and liberties? Have the Marxist ideals that have miserably failed in Russia and China taken root in the Halls of Congress and will now be implemented to our chagrin and the decline of our way of life?

The answer is as elegant in its simplicity as it is brief: No. A thousand times no! The explanation, however, will take some 'Splainin,' as Ricky so eloquently put it when interrogating the lovable Lucy on television so many years ago. I won't go into a long dissertation on the forms of Communism but will just say that, in essence, a government of equals, meaning everybody who is sane, has a say in the policies and production of the society at large. The means of production are owned by the government, which is in turn controlled by every subject of that government. Simple, eh?

It's a very tempting lifestyle to advocate for; if you're seventeen and don't know a thing about business or human nature. And if it were true that the Obama administration was arguing for Communism, they could at most be guilty of being pie-eyed in the face of an economic reality almost as stark as the Great Depression. I would love to give them the benefit of the doubt, but the benefit would be all theirs and the gullibility would be all mine. So let's call it as we see it in order to prove a point.

The Obama Administration, both majorities in the House and Senate and about half of the Supreme Court are, in essence, Totalitarianists. What, pray tell, is a Totalitarianist? Well, aside from giving me writer's cramp from typing the word: a Totalitarianist is someone who believes in and advocates for the government regulation or outright control of every aspect of a private citizen's life.

In a Capitalist society this function would be performed by a tiny part of the personality called the conscience. I say tiny because, it seems, the ability to know right from wrong and act on it has been waning for some time in our society, especially in the over-educated class and anybody holding elected office. Washington is the nexus of the infestation, but it has now spread to local Governments country-wide. Academics have long been known to be sociopaths when it comes to common sense, but that subject is for another day.

At some point the effete intelligentsia and the Democrat Party decided that Humanism had in its capacity the answers for all manner of societal ills and encompassed the need to control others. It no longer was enough to let off child rapists and punish law abiding citizens for their prosperity: the time had come to even the score. We now have the paradigm where the poor will now dictate the terms of employment for the rest of us. No longer will we 'Eat if we work.' We will work and feel guilt for those who can't work, are unable to perform in this greedy society, or simply have decided that working is too 'taxing' on the human spirit for them. And we will support all who opt out of personal responsibility, mostly because we who work are the ones who can afford finance this 'Strawberry Fields' existence.

An aside: It always struck me as ironic that a generation of the hardest working musicians on the planet in the sixties produced a genre of music that a generation of the laziest people (in the universe) in the seventies and eighties listened to while consuming large quantities of alcohol and drugs. By the nineties everybody was hung over and depressed, henceforth the music was self absorbed and poorly executed not to mention infantile, but I digress.

What is the preferred instrument to force egalitarianism on those 'type A's' who work their tails to the bone earning while others sit and wait for welfare checks? The dictatorship. Whether it be a Central Planning Committee or a Strongman in the vein of Juan Peron, nothing says dictatorship like the suppression of all public criticism, writing and voting on legislation in secret and calling detractors unpatriotic. Next we'll have an unelected board deciding just what speech is free and what is treason. All we need is the resurrection of the Fairness Doctrine to make all opinion 'equal.' Some opinions will of course be more equal than others, but you will know your Animal Farm by who inhabits it.

A dictatorship is the form of Government being set up in this country. And that's Government with a huge G. Our 'Helpmeets' in Washington already own a couple of car companies, a slew of banks and more signing up for buyouts by the week, and are on the verge of owning the means of treating all sickness. Does anyone really think its a coincidence that the the recommendations for Breast Exams and other disease prevention tests are being scaled back to later ages? The Government knows it will not be able to administer or afford such large-scale procedures on half the population. It must now set reduced expectations.

And just wait until they decide that obesity is a lifestyle choice like smoking. Now there's a good chunk of the populace that they won't have to treat. Drink too much, overeat, and you could wind up denied treatment for your diabetes and, soon enough, out of a job for your largess. And if you're older than sixty-five and conract cancer, the cost of your procedures will be measured against your expected productivity. Brain surgeons are still in full stride at sixty-five: not so much for steel workers. Guess which one gets the Chemo?

What a wonderful world it will be. Just like that Disneyland, South America! We can have a Mexico City on each coast. Well, we already have that in California: Do you think we should finally give it back to Mexico, and throw in New Mexico and Arizona as a sort of apology for their troubles? If we wait long enough, perhaps California will secede and rejoin Mexico on its own, due to a majority being Mexican-born.

As it stands, we can have a strongman in the White House. One who runs around with his 'posse' and holds court, just like the leader of a third world country. Then Congress can rubber-stamp everything he requests and he can use the National Guard to implement any 'unpopular' policies. Only a fool argues with a bayonet. Wish I could remember who said that.

Yes, the Obama administration is courting Marxist ideology and forming a dictatorship to force his agenda upon us. And it's ironic that a national press, who decried President Nixon for the same type of cynical behavior (on a much smaller scale), would trumpet this man's agenda and praise every golden word that pours from his teleprompter, er, I mean, mouth. Yes, this is a different world we live in as opposed to the golden age of the fifties and the prosperity that comes from having the only unscathed manufacturing infrastructure after the war. But the problems are all the same.

We have to earn what we spend before we spend it, not raise the debt ceiling another trillion dollars and hope the Chinese can stomach another bond auction. Our economy would do well from a tax cut, not a Cap-and-Trade limit on prosperity. And that's what this White House is all about: Limiting Prosperity.

When I hear we have to, "Spread the wealth around," and "It's Time for people to pay their fair share," it makes me very angry to think that our representatives are going back to their million-dollar homes in Prince George County while most of us are scraping pennies together for heating oil. There is a growing disconnect between the working world and the Washington bubble. Those who would presume to dictate our lives have long lost sight of the fact that they serve at our sufferance and can be voted out of office periodically. They think that a Madison Avenue commercial will sway our minds and ensure their deferred retirement from 'protecting' us from ourselves.

Well, maybe most years a slick campaign, irregular vote counts and registering dead people will do the trick. But I caution those who think the dictatorship is fixed and Mother Congress will prevail. Unemployment and midterm elections may just be the perfect storm that boots out the Democrat majority and derails the Progressive agenda. This time. There will always be some who seek to control all others, whether out of a sense of omnipotence or out of a personal savior complex.

We all must be vigilant of them. For they are a danger not only to our liberties, but can destroy opportunities of all who enjoy the protections and freedoms we provide around the world. If we fail as a nation, the entire world could slip back into a medieval state; but infinitely more dangerous. A world of advanced technology where the punishment for defying a dress code could be death and a quarrel between heads of state end in a nuclear conflagration.

I say we vote out those who supported Cap-and-Trade, Health Care 'Reform', the Stimulus package and any tax, fee or levy increase. Period. If he's a Republican with no scruples, he's no Republican at all. At least I know where Barney Frank stands. A Republican who runs on a moderate platform and then supports a tax-and-spend ideology is a liar and should be voted out. Even if they are likable, speak well and are presentable on TV.

And if he's a Democrat and votes our way: we have a big tent and must welcome him.

I will sing the praises of this great nation, that bright and shining light on the hill. The beacon that always leads me home to Freedom, and protects the Liberties I hold true.

Let those who would have such 'audacity' pry the flag from my dead and calloused hands,

Victor The Contractor

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