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Sam sez 06 Nov 2008

Sam Wells a.k.a. Eddie Willers emailed this libertarian rant from his sinecure [that may be a false assumption] in the strange state of Kalifornica. It deserves promulgation far and wide:

A Major Wake-Up Call?

Tuesday evening was a sad night for America, a very bad setback politically in which the party/faction most responsible for undermining those values and principles which once made America a great nation stacked up many electoral wins, not only in the presidential campaign, but also in both the House and Senate, adding to their already large majorities in Congress. There is no sugar coating of this: This bodes bad for America's future.

The U.S. economy, historically at least, provided more opportunities for more people than any other system in the history of the world because it approached (but never achieved in full measure) laissez-faire capitalism. It was the most moral and efficient economic system in human history. To the extent that it still exists, it is capitalism -- the system of private ownership and the freedom to save, invest, market, and trade -- which made American economic advances possible. And it is capitalism -- to the extent it is still allowed to exist -- that is the powerhouse behind America's military strength and national security. To the extent that that system has been undermined by taxes, regulations, controls, judicial restrictions, and the ever-increasing burdens of government spending programs, to that extent America's national health and success have been increasingly undermined and are at risk of being destroyed.

As a result of the election of Barrack Obama as President and the clear majorities controlled by the Democrat Party in Congress, we can expect several deleterious consequences over the next several months and years. We can expect the new regime to do as much as it can to consolidate its power and try to prevent losing it ever again. I expect the Senate will propose new legislation for federal government censorship of talk radio programs with which it disagrees. Anyone in talk radio who dares to voice disagreement with the Obama regime will be attacked as "racist" or "reactionary" and steps will be taken by the new government to drive them off the air.

The U.S. economy, already burdened by financial crises brought on by previous programs of government meddling, could become stagnated into a long-lasting depression under the new Democrat power monopoly in Washington. These politicians are like four-year-old kids playing with matches in a room full of dynamite sticks. Of course the partisan "news" media networks will help the Democrats blame any problems on the other party and the supposed demon of free enterprise -- even though America has been taken a very long way from its free-market roots. Like the communists, American Democrats, both in and out of the media, are brilliant propagandists and always accuse their opponents of what they themselves are guilty of.

In foreign affairs, we can expect appeasement and concessions to America's enemies and potential military adversaries -- from Russia's Putin to Red Beijing to the ayatollahs of Iran. Because of Obama's perceived weakness and inexperience, he will be "tested" by a revival of Russian socialist imperialism in Georgia and the Ukraine, and China, still under communist control, will continue its massive military buildup, and take an increasingly adversarial stance with respect to the United States. America will move closer to war under Obama while the relative freedom achieved over the past two decades in some parts of the world will begin to slip away once more as socialist imperialism renews its deadly march.

Depending on whether Obama is a one-term or two-term President, he will have opportunities to appoint the most left-leaning (ultra-statist) judges to the federal judiciary, including the Supreme Court. The salutary appointments made by President Bush of Roberts and Alito cannot be reversed, but Obama will try to create a permanent Democrat majority on the high court and continue the Clinton administration's practice of packing the federal judiciary with partisan Democrats.

What should freedom-loving Americans do? Resistance! This is not the time for cooperation and conciliation. This is the time to continue to build resistance to these advances in socialist tyranny. Now, more than ever. I predict that secessionist movements may see a revival in Texas, Alaska, and elsewhere. Those who support the Ninth and Tenth Amendments in the U.S. Bill of Rights must work to restore their legal force. And our Second Amendment rights as armed citizens must be preserved at all costs, else none of our other rights will be secure.

If the Republican Party is to become a vehicle to retake America its leadership must change and it must be better prepared to wage the ideological battles with its political adversaries, a party that has moved further and further in the direction of the totalitarian left in recent decades that the communist Party no longer runs candidates for President. Given the way the political system works in the U.S., third party efforts are doomed to fail on the national level. What is needed is not a third party but rather a new second party. Before we can take back America, we must first take the Republican Party which all too often has included politicians guilty of me-tooism and collusion with the Democrats. What America needs is a choice, not an echo.

If 9/11/01 was America's wake-up call about terrorism, 11/04/08 was a final political wake-up call for many Americans who have been complacent and out of touch with what has been going on for the past several decades in the struggles for power in the national political arena. If nothing else, at least one good thing came from this presidential campaign: the national news services (with the possible exception of Fox News) were so blatantly obvious in their pro-Democrat anti-GOP partisanship and bigotry in their coverage that only morons who were not paying attention could fail to notice. With its credibility shattered (at least among intellectually honest thinking people with some brains), the leading wire services, TV networks, big newspapers, and national slick magazines (especially Time, Newsweek, U.S,. News) showed themselves to be unofficial spokespersons for the DNC. If Americans are ever going to recapture their country and get Big Government under any kind of control or limitation, conservatives and libertarians must get into the media and in academia. Americans must find alternative venues for news and analysis -- and reject the superficial "liberal" talking points offered up as conventional wisdom by the television networks and other organs of the drive-by media.

The U.S. will survive the Democrat Party sweep of 2008 -- but only if enough good people take action over the next few years to reverse statist encroachments. Get informed and inform others -- and stop watching network television!