There's an old axiom, Keep Your Powder Dry, which originated with soldiers as they prepared for combat. Today its meaning has changed somewhat to "Save your resources until they're needed."
This is advice the Left in this country seems to be ignoring, which I believe will eventually doom them, and will put our country in peril.
Their insistence on protesting every little thing the Trump administration does or proposes, every slip of the tongue, every quirk the orange headed monster displays is reminiscent of the little boy that cried wolf.
And it's a shame. I know this is only anecdotal but virtually every person I know that voted for Trump actually cast a vote against Hillary. None of them were true-believing Trumpsters.
But what is happening with the actions of the "resisters"has so outraged and infuriated them they now support all things Trump just to piss off the left.
It's almost as if this is happening by design. The public has either tuned out or has become so distracted by the little things they are blind to the big elephant in the room, Steve Bannon's "economic nationalism."
Leonard Piekoff wrote a book, The Ominous Parallels," published in 1982, in which he tried to get the American people to see the disastrous path we are being led down. Here's a quote from the book - it's very long, but bear with me, read it all:
"Contrary to the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership, they explained, is secondary; what counts is the issue of *control*. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property - so long as the state reserved to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.
If "ownership" means the right to determine the use and disposal of material goods, then Nazism endowed the state with every real prerogative of ownership. What the individual retained was merely a formal deed, a contentless deed, which conferred no rights on its holder.....
During the Hitler years - in order to finance the party's programs, including the war expenditures - every social group in Germany was mercilessly exploited and drained. White collar salaries and the earnings of small businessmen were deliberately held down by government controls, freezes, taxes. Big business was bled by taxes and "special contributions" of every kind, and strangled by the bureaucracy. (amid the Niagra of thousands of special decrees and laws," writes Shirer, "even the most astute businessman was often lost, and special lawyers had to be employed to enable a firm to function. The graft involved in finding one's way to key officials ... became in the late thirties astronomical."). At the same time the income of farmers was held down, and there was a desperate flight to the cities - where the middle class, especially the small tradesmen, were soon in desperate straits, and where the workers were forced to labor at low wages for increasingly longer hours..."
Selfish individuals may be unhappy, the Nazis said, but what we have established in Germany is the ideal system, *socialism*....
"To be a socialist," says Goebbels, "is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."
Steve Bannon's intention to implement his personal brand of economic nationalism may be milkquetoast to that which was practiced by the German and Italian fascists, but it is economic fascism nevertheless. As each economic nationalism proposal goes sour we will be told it is because the government had insufficient control. "If you'll just give up a little more freedom," they'll tell us, "we can make America great again."
I beseech you not to fall for it. Don't let the stupid shenanigans of the left divert your attention from the real threat.
Maybe next we can discuss Bannon's Fourth Wave theory in which he is determined to get us in a great conflict that will cost the lives of millions of people. As fodder for LBJ and Nixon in the Vietnam era I'll be damned if I sit still and watch him try to do the same to my grandchildren.
This is advice the Left in this country seems to be ignoring, which I believe will eventually doom them, and will put our country in peril.
Their insistence on protesting every little thing the Trump administration does or proposes, every slip of the tongue, every quirk the orange headed monster displays is reminiscent of the little boy that cried wolf.
And it's a shame. I know this is only anecdotal but virtually every person I know that voted for Trump actually cast a vote against Hillary. None of them were true-believing Trumpsters.
But what is happening with the actions of the "resisters"has so outraged and infuriated them they now support all things Trump just to piss off the left.
It's almost as if this is happening by design. The public has either tuned out or has become so distracted by the little things they are blind to the big elephant in the room, Steve Bannon's "economic nationalism."
Leonard Piekoff wrote a book, The Ominous Parallels," published in 1982, in which he tried to get the American people to see the disastrous path we are being led down. Here's a quote from the book - it's very long, but bear with me, read it all:
"Contrary to the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership, they explained, is secondary; what counts is the issue of *control*. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property - so long as the state reserved to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.
If "ownership" means the right to determine the use and disposal of material goods, then Nazism endowed the state with every real prerogative of ownership. What the individual retained was merely a formal deed, a contentless deed, which conferred no rights on its holder.....
During the Hitler years - in order to finance the party's programs, including the war expenditures - every social group in Germany was mercilessly exploited and drained. White collar salaries and the earnings of small businessmen were deliberately held down by government controls, freezes, taxes. Big business was bled by taxes and "special contributions" of every kind, and strangled by the bureaucracy. (amid the Niagra of thousands of special decrees and laws," writes Shirer, "even the most astute businessman was often lost, and special lawyers had to be employed to enable a firm to function. The graft involved in finding one's way to key officials ... became in the late thirties astronomical."). At the same time the income of farmers was held down, and there was a desperate flight to the cities - where the middle class, especially the small tradesmen, were soon in desperate straits, and where the workers were forced to labor at low wages for increasingly longer hours..."
Selfish individuals may be unhappy, the Nazis said, but what we have established in Germany is the ideal system, *socialism*....
"To be a socialist," says Goebbels, "is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."
Steve Bannon's intention to implement his personal brand of economic nationalism may be milkquetoast to that which was practiced by the German and Italian fascists, but it is economic fascism nevertheless. As each economic nationalism proposal goes sour we will be told it is because the government had insufficient control. "If you'll just give up a little more freedom," they'll tell us, "we can make America great again."
I beseech you not to fall for it. Don't let the stupid shenanigans of the left divert your attention from the real threat.
Maybe next we can discuss Bannon's Fourth Wave theory in which he is determined to get us in a great conflict that will cost the lives of millions of people. As fodder for LBJ and Nixon in the Vietnam era I'll be damned if I sit still and watch him try to do the same to my grandchildren.
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