Obama and his Congress has promised another new deal. America accepting this promise is proof of an entitlement society that never learned what our nation was before the great depressionary shift towards a single American State under federal government control. One only needs to look at the supporters of this new deal to understand its dangers. When socialist, fascist, and communist leaders around the world trumpet an American President’s plan, it is clearly cause for alarm.
Hitler did not rely on seasoned veterans, but rather formed his youth brigades to take advantage of the adolescence. This is why we should keep an eye on homeland defense’s profiling of war veterans and Obama’s forming youth into community service brigades. We need to watch always for those who would subvert our nation and turn it into something unrecognizable by its founders, or by those who have fought and died in its defense.
No people ever lost their sovereignty for being too vigilant, but rather due to complacency and misplaced trust. When FDR first tried to enact his New Deal social programs the Supreme Court stopped him because the programs were unconstitutional, violated State’s rights and individual property rights. FDR systematically replaced aging judges with those who would support his agenda.
This threat of reorganizing the court was enough to weaken the courts willingness to oppose FDR. He also broke tradition and ran for 4 consecutive terms. Those new deal social programs, and their tremendous burden on workers, did not end when WWII and the depression ended. FDR’s legacy is one of massive government growth and loss of personal freedoms, but people in fear of losing their means of survival were willing to give up their constitutional rights.
The Constitution is being violated now and people are only concerned with holding onto their own personal comforts and material wealth. Bush started expanding the government’s role, and Obama is following through. At some point the Constitution will have to be defended, and the people will have to demand their freedoms. I believe that once taxes start to rise and inflation really takes off, people will begin to push back because they will feel the hurt.
I do not think that a revolt scenario is inevitable, but I see a trend towards a popular uprising if Americans are so used to living free without cost that they do not believe it could ever change. Too many remain unprepared for hardship because they believe, “it will never happen to me”, until it does.
Every mass movement is of the people. No insurgency or counter-insurgency can succeed without the people. Rather you believe the way to the people is through the military, the urban centers or the rural community depends on which analyst you ask. President Obama’s only claim of experience during the campaign was as a community organizer in the corrupt city of Chicago. I am pretty sure the urban model would be his approach. Watch for programs that benefit the poverty class in the cities, and pit the haves against the have-nots.
