The Class Warfare In America Rant

Envy. Jealousy. Hatred. Resentment. Animosity. Contention. Distrust. Loathing. Abhor. Detest. Contempt. Repugnance. Malice. These are but a scant few of the terms that seem to accurately portray the current state of America’s political and social landscape. Rarely, it seems, have Americans been so angry at one another. We have, of course, examples like the American Revolution or the Civil War when anger erupted into fearful and ferocious violence, bloodshed, and death. Beyond these two horrific instances, it seems that we as a nation have resolved differences amongst ourselves without resorting to carnage and slaughter. We seem to be witnessing a divisiveness and rancor in our country that I haven’t seen since the Vietnam era all those years ago. Are we about to return to those days of bloody rioting in the streets? Are entire neighborhoods once more to be burned to the ground in order to make some political, social, or economic statement? Will we once more be faced with conditions in which police and firefighters are threatened and attacked as they attempt to maintain order and safety in our communities? Will we see the resurgence of violently radical groups like the Weather Underground of the 1960’s?


Yes, yes, I know. My paranoia seems to be in full-bore control of any semblance of rationality that I may have once exhibited and perhaps it’s time for me to get back on my “meds.” Maybe, but then again, maybe not. I’m sure you’ve heard that hackneyed cliché that just because you’re paranoid it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. There seem to be just too many groups and interests in society today that are constantly growling, snarling, and hissing at one another. There exist so many “thems vs. us” that you need a score-card to keep track of who’s saying what about who and who’s doing what to whom. Let’s see. We have, of course, Liberals vs. Conservatives, the Far Right vs. the Far Left, Ethnic Group vs. Ethnic Group, The Rich vs. The Poor, The Haves vs. The Have Nots, The Oppressed vs. The Oppressors, The Black vs. White, The Immigrants vs. The Native Born, The Producers vs. The Parasites, The Tax Payers vs. The Tax Consumers, America’s Defenders vs. America’s Detractors, The Straights vs. The Gays, The Educated vs. The Ignorant, The Closed Border Crowd vs. The Open Border Crowd, The Nationalist/Sovereignty Types vs. The One Worlders, Republicans vs. Democrats, The Internationalists vs. The Isolationists, The Tea Partiers vs. The Occupiers, and the – well, you get my drift. Americans have always had their differences but I don’t believe I’ve ever seen it so rancorous, raucous, or vituperative. We seem to be getting ever angrier at one another and more and more discourse and discussion morph into mindless screaming, screeching, yelling, and ad hominem attack.


Why should this be so? Historically and with very few exceptions, Americans have always been able to heatedly debate the issues of the day and when the dust settled and the fur stopped flying, come together and retain our essential “Americaness.” Even during the most hotly contested Presidential elections when the results are finally tallied those on opposing sides could gather amicably at the local watering hole, share a few cold ones, and move on with the “losers” vowing that they’d get the “winners” next time around. Has something substantively changed in our country’s character and perspective that just might prevent this from happening in the future? Have we become a qualitatively different people in some manner or fashion? I regret to say that I believe we have and I also believe that this is a fully intended consequence and that there is absolutely and utterly nothing unintended about this totally intentional, purposeful, and destructive outcome.


It is our country and our unity as a nation that is purposely being threatened and destroyed and those that desire this outcome are doing one Hell of a job! They have literally turned America and traditional American values on its head and those of us who have been around for awhile feel that when Alice hit that old rabbit hole, she took us along for the ride! We no longer recognize this land of our birth, this nation that we love and revere so much. The America we grew up in valued hard, honest work and rugged individualism coupled with a healthy sense of self-reliance and tremendous optimism. Our America understood the importance of patriotism and what would happen to the nation without it. We understand full-well the amazing contributions this country has afforded the world and that the United States is the greatest source of good and inspiration ever seen on the planet! We were taught that evil does exist in the world and it must be fought and defeated but never, ever appeased! All of this and so much more seems to be slipping away now and those of us who insist on remaining true and faithful to traditional American values are accused of committing the utter fallacy and foolishness of, “Good Old Dayism,” and nothing more. We are viewed as just a bunch of Old Farts whose day has long come and gone.


It is the LFE (Liberal Fucking Elite) in this country that is largely responsible for causing the destruction of America and our traditional values in their far too successful attempt to turn us into a Socialist, impoverished, and weak nation. The primary weapon in their arsenal to accomplish that goal may be properly termed Class Warfare. This is a purposeful and proven tactic and strategy but it is certainly nothing at all new or original. I give you, for example, the French Revolution followed by the Russian and Chinese. Class warfare played no small or minor part in those upheavals that overturned the existing order and ushered in, for good or bad, the new regimes. The Far Left in America – headed by El Destructo-in-Chief – is attempting to emulate those past examples. Class warfare depends upon pitting group against group, interest against interest, and obviously class against class. Class warfare, “is a Marxist notion that people in different social classes must necessarily be in conflict with each other, the rich seeking to keep the poor down and the poor seeking to take away what belongs to the rich(http://conservapedia.com).” Additionally, class warfare, “first entered the political lexicon as an attack by liberals against conservatives.”(see related video)


Like all war, class warfare has many consequences and most appear to be negative in the extreme. This type of conflict is far more dangerous to the nation’s health and well-being than those in which we struggled to defeat an external or foreign foe. In most cases when we have declared war, the nation was generally united behind a common cause and enemy and we joined together to defeat what was deemed to be a threat to all Americans regardless of political persuasion, economic status, race, or ethnicity. Once the foe had been vanquished, life could return to normal with all of its vicissitudes, wrangling, and squabbling between and among various groups and interests. The realm of class warfare is entirely different, ever so much more threatening, and if successful leads to the demise of not just the old order but rather the nation itself. That’s not necessarily a bad thing as in the French, Russian, and Chinese examples proffered earlier. They were brutal, dictatorial, tyrannical, and deadly. Those who suffered under their jack-booted yolk had no rights or freedoms of any kind save to do the bidding of their masters.


This nation, however, has evolved differently. We are an extremely fluid, upwardly mobile, and Capitalist country. No tyrant can force Americans to bend to their will and anyone in America can rise to the level of success that their natural talents and abilities can take them. That has always been our safety valve and the reason why, compared to other nations, the United States has had a relatively sanguine and tempestuous free existence. There has simply been no need for violent revolution. When the time comes, we even have the rare ability to transfer power peacefully from leader to leader vis-à-vise the electoral process which can be confusing, boisterous, and rancorous but has never been accompanied by rivers of blood drenching our streets and by-ways. This feature alone has set us apart from and well above most of world history.


Why, then, is the phenomenon of class warfare rearing its ugly, destructive, and deadly visage in the 21st Century? The cause is easily identified: full-blown, out of control, radical Liberalism as espoused and practiced by the Far Left in this country. These are the class warriors that would rip America’s guts out and create a Socialist society in its stead. These are the Bastards that loathe and despise their own country and will not rest or tire until they have achieved their ignoble and destructive ends. They live in the freest, most prosperous, most powerful, and most generous country in planetary history but seemingly that is not nearly enough for them. They demand total control over all aspects of the lives of the citizenry and their answer to everything is ever bigger and more intrusive government coupled with the loss of individual rights and freedoms. These are the disgruntled, the disaffected, and dissatisfied. They can’t rise above the level of their own incompetence and ineptness, are brutally jealous of anyone who has achieved more than anyone else in life, and demand that government provide all of their wants and needs regardless of the damage it does to the country. They are, for the most part, mindless boobies who are easily led, swayed, and persuaded to robotically follow their marching orders handed down to them by their self-appointed, elitist demagogues who control them like some evil, venal puppet master.


Robert Bork (yes, THAT Robert Bork wrote a piece entitled, “Hard Truths About The Culture War(www.orthodoxytoday.org).” In it he quotes Irving Kristol commenting upon what he sees as clear-cut evidence of a rot and decadence that has been infecting the United States for many decades. Kristol maintains that this, “was no longer the consequence of liberalism but was the actual agenda of contemporary liberalism. Sector after sector of American life has been ruthlessly corrupted by the liberal ethos. It is an ethos that aims simultaneously at political and social collectivism on the one hand, and moral anarchy on the other.”


This cultural malaise knows no bounds and is certainly not restricted to just a few select areas of American life. It is an infection that runs deep and if not utterly exorcised will completely destroy the United States as presently constituted and envisioned by those who founded the country. We have certainly grown used to and even inured to much of the cultural decay that can be easily and superficially seen and experienced without much effort or investigation. We notice it in such things as our crime rates, drugs, out of wedlock births, the rising vulgarity and crudeness that is accepted all over the country but Bork goes far beyond this. He explains that the, “manifestations of American cultural decline are even more widespread, ranging across virtually the entire society, from the violent underclass of the inner cities to our cultural and political elites, from rap music to literary studies, from pornography to law, from journalism to scholarship, from union halls to universities.” He concludes that wherever, “one looks, the traditional virtues of this culture are being lost, its vices multiplied, its values degraded – in short, the culture itself is unraveling.” There can be no arguing with this most obvious of assertions but does the author have any clue as to the cause, as to who or what is responsible for America’s head long rush toward self-destruction? He certainly does.


He correctly and astutely lays the blame squarely at the feet of modern Liberalism, that thoroughly evil philosophy that completely despises the United States and especially the overwhelming success of Free Market Capitalism (see The Morality Of Free Market Capitalism Rant of 12/1/11). Additionally, he understands that this is no accident or some well-meaning but absolutely misguided attempt to right some perceived wrongs committed by this nation either generations ago or in the more recent past. The Bastards mean to bring this nation down and fomenting and promoting class warfare amongst and between its citizens is a strategy that will succeed if left unchecked and unopposed. He explains that modern liberalism grew out of classical liberalism and emphasized concepts like liberty and equality but, “progressively jettisoned the restraints of religion, morality, and law even as technology lowered the constraints of hard work imposed by economic necessity.” Additionally, “the qualifications assumed by the founders’ generation . . . have gradually been peeled away so that today liberalism has reached an extreme, though not one fears its ultimate stage.” He notes that according to the Liberal mind-set equality has become, “radical egalitarianism (the equality of outcomes rather than of opportunities), and liberty takes the form of radical individualism (a refusal to admit limits to the gratification of the self). In these extreme forms, they are partly produced by, and partly produce, the shattering of fraternity (or community) that modern liberals simultaneously long for and destroy.”


The community these saboteurs seek to destroy is, of course, the United States of America and all that it has historically stood for. They reject even the slightest possibility that this nation has been an overwhelming force for good and for progress in the world but rather that we are evil incarnate and have spread misery and ruin wherever we have tread. They do not recognize, as do most Americans, that without the United States, the world would be a far poorer and sorrier place and that we have shared the progress we have created with all who wished to partake and we have done so – for the most part – willingly and unconditionally. You see, we realized early on that a more prosperous world is a more peaceful world and that a more prosperous world is a healthier world. Indeed, a more prosperous world is a freer world and one in which the individual is better able to realize his or her full potential and that a more prosperous world is one in which the most ordinary of individuals can accomplish the most extraordinary of things.


The Far Left rejects these and all such notions. Liberalism promotes not prosperity, peace, et al but rather exactly the opposite. Destruction, brutal and crushing poverty, strife, contention, violence, and the enslavement of the individual to the whims and dictates of an all powerful, all encompassing, and all controlling ever larger and more intrusive state always follow in its wake. Look around the world both then and now and it has ever been the same. Those in this nation that espouse radical Liberalism champion all of the above and much more. Should they succeed, the world will have entered a new Dark Ages and where they have already succeeded, those Dark Ages are indeed a reality that exist only to satisfy the wants and needs of an elite few at the top while the rest of the population suffers unspeakable living conditions, state brutality for any or no reason, far shorter life spans, and a world without hope.


Mr. Bork goes on to explain that, “Modern liberalism is most particularly a disease of our cultural elites, the people who control the institutions that manufacture or disseminate ideas, attitudes, and symbols – universities, some churches, Hollywood, the national press (print and electronic), much of the congressional Democratic Party and some of the congressional Republican as well, large sections of the judiciary, foundation staffs, and almost all of the public interest organizations that exercise a profound if largely unseen effect on public policy.” He further notes that the, “elites of modern liberalism do not win all the battles, but despite their relatively small numbers, they win more than their share and move the culture always in one direction.” Furthermore, these “are people who view the world from a common perspective, a perspective to the left of the attitudes of the general public.” For those of you who deny the absolute existence of a class-culture war in America, please remove your head from your ass, read that last paragraph again, and realize that the fate of the nation that we love literally hangs in the balance. If “we” do not win the class-culture war, “they” certainly will and that spells doom for the American way of life.


It is anything but difficult to see the devastation that class warfare will wreak on this nation, its culture, and its social fabric. The damage that Liberalism will instigate is something quite outside the ken of most Americans who simply can’t wrap their minds around the concept of America tearing itself apart or the fact that those who work toward that end are actually fellow Americans. All one has to do is look across the Atlantic Ocean to witness the result of class warfare as it affects real people and societies. Unless you have been living in a cave in some deep and isolated wilderness you can’t help but notice the goings-on in nations like Greece, France, England, and more. These countries are experiencing the only possible outcome of class warfare. On any given day, we can witness rioting in the streets, ever escalating violence, and a complete and utter rejection of all authority and societal norms. Cars are being overturned and burned and a general sense of anarchy has set in and shows no signs of abating anytime soon.


Why is this taking place? The answer is not at all complicated and is in fact readily comprehensible for those of us who are Far Right Wing Conservatives. We are witnessing nothing less than the inevitable outcome of full-blown, radical Liberalism-Socialism. Those countries and populations have become so used to depending on Big Government for all of life’s necessities and desires that they simply can’t fathom a world in which this is not the norm. They can’t accept the fact that their penchant for government handouts maybe coming to an end and they are quite literally scared to death! Those nations are flat broke and the well has gone dry. There isn’t any money – it’s not there. How, they wonder, will they pay for such things as health care and insurance or their university education if Big Brother no longer cares for them from cradle to grave? What will happen to the welfare check if the Nanny State implodes? How can they bear the prospect of working until the ripe old age of 62 rather than 52? What will they do without their four to eight weeks of annual vacation time? They have absolutely no idea so the only thing to do is engage in a giant, collective hissy-fit as would a spoiled child when denied his ice cream desert!


These folks can no longer rely on themselves to provide for life’s necessities let alone luxuries. They are simply no longer competent or capable enough to do so. Qualities like self-reliance and rugged individualism have been purposefully undermined and destroyed by the twin scourges of Liberalism and Socialism. The very idea of developing a strong work ethic is anathema to them but instead they revel in their dependency, weakness, and pessimism. This is what Liberalism desires and demands as evidenced in its political manifestation called Socialism. And, it’s coming here. Come on you say, not here? That can’t be. Really? I give you those pathetic, whiney, preachy, filthy, law-breaking Sonsabitches known as the Occupy Wall Street Mob. They represent the vanguard in our country of those who are doing their damndest to destroy Western Europe. They are constantly in the news because the Liberal “mainstream” media loves them and is in full agreement with their aims and goals. The “Occupiers” despise this country but are in love with Socialism. They utterly despise Free Market Capitalism and work tirelessly to bring about its demise.


Contrast this with the media’s treatment of us Tea Party types who genuinely love this country and want to see it remain strong and great. Our primary goals include returning to First Principles. We want the strictly limited government that the Founders provided not the giant leviathan shoved down our throats by the LFE. We want and demand tremendous tax cuts that would allow us to decide how best to use and spend the money we earn and we want the Constitution interpreted as the Founders intended. The press apparently doesn’t feel these issues are worthy of more than only the most limited of coverage but instead by purposefully not reporting on Tea Party groups and rallies, they hope to give the impression that the movement is irrelevant and dying. Just to give those in the Liberal press a heads up, we ain’t goin’ nowhere and we don’t give a rat’s ass if you cover us or not! Grass roots movements do not necessarily seek publicity but rather seek specific results and outcomes.


An article entitled, “The Consequences of Liberal Class Warfare Rhetoric (www.thebustednut.com),” "speaks directly to the issue of class warfare in America. The author notes, for example, the escalating violence in England and points out that, “it blossomed into a full on class warfare assault. Rich vs. poor, haves vs. have nots, us vs. them.” Who’s to blame for this state of affairs? Of course, “It’s the fault of the rich people. It’s the fault of the conservatives. It’s the fault of the police,” and, “as with most liberal, money grubbing talking points, it’s everyone else’s fault but their own. There’s always someone else to blame.” One major method to instantly identify a Liberal is to find out from them who they believe is responsible for all of society’s real or imagined ills. If the individual in question throws the blame at everybody and anybody else but himself – you got it! You’ve identified a full-blown, lame-ass, sniveling Liberal!! It is a Liberal mantra that they are truly pure in thought, word, and deed and therefore no blame of any kind may be laid at their doorstep. Everyone else, of course, is at fault especially if they have the temerity to clearly and pointedly illustrate Liberalism’s horrendous failures and consequences.(see related video)


The same article cited above notes that what’s, “happening in the UK is that the people who have grown so comfortable living off the government have turned to violence and vandalism when the government can no longer support their lazy ways. Their entitlement programs are failing and any actions to cut back have been met with protests supported by class warfare rhetoric.” This is what happens when the beast is no longer fed, housed, clothed, and otherwise placated and pampered. The beast will never show gratitude or appreciation for the “gifts” showered upon him by his neighbors society-wide but instead will turn on those who have been so generous over the decades.


This is full-blown Liberalism – naked and undisguised. It is not unlike conditions in ancient Rome where the MOB was entertained by the gladiators at the Coliseum or Christians were fed to those big damned cats. In America today, it seems that the beast is insatiable and is never satisfied because of the Liberal Lies they have been fed for generations. They react to any restrictions on their presumed “entitlements” as would a heroin addict suddenly deprived of his “smack” and being forced to go “cold turkey.” It just ain’t pretty! The LFE in our country simply cannot allow this to happen for once the “free-bees” go away and the gravy-train has been derailed their core voting block goes away too as does their power. They created their monster and the monster has become the master. It’s like grabbing the proverbial tiger by the tail. You’d better never let go!


The author explains that those who are actively promoting and fomenting class warfare in America must always identify and find scapegoats for the mob to attack and who better than those evil millionaires and billionaires among us? They are prime targets for the disaffected and disillusioned who can easily be whipped into a frenzy by those who stand at the head of the Class Warfare Crowd. This is ever so predictable and has been part of the Liberal playbook since forever and it perfectly, “plays into the liberal mantra, ‘everyone’s fault but my own.’ Not their own responsibility. It is any surprise these statements form the core of the liberal voter mentality after years of sucking on the government teat?” The ultimate outcome of such a mentality is, of course, that, “Liberals have created a class that is government dependent, lazy, and seemingly not responsible for their own actions. And as long as the liberal politicians can fight for government ‘gimme’ programs, voters will continue to send them to Washington DC. This without any regard for its eventual destruction of America.” The author does not exaggerate or overstate here. America is indeed dying, Liberalism is the fatal disease, and class warfare is one of the major tactics and strategies employed by those who advocate and seek our destruction.


The piece continues that, “liberals have killed the American Dream and replaced it with a Matrix-like, trapped in a pod existence. Do as we say and you’ll never have to worry about a thing. A cradle to grave government life. No more hard work. No more personal responsibility. No more having to look out for one’s own self. Just vote for your local Democrat and your future can be bracketed by the cold embrace of Mother Government.” All well and good for those who are satisfied with life controlled by an elite few whose ultimate aim is the accumulation of power and the demise of freedom and liberty for the rest of us. So long as the “masses” can be mollified and placated those at the top will have little difficulty retaining their power and position. All they need to do is provide a convenient enemy for us little people to vent our anger and frustration upon and we will forget that it is in fact the very policies of Liberalism that are the cause of all that frustration, anger, and seething rage. What better method than the purposeful and calculated fomentation of class warfare at all societal levels?


This will and has worked beautifully for decades but what happens when there are no more goodies to be given away? What happens when the cupboard is bare and the free ride turns into a hideous, sickening, and deadly crash into that stone wall otherwise known as reality? Reality has come crashing down all over society’s free-loaders who are certainly not above turning on their former masters when they realize that all those promises made to them by our Far Left Elite were nothing but smoke and mirrors, hollow at best and horribly destructive and deadly at worst. The beast is hungry and we are running out of treats with which to mollify it. The author of the above referenced piece asks, “But what happens when the government can no longer support their loser masses? What happens when the economy starts to tank because the government ‘entitlement’ machine needs more money? What happens when the uninformed ‘hope and change’ mobs turn on their righteous politicians? Liberal politicians can’t exactly say ‘well, it looks like all our policies are wrong.’ Where would they be then?” Damned good question, don’t you think?


The answer is fairly obvious if you happen to be a member of the Far Left in this country because, “knowing their base is mostly uninformed, likely unintelligent, always emotional to a fault, they do what comes naturally. They break out the class warfare rhetoric. Rich versus poor. Black versus white. Corporate America versus middle America. The private sector versus the public sector. Corporate jet owners. The less fortunate.” The writer concludes that, “Class warfare at its finest from a president and liberal underlings that are flailing in the waters of disapproval. It is the economic policies and class warfare rhetoric of the left that has led to the rioting and looting in the United Kingdom. And it’s on the way to America. Mark my words. It will only get meaner and more divisive the closer we get to the 2012 elections. Desperation will sink in, and the left will reach for the highest levels of class warfare rhetoric to save their grasp on power.” If you have any doubt as to the veracity of this statement, crawl out from behind that rock and look around. Read a newspaper or tune into any network news program. The Far Left wants to destroy this nation and class warfare is a particularly effective weapon with which to accomplish that goal.


The concept and practice of class warfare is predicated on precepts that are completely antithetical to and a perversion of long standing and even cherished American tradition and experience. One of the cornerstones of our heritage and way of life since the nation’s inception has been the expectation of equality of opportunity. Any and all who came here or were born here have rightly felt entitled to their shot at achieving whatever their version of the American Dream happened to be. It has always been so. The ability to compete openly and honestly with other players in the game was all that was expected and for most of our history that was enough. Why? Because no where else in the world was this the case. When America was founded, the planet’s population had no right to equal opportunity regardless of the field under consideration. The vast majority of people could not – indeed must not – look for opportunity of any kind from leadership roles in government, business, commerce, social standing, or any other damned thing. These were decided strictly according to station, class, and caste. Society world-wide was not fluid and mobile but rather static and rigid and it had always been that way. You were born to privilege or you were not and your role in life and that of your descendants was thus decided.


The United States, however, set a new paradigm. It didn’t matter where you came from nor did it matter into what “class” you were born. In America you were absolutely guaranteed the opportunity to try and succeed. One could even try to succeed and then fail and pick yourself up and try again and again until you did succeed – or you didn’t. No one, however, was guaranteed success for that was never part of the equation. It was never promised and for the most part was never expected. It was enough for the vast majority of Americans to be able to try. As long as the competition was fair and unfettered, the playing field was level, and no one received any unfair advantages in the game of life then that was enough and it was one thousand per cent more than most of the globe’s population could ever expect even up to the present day. Sadly, even tragically, this is no longer the case and it is due more than anything else to the rise of full-blown, radical Liberalism and its use of the class warfare club with which they continually bludgeon America’s traditions, institutions, and history.


For these Bastards, it is no longer enough to guarantee that all those who so desire have the opportunity to reach the starting line before the race begins. No one starts ahead of that line or behind it. When the gun fires, the only guarantee that exists is that the race will be run fairly and that the rules are the same for all participants. Nope, that is no longer enough for this arrangement is predicated on competition and the harsh reality that in life there are indeed winners and therefore, by definition, losers. Everyone, according to the Liberal creed, must win and, obviously then, no one can possibly lose. This is the impetus, by the way, behind the Liberal insistence that score shall not be kept in children’s athletic endeavors or that such age-old activities like “dodge ball” and “tag” have been dropped from athletic programs in scores of American elementary schools. We simply can’t have “losers” in America for that might bruise delicate egos, damage the psyches of our children, and turn them into axe murderers and pedophiles somewhere down the line. No, we simply can’t have winners anymore but must bring everyone down to the same mediocre – at best – level to insure that no one’s feelings get hurt. Competition is to be avoided at any and all costs.


It is no longer enough to guarantee the opportunity to succeed but rather success itself must be the final and ultimate guarantee. No one must be permitted to have or possess anymore than anyone else and those that do must be punished. Their “excess” wealth which they honestly earned must be confiscated by crippling tax rates and, of course, be redistributed to the less successful, the lazy, and unproductive amongst us. This is how those on the Far Left define fairness and it can only be realized by the massive intrusion of an ever bigger and more powerful centralized government into the lives of the citizenry. This is the very essence of Liberalism-Socialism which advocates equality of outcome rather than input. It is the ultimate definition of the ever increasing class warfare which is now raging unfettered across the land.


A web-piece entitled, “Class Warfare is Anti-American: Time to Preserve American Dream (www.deseretnews.com) obviously focuses on that phenomenon and once again highlights those wacked-out America hating Wall Street Occupiers. The author explains that her parents emigrated to America from Haiti, one of the very poorest and hopeless nations on the planet. They came here for the same reasons as did all immigrants to our shores. They wanted better life for themselves and their children. They wanted to come to a place where the opportunity to succeed abounded and they would take care of the rest. They neither asked for nor demanded any guarantees or special treatment but only wanted the chance to succeed. This has always been the quintessential definition of the American Dream, until fairly recently that is. Writer Mia Love explains that, “Unfortunately, OWS, Obama and others have greatly mischaracterized equality of opportunity to mean to mean equality of result. Throughout the month-long protests, we’ve heard terms like economic equality or income equality used repeatedly.” Most of us realize that these are no more than lofty sounding catch phrases for Socialism which always entails ever larger and oppressive government with its concomitant loss of freedom, liberty, and opportunity. It can mean nothing else but those who comprise the LFE can’t say that right out loud in front of God and everyone else for if bluntly and brazenly stated, the Socialists among us know their schemes and machinations haven’t got a virgin’s chance in a whorehouse of succeeding!


Love continues that the, “notion that everyone, regardless of their own inputs, should receive the same outputs is foreign to the American way of life. This country’s greatness and unprecedented wealth stem from the fact that hard work is rewarded.” Herein lies the rub. Those that despise this nation and all it has historically represented loathe the American way of life and want to fundamentally tear it down and replace it with a completely failed vision and agenda. The concept of rewarding hard work is simply anathema to them for it greatly reduces dependence on an all powerful central government and fosters such values as self-reliance, independence, and rugged individualism. Socialism requires the opposite if it is to succeed. The web-piece explains that, “protestors complained that the poor, unemployed and homeless can’t thrive unless government steps in to save the day. It’s a familiar theme: government is both the problem and the solution. If incomes were equal, if there was no disparity, then everything would be fair. But it’s simply not true.” You see, the Far Left’s warped definition of fairness means we take what the productive class has earned by dint of hard work and hand it over to America’s unproductive losers. Sound fair to you? Probably not, but fairness to those on the Far Left has absolutely nothing to do with equality, common sense, or virtue but rather has everything to do with envy, jealousy, and class warfare. It has to do with making sure that everyone is rewarded at the same level lf misery and hopelessness. It has to do not with creating more opportunity and success but destroying them wherever they exist. It has everything to do with coercion, force, and subjugation. Yeah, I guess that’s fair if you’re an America Hating Liberal Loser!


The author correctly opines that when, “government takes from someone who earned and gives it to someone who did not, government essentially penalizes productivity and incentivizes entitlement.” Additionally, such policies, “have a significant impact on economic output when applied more broadly. Taken to the extreme, such policies result in lower productivity and higher social spending than is sustainable in the long run.” Ms Love, like most Americans, instinctively knows the prescription for what ails our society today and correctly maintains that our, “capitalist system has created the most successful economy on the planet,” while, “Socialist systems have never come close to replicating the results produced in America over the long term.” Additionally, the “answer to our economic problems lies in preserving the economic engine that made America what it is today. That engine has always been fueled by the rewards of the American Dream. Preserving that dream . . . requires an economy that rewards productivity. Income ‘equality,’ which rewards the productive and the unproductive in equal measure, is the antithesis of the American economic model.”


The author concludes that the, “poor and unemployed need opportunities, not toxic rhetoric. Instead of turning against one another, we must stand united in the fight to rebuild our economy. Instead of emulating Haiti, where a president encouraged the poor to set fire to the rich as the crowd cheered, we must stand as one nation indivisible.” Man, does that sound good or what?!? The only problem here is that it completely misunderstands the goals and desires of America’s LFE. Those Bastards absolutely cannot abide the thought of a united America for that will not help in their quest to destroy our country. In addition, they do not want the poor and unemployed to have opportunities to succeed on their own for that creates less rather than more government dependency and it fosters freedom rather than serfdom. The Left must espouse as much “toxic rhetoric” as possible for that will further fan the flames of class warfare which is a central weapon in their arsenal for the utter destruction of the United States as envisioned by the Founders and currently constituted.


The class warfare promoted by America’s Far Left is not only illogical but borders on the delusional. Yes, it will accomplish their goal of turning America on its head if allowed to succeed. If successful, the greatest engine for prosperity ever seen on this planet will be transformed into a system that promotes impoverishment, envy, and jealousy. It will not bring about fairness, equality, or unity. Like all Socialist nations, we will have become permanently divided, forever Balkanized, and freedom and opportunity will exist for no one. Why would those on the Left so aggressively pursue such a wrong-headed and misguided goal? For all their grandiose rhetoric and their supposedly egalitarian thrust and emphasis when unmasked, they are nothing less than out and out statists whose totalitarian mindset and attitude are easily discovered once you understand who these people really are and what outcome they truly desire. They want total control over all aspects of the lives of the American citizenry.


This is more than just a little obvious by once more briefly looking at the antics and motives of those Occupy Wall Street parasites who are merely the pawns of America’s LFE. They themselves are not bright enough to organize and create a genuine movement but are certainly lame enough to blindly follow the bidding of their masters. One of the tactics they have been trained to employ is the concept of guilt. You know, to make those who have worked and struggled to earn what they have doubt that they actually deserve the fruits of their labor. Inculcating the producers with a sense of guilt leads to uncertainty which in turn causes weakness. A piece entitled, “Tired of Class Warfare Yet? (www.americanthinker.com),” notes that those on the Left, “want any possible guilt you might have about your success and your sense of kindness and fairness to force you to give them everything without them having to earn or pay for it.” Additionally, “Occupy Wall Street wants to destroy capitalism and institute socialism to make that redistribution of wealth possible.”


Herein lies the ultimate contradiction, for those Looney-Tunes want to destroy the individuals and institutions that can actually create real wealth and prosperity visa-vise Free Market Capitalism. They seem too blindly stupid to understand that the solution to their whining and sniveling objections to our system and society lay in promoting not destroying Capitalism. Author Robert J. Mack explains that, “the people whom they rant against, like the bankers and the Wall Street tycoons, invariably use their wealth to invest. These investments are used by companies to create jobs; fund research for life-saving medical devices and drugs, for example; and create economic growth for their employess and the country,” and, “by the way, furnish more taxes to the government.” Why, then, would those who complain so vociferously that they simply can’t succeed in the most opportunity-laden society in the planet’s history want to destroy the very institutions that provide all that opportunity and thus a realistic chance to garner for themselves those material possessions they believe are being unfairly denied them? One can’t explain it logically and reasonably for logic and reason have absolutely no place in any consideration of what the Far Left wants and desires. The fact that they want to destroy their only chance for the kind of life they seem to want borders on mental illness. Furthermore, the fact that they want instead to implement a Socialist model which has failed one hundred per cent of the time no matter where it’s been attempted is evidence of full-blown insanity.


Mr. Mack explains that, “they want to throw the baby out with the bathwater by getting rid of capitalism altogether, an economic system that has made America the economic powerhouse it has become. What has socialism, the system they extol, ever accomplished? Two recent major achievements: political financial default (Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Ireland) and political collapse (USSR).” Yet, these Liberal fools, these saboteurs want us to follow those failed and completely discredited models. There can be only one answer. They want to destroy this nation and their weapon of choice has become the fomentation of class warfare. Mack continues that, “the president continues to use the class warfare card,” and that the upcoming 2012 election, “will be about whether we want capitalism to be the driving force of our economic engine in America – or do we want to continue the slide to socialism (Obamacare and Cap an d Trade just two examples) that Barack Obama instituted when he took office?”


Much Luv Y’All and Have a Great Day!
The Fifth Horseman
(Dr. David M. Rich, Ph. D.)

The Morality Of Free Market Capitalism Rant

As an economic system, Free Market Capitalism is peerless. It’s literally unrivaled anywhere on the planet. It has catapulted the United States to its position as the single most wealthy and powerful nation that the world has ever seen. Ancient empires like Rome, Greece, or Egypt couldn’t have possibly dreamed of or imagined amassing the level of wealth and prosperity that Americans have become so accustomed to. Even those citizens to whom we refer to as poor are far more affluent than most of the world’s population and possess luxuries that the rulers of old couldn’t possibly fathom, comprehend, or even contemplate. We live lives today that even our grandparents would have deemed the stuff of science fiction. We are indeed the economic envy of the world.

That being the case automatically leaves us wide open to attack from those that can’t possibly compete with us in the realms of wealth, prosperity, and productivity. We have been branded as crass, overly materialistic, shallow, and crude. Our seemingly overriding focus on acquiring “things” and our passion for “conspicuous consumption” have led to charges that we are uncaring, unfeeling, and lack any and all semblance of compassion for the plight or well-being of not only the world’s poor and unfortunate but even for our own citizens who seem not to be able to cope with life’s challenges. We are accused not only of amorality but rather of a complete and utter immorality which translates in the minds of our detractors into a coldness and callousness the likes of which has never before been seen in world history.

These folks go by various names and labels. They are invariably: socialist; statist; big governmenteers; freedom destroyers; liberal elites; and enemies of individualism and self-reliance. They are collectivist in the extreme. They are of the mind that the individual must sacrifice his own selfish and narrow interests for something vaguely termed the “Greater Good” which always and inevitably translates into the state or the government. These people desire the complete destruction of Free Market Capitalism and thus by extension the United States of America. If they succeed, we will have witnessed the demise of the greatest force for good in the history of the planet. They are indeed our enemies and unfortunately far too many of them are fellow citizens.

These are the pathetic creatures who champion such nefarious schemes as “redistributive rationalities” which argue that life under our Free Market System is simply too unfair and those who have more than most must be punished by having the wealth that they have honestly earned and created taken from them by government and given to those who do not in any meaningful way contribute anything to society’s betterment or well-being. These are the takers, not the producers. They are the plunderers, not the performers. They are the modern-day Goths and Visigoths – the barbarians who have successfully crossed the Rubicon and seek the destruction of the old order. They hoot, they holler, and they howl at the moon and whine that life has not treated them fairly. They insist that the deck has been stacked against them from the day of their birth and it is the “system” that is to blame for their dissatisfaction and failure. They believe that because they can’t successfully compete for life’s rewards, then they shouldn’t have to.

They are parasites perfectly willing to drain the life out of the host body but are too short-sighted and myopic to realize that in the end they have chosen a path of utter and complete self-destruction. The latest incarceration of these fools can be seen nightly if you pay attention to the news. That’s right, those Occupy Wall Street drek who seem to be complaining that the “system” does not allow them to realize their full potential so the best thing to do, obviously, is to literally occupy private property, vandalize the same, defecate on police vehicles, publicly smoke dope, and fornicate in full view of the entire nation. Yeah, there’s a battle plan for you, a veritable formula for success! One young fellow was overheard on camera mumbling in a semi-coherent fashion about the immorality of the United States and the abject unfairness of a system that benefits only the fortunate few at the top while literally crushing those underneath them.

Unfortunately, this benighted youth – whose parents I’m sure are paying a small fortune for the brat’s university education – is not just a rare phenomenon in our sissified, feminized, and wussified nation in the 21st Century. I’m afraid the kid’s attitude is becoming all too common in today’s America and that trend seems to be gaining momentum at an alarming rate. To even attempt to explain to him and his compatriots that Free Market Capitalism is the very epitome, the utter essence of a supreme morality would be about as productive as trying to convince a Jihadist suicide bomber that he just might be on the wrong side of the tracks and could benefit from contemplating another course of action. These young ‘uns are the victims of an educational system run completely amok and has, in fact, morphed into an anti-American, anti-Capitalist propaganda engine manned by socialists, radicals, revolutionaries, and other destructive types Hell-bent on destroying this nation. They have been brainwashed since at least kindergarten and the process continues unabated right through college and graduate school. These “types” are probably lost to us and have virtually no chance of ever becoming proud, patriotic citizens who are fully appreciative of the blessings to be garnered in our Free Market Capitalist system.

The claim that Capitalism is a truly and remarkably moral system is not just a mere assertion, hope, or claim. It is demonstrably and patently true and only those who seek its destruction will argue otherwise. Morality and morals deal with concepts of right and wrong, good and bad, and evil versus virtue. There is not much wiggle room here unless, of course, you are a member of our LFE (Liberal Fucking Elite) who can somehow in their own warped and twisted minds turn virtue into vice. These folks are masters of prevarication, dissembling, and deceit. They can easily and pithily turn black into white, night into day, and right into wrong. To them, everything is acceptable and nothing is taboo or off limits. They can literally take long held and cherished beliefs that have sustained and bolstered America and Americans into anathema: values and traditions to be shunned and cast out.

What are some of these long held traditions that are embodied in the concept of Free Market Capitalism and are imbued with a clear sense of morality? Let’s construct just a partial list. We can begin with: individualism; limited government; voluntary exchange and a lack of coercion; ethics and spirituality; value creation and service to humanity; rising living standards; longer life spans; opportunity; incentives to succeed and produce; a truly civilizing agent; sympathy; altruism; compassion; self-discipline; perseverance; honesty; self-sufficiency; alleviation of poverty; better health; greater access to education; dignity; democracy; entrepreneurship; thrift; hard work; self-ownership and private property; and trust. Please keep in mind that this constitutes merely the short list of just some of the ways Free Market Capitalism and morality are integrally intertwined and that without a sense of morality no market system can truly succeed in providing those under its prevue with the things they need and desire.(see related video)

The list referenced above is the exact antithesis of where the Far Left would take the United States, to whit, Socialism which has failed dismally every single time and place its been attempted. If you can conceive of the exact opposite of every item listed above you’ll gain an insight into what the LFE desires for the United States. They want a dependant and subservient population that is controlled through coercion, force, and fear. They abhor values such as individualism and independence. They despise such concepts as entrepreneurship for that does not foster greater dependence on government but rather depends upon less and less government intrusion into the lives of the citizenry. The above values and virtues are the death knell of any Nanny-State Socialist scheme for control is ceded to the individual and not some amorphous all powerful and consuming central authority that couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the subjects it controls with the iron fist of smothering regulation and crippling and confiscatory taxation. Free Market Capitalism imbued with a sense of morality constitutes a Socialist’s worst nightmare and fear. As long as it exists and remains healthy Socialism cannot flourish and succeed. That is why those on the Far Left are doing their damndest in every way they can to discredit and destroy Capitalism and thus the United States.

An article entitled, “Socialism vs. Capitalism: Which is the Moral System (www.ashbrook.org)?” notes that throughout, “history there have been two basic forms of social organization: collectivism and individualism. In the twentieth century collectivism has taken many forms: socialism, fascism, Nazism, welfare-statism and communism are its more notable variations.” The author concludes that the, “only social system commensurate with individualism is laissez-faire capitalism.” C. Bradley Thompson recognizes that Capitalism has been a resounding success in the material realm but states that, “very few people are willing to defend capitalism as morally uplifting.” This is disappointing in the extreme and can only be the result of constant and overwhelming Liberal propaganda, misinformation, and lies. They preach ad nausea that Capitalism creates only misery, dissatisfaction, and grinding poverty. They tell us at every turn that Capitalism is uncaring, unfeeling, brutal, and cruel. It is dehumanizing and has no soul. The article continues that it, “is fashionable among college professors, journalists, and politicians these days to sneer at the free-enterprise system. They tell us that capitalism is base, callous, exploitive, dehumanizing, alienating, and utterly enslaving.”

Thompson further maintains that the above accusations directed at Capitalism more properly and realistically apply to the Socialists in our midst. He points out that under, “socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.” That doesn’t sound like a system imbued with morality but rather quite the opposite. One must remember, however, that a favorite ploy of the LFE is to accuse the enemy of exactly what they themselves are guilty of. The article continues that the, “morality of socialism can be summed up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire not only to possess another’s wealth but also the desire to see another’s wealth lowered to the level of one’s own.” Thompson quotes two notable and noteworthy intellectuals on the theme of self-sacrifice: Hermann Goering and Benito Mussolini. The Nazi Bastard defined self-sacrifice as when the “common good comes before private good,” while the Italian gentleman insisted that self-sacrifice is, “a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests . . . realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies.” So, it would seem that the Liberals amongst us are in complete agreement with leaders of two of the most brutal, deadly, and oppressive regimes ever to plague mankind. That should tell us something.

The author correctly maintains that Socialism, “is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice. It is the social system which uses coercion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.” Furthermore, despite the, “intellectuals psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders – that is as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.” Which system sounds morally grounded to you – Capitalism or Socialism? Additionally, “Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of things exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgment of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.”

The article continues that Capitalism is, “both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement regardless of one’s birth or station in life.” Capitalism is thereby the only truly egalitarian economic and social system in the history of the planet. All are absolutely free to succeed or fail and the only limits placed on an individual’s ability to rise are those that are self-imposed. There are no external or artificial barriers placed on achievement by some outside entity or authority. It’s up to each one of us to develop the skills, drive, and initiative necessary to realize our personal levels of success. There are no outside limitations placed on our ability to succeed – or to fail. The role of government in this system, then, should and must be kept to a bare minimum. Government should guarantee a level playing field and enforce the concept that no one comes up to the starting line with any unfair or undeserved advantages over anyone else. Beyond that, government should get the Hell out of the way and let the participants compete. There is simply no way to deny the underlying morality of a system based on principles such as these.

The Socialists in our midst, or Liberals if you will, can’t abide or tolerate a system that gives primacy to the individual over the collective or the state. You see, that would render them useless, insignificant, and irrelevant and their egos are far too bloated to allow that. They must be in control and can’t even entertain the possibility of the individual taking charge of his own destiny and life without their meddlesome and dangerous interference. Socialists fancy themselves the only ones wise and intelligent enough to competently and efficiently oversee the progress of mankind. We ordinary folks, we little people must learn our place and allow society’s “betters” to make all decisions for us. We simply do not possess the requisite intelligence or lofty vision to make such serious and grave decisions as to the nature of man, how best to organize society, or the direction in which the nation should be headed. All that should better be left to “them” for if given the opportunity, those of us on the bottom will only muck things up!

You see, the Capitalist-Entrepreneur more than anything else loves freedom. They love the concept of succeeding by dint of their own intelligence, capability, and drive. Those that understand Capitalism relish traditions like rugged individualism, limited government interference, and success based on merit alone. The Socialists react to such concepts as would Dracula to a cross! They are not about freedom but rather about control – controlling every and all aspects of the lives of citizens. The single and most odious thing feared by the Capitalist, then, is government control and intervention because government “taxation and regulation are the means by which social planners punish and restrict the man or woman of ideas.” Additionally, such Liberal staples as, “welfare, taxes, tariffs, minimum-wage laws are all immoral because they use the coercive power of the state to organize human choice and action; they’re immoral because they inhibit or deny the freedom to choose how we live our lives; they’re immoral because they deny our right to live as autonomous moral agents; and they’re immoral because they deny our essential humanity.”

Thompson concludes by speaking directly to the present moment and conditions as they exist in today’s America. The Socialists have taken control of the nation’s most important institutions and are doing their damndest to use them to destroy the United States of America. They control the Presidency, the Courts, and the Senate. They control the so-called “mainstream” media, news, and entertainment. They control our educational system. Through these institutions, they have been able to mold, shape, and pervert the minds and attitudes of citizens, especially our youth, to such an extent that, “America is no longer a capitalist nation. We live under what is more properly called a mixed economy – that is, an economic system that permits private property, but only at the discretion of government planners.” This is the exact antithesis of what our Founders envisioned for this country all those years ago. Remember, they feared an all powerful centralized government yet this is exactly where we are headed under the current regime. This is a planned and managed tactic on the part of the LFE to destroy the United States as we have come to know and cherish it.

The article notes that when, “government redistributes wealth through taxation, when it attempts to control and regulate business production and trade, who are the winners and losers? Under this kind of economy the winners and losers are reversed: the winners are those who scream the loudest for a handout and the losers are those quiet citizens who work hard and pay their taxes.” Does this sound moral, ethical, or just to you? If it does, then you are one of “them” and you should be acutely aware that those of us on the other side are getting damned sick and tired of you losers robbing us blind. A reckoning is coming and it’s just a matter of when. You LFE Losers have done far too much damage to the premier economic success in world history and based on the abandonment of classical Capitalism and the creation of what can only be termed a welfare state, “America has created two new classes of citizens. The first is a debased class of dependents whose means of survival is contingent upon the forced expropriation of wealth from working citizens by a professional class of government social planners. The forgotten man and woman in all of this is the quiet, hardworking, lawabiding, taxpaying citizens who minds his or her own business but is forced to work for the government and their serfs.”

Capitalism, then, far from being immoral and totally focused on merely acquiring “things” is truly the most moral, just, and uplifting of all the economic-social systems the world has ever experienced. The fact that it does provide – to those who will work for them – better than any other system for the physical requirements that all people must have is really the very essence of morality. It is really the key factor that allowed for the development of true and free civilizations. In fact, Capitalism is truly life-affirming as well as life-extending. Think back to man’s hunting and gathering stage which developed so many thousands of years ago and persists to the present day in certain parts of the world. Survival was all that mattered and it was far from a certainty. If man wanted to eat, he had to follow the herds from location to location or search for edible plants and grasses. Nothing like a true civilization could possibly develop when life was no more than a daily struggle for physical survival. Life, to coin a phrase, was always nasty, brutish, and short. There was nothing else. Even with the advent of subsistence farming, not too much changed for then life consisted of little more than relentless, back-breaking physical labor to provide for oneself and one’s family.

The development of full-blown Capitalism based on free markets constituted one of the world’s truly great revolutions and coupled with the Industrial Revolution literally uplifted humanity to dizzying new heights. Man now had something never before contemplated, imagined, and certainly never experienced: Leisure Time. Human beings had somehow managed to secure their physical survival and had even created conditions necessary to hand it down to yet unborn generations. People could actually envision the future rather than merely exist from day to day. It became possible to dream, to imagine, and to create. Rude and temporary villages became towns and cities which burgeoned into civilizations. Human beings could create great and magnificent works of art that were unthinkable without the concept of leisure time. Man’s energies were no longer focused exclusively on raw, harsh survival. Man could nurture his mind, soul, and spirit as well as his body. All of this and so much more could not have been accomplished save for the introduction of Free Market Capitalism for no other system can possibly provide the means to support the kinds of creativity that allows and encourages true progress in all fields of endeavor. Capitalism permitted concepts like freedom and endless possibilities to flourish along with a belief in and hope for the future as opposed to an unending and crushing hopelessness which had been man’s lot from the beginning of time and history. None of this could have occurred without the advent and blossoming of Free Market Capitalism. Those who still see it at as immoral, unjust, and unfair do so only out of sheer ignorance and/or jealousy. Free Market Capitalism is supremely moral!

An article entitled, “Capitalism and Morality (http://lincolntribune.com),” explains the utter morality of Capitalism not in some esoteric, ethereal, or philosophical manner but rather as it relates to the betterment of the human condition. The author correctly insists that Capitalism through its key component of competition has done more to improve the lives of ordinary citizens than any other system in history. He notes, however, that when “anti-capitalists hear the term competition, they think it is a cruel process that hurts those who don’t have the resources or ability to survive.” He insists that this, “isn’t cruel though. Only through competition do we provide the numerous benefits to consumers.” Author Daren Bakst explains that, “competition drives down prices and forces competition in the marketplace to innovate and improve their goods or services constantly. For those who can’t keep prices down or offer a better good or service, survival isn’t possible.” In addition, “low-income individuals are able to enjoy goods and services that wouldn’t be available to even upper-income individuals in socialist societies. Nothing captures the difference between capitalism and socialism like a trip to the grocery store.”

In contrast, the author notes that while, “capitalism brings competition and the many benefits that it provides consumers, socialism brings central planning, shortages and poor products. There’s nothing moral about a select few elites in a centrally planned economy having the arrogance to believe that planning can mimic the complexity of a free market.” Furthermore, Socialism can’t possibly create wealth because by its very nature it must destroy wealth via its constant focus and emphasis on redistribution: taking from the productive class and giving it to those who don’t, cannot, or refuse to produce. This is intrinsically immoral and wrong and represents precisely the mind-set and strategy of the Far Left in America today. After all, why work for it if you can simply steal it?

All they need to do is surround their Leftist, anti-American propaganda with lofty sounding phrases like, “it’s for the greater good,” or, “compassionate caring,” and perhaps, “we must aid and comfort the underprivileged,” and they create a moral cloak that disguises their nefarious aims and purpose. They want nothing less than to destroy Free Market Capitalism, replace it with Socialism, and enslave the American people. They desire and must have a permanent underclass completely dependent on government to provide their every desire and necessity from cradle to grave. They desperately seek the destruction of this country as most of us have come to love and cherish it. Capitalism, however, creates wealth which, “generates jobs, improves quality of life, a cleaner environment and much more. When businesses are able to make profits, they can create jobs and reinvest the profits into goods and services that could have valuable societal benefits.”

Capitalism belies the old cliché that in our society only the rich get richer while the poor just get the shaft and are forced to exist on the scraps and crumbs so cavalierly and arrogantly tossed to them by evil, wealthy Capitalists. You know, the old let them eat cake scenario. The problem with that scenario is that under Capitalism the poor can indeed eat their cake along with their ice cream and hot fudge to boot! You see, wealth generation doesn’t mean the generation of wealth only for those who are wealthy but it, “encompasses wealth for everyone and generally means that as a nation we have a higher standard of living. Those with low incomes have the chance to get better job opportunities.” Additionally, most Americans are acutely aware that the, “wealthiest nations have better infrastructure, stronger buildings, safer drinking water, and other critical benefits compared to poor nations. There’s significant research that indicates that wealthy nations also are better stewards of the environment.”(see related video)

The author correctly explains that these and other societal benefits are obviously positive but notes that there remains a persistent misconception, “that capitalism benefits only individuals and businesses and, therefore, serves no benefit to the society as a whole.” This misconception is no mere mistake or misunderstanding of Capitalism but has been purposely and maliciously foisted on the American people from kindergarten through university. Our young are bombarded with constant lies regarding the world’s most successful and beneficent economic-social system from those in the fields of education, art, the Liberal wing of our political system, and the news media. By the time these folks reach high school and college age, Liberalism and Socialism have become their religion and they have been so brainwashed and bamboozled that one cannot help but fear for the future of the nation. The author concludes by noting that there’s, “no need to defend capitalism, although, unfortunately, there seems to be a need to remind Americans why capitalism is moral. It’s the economic system that respects individuals and individual rights. It’s the economic system that’s pro-consumer and makes it possible for goods and services to be affordable to people at even the lowest income levels. It’s the economic system that generates the most wealth and improves the standard of living for all citizens. Socialism is none of these things.”

The fact that Free Market Capitalism is absolutely essential for human progress can be denied by only those here and abroad who have vested interests in other systems like Communism, Socialism, Fascism, and Tin-Horn Dictatorshipism that would deny captive populations the dignity and hope of freedom and prosperity. The leadership wants all the goodies while the citizenry remains locked in desperate misery, grinding poverty and sickness, and very short life spans. Our current Disaster-in-Chief began to display his Socialist predilections and preferences early on and made it clear that he intended to grow government beyond anything Americans have ever experienced. He clearly desired the destruction of Capitalism and the freedom and wealth it creates and the introduction of full-blown Socialism. He was warned to veer off that path and was told it was simply not the way forward and would only create misery and destruction. Who sent this dire and prophetic warning? Was it us evil Right Wing Conservatives who cling to our God, Guns, and Religion? Well, yes.

We, of course, didn’t expect The Bamster to heed a warning from us and he didn’t. We did, however, think that there might be a chance of his taking warnings from others just a tad more seriously. We felt it might just be possible that he would heed those who had lived and still live under Socialism. He was warned by former states of the failed Soviet Union, including Russia, that this was not the road to tread because it would lead to disaster. Communist China, of all places, warned Barry Boy not to contemplate that path of utter chaos and destruction. After all, who would know better? Both China and Russia, by the way, have loosened up quite a bit and allowed elements of Capitalism to rear its head and both nations have become more prosperous than they ever were during the old regimes. Many of the socialized, sissified, feminized, and Muslimized nations of Western Europe followed suit. They too warned our Pretender-in-Chief not to imitate or initiate their costly and crippling examples. All for naught. You see, our sorry excuse of a leader is nothing if not a true believer. Not a believer in America and its greatness and not a believer in American Exceptionalism. He also doesn’t believe in Capitalism or the American people. He is an utter, out and out, full-blown Socialist determined to saddle this nation with that failed ideology. It’s been proven to bring nothing but misery, death, destruction, and ruination one hundred percent of the time. Why? It is completely contrary to human nature and therefore can’t possibly succeed. It relies on force and coercion which free people instinctively resist and yet this is the road he travels.

The only way to thwart his plans and those of the entire LFE in this country is to continue to educate our citizens, and especially our young, as to the benefits of Free Market Capitalism. The Center for the Advancement of Capitalism does exactly that. These folks as well as most sane, fair-minded, and realistic citizens fully comprehend that the free market is unrivaled in its ability to increase prosperity, promote wealth, and fulfill the promise of maximizing the nation’s general welfare. While Free Market Capitalism has indeed become the single greatest economic system ever known to man this, unfortunately, “has not led to the triumph of capitalism.” An article entitled, “The Moral Basis of Capitalism (wwww.capitalismcenter.org),” correctly maintains that current political policies all but deny this obvious fact because, “Federal taxes as a percentage of gross domestic product are at their highest levels since the Second World War, antitrust assaults on the market winners are growing, the regulations on the federal register continue to expand by 60,000 pages per year,” and, “even the Republicans recent tax cut proposal would only mandate a minor decrease in the projected growth of government revenue.” Author Robert W. Tracinski correctly posits that by, “practically every measure, government interference in the free market is growing.”

He’s dead on right and it doesn’t seem to matter which party is in power. Spending by both Democrats and Republicans seems to grow no matter which group of clowns holds the reins of power. Republicans as a general rule seem to spend a bit less of our money than do their rivals but nonetheless, it seems that spend they must! The only folks that seem to get it are the Conservatives as evidenced by such unfairly maligned groups like the Tea Party Patriots (see the Tea Party Movement Rant of 8/19/11). I’ve read credible studies and proposals that suggest that if either party would just keep holding the tax and spend line to last year’s budget – and the year doesn’t really matter – we’d save something like one trillion dollars per annum and that would finally do something concrete about reversing our humongous and obscene debt and deficit debacle! Is this really too damned much to ask or expect? Apparently, the inside the beltway mob is convinced that it is.

The author of the piece asks a particularly relevant and piercing question when he queries that if, “capitalism is recognized as the only practical economic system – then why is it losing out to state control?” Why indeed? It appears that Capitalism is losing because our nation, since at least the 1960’s, has been controlled by statists. You know, those Big Government Nanny State types who advocate and champion concepts like central planning, collectivism, and wealth confiscation and redistribution. Since they know full well that as an economic system, Capitalism is without peer then their rationale must be rooted in an ideology that is literally antithetical to traditional American values like rugged individualism, self-reliance, and a supreme confidence in and optimism for the future. There can be no other explanation than this. They want to tear America apart, destroy the blue print for success that we have created, and reduce us to the level of all the other failed Socialist states that litter the landscape of world history.

The reason for the statist ascendancy, according to Tracinski, is that what virtually no one seems to be able to grasp, “is that capitalism is not just practical but also moral. Capitalism is the only system that fully allows and encourages the virtues necessary for human life. It is the only system that safeguards the freedom of the independent mind and recognizes the sanctity of the individual.” This seems to embody the epitome of morality and no other economic-social system can possibly make this claim for all the rest are based on coercion and the use of force. In fact, the rewards of Free Market Capitalism fall as much into the realm of morality as they do into the practical, inventive, and life-enhancing because every, “product that sustains and improves human life is made possible by the thinking of the world’s creators and producers. We enjoy an abundance of food because scientists have discovered more efficient methods of agriculture such as fertilization and crop rotation. We enjoy a lifespan double that of the pre-industrial era thanks to advances in medical technology, from anti-biotics to X-rays to biotechnology, discovered by doctors and researchers.” Additionally, we “enjoy the comfort of air conditioning, the speed of airline transportation, the easy access to information made possible by the World Wide Web – because scientists and inventors have made the crucial mental connection necessary to create those products.” Capitalism and the profit motive have raised and ameliorated the quality of human existence to almost magical levels and yet there are still blind dunderheads out there who deny the ultimate morality of Free Market Capitalism.

The piece continues that the, “essence of capitalism is that it bans the use of physical force and fraud in men’s economic relationships. All decisions are to be left to the free market – that is, to the uncoerced decisions of buyers and sellers, manufacturers and distributors, employers and employees. The first rule of capitalism is that everyone has a right to dispose of his own life and property according to his own judgment.” Compare this superb system to any other on the planet and they all fall short. In fact, Capitalism seems to be the only socio-economic system rooted in morality and without a moral basis it becomes merely one more example of a failed attempt to coerce and force entire populations to the will of an elite few. Without a basis in morality, Capitalism becomes merely an empty and hollow quest for things and possessions. Because it is a supremely moral system, Capitalism is extraordinarily uplifting, hopeful, and optimistic. It enables those blessed enough to live and work under its auspices the ability to realize their full potential and simultaneously serve humanity like no other system the world has ever seen.

Capitalism has too often and falsely been condemned for its supposed emphasis on selfishness and self-interest. Those who criticize these two utterly necessary traits lack even the most rudimentary concept of human nature. All six billion of us who share this planet always act in accordance with what is in our own self-interest uppermost in mind. Only those who are forced to endure life in a totalitarian, dictatorial regime are forced to do otherwise. In a system in which one is forcefully denied the freedom and opportunity to act in accordance with what matters to them first we see the enslavement of humanity to the bidding and whim of a remote, relentless, and all-controlling centralized authority that by its very nature and definition is the antithesis of freedom. In a Free Market Capitalist system, however, “everyone is driven by his own ambition for wealth and success.” In addition, no one “may demand the work, effort, or money of another without offering to trade something of value in return. If both parties to the trade don’t expect to gain, they are free to go elsewhere.”

This concept is routinely labeled as selfish or self-serving by those Liberal Numb Nuts on the Far Left, “yet to say that people are acting selfishly is to say that they take their own lives seriously, that they are exercising their right to pursue their own happiness.” The writer continues that by, “contrast, project what it would mean to exterminate self-interest and force everyone to work for goals mandated by the state.” Think about that for a moment because most of humanity has and still does live exactly that way. It means an end to all personal choice and the death of freedom – all freedom of any kind. This is completely antithetical to human nature, for man’s natural yearning is to exist in a state of freedom. Other systems are, “based on the premise that no one owns his own life, that the individual is merely a tool to be exploited for the ends of society.” Mr. Tracinski correctly posits that a, “system that sacrifices the self to society is a system of slavery – and a system that sacrifices thinking to coercion is a system of brutality.” Additionally, this constitutes the, “essence of any anti-capitalist system, whether communist or fascist. And ‘mixed’ systems such as today’s regulatory and welfare state, merely unleash the same evils on a smaller scale.”

Obama and the current crop of the LFE represent only the latest incarnation of the system of slavery that goes by the name of Socialism. They are fully cognizant of the fact that what they desire and represent is the death of freedom and the abandonment of all individual choice for the greater, collective good. They are Statists in the extreme and will go to any and all lengths to impose their will and ideology on the rest of us no matter how much we object and regardless of the detrimental effects this will have for the nation’s future. They are anti-Capitalist because they are anti-American. To hear them proclaim their love of country and patriotism while they mindfully and purposefully destroy the very institutions and underpinnings that made America the greatest country that God ever gave mankind is supremely and superbly oxymoronic. They know full-well that only, “capitalism renounces these evils entirely. Only capitalism is fully true to the moral ideal stated in the Declaration of Independence: the individual’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Only capitalism protects the individual’s freedom of thought and his right to his own life,” and “only when these ideals are once again taken seriously will we be able to recognize capitalism, not as a necessary evil, but as a moral ideal.”

This brings us right back to that most current example of the anti-Capitalists in our midst, those grungy Bastards who constitute the Occupy Wall Street Mob. Make no mistake, for they are nothing more than a mob of mainly young, spoiled, well to do, middle class, whining, arrogant, thankless, clueless, and law-breaking anarchist wannabe’s. They are too stupid and ignorant to comprehend that it is Free Market Capitalism that allows them the wherewithal and the freedom to behave as they do. They seem to have no real understanding of what their goals are or how to achieve them. The food they consume, the paper and markers used to make their signage, the bathrooms in which they relieve themselves, the clothes they wear, the dope they smoke, the condoms they wear while publicly fornicating, and anything else you can think of are made possible only because of Free Market Capitalism. They have no grasp of this and certainly can’t fathom that what they take for granted, what they have become so accustomed to is due only to our economic system which affords them the free time to make utter and complete damned fools of themselves at our expense.

One Gary Wolfram wrote a piece entitled, “Occupy Wall Street Crowd Blind to Benefits of Capitalism (www.freerepublic.com).” He points out that the, “Wall Street protestors, in their hatred of capitalism, overlook things including the fact that over the last 100 years capitalism has reduced poverty more and increased life expectancy more than in the 100,000 years prior.” These ungrateful, spoiled sonsabitches all, “enjoy using their iPhones, indoor plumbing, central heating, refrigeration and electric lighting. All of those things are available to the average person in America today and none of them were available to the aristocracy when the West operated under the feudal system.”

Do you think these utterly pathetic scum-dogs appreciate any of this or the fact that men have died defending this system that they seem to find so unjust and unfair. The author asks how, “is it that for thousands of years mankind made very little progress in increasing the standard of living and yet today half of the goods and services you use in the next week did not exist when I was a boy?” He answers that the, “advent of market capitalism in the mid 18th century made all of the difference,” and he’s one hundred percent on the mark! He advises that the, “Occupy Wall Street movement would make best use of its time and energy in protesting the encroachment of the centrally planned state that led to the disaster of the Soviet Union, fascist Germany, and dictatorial North Korea.”

This is exactly what this mob wants, desires, and requires along with the rest of the LFE parasites that reside in our nation and if they are successful, they will have been a major factor in the complete destruction of the United States!

Much Luv Y’all and Have a Great Day!
The Fifth Horseman
(Dr. David M. Rich, Ph. D.)

The American Exceptionalism Rant

The United States of America has frequently been referred to as an exceptional nation and is thought to be exactly that by, not surprisingly, the vast majority of American citizens as well as by the millions upon millions of folks clamoring to get here from literally every other country on the planet. Most of us I believe are unabashedly proud of our country’s accomplishments especially in light of the fact that from a historical perspective, we are still so very, very young. We recognize with pride that we are qualitatively different and, dare I say it, superior to virtually all other countries on the planet. Well, how’s that for the height of hubris and political incorrectness? How’s that for the ultimate in American bragadociousness? Do statements like these endear us to our neighbors around the world or do they merely reinforce the old stereotype that we are no more than pushy, conceited, self-centered hicks, louts, and boobies from the world’s hinterland? Are we just “young pups” flexing our over developed muscles and egos in the hope of countering our image as the most unsophisticated, uncultured, and grossly materialistic entity in world history?


Much if not all of the world seems to hold these extremely low and negative views regarding the United States and take great delight in letting us know in no uncertain terms exactly how we are perceived. We make our global neighbors, to say the least, feel uncomfortable and inadequate. By looking at us, their own failures and comparative lack of progress are brought to the forefront and are brutally unmasked by the harsh and glaring light of truth. They look at our history and accomplishments and clearly see what could have been. It’s not unlike meeting an individual who we see as obviously superior to ourselves. Many, if not most of us, begin to feel quite uncomfortable in their presence and we become somewhat jealous and resentful even though they have done nothing to earn such opprobrium. It appears to be a natural human trait and one that is difficult to suppress. All of this can easily be borne out by simply viewing the antics displayed at any gathering of the United Nations General Assembly. These guys constitute no more than an anti-American, anti-Western club whose membership may accurately be described as a rogue’s gallery of the world’s leading, most banal, and venal Thugocracies (see the United Nations Rant of 12/22/08).


The above noted views of America, however, are not merely held by those from other nations. Unfortunately, a not insignificant number of our own citizens feel the same way. They are ashamed of their own country and are convinced that any success the United States has achieved is illegitimate, undeserved, and comes at the expense of the globe’s less fortunate and weaker populations – especially third world “people of color.” We are viewed by these Americans as rapacious, racist, callous, and cold. We are accused of stealing and looting the planet’s natural resources for our own selfish purposes thus preventing the rightful owners from using them to ameliorate the horrific conditions that they find themselves in. That’s obviously our fault and we must be forced to right these wrongs we have purposely inflicted on the poor and less fortunate denizens of the planet. I’m sure you have heard the charge, for example, that we have gone to war for such things as oil and have brutally stolen that precious commodity on a planetary scale. As diligenyl as I have tried, I cannot for the life of me discover any hard, or soft, evidence to support such a claim. I’ll just have to dig deeper.


Americans who feel this way are not difficult to find (see The Americans Who Hate America Rant of 1/21/11). Just walk onto any college campus or for that matter any high school and you’ll be inundated with anti-Americanism for it’s become the predominant culture of so-called academe (see The Anti-Americanism In Our Public Schools Rant). The “Lamestream Media” is overwhelmingly of this persuasion. Hollywood and the entertainment field in general contain more examples of these types of “Americans” than you could possibly swing a dead cat at and all of the above are members of what I call the LFE (Liberal Fucking Elite).


They seem to take some form of perverse pleasure in denying America’s historically and overwhelmingly positive role over the centuries and that without the United States the world would be a far lesser place. This country in just over two hundred years has amassed more wealth and power than any other in world history. Is this what makes America so exceptional? No, of course not. All ages and eras have their wealthy and their powerful. It’s always been that way and probably always will. No, our power and wealth do not define the concept of American Exceptionalism, but rather how we have used them. Historically, the world’s most powerful and wealthy nations have used these attributes to dominate and subjugate as much of the planet as they could for as long as they could. The peoples and places they controlled suffered horrendously and immeasurably and the cruelties that they endured are literally unfathomable to folks like us who have grown up in freedom and prosperity.


The United States, conversely, has used its vast wealth and power to liberate rather than subjugate, to enrich the lives of others rather than to destroy them. Yeah, yeah, I know. I can hear it coming. What about such things as slavery – huh, what about that!?! Nice try, Sport, but that bird don’t fly and that mule don’t plow! I am not referring here to American Perfectionism but rather to American Exceptionalism. There is a huge difference. We never have been nor will we ever be perfect for the very real reason that perfection is unattainable at least for us mere mortals. Yes, we had slavery and we treated those poor folks in a horrific, brutal, and inhumane fashion. The question is, do we still have slavery today? Thank you, for that is but one example of American Exceptionalism. Unlike most of the world, we are capable and willing to recognize and rectify our past mistakes and misdeeds. Yes, we held slaves, it was wrong, we realized it, and it’s gone! That’s been and still is a very rare, rare commodity in world history. Care for but one more example? Certainly. I’m sure you’re aware that at one point in American history, women couldn’t vote. You did know that didn’t you? That was wrong and it’s gone. Our willingness to right past wrongs that we perpetrated on undeserving others absolutely sets us apart and above from most of the world’s history and that is indeed exceptional.


Additionally, one of our most outstanding characteristics as a nation has been to defend freedom all over the globe whenever and wherever necessary. We did not have to do this. We paid a terrible and awesome price in both treasure and American lives to set people free. Even the most cursory examination of just the Twentieth Century more than bears out that statement. We have liberated more people than any other force in the history of the world. Hell, we even liberated our own slaves! With the very brief example of our own foray into imperialism beginning in 1898, the only land we have ever asked for from other countries is enough to bury our dead soldiers in the far off places they fought and died defending the freedom of others. Without our sacrifices, much more of the world would be speaking either German or Japanese today. I’d call that pretty damned exceptional, wouldn’t you?


Many who hear and read statements like those offered above view them negatively, to say the least. They view those who make them as archaic and anachronistic. They are seen as evidence of a false and misplaced pride that goes far beyond mere nationalism but rather as full-blown jingoism. Those of us who feel this way about our country are seen as out of step with the world-wide Liberal emphasis on Globalism and One-Worldism. They are convinced that the concept of the nation-state is at the very least passé, outmoded, and not just useless but rather dangerous in the 21st Century. It is out-moded, and horribly old fashioned in our fast-paced, complex, and interconnected world.


These are the same Far Left Lunatics who eschew the concepts of national sovereignty and the sanctity of well defined and defended national borders. They see themselves as citizens of the world and not of any particular country. They owe their loyalty, their fealty as it were, to international organizations like the United Nations and the World Court. They ridicule and mock notions or ideas like patriotism and love of and loyalty to country. These are the pathetic folks who decry, denounce, and disdain concepts like American Exceptionalism.


The on-line encyclopedia, Conservapedia (www.conservapedia.com), defines American Exceptionalism as, “an intuition about the United States, a country that occupies a special place among the nations of the world primarily because of its unique origins.” Furthermore, the “concept of American Exceptionalism may be defined as the notion that the United States, by virtue of its origins and ideals, its struggles and accomplishments, stands apart from and, in some eyes, above other nations.” Another on-line source explains that, “”American exceptionalism refers to the theory that the United States is qualitatively different from other states. In this view, America’s exceptionalism stems from its emergence from a revolution, becoming the first new nation, and developing a uniquely American ideology, based on liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire (http://en.wikipedia.org).” (see related video)


The same source notes historian Gordon Wood as saying, “our belief in liberty, equality, constitutionalism, and the well-being of ordinary people came out of the Revolutionary era. So too did our idea that we Americans are a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty and democracy.” Read that last sentence again – slowly. Good. Can anyone seriously doubt its veracity? Not if you’re honest about what America has meant to the world. The revolution we began in 1776 served as an example to be emulated all over the world. The French, those folks in Latin and South America, the Russians, and even the Chinese followed us and overthrew those who kept them in chains. The results in each of these nations may not have been similar or equal to ours, but nonetheless our example served to set them free. We have indeed led the world in liberty and democracy and we have been a special people with a special destiny. (see related video)


One Seymour Martin Lipset, a leading scholar in the field of American Exceptionalism, defined the term as, “liberty, equality (of opportunity and respect), individualism, populism, and laissez-faire economics. The creed combines with other aspects of the American character – especially our religiousness and our willingness to defend ourselves by force – to form the core of American Exceptionalism.” America is, in fact, far different and a definite cut above the other nations that cohabit the planet with us and we have always invited them to share our experiences, our prosperity, and our purpose. That purpose has always been to make the world a better place and to allow all individuals no matter who they are or where they are from to reach their full potential and level of excellence. We welcome this and are happy and proud to serve as an example for others to learn from. We want and desire this for by following our example the world will become a far better, wealthier, healthier, and happier place. The deadly divisions that have so often ravaged the world will, over time, grow ever more distant if more of planet’s population were allowed to adopt our exceptional model. After all, you really can’t argue with success and by any objective or subjective standard you wish to apply, America is the most successful sovereign entity in world history.


Does this sound overly “Americanish” to you? Does this go too far over the top? Does it sound bragadocious? Does it sound dismissive of the accomplishments of other nations and people? If you answered yes to these queries, then may I suggest that you are a denier of American Exceptionalism, that you are in fact embarrassed by America’s astonishing success without which the world would be in far worse shape than it is now. The definitions of American Exceptionalism proffered thus far are not meant to belittle or detract from other nations and peoples. Instead, they are meant to serve as a beacon, as a light that shines through the darkness to illuminate the path to a better, more prosperous, and more satisfying destination. To those of you who answered these questions in the affirmative, I can only conclude that you are embarrassed by America’s accomplishments and historical role in the world. I am convinced that you agree with our LFE and our current political leadership that believes America has been a force for evil in the world and that we should abandon our position of leadership and ceaselessly and constantly apologize to the world for our very existence. If you have concluded that I’m being just a tad judgmental here, I congratulate you on your perceptiveness!


When one claims to be exceptional, then much is expected of you and that statement applies to nations as well as individuals. This country has never fallen short of these expectations but instead America has always risen to every challenge it has ever faced. While it is certainly easy to point to examples of our technological and material success, these cannot come without a firm basis or foundation and in that regard America is indeed exceptional. In an article entitled, “American Exceptionalism and Its Enemies (http://newledger.com),” the author posits that the, “United States is an exceptional nation. Most Americans would not regard that as a controversial statement. And there is good reason : it is true.” The author goes on to say that the, “U.S. is the world’s oldest and most stable capitalist, liberal democracy, older even than Great Britain, which did not become a mass democracy until the late Nineteenth Century.” The writer informs us that America, “was the first nation founded in an act of rebellion against a colonial power. It was the first nation founded on the belief that the rights of man are inherent and God-given, and that the powers of government derive from the consent of the governed.” Now that’s one Hell of a first! Concepts like that had never been heard and articulated before this nation proclaimed them from the highest mountain.


Additionally it, “was, therefore, the first nation to recognize that the state must be limited to the powers granted by the people, and to recognize explicitly that the state was founded to secure their rights.” In fact, “Ours was the first nation to be based on a separation of powers, and on the clear subordination of the military to civilian rule. And it was the first nation to state all of this in a constitution that was publicly debated and democratically accepted.” Indeed, “the U.S. exemplifies these virtues in their purest form. That is why it is exceptional.” This is the foundation that truly set men free. For the first time in the history of the planet, the heretofore all powerful state and rulers wore the shackles rather than the individuals being governed. This was absolutely and utterly radical and revolutionary for its time. The founding of the United States liberated man’s potential and freed him from the chains of authoritarianism. This foundation more than anything else freed the individual to follow his or her dreams and rise as far as their talents, capability, and energy could take them. This foundation set free the entrepreneurial spirit for which this nation is so famous and which accounted for America’s becoming the wealthiest and freest society in the history of the planet!


To many, American Exceptionalism translates into the concept of American Conceit. Other nations and peoples view us as pushy, arrogant upstarts who are in reality still wet behind the ears. We have not been around long enough, in their view, to have earned our high opinions of ourselves and we apparently do not comprehend the practice of deferring to our elders if not our betters. That other countries and people may hold this negative opinion is perhaps understandable. The fact is, however, that far too many native born citizens share this view. Due to no more than an accident of birth, they live in the wealthiest, most powerful, freest, and most benevolent society to have ever existed in the history of the planet. To see and hear these scurrilous buffoons denigrate and castigate the United States at every turn for everything is baffling, shocking, and in many ways horrifying. It belies both the facts and all sense of logic and common sense. It reeks of an amazing lack of gratitude for those who came before us and led the foundations for America’s fantastic progress over the years. It is an embarrassing and shameful display of a bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you mentality which is entirely wrong-headed and undeserved. Who are these folks? Generally speaking, we call them Liberals and it seems that one of their main priorities is to deny and then destroy the creed of American Exceptionalism.


These people seem to be particularly dissatisfied with their lot in life and literally despise all those they perceive as having more than they do. They view any material success obtained by others as having been unfairly and ruthlessly obtained by stealing from those at the bottom. They are incapable of looking inward and reflecting on their own short comings or to recognize that it is their own poor decisions and mistakes that have prevented them from realizing what they claim is their due. They are champions of a redistributionist mentality which can only serve to exacerbate and intensify their own failures and forever reinforces the envy, jealousy, and even hatred for what this country stands for. They are the central proponents and primary examples of the vile class warfare that is best exemplified by those of the Far Left Liberal Elite. They will not rest or be satisfied until everyone is brought down to their pathetic level until literally no one person shall have anymore than anyone else. They are nothing more than full-blown Socialists who simply cannot recognize or accept the fact that Socialism has failed everywhere and every time it’s ever been tried. They are nonetheless devotees of this system because they have proven to themselves over and over again that they simply lack the skills, energy, and intellect to compete in our Free Market Capitalist system. Rather than blame themselves, they blame those who have succeeded.


This attitude, curiously enough, can also be said to be an element of the concept of American Exceptionalism. An aspect of its material manifestation is that the individual can rise to that level he is capable of attaining but there are no guarantees of outcome. In our system, you have an absolute right to succeed and to that end government should facilitate your efforts. It should not, as it has under Liberalism, throw more and more roadblocks in your way. The government should get the Hell out of your way to go about your life as best you can so you can succeed – or fail – on your own. In our country, you see, while you have the right to succeed you also have an absolute right to fail. Does that sound somewhat strange to you? When looking at world history, it might seem so for in most societies failure was indeed not an option and it simply wouldn’t be tolerated. When the powers that be demanded something from citizens, failure could be a deadly business and usually was. The right to fail, then, is exceptionally American and therefore part of the concept of American Exceptionalism.


The Liberals amongst us want to change all of this. They emphatically desire to destroy any vestige of American Exceptionalism and have come dangerously close to succeeding in recent years. An article entitled, “An Exceptional Debate (www.nationalreview.com),” begins by explaining that, “Our country has always been exceptional. It is free, more individualistic, more democratic, and more open and dynamic than any other nation on earth. These qualities are the bequest of our Founding Fathers and of our cultural heritage. They have always marked America as special, with a unique role and mission in the world: as a model of ordered liberty and self-government and as an exemplar of freedom and a vindicator of it, through persuasion when possible and force of arms when absolutely necessary.” The authors, however, note that under our current leadership the, “level of spending, the bailouts, and the extent of the intervention in the economy contemplated in health-care and cap-and-trade legislation have created the fear that something elemental is changing in the country. At stake isn’t just a grab bag of fiscal issues, but the meaning of America and the character of its people: the ultimate cultural issue.”


The American people are correct in their fear that something elemental is changing our country and this is no accident but rather part of a long-held and adhered to battle plan to destroy the United States as presently constituted and envisioned by our Founders. The LFE and their hordes want to destroy our very Founding notions of a limited government with only a very few and clearly delineated set of powers. They knew first hand how crippling and deadly an overreaching and all powerful central government is to the very concept of liberty which stands as the cornerstone of what many call the American Creed. The Founders clearly, “knew what men were capable of, in the positive sense if their creative energies were unleashed and in the negative sense if they were given untrammeled power over others.” It is the “untrammeled” aspect of power that makes the Liberal Statists among us salivate excitedly and this is their ultimate goal.


They wish to see a government that literally seeks to control all aspects of the lives of the citizenry which will obviously destroy our liberties and freedoms. This is their primary agenda. The Founding Fathers understood that by its very nature government tries to centralize more and more power unto itself and they also had extremely keen insights into human nature. James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 51 that it, “may be a reflection on human nature . . . that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature. If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither would government be necessary.”


Our Founders purposely limited the power of government to protect America’s newly won liberties and freedoms and this is what the Liberals-Statists amongst us want desperately to destroy for in a very real way they constitute a central tenet of American Exceptionalism. What these saboteurs completely fail to comprehend is that, “In the latitude provided by this relatively light-handed government, a commerce-loving, striving, and endlessly inventive people hustled its way to become the greatest economic power the world has ever known.” This characteristic of American Exceptionalism is but one more of America’s accomplishments that the Liberals can’t abide. Other exceptional aspects of the United States identified by the authors include: our attitudes toward wealth and its creation; the fact that at least 31 percent of Americans expect to become rich; the fluidity of American society as evidenced by the fact that more than half of those in the bottom quintile pull themselves out of it within a decade. In addition, “Politically, we have always been more democratic, more populist than other countries.” Furthermore, we, “have managed to preserve a remarkable national spirit,” and, “Americans are more religious than Europeans.” The authors conclude that, “All of this means that America has the spirit of a youthful, hopeful, developing country, matched with the economic muscle of the world’s most advanced society and the stability of its oldest democratic institutions.”


Yeah, I’d call all that and more pretty damned exceptional. So how do those on the Far Left and their Grand Poobah-in-Chief react to all of this exceptionalism? According to the Bastards, “America was special only in its misdeeds and failings; all cultures were to be celebrated except our own.” They have “worked to trash our Founding, to wipe out our historical memory, and to create a guilty conscience among our ruling elite.” El Jefe himself, “has signaled again and again his unease with traditional American patriotism. As a Senator he notoriously made a virtue of not wearing a flag pin. As president he has been unusually detached from American history.” Additionally, he “has all but denied the idea that America is an exceptional nation. Asked whether he believed in American Exceptionalism during a European trip last spring, Obama said, ‘I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” Yeah, this guy is just a great example of a proud, confident American who truly believes that America has been an overwhelming force for good in the world, isn’t he? Does this nonsense coming from an American President disturb you just a bit? It shouldn’t based on who the guy is for, “Given the liberal gestalt, it is perhaps unsurprising that every aspect of American exceptionalism has been under threat from President Obama and his allies in Washington. Obama has frankly and correctly described their project as one to change the country fundamentally,” and even on, “those occasions when Obama places himself in the context of American history . . . with, that is, the gradual replacement of the Founders’ design. He seeks to accelerate it.”


Why would any segment of our population want to deny the obvious exceptionalism of an obviously exceptional nation? On its face, this makes absolutely no sense at all. These folks constitute, it seems to me, a growing segment of our society’s disaffected and disillusioned who seem to feel that they are somehow owed something by somebody. Our elected officials who pander to this mob are merely looking for votes and therefore qualify as nothing more than political whores. They don’t stand on principle for they are completely unprincipled. They can’t fall back on logic or reason because they are wholly illogical and overwhelmingly unreasonable. Guys like me are constantly baffled, amazed, and confused by their lack of understanding of what America is and what it represents. We view them as completely unpatriotic and as traitors to the American Dream. They are, in effect, life’s losers and therefore can’t abide by or deal with life’s winners.


You know, those of us out here that believe in the ideal of the United States and are willing and eager to live that American Dream. Those of us who work our asses off to provide our families with what they need and desire. Those of us who fully understand that America does not and cannot guarantee success but only the opportunity to succeed and that has always been our nation’s most singular success. This concept exists in far too few places around the world and, it seems, that the Liberals amongst us want to destroy it here too. There are those of us out here who want nothing from government: we want no hand-outs, no bail-outs, no stimulus deals, and no entitlements. We want government to behave strictly and only according to the tenets and restrictions set forth in our Founding Documents and that’s ALL we want and expect from our government!


Not so for those on the Dark Side. They want and need government to provide them with everything from cradle to grave. They want to live a life free of all risk yet they insist that they deserve any reward they feel entitled to. They don’t recognize the concept of American Exceptionalism nor do they believe that this nation has been anything but a force for evil in the world and that without the United States the planet’s population would be better off and far more sanguine. These folks want and need to be controlled by an all powerful Nanny State that relieves them of life’s responsibilities for they are fully cognizant of the fact that they are simply incapable of succeeding on their own. They are afraid of even trying but rather have surrendered to the lure of the comfort provided by the soft tyranny of Big Brother.


They deny that anything like American Exceptionalism even exists for they themselves do not qualify as Americans, not in the true sense of the word. They completely deny and eschew such defining aspects of Americanism like self-reliance and rugged individualism. And they WHINE! Americans do not whine because whiners never accomplish anything. Whiners don’t work, don’t innovate, don’t contribute, and don’t succeed! They whine. Americans do not whine, they get things done – amazing things – as long as the damned government behaves itself, gets the Hell out of the way, and leaves us alone!


Members of the LFE like Obama are positively embarrassed by America and those who I term real Americans. In fact, “Obama is turning his back on the overarching vision of freedom,” that this nation has always stood proudly for. Indeed, that vision has become synonymous with the United States of America. He is positively loathe to advocate American ideals and a, “deep naiveté informs his policy. He believes that our enemies can be persuaded, merely through sweet talk and blandishments, to abandon their cold-blooded interests and their most deeply held ambitions.” In fact, “under the sway of Obama’s anti-idealism, the U.S. is less interested in serving as a champion of liberty, his policies will also reduce our power, and thus our effectiveness should we choose to wield it again.” This, of course, is exactly the point. Reducing, if not completely destroying, our power and effectiveness is now and has always been at the heart of the Liberal Playbook. This has been the case for at least half a century and Obama and his minions represent just more of the same. The major difference today for those of us deemed to be Evil Right Wingers is that this time they damned well may succeed in achieving their dream of destroying this country!


The authors of the piece cited above correctly recognize that in, “many of Obama’s performances overseas . . . there has been a dismaying defensiveness. It’s almost as though he doesn’t think we deserve to stand up for our ideals or for our interests, and he believes that our record of sins, hypocrisies, and affronts make a posture of apologetic passivity the only appropriate one. This posture raises a disturbing possibility: that the waning of America’s self-confidence is part and parcel of the change Obama is effecting.” Possibility, my sorry old ass! It’s part of his Liberal game plan and psyche. The article notes what is going on in Europe and seems to imply, I think correctly, that the same fate awaits America if the Charlatan-in-Chief is granted another term. They explain that in, “Europe we see a civilization that is not willing to defend itself: nations that will surrender their sovereignty, cultures that will step aside to be supplanted by an alien creed, people that will no longer make the most meaningful investment in the future by reproducing. There is a sense that history is over and Europeans are just waiting for someone to turn out the last light in the last gallery in the Louvre.” If that sounds just too apopoplectic for you and your initial reaction is something like that’ll never happen here, then remove your head from your ass and smell the freaking coffee! It is happening here. It’s being purposely foisted upon us, and is cause for celebration in the current Oval Office!


The idea of American Exceptionalism is not just some vague notion, some ethereal, lofty concept just floating around out there in the miasma. It is real, tangible, and palpable. It is something to be cherished, nurtured, and celebrated. It does in so many ways set us apart from the rest of the world and world history that it simply can’t be denied. It can be distorted, maligned, and corrupted as those on the Far Left have done for decades and continue to do. They seem quite uncomfortable and even threatened by its mere existence as well they should be. It constitutes a complete anathema in their collectivist, Socialist world view. That view encompasses an all-consuming arrogance and condescension that is utterly boundless. In their minds, America must be taken down a peg or fifty and we must be humbled and prostrated on the world stage. We must openly allocate to our crimes against our less fortunate neighbors and agree to be governed, as citizens of the world, by international organizations that are deemed more worthy and competent than our own unique and uniquely American institutions. They would have us abandon the idea of American Exceptionalism in favor of some kind of twisted, sick, and perverted concept of American Self-Flagalationism as we seek and beseech the world’s forgiveness and acceptance.


That there are citizens among us who actually advocate this course of action and mind-set is a clear signal that they have not one iota of a clue what American Exceptionalism is or what they would lose by its blind, unthinking abandonment. In a piece entitled, “Liberty and American Exceptionalism (www.huffingtonpost.com),” we are reminded that on the Fourth of July, “we don’t only celebrate the birth of our nation. We celebrate American exceptionalism – everything that makes the United States the greatest nation on earth.” The author also explains that in, “celebrating this, we reject President Obama’s blueprint for the kind of country he seeks to make us.” Author Ken Blackwell reminds us that all those years ago we, “we embarked on a grand experiment to form a self-governing democratic republic,” and the leaders of that movement, “were risking their lives. Had they failed, they would have been hanged as traitors, their lands confiscated by the Crown, their fortunes forfeited, and their families left disgraced and destitute.”


Yes, they risked it all and because they succeeded, “the freest, safest, and most prosperous nation in the world was born.” Blackwell notes that when we celebrate our independence, in fact, we celebrate everything for which the United States stands. We, “celebrate the right to speak what we will, no matter how unpopular, without fear of government reprisal. We celebrate our right to worship according to the dictates of our conscience. We celebrate our right to bear arms in defense of ourselves and our freedom.” Additionally, “we celebrate our right to be secure in our homes and our families, and should we become entangled with the law, our right not to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process, which includes everything from our right to a jury trial, to our right to a lawyer, to our right not to incriminate ourselves or to be tortured.”


Look around the world. The vast majority of people on the planet today and throughout history do not and have not had these or any other rights. Can you possible imagine living your life without these rights quoted above? I know I can’t. Yet these damned saboteurs, these sonsabitches, who constitute the LFE would abandon them in a heartbeat. Why? In their warped vision of America’s future, they will be in charge of all of us little folk and all rights will emanate down from those at the top. They, therefore, will not need rights as we currently understand them and the rest of us will have our rights severely curtailed or destroyed. Ours will have become a government not of laws, but rather of government of whim! This is what they want and have been working so desperately to accomplish! As Blackwell notes, that while, “many of us take those rights for granted, the reality is that they are rare, both in history and even around the globe today.” We do and should celebrate American Exceptionalism and we should be inordinately proud of our exceptional achievements. We believe that, “America is something special. We are a shining beacon of light throughout the world and throughout the annals of history. We are the exception, not the rule.”


Those amongst us who deny the concept of American Exceptionalism have no idea of how really dangerous they are for they cannot fathom or possibly understand the consequences of their actions and attitudes. They are what might be termed as “presentists” who have only a sense of “self”. They have no grasp of history and how very unique America is not only as a place but as an idea and an ideal. They are completely incapable of placing American accomplishments within the context of how the world has operated within the last ten thousand or so years. The planet has always been ruled by the aggressive use of force, that is until we came along. We’re the reason that people world-wide have yearned to be free for that is man’s natural state. We are the example that all others have followed and still follow today. There has never been a nation like ours and I dare say, there never will be again.


Yeah, yeah, I know exactly how that sounds to those who deny and want to destroy the concept and fact of American Exceptionalism. It outrages and infuriates them. It causes them to gnash their teeth and rend their garments. They are enraged at the fact – and it is a fact - that the United States has been such a gift to the world and especially to those who have lived for thousands of years under the yoke of tyrants and dictators whose only claim to legitimacy has been the jack-boot of tyranny on the necks of the common citizen. For the first time in history, the world had another option. Oppressed peoples could come here and experience actual freedom as well as something else never before seen on the planet: a relatively benign government whose main duty was to safeguard the rights of citizens. Those that didn’t come here followed our example in their own countries and ended the tyranny that had enslaved them since the dawn of time. Our example actually made the tyrants of the world nervous and afraid. Now that’s truly exceptional!


An article entitled, “The Demise of American Exceptionalism (www.andyrutledge.com),” insists that, “The United States of America is currently in the throes of a civil war of sorts. There are facets and nuances to this war, but the fundamental conflict is between those fighting to preserve liberty and those fighting to expand the scope and reach of unmitigated tyranny.” Sadly, throughout history the latter has been the hands-down winner in this battle to the detriment of liberty and freedom. America, at least up until now, has once again been the singular exception but the vital issue is how much longer can and will this be the case in the face of the Liberal-Socialist onslaught we face? Author Andy Rutledge continues that the, “list of imperiled liberties, idea, definitions, obligations, industries, societal mechanisms, and constitutional foundations is long and growing almost daily, but there’s something more. There’s a growing threat to that which these precious and imperiled things comprise. At stake is nothing less than American exceptionalism.”


He’s right folks and sadly, he couldn’t be more right. We are in a war and that conflict is a culture war in which the stakes are nothing less than the meaning of America and the American ideal. To those of us who believe in the concept of American Exceptionalism, we realize that it’s extinction and demise does not merely have dire consequences for the United States but rather for the world as well. The author explains that, “Too many people in the U.S. and elsewhere lack any tangible grasp of what American exceptionalism means and what it means to the world.” He continues that without, “American exceptionalism, the world will become a comparatively dark place. Without American exceptionalism, human beings will be less than they are now and the world’s very definition of ‘hope’ will change to mean less than it does now. Yes, American exceptionalism is an imperative responsibility we hold not just to ourselves, but to all peoples of the world.”


Our country has always taken this “imperative responsibility” very seriously although we certainly didn’t have to. The fact that we felt and still feel an absolute obligation to spread the light of freedom beyond our own borders speaks to the altruism of the American ideal. We have always believed and acted upon the idea that freedom is not the province of but one people or one nation. We have always fought tyranny and repression wherever it reared its ugly visage and we continue to do so. It is, after all, our historic mission. The article continues that the, “United States of America has since its founding been the exception in the world. Our nation stands alone in the world in ways at which other nations can only marvel. Our society has long preserved individuals’ hope and opportunity to a degree that the rest of the world has never enjoyed.” I don’t believe that there exists any impartial observer of American history that can honestly and objectively argue with or deny these facts of America’s identity and character. Additionally, “No nation on earth has as its core such righteous indignation and intolerance towards tyranny, combined with wise provisions for the preservation of individual liberty, as does the United States of America. Our Constitution recognizes and preserves individual liberty to a degree found no where else in human history, and in this respect our nation stands alone as the lone exception in the world.”


Those members of the LFE in our country deny all of the above and more. They will never, ever admit that America is indeed both great and exceptional for they would immediately be stripped of their status as bona fide members of the Far Left and as true haters of their own country and its historic role. They have absolutely no appreciation nor use for the country that has provided them the tools and wherewithal to espouse views and actions that would have not all that long ago earned them the moniker of traitor! Do you think that they would agree with the idea and the fact that, “no nation in the history of human existence has shed so much of its own sons and daughters’ blood fighting to preserve and defend the freedom of peoples of other nations,”? You know the answer. Do you think for one moment that they appreciate the fact that, “Throughout history, we have rightly recognized that it is our responsibility to defend liberty worldwide, for those who possess the means have a moral responsibility to act in the face of evil”?


You know the answer to that too, because those Bastards believe that it is we who are evil and that we constitute nothing less than the world’s most malignant and deadly force ever known to human kind. And yes, they really do believe that. The author of the piece referenced above accurately notes that our, “force for good in the world has liberated millions upon millions of people from the crushing weight of tyranny. In this and so many other ways, we are the light of liberty the world looks to. It is no exaggeration to observe that but for the United States of America, terrible powers of evil and chaos would exercise their malevolent will throughout the world on a daily basis.”


Yes, America is and has always been an exceptional nation but we must seriously ask how much longer will it last? There are forces in our midst that are even now fervently plotting, planning, and working to bring this nation down and destroy the very concept of American Exceptionalism. These are the Liberals amongst us and they are deadly serious about destroying our nation as presently constituted and envisioned by our Founding Fathers all those years ago. Can they succeed? Rutledge notes, “Now, imagine the world without all of this; without the shining light of our nation’s example. Such a possibility should chill you to your core. Sadly, such a world may not be left merely to our imaginations for much longer. Our ongoing civil war poses the very real possibility that these and other facets of American exceptionalism will vanish. They are, in fact, vanishing at this moment – falling like dominos as the forces of tyranny work to reshape our nation, deny its heritage, and destroy its foundations.” You just might want to read that last again.


Much Luv Y’all and Have a Great Day!
The Fifth Horseman
(Dr. David M. Rich, Ph. D.)