You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Home Front: Culture Wars
Days of American Despotism
2019-02-10
[PoliticallyShort] Lippman writes, "For virtually all that now passes for progressivism in the United States calls for increasing ascendancy of the state: always the cry is for more officials with more power over more and more of the activities of men." 
Say what you about Savage but, he is usually more right than wrong:
The new system of governance in which we find ourselves living under is a government of itself, by itself, and for itself. It is what Michael Savage correctly labels in his latest book Government Zero. In short, Savage elaborates that "Government Zero is absolute, unchecked government power and zero representation of the people. It doesn’t exist to promote conservative or liberal principles. It is not pro-immigration or anti-immigration. It is not capitalist or socialist. It is not religious or atheist. Those are all just means to its end. Its end is its own preservation." The government doesn’t serve the people, it serves itself by acting against the people, growing richer by making us poorer through endless taxes, debt, and regulations as it expands and consolidates its power by limiting and restricting our freedom. It ensures its own safety by threatening yours.

"This is where we are," writes Savage. "We have three branches of government that are not only supposed to check each other with their separate powers, but limit themselves to the powers delegated to them in the Constitution. They do neither. Instead, they join together in looting our wealth, trampling our liberty, and destroying our culture at the behests of special interests and their lobbyists," concludes Savage. The faith in the coercive action of government, no matter how big nor small, is not only destroying our country but it’s establishing a wholly new system of governance to replace our own."
Posted by:newc

#8  https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/what-i-saw-at-the-coup/

A good example of how a response might go. It won't be raising armies to fight open field battles.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-02-10 17:39  

#7  It's still not desperate enough, I know that sounds odd but the vast majority of lives of the US are comfortable. It's going to take something big to kick it off or a vast over reach on the Democrats part.

And when it does, it's not going to be big groups. It'll be 1-3, doing stuff on their own.

Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-02-10 16:18  

#6  I think Savage misses the point, the big state has lots of tax breaks for the super rich who make most gains from unearned income and hide it via trust funds. The structure of the economy changes to favour them the more the state spends.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-02-10 13:17  

#5  One aspect of Roberts' move to becoming the SCOTUS "swing vote" may be a warning to keep gun rights cases out of SCOTUS. Not defending Roberts at all here, just sayin...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-10 10:46  

#4  Silentbrick, how long or for what are they waiting?

I've been hearing this for a long time and there have been many incidents that could have been the trigger but................
Posted by: AlanC   2019-02-10 08:58  

#3  The leftest commies are well aware of... "locked and loaded." That is why we're seeing a state-by-state resurgence of the anti-gun BS.

I'm no fan of Cliven Bundy and his somewhat dubious cattle grazing cause, but his followers did in fact, stand-down the police state. This has not been lost on the left, the pols, and their enforcers.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-02-10 07:36  

#2  They might be locked in and focused, but real America is locked and loaded and waiting.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-02-10 07:29  

#1  And they are locked in and focused.
Posted by: newc   2019-02-10 01:36  

00:00