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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

America's Ruling Class: As good a description of the enemies of the Founders' Republic as you are likely to find.

Long, but worth every minute. I disagree with the author's hopeful expectation that this divide can be bridged by anything other than bodies and blood -- if history teaches us anything, it teaches us that -- but Codevilla's analysis of our self-appointed "ruling class" is largely on point.

6 comments:

Defender said...: A litle research would list many politicians at all levels whose wives, sons and daughters have been elected to their seats when they die. It doesn't make a lot of difference that they ARE elected. There's a lot of inbreeding (of both offspring and ideologies) and a lot of careerism in what was intended by the Founders to be a temporary term of public service, not self-serving. We need no dynasties here.; July 20, 2010 at 9:01 AM
rexxhead said...: Wow! 21 pages of print and at least one highlighted "quotable quote" on every page...; July 20, 2010 at 9:36 AM
Sean said...: And the divide isn't going to be bridged by the likes of Glenn Beck, either.; July 20, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Anonymous said...: "Wow! 21 pages of print and at least one highlighted "quotable quote" on every page..."

Better change that to just about every paragraph!

hbbill; July 20, 2010 at 11:13 AM
Anonymous said...: American Spectator, National Review, Faux News, Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, Boortz, Savage, etc. Folks, the time for talking is over. It's time to train, prepare, network with those who you trust impicitly, and get ready for the fireworks. If you are going to spend time reading anything, it should be technical manuals, survival advice, and the Good Book. Do not waste your time with a bunch of effete talking heads who are rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.; July 20, 2010 at 7:38 PM
aughtsix said...: The best summation of the progressive movement, of how they think and why, of how we got to where we are, that I have ever read.

Add to that the brief outline in closing of the difficulties facing those of us who would reform and restore the mess, and I couldn't agree with more with Mike:

Can't we shoot these bastards (unfortunately in their millions) and just Move On?

Jon

III; July 20, 2010 at 10:17 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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