“It argues that our fundamental political problem is not “big government,” but the creation of a ruling class, inhabiting both parties, that is steadily increasing its authoritarian control over the nation.”
“Most Americans distrust, fear, are sick and tired of, the elected, appointed, and bureaucratic officials who rule over us, as well as their cronies in the corporate, media, and academic world.”
“Americans are searching for someone,
anyone, to lead against this ruling class, that is making America less
prosperous, less free, and more dangerous.”
“Republicans brahmins have the greater
reason to fear. Whereas some three fifths of Democratic voters approve the
conduct of their officials, only about one fifth of Republican voters approve
what theirs do. If Americans in general are primed for revolt, Republican (and
independent) voters fairly thirst for it.”
“The point here is simple: our ruling
class has succeeded in ruling not by reason or persuasion, never mind
integrity, but by occupying society’s commanding heights, by imposing itself
and its ever-changing appetites on the rest of us. It has coopted or
intimidated potential opponents by denying the legitimacy of opposition.”
“After a video showing officials of
federally-funded Planned Parenthood taking orders for body parts of babies to
be custom-slaughtered for that purpose, House Speaker John Boehner deflected
demands for legislation to stop this by saying he needed more information. An
unintimidated statesman might ask: Do you not know that each of these little
ones’ DNA shows him or her to be an individual son or daughter of an individual
mother and father? Like Lincoln, he would argue that no one has the right to
exclude any other human from the human race and demand that Boehner answer why
he continues to sanction so to dispose of millions of little sons and
daughters?”
“Republicans and Democrats profit
personally and through their corporate cronies by a welter of legislation and
regulation by which they command what we must eat, how to shower, what medical
care is proper and what is not: mandating that a third of the U.S. corn crop be
turned into ethanol, restricting the use of coal, how we may use our land,
etc. They justify these predatory intrusions into our lives by claiming
that peculiar knowledge of science unavailable to others. They refuse to
justify their scientific conclusions with the likes of us. An un-intimidated
statesman, reiterating that science is reason, public reason, not pretense,
would throw the notion that “science R us” back into their faces.”
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