The Paleo Party

The thing the Democrat Party wants the most is to convince us that it is in our best interest, regardless of the interest, to let the government manage as much of our community and our lives as possible.  Cost is, of course, no object (because it is not their money).  But this is the oldest idea of government known to man and the dominate feature of centuries of thugocracies where most of the people living in them lived in fear and poverty while a small select few lived safe and well.

This is not progress.  This is not forward. But it explains the modern Democrat disdain for the US Constitution, for that document was built for the sole purpose of creating a government that was not like any other in human history.  It suggested that while we do have some common interests, that we are far better at caring for and defending ourselves and each other, locally, than any centralized monarch, oligarchy, or puppet parliament.  And they were correct.

As the Federal government continues its decades long pursuit of exactly that which the founders tried to prevent, the general populace finds itself less and less in control of its own future with our children’s future looking more bleak.  The government, through debt, spending, and regulation, is forming a center of power not much different from the monarchies of old.  The state must feed itself.  The taxman will come and take what it needs or wants (Hello Cyprus?).   Riots and domestic terrorism by the vast base of dependent public employees will use mob rule to continue to get what they feel entitled to through threats of violence (Hello Greece?).  And at the end of the day, the state will have to move in, fully armed (Hello Urban assault vehicles, massive government gun and ammo purchases), and calm things down.

Oh, look?  See how the government cares.  They’ve suppressed another violent rebellion.

One of their own creation.

That is how tyrants stay in power.  That is how socialism works.  What the modern Democrat party wants is not new.  It is not progress.  It is the near constant state of struggle and misery (in forms similar or tangential) that has plagued our world since man first walked it.  The Constitutional Republic is what is new, what is different, what is innovative and unique.  And it has created more prosperity in just a few hundred years than the rest of history combined.  It has heralded more innovation, better standards of living, and a happier, healthier people than at any point on the arc of human history.

The US Constitution is the new political technology.  It protects Freedom.  And Freedom is sexy.

So why are modern Democrats in their Paleo party so afraid of it?  Because they can’t control it.  It doesn’t answer to them.  And it most certainly does not listen to them.  And this disturbs our modern-day monarchs.  So they tell you stories.  Make up lies.  Bend the truth.  They offer you tribute in exchange for loyalty and intimidate or punish the disloyal.

That is not freedom.  That is tyranny.  And that is the goal (intentionally or not) of the modern Democrat party.  The state of misery that has dominated human history.  There is nothing new or sexy about that.

You are reading  The Paleo Party   by  Steve Mac Donald originally posted at GraniteGrok.com (Home)

The Peoples Republic Of Hodesistan

In the People's Republic of Hodesistan (PRH) unemployment always hovers around 9-10%.  That's the new normal.  And it has to be.  No matter how many bail outs and prop ups and incentives Mr. Hodes conceives to redistribute your earnings, there is never enough of other peoples money.  As the tax dollar pool from which his false growth shrinks, the ability to prop up markets or industries becomes more difficult.   Sure, there are government jobs, but even those are limited by the abuse of natural resources (other peoples incomes) required to support them.  When the money runs out and no one is getting paid, you get national strikes and shutdowns sometimes violence and riots.  Not exactly a path to the shining city on a hill.  More like a burning hovel in a flooded ditch.

Debt is a huge problem in the PRH.  Without any incentive (other than corruption and patronage) to take risk because of heavy taxation on what is left of the upper class, and shackled with the tremendous bureaucratic burden created by the uncontrolled tumor of government, the number of wealth creators diminishes, forcing Mr Hodes to widen the tax base until he is taxing everyone often.  No one wants to invest there unless they are connected to someone in government who can make it worth their while.  This keeps unemployment high and prosperity at a minimum.  And there is only so much there to tax.  As the gap between the political class of wealthy connected or privileged grows the middle class is diminished to an upper-lower class living at the cusp between subsistence and squalor.  Everyone else is on a diminishing government subsidy (which must also be taxed), and can only supplement their income through acts of thuggery or thievery.

The declining cultural significance of living under the yoke of such "leadership" is demoralizing.  Pursuits of pleasure are few, and given the economic situation limited to sex and drugs which exacerbates the health burden on the government subsidized medical programs.  Fatherless children are in the majority as their unemployed mothers pursue what little pleasure is left in the world.  Bearing more children from new yet similar (and likely abusive) fathers makes them very briefly feel needed or wanted, but they are ill prepared for that responsibility.  The government--which is more than willing to play the role of parent and has taught generations to trust it with their children--gets what it paid for; single parents that not abandon their children to the state, or expect it to do the job they are themselves no longer capable of, leaving successive generations to a morally rudderless secular socialist system incapable of teaching even basic skills to the next generation.  It is a farm incapable of growing anything but welfare recipients.

In Hodesistan you are not allowed to defend yourself, so only criminals--of which there are always a growing number--have all the weapons.  What little you do have is tenuous as any number of thugs may feel inclined to deprive you of it at their convenience, (simply to better their own intractable nanny-state existence) so property rights no longer exist in a way necessary to a growing and healthy democracy.  Not that you really care.  Years of over-regulation into every aspect of your life has made you numb to the notion of personal rights of any kind.  The state manages your body, where you work, how you get there, what you can earn, and how much of that you can keep.  Choices are limited by regulation, and what you can buy is taxed further.  Quality is unimportant as your possessions have no real value--you could be denied them at any time by the government or some thug--neither being much discernable from the other.

All in all, the only thing you have to look forward to is someone else's misery being greater than your own, a dimishing state pension, and perhaps an early death to relieve the pathetic existence the state permits you.  But not to worry.  In Hodesistan, the state sanctions suicide.  And since most of its citizens are more of a burden than a benefit--though the state will never admit its complicity in that result--they are more than happy to get you off the dole if you can find and convince a disinterested government paid doctor to write you the proper prescription.

And don't begin to think you can object to any of this.  The only speech permitted is that sanctioned by the state which controls the money, the media, how candidates get their money, and diminshies objectors as racists, hate mongers. liars, and anti government agitators guitly of treason.

This is what it is like to live in Hodesistan.  Enjoy your stay.