Welcome to the USSA

Welcome to the United Socialist States of America! With the Federal Governments bailout of the financial machinery of this country and now what appears to be the NATIONALIZATION of the auto industry we are solidly in the camp of socialist countries. We should be ashamed that we have allowed this to happen on our watch. I’m sure that our Founding Fathers are outraged at this bastardization of the free society they established. And while I find the legislation responsible for this offensive, what is far more offensive to me and frightening to me is the ideology behind it.
In effect, these acts have established the precedent that the needs and desires of the many (read the UAW and financial institutions of Wall Street) supercede individual property rights. If these companies and institutions made poor business decisions or are no longer viable in a capitalist economy then they should FAIL! I understand that this has larger ramifications, however it is not government’s role to insure the happiness and comfort of the employees of these businesses.
Government has one purpose and one purpose only: to insure that a person’s native rights are not infringed upon by external forces. To that end, we allow the government a monopoly on the use of force so that criminals are punished and reparations made to the injured party, and our borders are defended. (A short note here: A criminal is an individual who willingly uses force or threat of force to infringe on the rights of others). Lawful government has no other function except possibly facilitating interstate commerce through the construction and maintenance of the Interstate System.
Given that definition of lawful government it is clear that the system we now find ourselves under overstepped its bounds several decades ago. I understand that no system is perfect, however I believe we have reached a critical point. Our nation is about to shed any acknowledgement of individual liberty in favor of collectivism. This idea of collectivism hypothesizes that the needs of the many supercede the rights of the individual and it MUST BE STOPPED! AT ALL COSTS IT MUST BE STOPPED!
If we take a moment and consider other collectivist societies that have been tried we can see where this road will lead. The USSR struggled for years to make collectivism work and millions died. China instituted collectivist ideology and millions died. Cuba tried to work off the same template and they stifled progress and forced many of their citizens to flee to America. The common thread through all of these is that collectivism resulted in oppressive regimes that killed any and all voices of dissention. Why do American politicians have the audacity to think that the results will be any different here?
When individual liberty is denied in favor of collective “good” then anyone not marching in lockstep with the ideology suffers. The many persecute the few because they cannot tolerate questioning of their treasured ideology. All restraint for the majority is removed and anything that the majority deems as necessary, beneficial, or good is acceptable and consequently if a few suffer at the expense of the majority then so be it. This kind of thinking led to Nazi Germany. The majority deemed the Jews a threat and took steps to eliminate them. It was deemed right and proper to execute Jews and it became a crime to disagree with that position. A short aside here; Nazi Germany had Adolph Hitler urging them on, however Hitler would not have risen to power if collectivist ideology had not already been firmly in place.
We have ample lessons from history that demonstrate the failure of socialism and collectivism. It is only through willful blindness and gross belief in their own infallibility that our leaders assume they can take that path and avoid the pitfalls that have doomed other societies that experimented with collectivism. It is imperative that the people of this country take a stand against this type of thinking and politics. There is no time left to sit on the sidelines and blindly hope that our leaders will “do the right thing”. They have made it obvious what they believe “the right thing” is and those beliefs are incompatible with a free society. Take a stand and make your voice heard before it is too late. If we do not take action NOW, then this generation will bear the responsibility of leaving their children a country that is a shadow of it’s former self.
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it!”