by Joe Siano
The Democrats are America's Establishment Party. They
run retread hacks who rehash the ninety year old Roosevelt agenda. Even their rising star felt compelled to name
her signature policy a “New Deal”
Much to the dismay
of it’s patrician core, the Republican Party has attracted its share of mavericks. Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were
unwelcome interlopers.
More recently Ron Paul and Donald Trump have rocked the GOP boat – so much so that it may shatter on the rocks.
The old GOP was the party of Blue Bloods – the Cabots, the Lodges, The Rockefellers and the Bushes. However, beginning with Nixon (another upstart outsider) and followed by Reagan, the venerable GOP became the haven for disenfranchised blue collar Americans who felt betrayed by Progressive politics.
While the Democrats went from
being the party of the Union Hall to being the party of the Ivy Tower, the
Republican base moved from Country Clubs to Bowling Alleys and
NASCAR tracks.
For their part, the
Republican Brahmins were content to tag along on Democrat policies. They just wanted another party to blame
whenever things went wrong. Let’s remember
that FDR's New Deal was only an extension of Hooverism, America fired coach Hoover but kept his
playbook.
The Donald and the
Ronald both connected with the great unwashed that the elites left behind. But, oh how different they were.
Think back to the
2012 Republican Debates. Ron Paul versus
a stage full of empty suit, brain dead, mainstream Republican neo-cons. He ran circles around them with reasoned
arguments about the evils of central banking, fiat currency creation, the
federal income tax, foreign intervention and centralized planning. He was gaining real traction in the early
primary states when the party bosses used technical mumbo-jumbo and brute force to crush his campaign and further piss off his constituents.
Fast forward to 2016. Trump is the candidate from anger. No Ron Paul,
with studied and nuanced arguments, he. Candidate Trump went straight for his opponents throats with contempt, sarcasm,
insults and name-calling. Who can forget
Low Energy Jeb, Lyin’ Ted and Little Marco Rubio?
When it came to debate style and substance, comparing Donald Trump to Ron Paul is like comparing Mark Levin to Tom Woods. Hmmm?
Policy wise, both espoused pro-life and anti-interventionist policies. When Ron Paul spoke out against our endless wars
he was laughed off the Republican stage.
Four years later Trump used anger to attack the failed endless war
policies of his competitors. His base ate it up.
Beyond those issues, Trump
was always wrong. Wrong on trade, the Fed, fiscal restraint and in vilifying immigrants. Ron Paul understood the virtues of the
free exchange of goods and the free movement of people. Ron was the only voice in either party to
perceive the dangers of Fed bubble creation and overleveraged
budgets. The Donald reaped the benefits a of a buy-now, pay-later economy. He ran up debts for our grandchildren to pay while Wall Street reaped the rewards.
The Donald’s
barrage of bombast and bluster carried the 2016 election..
But, as if he were a hero of classical tragedy, the Donald’s strength
was also his downfall. As an astute business
marketer he understood how to find his market and how to nurture it. But the red meat that he threw to his core turned
the stomachs of the less committed. Not
many voted for Biden so much as they voted against Trump in 2020.
Now he leaves the
country worse off than he found it.
Debt is astronomical and Biden will make it deeper. One party government will squash dissent by:
1.
Suspending the filibuster to keep annoying dissidents
like Rand Paul quiet
2.
Packing the Supreme Court with gaggle of
40-something collectivists so that no Executive or Legislative initiatives are
ever blunted
3.
Granting statehood to Washington DC to guarantee two
more automatic Senate seats
4.
Abolishing the Electoral College so that big
population, liberal states like New York and California can bend the nation to
their will
5.
Opening the immigration floodgates and turn on the
benefits to the new arrivals - thus a purchasing a fresh electoral base for a
solid generation
6.
Regulating and censoring social media
The center cannot hold for long under
these conditions, just as it could not hold in 1861under one-party tyranny. The storming of the Capitol is just the
beginning, a Bunker Hill moment. On the left, CHAZ, sanctuary cities and other
acts of nullification are the flip side of the same coin.
We can only hope that when the smoke clears,
America will be a land filled with hundreds of “laboratories of democracy" as the founders envisioned. Some may socialist, some libertarian, some theocracies, some modern day Sodoms and Gomorrahs,
some ethnic enclaves, some anarchies, and some nice regular places with common sense rules and regulations.
Sadly, none of this will come without pain and sacrifice - and perhaps bloodletting. I am not saying to be afraid. But I am saying is be prepared and be hopeful. The cracks in the Statist façade will grow deeper until the whole structure crashes down like the Berlin Wall.
Only then will the virtues of liberty become widely apparent . Until that day, let us remain "the remnant" of true liberty lovers as Dr. Paul would say. Keep the faith. Preach it without fear or shame.
-Bob Dylan 1964
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