Topic: Barack Obama
Obama is the Fall Guy for the Coming Depression and Wars When the economy collapses, Republicans will blame Democrats. Democrats will blame Obama. Minorities will be dispirited and accept the economic calamities, along with the middle class. The result could be a new fascist 'unity party' imposed to reform the American political system into a European system. Will there be popular resistance to a fascist America?by Nickalis N. Tower
(libertarian)
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
While the Republican strategy for the 2008 Presidential election was to nominate a weak candidate to lose the White House to the Democrats, they knew that unions were spending up to a billion dollars to help elect Democrats in local, state, and national elections.
The GOP knows the state of the economy is going to collapse into either depression or hyper inflation no matter what the money supply manipulators in the central bank do. The DNC knows it as well. Most importantly, the political King makers that manipulate both parties know it.
So how can the economy be allowed to collapse without either party being blamed? Both parties have a goal to survive the collapse of the American middle class. But the manipulators probably have bigger plans in mind. How about eliminating the Electoral College and having one Unity party with nothing but impotent populist candidates running with any self-label they choose? Why not remodel American Presidential election into the European model? Barack Obama will be the poster boy that permits radical political and economic changes to be made without minorities rioting. The Fabians know the middle class won't riot. The Fabians also know the fake fiat economy is about to implode.
The manipulators and King makers of American politics don't want the political parties to take the blame, otherwise there could be a serious effort to form a new political opposition, and possibly efforts to secede from the Union by several states.
Obama is the perfect candidate to have in office during the economic collapse of America and the world. He can be impeached or assassinated when things get too bad, and blame can be rested on his being 'too young, too idealistic, not practical'. Then the old, white, racist Fabian fascists (who publicly call themselves socialists) can get radical changes in the name of their fallen, heroic President (if assassinated), or can get radical changes in reaction to the disgraced, radical, scandalized President.
Basically, the GOP want the Democrats to run the Congress, the Senate, and the White House this year, so that over the next two years when the wheels come off this speeding train wreck of an economy, the GOP won't be in charge. The Democrats meanwhile, don't want a WHITE President in office, because their minority constituents would lose all hope and faith in their political machine, and a race war could be incited.
Obama is an inexperienced candidate, with questionable associations. Barack Obama seems to be a decent, nice, intelligent man who's very charismatic. Unfortunately, unions will be using him as their patsy to get 85% of American business unionized over the next few years. And Wall Street will continue getting their concessions in exchange with all the campaign cash they gave. Obama will give anything to anyone putting their hand out, and a depression will be upon us, along with new fascist controls over businesses and the entire economy.
Obama is the happy face on the fascist end game being played in America over the past 95 years. At the end of 4 or 8 more years of Democratic rule, people will be fed up with GOP and the DNC brands, and a new fascist Unity party will emerge to end 'bipartisan' politics and to 'unify' the country in a 'new direction'.
I hope everything I predict here today is wrong. I hope that the manipulators turn out not to be the heirs of the 19th century Fabian movement. I hope that the manipulators are in fact Crashmaker John-Galt Republicans. That way a global public broadcast will be heard one day, when a man delivers an address of a couple of hours to reveal why the world has went to hell.
That reason is the collectivists have been in power since the beginning of time because individuals accept self-sacrifice or altruism as a virtue, or pride in achievement as a vice, or happiness as a guilt. In other words, people have accepted the mantra 'Death and Taxes is inevitable' as true, and taxes are in fact not inevitable (nor moral).
In the best-selling novel 'Atlas Shrugged', industry giants are vanishing from society and closing the doors of their companies. America undergoes an industrial and economic collapse, even while the government steps in and takes over the reigns of the economy.
In real life, over the past 8 years in America, businesses have been evacuating America at an accelerating rate. Is there really a John Galt Republican movement to withdraw productive enterprises from the clutches of the statist political controls that have been growing over the past 8 years?
In the book, a man named John Galt was causing those productive men to go on strike. In America today, businesses are leaving America, which effectively is the same thing as saying the factory is going on vacation, but not a strike, because the factory is continuing to import goods into America. But as job opportunities continue to decline in America, there won't be enough economic prosperity to maintain all the consumer goods acquired over the past 50 years. There will be a depression because people won't be buying and consuming until they escape their own personal debts, and there won't be any job holders able to afford the inflated prices for medicine, housing, cars, etc. The blame will rest on the fiat money supply and government intervention into the economy.
Let's hope a crashmaker emerges publicly to tell everyone how America's crash occurred, and who is really to blame. Let's hope if a real life John Galt makes his public address that individuals wise up and then rise up to finally end the collectivist takeover of America which has taken more than 140 years.
In short, I hope Americans maintain their dignity and self respect in the coming depression. We need hope in our own future and ability, even as we lose it for our leaders of today.
Google Crashmaker and buy the book. You can buy 'Atlas Shrugged' at any book store. 8.1% of Americans have read Atlas Shrugged. I suggest at least 50% of Americans read it, so we can learn BEFORE the depression sets in who and what is to blame for our unnecessary economic woes. The final book for policy wonks is 'Liberal Fascism', to understand what 'happy-face fascism' is, and how the Democratic Party will be offering us more fascism under the name and happy face of Obama and his elated electorate.
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You're as big a guzzler of Ayn Rand kool-aid as I've run into in a long time. The book is a fairytale. It's characters and situations are fictional. And, certainly, Ms. Rand's adulation of a system that is so fictionally glorified and so ungratefully appreciative of the role of government makes her the spindoctor of delusional fabrications.
Read my recent book review of "Atlas Shrugged" on this website entitled "Atlas Shrugged Doesn't Have All The Answers", and I very adroitly point out the misgivings and shortsightedness of Ms. Rand's propaganda.
The world isn't going to come crashing down because of Barack Obama, or even the socialization of America. We're already VERY socialistic ~ it's just that most of the socialization has been to help the RICH. When you try to help ALL of us, we call it socialism. When you help only the rich, you call it capitalism. If you don't think the way the tax codes allow the exemption of corporate spending on advertising, executive compensation, and executive travel, lawyers and lawsuits is a form of socialism for the RICH, then you're just not looking at it properly. And, if you don't see that the recent bailout of the financial community is the socialization of risk with the privatization of profit, then you don't understand the concepts.
If you think capitalism is such a great bargain, why are so many jobs going overseas? Why do major corporations hide their profits from the government? Why does Coca Cola cost so much? Do you really think that it costs Coke over a dollar to make a two liter of their product, or are they just gouging us for all they can?
We hear you complain about taxes, but we don't hear you complain about HIGH PRICES and the egregious misuse of American workers, American customers, and American products. You think those hospitals are charging you a "fair" price for that appendectomy you're having? Or do you think they're gouging you ~ or, more likely, some insurance company ~ more than they need to so that they can pass around dividends and bonuses to those who had nothing to do with it?
Captialism is a sham. And Ayn Rand was a mythmaker.
No one who has read your article could possibly take you seriously because of your clear lack of knowledge of the subject. Please stop writing or commenting. You clearly do not understand Ayn Rand.
Posted By: Jake, the champion of the constitution
Date: 2008-11-05 01:48:02
Dear Nick Flint,
What I think is cool about your article is that you could replace Obama with McCain, change a few spots like "minorities," and have pretty much the same result. I am with you in that I hope it doesnt happen, but am trying to figure out the best way to help myself, my family and friends, since basically its time to be realistic. Fiat money is incredibly dangerous, as we are finding.
I wouldn't worry much about MC, I tried my version of reason with him (to be more informative and show some evidence, anythings besides inane metaphors), but it doesn't work unfortunately. He loves hitting up my articles as soon as they are published too, its like having a stray cat follow you around, it's kind of amusing.
My thought for you is that you refer to John Galt's closing down factory doors in the US (since in Rand's book the USA had her fictional worlds best economy by far/losing jobs, but what if the companies abroad close down? Wouldn't that be a laugh?
Well, I live in China, and its happening. It appears most of the businesses over here were not protected at all for a slowdown, and its quite true that they delay, delay, and delay paying their suppliers.
I think its perfectly alright if MC writes or comments. Just need people like you to point out his deceptions and lack of logic. Might be good practice for the Obama Presidency.
We're all entitled to our opinions about Ayn Rand. As I have written before, when I was in undergraduate school, she changed my life. I read "Atlas Shrugged" and thought this is the answer to everything! So I quickly read "The Fountainhead", and saw all the underpinnings for her great tome. In "The Fountainhead", here was a man (Howard Roark) who stood on principle and wouldn't compromise. Steadfast. Honorable ~ but, clearly, the coldest, most unemotional, one-sided man I'd ever read about. Did I want to be like him? Did I even want to be like John Galt, or Hank Rearden, or Francisco D'Anconia? No. These were men who were so rigid in their view of life and love that they missed so much of the world. Work was everything to them. Love was always left behind. Knowledge in their field was esteemed, but knowledge outside of their scope of life was unknown. Pitiful, really. So one-dimensional.
I read other books of Ms. Rand's. "Anthem", "We the Living", "The Night of January 16th" which I even attempted to expand upon. I thought "Anthem" was the clearest statement of the dichotomy between those who wanted freedom and those who wanted conformance that I had ever read. Simple, straight-forward, compelling ~ but vastly one-dimensional and pitifully inadequate for all except those who love work and don't know about art.
I continued on with research into Ms. Rand's life, into the foundation that was started in her name, searched more deeply into Objectivism. As a philosophy minor in undergraduate school, I even dragged some of her ideas into papers I had to write. I read about Frank O'Connor and Nathaniel Branden. I even obtained copies of the Objectivist Newsletter when I could.
Ms. Rand is great for the disciplinarian, in the same way that exercise is great for building muscles. But, if you want to EXPAND your mind and develop anything except those ravishing pecs and washboard abs, you've got to venture into art, literature, theater, and GOVERNMENT. There is no ANARCHY that works. It is just tribes and just survival of the strongest. When you see the role of government, and the SHARED part of values and efforts, you become a much BIGGER person, not the shallow, selfish, self-centered creatures that you find in Ayn Rand's world.
I outgrew Ms. Rand as I saw the bigger picture. And, I even began to disdain her for how much she held me back from learning that. Her view that LOVE had to be EARNED is about as stiff and eerie as measuring how much you love someone by counting how many carats that ring weighs. Her view of CHARITY is miserly and inept. And it took me so long to outgrow avoidance of the words "need" and "generosity" that I missed a lot of opportunities to help others who really NEEDED it and DESERVED it.
Your fawning admiration of a selfish, artless, emotionless discipline like Objectivism, as exemplified by "Atlas Shrugged" only shows the single-mindedness of your views and the narrowmindedness of your character.
I'm not afraid to step out of that protective cocoon of looking down on everyone who doesn't measure up to those standards because I know that there is much more to life and love and art than she ever discovered. If you don't realize that, it's because you don't believe in the message of RELIGION or the ARTS.
Some day, maybe you'll grow up and be able to see over that fence that you've erected to keep yourself smug and safe, but very lonely and unfulfilled.
There does seem to be a growing consensus that things are gonna' get a lot worse before they get better. But I believe there will be enough resiliency to offset a total collapse.
As for Rands popular novel; it served to demonstrate the consequences of an insatiably regulatory state, but in my personal view, it just wasn't a very good read.
Thanks for the article. I appreciate the sharing of your perspective.
Your view of Objectivism is full of misconceptions and assumptions. No where is it written that you can't have emotions if you are rational because it isn't true. In fact rational people have the strongest values and the strongest emotions. But they understand their emotions, and their values, and do not mistake their role; they do not act on their emotions in place of thinking. Objectivism rejects the dichotomy between reason and emotions because it is stupid.
The one reason I am an Objectivist is that the philosophy is demonstrably true. It all makes perfect sense. As advertised it\'s all completely objective (based on reality) and all completely consistent, completely logical and rational. You can see (if you look) that every fact of reality implies the starting point of philosophy. The rest is the implications of these extremely broad abstractions and their application to what we can observe in more particular subjects.
As for the arts, she wrote Atlas Shrugged! Ayn Rand was an artist, her husband was an artist and there are many Objectivist artists today.
And I won't tell you again that she was not against government but only government in the role of violating rights rather than defending them.
A lot has been written since the early days of Objectivism. As you are an illustration of; for many people the early stuff wasn't enough for them to really get it. Some people can read Atlas Shrugged and that\'s all they need but for others clearly more was and is needed. Today we have some very detailed and integrated defenses and presentations of Objectivism for those who need them or merely want the extra clarity and love knowledge.
If you want an integrated presentation of the whole philosophy from the law of identity to why Capitalism is the only proper and moral political system there is Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff. If you want to see all the major ethical systems systematically refuted at their roots and an irrefutable foundation of egoism erected in exquisite detail read Tara Smith's Viable Values. Tara Smith has also given us her book Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist which explains the virtues in rational egoism. Those two go together very well if you read one after another you'll have a very firm grasp of the what and why of egoism. The Capitalist Manifesto by Andrew Bernstein is what its subtitle advertises it as “The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case For Laissez-Faire.” And in Markets Don't Fail! Brian Simpson systematically demolishes all of the attacks on Capitalism, the supposed cases of “market failure.”
There are many other books but these are the best I've read that were written after miss Rand's death. Her own book Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology is invaluable and of the quality of the above mention. She didn't like writing nonfiction which is why most of her nonfiction was in the form of essays and her nonfiction books were mostly collections of essays. But IOE is very integrated and the most important book ever written, although more complex than most can handle.
Master C, as you said: We’re already VERY socialistic”, perhaps that is a large part of the problem facing this country. As with any socialistic society there is usually an “Administrative Class” that evolves to take advantage of the power-structure. Your definition of socialism is weak to say the least, and your definition of capitalism is even weaker and shows a very deep misconception of political economics. Socialism, closely related to both Marxism and Fascism, depending on which side the coin you are looking. If you really believe that socialism is to help everyone, then I suggest you read up on your history.
I am surprised that, on one hand, you seem to condemn the Socialistic push by this government, both the Republican and Democratic Socialist, and on the other hand you voted for Obama who has been a huge beneficiary of Socialist Corporatism, especially the two socialistic government supported agencies called FannieMae and FreddieMac.
Your definition of capitalism is so distorted by what we now see in this country, thanks to the socialist push of the last 100 years in this country. We have a corporate socialism, a strange mixture of socialist fascism with a heavily centralized and planned economy and monetary system. That is not, nor has it ever been capitalism and it is definitely not a free-market. The last few decades has seen an even greater push toward socialistic corporatism, the ever closer relationship between large corporations and government. Whether it is the leftist within the Democratic Party or the Neo-Con leftist in the Republican Party, both have assisted in implementing a type of hybrid socialism; a two-headed monster with fascism on one neck and socialism on the other, but the body is pure Marxist Oligarchy.
You rightly condemn the recent socialist bailout of risk and the privatization of corporate profits, typical fascism. Prior to Hitler, the definition of fascism was very benign and actually praised by FDR and others during the 20s and early 30s, in fact it was pretty much the model of the New Deal; a socialistic fascism and we still have that same ideology in Washington today.
Now, if you don’t understand why jobs are going overseas then you don’t understand economics, and you definitely don’t seem to understand capitalism. The push of jobs overseas has been a direct result of both centralized policy and taxation, not to mention the fact that this government has provided some very handsome benefits for any company that goes overseas. There again, anytime the government intervenes in the market there will be consequences, many of which are completely unforeseen.
Concerning Coke, if it were just a matter of businesses gouging people then why stop at $1.50 for a 20 oz. Coke, if they really wanted to gouge then why not $3.00. Gouging is not a factor in our markets in most instances, the problem is inflation and the attempt in many instances of price and wage fixing by government regulation. Concerning workers, they no longer have the ability to enter into private contracts with employers, the government prevents such contracting except in few cases and even then they seek to prevent such contracts. As far as high prices, well, we know the source of rising prices, its called a depreciated currency. Concerning products and workers, well what has taken place, many corporations have such political connections they are basically the ones that write the laws governing their industries, that by the way has always been a common practice in socialistic countries.
You are a grown man, do the research yourself. Look at the “great society”, the “war on poverty”, what happened to those grand socialistic ideas? Poverty has risen since the 60s, even proportionally, since disability compensation was added to SSI, disabilities have risen beyond all expectations. If this government ever provided a single pay health care system, guess what…there would be lines at the doctors and hospitals eventually leading to rationing as in every other country that provides such a system. The next time you have a garage sale, put a FREE sign in your yard and see what happens.
I strongly suggest you read a book by George Reisman called Capitalism, it is about 1000 pages long but worth every hour you spend reading. I would also suggest you read a book by the closet Marxist Zbigniew Brezezski entitled Between Two Ages, it will clearly show you exactly what the Socialist Elite have in store for this country; it might even scare you enough to abandon your current political ideologies.
Where on Earth do you get this stuff? You're reading it on the back of a Wheaties Box aren't you? "Rational people have the strongest values and the strongest emotions." First, I'd like to know how you measure this? Second, I'd like to know where you collected this information? Did you do a study, or read it somewhere? More likely, you're MAKING IT UP!
You don't think a psychopathic killer has stronger emotions than a "rational" person? You don't think that a totally IRRATIONAL PRO-LIFE advocate has stronger emotions than someone who is rational?
And what kind of jibberish is "they understand their emotions... and, do not act upon their emotions in place of thinking." Sounds like you're proving my point again. Sounds like SPOCK! Ha! Ha! The person who "thinks" is superior to the person who "feels". Where is your independent PROOF of that bit of trivia?
So you think that anyone who writes a book is an artist? What if it's a math book? What if it's a dictionary? Her book is just a figment of her imagination. The way she WISHES life was, without even giving the OTHER SIDE a fair shake. Greed is good, Need is bad ~ and that's that! And, if her husband is an artist, you think that makes her one? My father was an attorney. Does that make me one?
Ego, you are a tunnelvisioned tank, barreling through the terrain in such a selfrighteous fashion that you're going to run over some things that you should try to protect. That little rabbit up ahead or that bird sanctuary are REALLY worth something, but you're just going to plunder them anyway with your one-side version of what "matters" and what is "significant" in our lives.
Look, you're drinking the kool-aid and having a GREAT time of it. That doesn't bother me at all. I was there at one time. I thought it was a great book, too. That's why I've read it at least 3 or 4 times, and studied it a lot. But, I also outgrew it like I outgrew Peter Pan and Rip Van Winkle, too. There are no fairies, even though you might vigorously insist there are. And, that's fine with me if you want to believe that. If you want to believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, go ahead.
But, you're WRONG. I spelled out 3 or 4 very damning criticisms of Ms. Rand's book, and they're irrefutable. Capitalism isn't the PERFECT solution to anything. It is full of as many problems and vices as any other system. It's just that they're different. Capitalism is heartless and punishing. I used to say in my classes that the primary difference between capitalism and other systems of government is "the length of the line".
In other systems, you can't have things because there aren't enough to go around. In capitalism, you can't have things because you can't afford them. The result is the same, it's just the process that's different.
I've said all I need to say about Ms. Rand and her very misleading brand of bigotry and elitism. If you want to follow your heart and go with her philosophy, I've done the best I could to point out the deficiencies of her thinking and the evasiveness of her story. Enjoy yourself! But, someday you ought to try the Bible and some Socialist reading; maybe you'll be able to look over that wall you've built after all.
Your vomiting of emotional nonsense and condescending, hollow, petty little content lacking stabs in place of actual arguments have refuted nothing. Why is it that those who have the least to say have to puff themselves up by speaking down to their betters? You have to hide behind a terrible personality for fear of being seen as ideologically bankrupt? You're far too transparent to pull that off. If you want to make your “criticisms” to evade the necessity of actually looking and actually thinking and refuting you're only digging a bigger hole for yourself. Your lack of self esteem, projected by your attitude, will only continue to worsen.
I have read the Bible, it was awful. I've read a great deal of influential thinkers and works. I've spent 8 years focused on ideas of all kinds from every source. Socialism and religion when taken seriously kill people. They are both essentially anti-human life in theory and in practice.
You are an extremely poor thinker and writer. Good Day.
Looks like you were tripping over your words a little in that first sentence. Quite a mixture of adjectives! Maybe you were just a little exasperated. Ha! Ha!
I wrote a very comprehensive, cohesive, and accurate review of "Atlas Shrugged". Just because you got your Ayn Rand panties all twisted up over it doesn't make me feel bad at all. You're just one of those people who wouldn't believe it was raining out, if you didn't want to, even if you were standing in a downpour. Believe me, it's NO SWEAT off my balls what you think!
What makes me feel sorry for you is all the reading you've done that just didn't work out for you. So sorry for you.
See, that's one of the problems with a rigidly "rational" consciousness -- cognitive dissonance.
Master C's posts are, to my bystander's eye, soundly-constructed pieces of discourse. If Ego claims that Master C. is a "poor writer and thinker" then he is not being rational, but he is rationalizing: poor ideas do not merit serious contemplation; they can safely be rejected immediately. By employing a fallacy of debate to justify his rejection of the message, rather than questioning his own beliefs that lie at the foundation of his idea of rational, Ego is displaying irrational behavior.
Were he confident enough in his defense of Objectivism he would have answered a reason-able challenge with a similarly reasonable response, one that did not resort to a rheotorical slight-of-hand.
Oh, and the real response to Atlas Shrugged is called the Dispossessed. Ursula K. LeGuin wrote it.
Posted By: No Name Supplied
Date: 2008-11-10 11:10:25
This bystander observes that there are genuine thinkers on here, and at least one agent for the opposition Caucus, running interference, possibly under multiple handles, to slow down the conversations and prevent coherent awareness and consciousness surrounding the reality of the Nation's issues. It makes me wonder if there is some kind of dead line we are supposed to be slowed down for, in order to miss.
My advice is to ignore the trolls. Or have the administrators pay closer attention to their methods. And be alert. Eternal Vigilance.
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