The tragedy and chaos which is America today, could have been avoided. But not through compromise and moderation. by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Thursday, February 10, 2011
At the time of my birth, 1955, America was the most powerful nation in the world. Whether you looked at military strength, industrial capacity, financial institutions, education, or almost any other measure, the United States sat atop the world's list of nations.
Over the past fifty-five years our nation slid, tumbled and most recently collapsed. Unions, politicians, financiers, intellectuals, progressives of all types and kinds have led our nation in to bankruptcy, diversity, and a valueless-society.
While many four letter words have been introduced onto our television and radio, many other four letter words like work have been banished.
Much of America's decline is directly attributable to compromise and moderation.
Right and wrong, belief in God, the Christian bible as the foundation of national morality, all have been set aside forsecular humanism and relativism.
Select enforcement of law has become one of the most important tools of those who are destroying our nation. Should you ride a bicycle without a helmet...well, most likely you will receive a citation. Should you cross the border illegally, carrying illegal drugs, and deliver them successfully you are likely to receive government benefits!
Conservatives have argued from long before my birth that compassion and charity are the province of the church and community organizations like Kiwanis, not the realm of government. But alas, progressives, including many high ranking church officials saw it differently.
Fiscal conservatives argued we should remain on a gold standard, not allowing money to float, and thus create a possibility for teh deficit financing of life, whether by the individual or government.
Conservatives have argued America first, progressives from Roosevelt to Bush, (either one of either family) have seen internationalism and now globalism are the true way for America. Washington's warning against entangling alliances ignored for elusive prize of profits from trade with the third world.
Supply and demand, a law of capitalism which would by itself raise the wage and value of menial labor as the unskilled labor force shrank, was set aside by opening the border to 20 millions illegals.
Socialization of aspects of the US economy, including health care and education, have allowed uncontrolled inflation in these areas, financed by the other free market aspects of the economy and debt. Health care and education are consuming all dollars, consumer, investment, and credit.
All of these disasters and many more are a result of compromise and moderation. It is easier to go along, to get along. It is better to avoid confrontation, submit to the better educated.
Nationalism, regionalism within America, states rights, difference based on history, culture, social choice, organized by state has been obliterated and replaced by enforced diversity defined by the central government as a result of Court decisions and bribery in terms of federal grants and funding decisions. Special classes, the handicaped, senior citizens, ethnic and sexual orientation minorities gain special benefits and rights.
I have been asked to define the positives of secession as a political right with respect to the United States. This essay will attempt to do that.
When the nation was created, secession was accepted by all the Founders as a right of the states. The first states to consider secession were northern. At the United States Military Academy at West Point, secession as a right was openly discussed in the text books used for political science classes.
Secession was seen as the ultimate expression of state superiority and sovereignty over the central federal union. States, and not the federal government were the original expression of the people's sovereignty.
But besides being an expression of the sovereignty of each state, secession is the best, most effective political right to restrain the power of the central government. Were state's to exercise peacefully their right to secede when faced by decisions of the central government they did not embrace, the Supreme Court and the Congress would have to give real consideration to the choices they were making. Were their decisions important enough, right enough to accept as a cost, the loss of one or more states which would depart the union?
One result of the War for Southern independence has been the removal from public consideration of secession. And with that, the federal government presumed a position of unquestioned power. Separation of powers, as a controlling device on the power of the federal government was all but destroyed with Reconstruction and the passage of the 14th Amendment.
Recently, I have seen articles on nullification; the power of a state to nullify, or make void, federal law as it applies within that state. Nullification was a favorite alternative to secession for many Southerners, including the father of the Southern view of the Constitution, Virginian, Justice Abel P. Upshur.
Many Southerners in the ante bellum era, who loved the Union, saw nullification as the preferred political tool to secession. It was felt that if a state were able to void a federal law, all would be well, and the union would be preserved.
In my view, nullification is not a bad a choice as a means to restrain the federal government. But given the Fed's reliance on bribery to implant federal standards, and the complexity of providing financial tax relief to the citizens of states nullifying federal requirements, it seems an unworkable solution in the present day.
It seems likely, to me, that in the end, the US will dissolve through secession when the impact of compromise and moderation, and deficit financing so destroy the value of the dollar, and the credit worthiness of the United States that states will finally exercise the right which could have, simply by being accepted a realistic alternative for states, prevented the present situation.
Had secession been a recognized power of the states after the War for Southern Independence, our nation could never have persued the various courses which now threaten financial solvency and patriotic bankruptcy.
I will go further, and like a modern Nostradamus, predict that the states that will shatter the union through secession will be northern or blue states.
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