You see them in Wisconsin ... their the people revolting against the popular will, they believe in their right to seize your money! by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Friday, March 25, 2011
Statism, for me the greatest threat to me and what I know to be America,
By their own words, statists are people who believe in the state, in the power of the central government. Simply put they believe in the power of the state.
Who are some of the most famous statists? Well, there's Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Saddem Hussein...you see, these are the men who absolutely believe in the power of the state.
In present day America, President Obama and much of the Democratic Party are statists.
Statists have no guiding principle of right, except that the state should control. They will add that the state should control for the good of the people. But who, or what, determines the good of the people? Oh that's simple, the state and its organs. The universities will help determine right, and if that's not enough maybe we will devise a Bureau of the right.
Statism is a creeping disease which eventually overcomes every society. It festers in the halls of the civil services, in the union halls of government workers. It finds its voice in the classrooms of universities where people who have never done anything, never made anything, never governed anything tell us how to do everything.
Most dangerously statists, despite the history of mankind, believe in power and centralizing everything. When they use words like liberty, freedom, individual rights, God they do it with disdain and disgust.
Kept in small, but loud, numbers, statists are good to have around. They warn us of man's worst traits. They warn us of how power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. They warn of the creepism of government, how like an all consuming weed it will devour everything, infect everything.
Oh, statists are not democrats or republicans. They can accept monarchs, dictators, czars because what form the central government takes doesn't really matter...as long as it has the power, backed by guns, to get done whatever they want to get done.
Statists are not Americans. Not in its most descriptive sense. Americans believe in themselves, hate government but realize it has a role. Americans believe in God, yep...they believe in God. They accept that others may not, but all real Americans (as General Patton would say) believe in God.
So when you look at the four corners of the Nolan Chart realize that there is one corner where liberty, freedom, and American heritage and history are dismissed as illogical and irrelevant. Statists. If you don't believe me, read their own words.
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I'm glad to see you writing about Statism. I disagree about Obama. If he took our survey, I believe he'd end up on the border between Centrist and Liberal, possibly toward the Statist direction but not actually showing up in the Statist camp on the map. I also think that if you were to personally interview people who score in the Statist camp, you'd find that most of them do not identify their own views with those of Stalin, Hitler, et al. Interesting, huh?
Again, though, I think it's great that you're focused on Statism for this article, and I'd like to see you pay more attention to the degrees of statism that occur in modern politics among all three camps in the middle of the chart: liberal, centrist, and conservative. All three are halfway between pure freedom and pure statism on the north-south axis of the map, and for good reason. The three camps disagree about which statist tendencies are more important and which are less important. All three camps claim to advocate liberty. All three camps support liberty to roughly the same degree, albeit with different emphases. All three camps also dabble in statism in pursuit of their respective agendas, and all three offer excuses for doing so. Further, all three claim to be the true defenders of liberty, while also claiming that the other two are the false ones.
