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By Jeff Greenlee
March 18, 2013
The exact time when the government ceased serving 'We the People' and became our master is impossible to pinpoint. The best estimate coincides with the beginnings of the progressive (isn't "regressive" a better description?) movement and Theodore Roosevelt. What TR started, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States from 1913-1921, expanded exponentially and the movement was on.
Those who believe in the complete control of the masses by the state at the expense of individual freedoms are statists or Leftists. The 'L' is capitalized to distinguish the group as being its own religion, ideology, and entity. Leftists, statists, and regressives are evolutions of the same beast and have no political boundaries, Republican or Democrat. They obey only the rules or laws that suit their own political ends. They are secular and against anything associated with Judeo-Christian values, morals, or rules of behavior. They disparage limited government and despise the Constitution with its limits and enumerated powers. When these obvious anti-America-as-founded zealots are out of power they spin, prevaricate, and throw hissy fits like little children when they don't get their way.
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Ayn Rand nailed it more than 55 years ago with her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged. The author, who spent the first 21 years of her life under oppressive communist rule in Vladimir Lenin's U.S.S.R., understood the dilatory effects of statist control and regressive policies. Rand, who lived from 1905-1982, seemed prescient when she spoke these words more than 30 years ago:
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March 18, 2013
The exact time when the government ceased serving 'We the People' and became our master is impossible to pinpoint. The best estimate coincides with the beginnings of the progressive (isn't "regressive" a better description?) movement and Theodore Roosevelt. What TR started, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States from 1913-1921, expanded exponentially and the movement was on.
Those who believe in the complete control of the masses by the state at the expense of individual freedoms are statists or Leftists. The 'L' is capitalized to distinguish the group as being its own religion, ideology, and entity. Leftists, statists, and regressives are evolutions of the same beast and have no political boundaries, Republican or Democrat. They obey only the rules or laws that suit their own political ends. They are secular and against anything associated with Judeo-Christian values, morals, or rules of behavior. They disparage limited government and despise the Constitution with its limits and enumerated powers. When these obvious anti-America-as-founded zealots are out of power they spin, prevaricate, and throw hissy fits like little children when they don't get their way.
{snip}
Ayn Rand nailed it more than 55 years ago with her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged. The author, who spent the first 21 years of her life under oppressive communist rule in Vladimir Lenin's U.S.S.R., understood the dilatory effects of statist control and regressive policies. Rand, who lived from 1905-1982, seemed prescient when she spoke these words more than 30 years ago:
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
Read more:
Articles: Is It Time To Starve The Beast?
