Finally, the progressive and democratic agenda is out in the open. As proof, A George Soros supported website has popped into existence (since after the election). WAGECLASSWAR.org. The progs will try and take control of this country in the next four years, emboldened by Obama’s victory. Class warfare is and always has been a prerequisite for socialism and communism. People that work, produce and save must always be demonized, so the politicians can take away and redistribute what they’ve earned, and give it to people that don’t work. Regardless, the people that DO work and produce are getting angrier and angrier. But openly advocating class war?
“In 2012, candidates who supported the economic interests of the many over the few won their elections. Populism was the voice, but economic opportunity was the message. The pundits may wring their hands, but in the future it won’t be values voters, angry white men or soccer moms that win elections. It will be class war.”
Here’s the site:
http://wageclasswar.org/
Class Warfare and the Death of True Freedom
Class warfare is for crybabies. And Marxists. And, I guess, for politicians and pundits who seek the admiration of crybaby Marxists. Bill Maher has said America needs class warfare on his HBO program, Real Time, claiming that the evil rich are screwing the poor, but let’s examine who the “evil rich” really are, shall we, the “top 1%” he thinks the rest of America should hang from trees covered in tar and feathers. He claims that the Republican party is the “party of billionaires,” and apparently, he’s very upset that General Electric doesn’t have to pay taxes. Well, according the The Washington Post, ” Last election, GEPAC spent $2.4 million, with a slim majority going to Democrats. So far this year, two-thirds of GEPAC money has gone to Democrats.”
99.6% of Apple, Inc. CEO Steve Jobs’ donations went to the Democratic National Committee. Warren Buffett donated over $1 million to Hillary Clinton, democrat, in 2009. All of those Hollywood types, those sophisticated millionaires Bill Maher pals around with? Democrats. They all famously donate money to charity, to the poor of the world, and yet with all of that money, poor people still exist. Hmmm. Why is that? Is it because of the evil Republicans? Maybe it’s because rich people get their wealth by making good decisions. The world is full of Art Linkletter types who didn’t even know what a decent pair of shoes was until they were in their twenties, then ended up with millions. Is it because they stole it all from the poor? So maybe you had a rough life. Maybe you couldn’t afford college. That sucks. So what are you doing about it? What are you doing to change things?
Think about the movies you watch- do you like movies about people who blame all of their problems on other people, people who demand other people give them what they earned? Or do you like watching movies about people who find ways to help themselves and overcome their obstacles? Watch The Pursuit of Happiness with Will Smith, then come back and tell me what you learned. Class warfare is destructive to society. Instead of people using their own talent and freedom to improve things, they grab pitchforks and torches and attack.
Eddie says:
Un-fuckin-believable.
Obama is now a POPULIST who will SAVE THE MIDDLE CLASS!!!
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28th November 2012 at 10:04 pm
Kill Bill says:
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. -Warren Buffet 2006
Class warfare started well before Obummer got elected and I wouldnt consider Soros backing any populist movement but co-opting them.IMO.
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28th November 2012 at 12:27 am
teset says:
Agree that co-opting is more likely than backing.
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28th November 2012 at 12:35 am
flash says:
Two ends consuming the middle isn’t class warfare, it’s divide and conquer politics by two wings of the same vulture.
The GOPES !
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28th November 2012 at 5:47 am
flash says:
If the mangy Republican curs only loved freedom as much as they loved the power of politics there would be no need for a boogeyman like Soros played up to make ‘em look respectable.
Why the Totalitarians Among Us Love Lincoln
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Recently by Thomas DiLorenzo: The American Tradition of Secession
“It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing [political] interests, and render them all subservient to the public good.”
~ James Madison, Federalist #10
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge . . . is itself a frightful despotism.”
~ George Washington’s Farewell Address
“That government is best which governs least.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
One of the distinctive features of my book, The Real Lincoln, is that unlike almost all other books on the subject, I portray the sixteenth president as a real-life, flesh-and-blood politician. I quoted Murray Rothbard, who described Lincoln as a “master politician” which, to Rothbard, meant that he was a masterful liar, conniver, and manipulator. I also quoted the Pulitzer prize-winning Lincoln biographer, David Donald, as saying that Lincoln was “the master string puller” of Illinois politics before he ran for president. He was just as motivated by a compulsive quest for money and power as any other successful politician, I wrote.
This drew an avalanche of condemnation and calumny from the Lincoln cult, especially the “Straussian” neocons, who never seem to be able to stop raising money to erect more statues of Lincoln on college campuses and elsewhere. Even if Lincoln was a wily politician, they condescendingly pontificated, one must first be a politician before become a “statesman.”
All of this has changed. Various neocons are now celebrating the fact that Lincoln was exactly as I portrayed him as being: a lying, conniving, manipulating politician. In doing so they have finally removed their masks and revealed themselves to be totalitarian-minded fascists whose beliefs are patently un-American, if one compares their beliefs to those of Washington, Madison and Jefferson as quoted at the top of this article. The vehicle for the new neocon celebration of Lincolnian political chicanery is Steven Spielberg’s new Lincoln movie.
Exhibit A of this totalitarian mindset is a November 22 New York Times article by David Brooks entitled “Why We Love Politics.” (Can you imagine Washington, Madison, or Jefferson ever saying such a childish thing?). Compared to the traditional American ideal of limited constitutional government as espoused by the founding fathers, Brooks continues to advocate virtually unlimited government by praising to the treetops the “nobility of politics” that is portrayed in Steven Spielberg’s new “Lincoln” movie. Rather than warning of “the violence of [political] faction,” as James Madison did, Brooks declares that “you can do more good in politics than in any other sphere.” Of course, “you” can also create great “enormities” through politics, as George Washington warned in his farewell address. The Holocaust and the South African Apartheid system were both government programs, after all, to name just two examples. Politics protected and even subsidized American slavery for generations, let us not forget. It has plunged us into myriad unnecessary wars, and all the death and destruction that goes with it.
“Politics is the best place to develop the highest virtues,” Brooks argues, while denigrating “young people especially” who he sneers at for being concerned more with community service than national politics. And what are these “virtues” according to David Brooks? They are on display in the Spielberg movie, he says, with all of Lincoln’s political maneuverings. He heaps mountains of praise on Lincoln for being so willing to “bamboozle, trim, compromise and be slippery and hypocritical;” to “take morally hazardous action”; to “ignore court decisions, dole out patronage, play legalistic games,” and “deceive . . . supporters.” The “highest virtues” indeed, New York Times style.
In The Road to Serfdom F.A. Hayek pointed out that a characteristic of a totalitarian mindset, one that distinguishes it from individualism, is a belief in the notion that “the ends justify the means.” All of the worst totalitarians of Hayek’s day espoused this view, from Stalin to Hitler and Mussolini. To Stalin, the end of a “communist paradise” was said to justify any means – even the murder of tens of millions of dissenters. Petty totalitarians like David Brooks, who would probably never personally harm a fly, also espouse this dangerous, anti-social ideology and urge the rest of us to do so as well. Getting the Thirteenth Amendment through Congress, the main theme of the Spielberg movie, is said to have been “justified” by any means.
But the Spielberg Lincoln movie gets its history completely upside down. The main story line is how Lincoln supposedly utilized every bit of his political sleaziness to help get the Thirteenth Amendment through Congress. This is a fiction. It never happened according to the preeminent Lincoln scholar of our time, Harvard University’s David Donald (See page 554 of his Pulitzer prize-winning biography of Lincoln). In fact, the opposite was true: The genuine abolitionists in Congress had to use their political powers to get Lincoln to voice his support for the Thirteenth Amendment. Spielberg’s movie, based on the book Team of Rivals by the confessed plagiarist Doris Kearns-Goodwin, is an extraordinarily misleading work of fiction. (See my LRC review of Goodwin’s book entitled “A Plagiarist’s Contribution to Lincoln Idolatry”).
Lest the reader believe that I am exaggerating by using the word “fascism” to describe the political views of neocons like David Brooks, consider this: Among the defining characteristics of twentieth-century European fascism were militarism; a worshipful attitude toward the state and politics; the denigration of individual liberty, free enterprise, and the civil society; dictatorial executive branch powers; and a philosophy of “the common good before self interest.” These are also the defining characteristics of self-described “national greatness conservatives” like David Brooks and William Kristol, and they explain why they are such Lincoln idolaters.
“Politics is noble because it involves personal compromise for the public good,” Brooks writes in his New York Times column, echoing the sentiments of Mussolini himself. “The fascist conception of life, Benito Mussolini wrote in Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions (p. 10), “stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with the State.” German fascism was based on the identical philosophy of “the common good comes before the private good.” In German, “Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigenntz.” Under fascism “the common good” was defined for the public by politicians and their advisors. The public never had any voice in defining what was supposedly good for it.
In a 1997 Weekly Standard cover article Brooks condemned genuine, limited-government conservatives as being “besotted with localism, local communities, and the devolution of power.” He advocated an unlimited expansion of the powers of the federal government for any reason because, he said, “energetic government is good for its own sake.” War – any war – would be the most desirable way to create this “good” according to neocons like David Brooks. All of this “greatness” is now on display in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
In a 1997 Wall Street Journal article co-authored with William Kristol Brooks advocated compulsory “national service” for all American youths; a “mission” to Mars, and endless foreign policy interventionism. “It almost doesn’t matter what great task government sets for itself,” they wrote. For “ultimately, American purpose can find its voice only in Washington.”
This is an incredibly totalitarian statement, implying that there is such a thing as one single “American voice.” In reality, of course, there are millions of different “voices” in a democracy where there is never unanimous opinion on anything. That is why there is no such thing as “the public interest” in the context of democratic politics. As Ludwig von Mises wrote in Liberalism, one can argue that such institutions as private property are in “the public interest” in that they benefit the entire society, but this is never true of government policy. The language of “American purpose” presumes the opposite – that there is such a thing as unanimous political opinion.
It is statements such as these that explain why all of the totalitarians in our midst, i.e., those who wish to control our every behavior through government, have such a wildly celebratory attitude toward the Spielberg Lincoln movie. Left-wing propagandists like Doris Kearns-Goodwin, author of hagiographies of Lyndon Johnson, the Kennedys, and Lincoln, and right-wing propagandists like David Brooks and his fellow neocons, are all part of a phony “team of rivals” who pose as political competitors. In reality, they all are part of an establishment cabal that views those of us who are “besotted” with ideas about liberty and freedom as their true enemies and roadblocks to their own personal wealth and glory disguised by the language of “national greatness” and mythical and false accounts of American history.
November 29, 2012
Thomas J. DiLorenzo [send him mail] is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland and the author of The Real Lincoln; Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed To Know about Dishonest Abe, How Capitalism Saved America, and Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution – And What It Means for America Today. His latest book is Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government.
Copyright © 2012 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.
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28th November 2012 at 6:22 am
AWD says:
Mr. 0bam0
أنا كل ما عندي حرية التجارة لالهاتف الخليوي رخيصة
الحرية لا قيمة لها أريد فقط الواقي الذكري
No one knows who I am, (hate and rage against the USA)
Mannequin of a man, (hate and rage against the producers)
With mind tuned to Islam, (Death to the US – the Great Satan)
And socialistic plan,
I’ve got a plan that’s deep inside me bubbling from within,
My heart is shriveled, my blood is ice-cold, my brain a dustbin,
KKKonservatives say I act strangely, I’m not surprised,
They disagree with my Great Plan and from them I can’t hide
I’ll merely crush them – they won’t survive,
Disposition Matrix, they won’t survive,
I’m an unfeeling lifeless ice-man you just can’t get to,
I say I’ll help you, social justice, while I gladly destroy,
The sheeple don’t see I’m a hater, cold racist hater,
I’m the Man and you’re in my hands, I’m beyond your control,
You need my control, you’ve too little control,
I will control, you need my control,
I have a soc’list plan, (Society, it is my enemy)
I hide behind my grin, (Freedom and thought are my enemies)
The sheeple just don’t see, (Hate and rage against God and country)
My true identity,
I’ll trade all my freedoms for a cheap cell phone
Gimme, gimme,
Liberty is worthless, I just want condoms
Gimme, gimme,
Tell me that you love me,
That I’m not worthless,
Tell me that you’ll make the
One percent pay me,
(Thank you very much oh lord god 0bama,
For giving me a bad doc that won’t treat me)
Terrorist detainees will all be set free,
(And thank you very much my savior 0bama,
For food stamps to feed me, just keep me work-free)
Hail our lord Caesar, 0bama, our Caesar,
(Let me touch the hem of your robe)
0bama’s our savior we don’t need Jesus
(I wanna see you)
0bama will take us down to the beet fields
(On Leno)
The answer’s plain to see,
The world needs more of me,
I choose to take your lives,
I will de-humanize,
The time is now for me, (I will turn you back to the stone age)
I destroy all with glee, (I will make you pay for all my rage)
Now you see the true me, (I will take all that you love away)
My true identity!
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28th November 2012 at 12:25 pm
AWD says:
I’m Barry the 1st I am
Barry the 1st, I am, I am
Started voting present in 2004
Until I didn’t wanna be in Senate anymore.
And every single vote was for me
Beat ol’ John McCain to be the Man
That made me Barry the 1st, I am, I am
Barry the 1st, I am
Second Term- the People never learned…
I’m Barry the 1st, I am
Barry the 1st, I am, I am
Made the people even more poor
Blamed the rich like I did before
But all in all I made a lot of money
More than you will ever have
Obamacare makes you shovel ready
Useful idiots cried Yes We can!
Cuz’ Barry the 1st, I am, I am
Barry the 1st, I am
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28th November 2012 at 12:28 pm
AWD says:
The City of Detroit is brought to you by the letters LBJ, and dollars in the billions, with over 50 years of “investment” in this progressive vote plantation
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28th November 2012 at 12:29 pm