CONTROL & COERCION

Guest Post by Xrugger

Properly pinning the political tail on any given governmental donkey does not produce a linear spectrum. The spectrum is circular and it revolves a central core. That core is made up of two things: Control and Coercion.

The historical era does not matter. Nor does the particular milieu in which any given political system arises. The political spectrum is always and only about two things. It is about control and coercion. Put whatever label on it that makes you happy. It is still about control and coercion. These are the twin suns around which all the myriad of arbitrarily labeled political systems swirl.

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Who gets to be in control and for how long? How and when is control established? Who gets controlled and how much control is exercised? These are the important questions. How control is established and maintained is the function of coercion. Since some type or variation of coercion is required to establish and maintain control, who gets to hold and use the instruments of force is of paramount importance. Are the instruments of force overt or subtle? Whether control flows from a constitutionally mandated judicial system or a kangaroo court, it is still control and control is, by its very nature, coercive and coercion must ultimately be backed up by the latent threat or actual use of some level of force.

It is no accident that the worst tyrannies of the modern age were predicated on removing the instruments of force from the hands of those to be controlled and giving a deadly monopoly on those instruments into the hands of those who lust to have the whip hand over the mass of the people.

It matters not whether it is the Nazis, Fascists, and Communists of the past, the SJW’s, Cultural Marxists, and rightist goons of the present, or some unknowable label applied to some nameless faction of the future. The central contest will always be about one thing: Whose hands will most ardently and completely hold the instruments of control and coercion. The butcher Mao Zedong said it best, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

The labels that history affixes to those who seek control over others change all the time. The level of “success” they achieve determines the longevity of those labels. It appears that the greater the slaughter done in its name, the more persistent the label. The label is remembered. The slaughter is not. Ask any member of Antifa.

One of the salient differences between the United States and other countries (past and present) is that the instruments of force-by accident of history and geography-wound up largely in the hands of the people before there were any governments large enough or close enough to say any different. This was a fact long before the Founders enshrined that fait accompli in the Constitution. There are forces in this country and in the world, however, that would dearly love to change that reality.

The millions that have been murdered in the name of this or that “ism” did not die at the hands of an “ism.” They died at the hands of a human being who possessed a weapon and was willing to use it. The dead either did not possess the means of their own defense, or they were convinced that they should not defend themselves. They were just as dead either way. Millions will suffer the same fate in the name of future “isms.”

Are we on that dark road I wonder? Will we voluntarily give up the means of our own defense. Will we let some “ism” convince us that we have no right to defend ourselves. Will we allow a monopoly on the instruments of force to rest in the hands of those who march under the blood red banner of some innocuous-sounding political label? That banner was dyed red with the blood of millions who did just that. If I’m called a “Nazi” or a “Fascist,” should I throw up my hands, throw down my gun and give up? Will I let evil wear the mask of good and browbeat me and those I love into wearing some imaginary scarlet letter? I reject that label as well. Call me what you will. If you come for me and mine, you will not find a willing victim.

I pledge allegiance to no banner. I wear no political label and subscribe to no dogma invented by man. I am free because it is my nature. My God created me that way. It is a sad commentary on man that our very nature as free creatures must always and forever be defended tooth and nail. Power does indeed “grow out of the barrel of a gun.” So too does freedom.