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Fundamental transformation -- War on the Suburbs

The dissolution of representative government



A pattern is developing for the last eight months of the Obama administration. This push for unconstitutional mandates and agency directives, if not numerically the worst of any President ever, is in degree of extreme reach becoming the worst ever.
In the last few weeks, the Departments of Justice and Education have mandated rules for all public schools and public building based on what sex people think they are at the moment. In what is being called War on the Suburbs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is overriding local zoning (and the U.S. Constitution) to mandate the mass moving of lower income people into higher income communities. Along with that, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been assigned the task of overseeing the massive importation of fifties of thousands of additional refugees and other immigrants per year. This incredible influx of people is then to be assigned to local communities with no input from our federal, state, or city elected officials. We also have the Department of the Interior currently managing the most U.S. government-owned land in history, blocking more and more of its usage to mining and ranching, while the Environmental Protection Agency has decided they need to turn every bit of standing water into a manageable waterway in order to extend their reach further into our property and our lives. Five days before he was elected, Barack Hussein Obama announced a fundamental transformation of our country was going to begin. And while the liberal media propagandists downplayed that as just a rhetorical phrase of the moment, the seven-plus years Obama has been President have been proof that fundamental transformation is a foundational strategy of his administration.

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In its basic definition, fundamental transformation means something is wrong at the root and needs to be changed. This, for Obama, reflects an approach to government, or more specifically, an approach to overriding our Constitutional system, where the work of a few individual masterminds is to take precedence over anything passed in the Constitutional manner by elected representatives of the people. Rather than electing someone to uphold and defend our system of civil government called the U.S. Constitution, Obama appears to have started a precedent where the people choose their President based on who they think can best override the Constitution in order to push through his or her election campaign platform. While Barack Obama is played up to be a constitutional scholar (with no record of his scholarship on the Constitution, of course), his record as President shows us that whatever his understanding of the Constitution is, it is for the purpose of undoing and overriding the Constitution in exchange for a system based on an ideological belief in centralized authority where it's just a select few that have the answers to society's problems. Donald Trump’s candidacy took hold because of people’s belief in the need for an authoritarian figure to undo the damage of the Obama administration, rejecting the Constitutional conservative approach to governmental change. As the likely Republican nominee for President, he will be facing a Democrat opponent who will only try to further Obama’s fundamental transformation. The current administration’s fundamental transformation approach to government does not credit or acknowledge the incredible forces that were at work to make America unique and great, namely personal liberty, free enterprise capitalism, and representative government. Instead it builds on the so-called progressive movement that began over 120 years ago, a movement whose purpose is to replace our Constitutional system with one of overlords who manage every aspect of our lives from a nationally-centralized location. The Constitution was written not only to define our federal government but also to place limitations on it once it was put into operation after the states approved it. In fact, in order for the Constitution to be approved and passed by all of the states, the Bill of Rights, ten amendments that specifically limit the role of the federal government, had to be included. There is no need for an ideological approach to governing when we have a Constitution that gives us a system, that if adhered to, assures us of a government that keeps order in society through citizen involvement in a decentralized manner. Yet what we are seeing is what I call it a fundamental departure from constitutional representative government. Venezuela took a fundamental departure from sound economic development when Hugo Chavez became president in 1999. In order to make the economic changes he proposed, representative government was replaced by a centralized regime. Their economic system based on private property was replaced by one of government control and is now on the verge of utter collapse.

As Asdrubal Oliveros, an economist at Ecoanalítica, one of the country's leading consulting firms, described it: "More than 3m hectares were expropriated during 2004-2010. That and overvalued exchange rate destroyed agriculture. It's cheaper to import than it is to produce. That's a perverse model that kills off any productivity.” And lest we forget modern history’s two greatest examples of the failure of centralized control of the government and the economy, let’s take a quick look at the fundamental transformations that took place in Communist China and the Soviet Union. Mao Zedong’s Communist system in China came to its low point during their “Cultural Revolution” in the 1960s and 1970s. Here we see the ultimate outcome of this tearing down process once an absolutely authority runs a nation. During the Cultural Revolution, everyone in any kind of leadership, from school teacher to scientist, was ostracized, discredited and many even killed by the squads of youthful Red Guards that Chairman Mao gave free rein throughout their nation. Called "capitalist roaders," this social classification made people lower than sexual predators or murderers because of the "bourgeois" (capitalist) past of them or their parents. A reign of terror against everyone in a position of authority took place. These "Red Guards" had been raised from childhood under Communist indoctrination and taught to revere and obey their “”Great Helmsman,” Chairman Mao. The economy, schools, and other institutions were put on hold for nearly a decade until a new regime came to power after Mao’s death which implemented a system of capitalist economics working side by side with their centralized oppressive Communist government with its unprofitable state-run enterprises. The accompanying movement for democratic reforms that arose in China as a result of the new openness came to an abrupt end, however, when thousands of protesters were shot down in Beijing’s Tien An Men Square in 1989. Another fundamental transformation took place in Russia. Before the 1917 Bolshevik coup d'etat, led by Vladimir Lenin, his strategy was to infiltrate and push leftward the workers associations, or soviets, as they were called, that had been set up in factories, in the national communication network, in transportation, and in the military by socialists and social democrats. Then members of the Bolshevik Party began taking over leadership of them until they reached a point there could be a unified rebellion that would shut down the government and leave a vacuum of leadership that they would fill. After several years of civil war, Lenin’s Communist Party consolidated their hold on the nation, creating what would be one of the most brutal and repressive government’s in history, lasting until its utter collapse seventy years later. If America doesn’t turn away from its experiment with fundamental departure from constitutional representative government, it could be a long time before what is more and more becoming a centralized authoritarian government runs its course and we return to freedom.


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Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years


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