The Left's next great Indian...I mean, White Hope

We must strive to educate ourselves on the issues of the day at the national, state, and local level and avail ourselves to make our views known

Having recently come out with a new book, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts is the new "rising star" being praised by the Democrat Party. Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012, even though it was revealed that she lied about having Indian heritage. Voters apparently accepted her explanation that it was OK she lied because she supposedly never really benefited from the lie. And as the so-called inevitability of Hillary Clinton lies in tatters, a younger, relatively unscandalized new hope arises for the Left. Warren, who is praised for her efforts as a regulator of banks and corporations, sees that if a little bit of government control of banks and big corporations is good, then more government control is better. Her efforts to rein in greedy Big Business always hurts the so-called middle class whose defense she is supposedly coming to. In the name of taking power away from the hands of the "greedy capitalists," the new layers of regulation hit smaller businesses the worst. She and President Obama agree that the success of businesses is primarily the result of collective action by society, and not the product of individual initiative, creativity and hard work. Ignoring the fact that people running their businesses take the initiative to make their businesses profitable so they in turn have money to pay in taxes for the government services that the rest of us use, she talks about American businesses as if they were freeloaders living off of "the rest of us":

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"You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for."

It's interesting how we can hear people these days who talk about government "earning" something as if it is a person, and attribute various negative human characteristics (greedy, etc.) to corporations, as they make a point of saying corporations aren't people. It is people in corporations who do the work to earn income and the "bloodsuckers" are not the corporations but instead is a government run by people who have an insatiable appetite for the income that corporations and all of us produce. Every society has haves and have-nots. Every society has a way or ways that one person can gain more wealth, power, and influence than another person. Even if your government tries to make everyone equal in wealth and possessions, the person or people dividing it up have more power and influence than others and generally have or have access to more wealth and possessions than other people. Accompanying this type of economy, that I would put under the broad heading of command economy (some say that a command economy only refers to communist dictatorships), is strict government control of the media to support the equality myth. And as our colleges are busy re-educating our children into denying our great American heritage, we have a presidential administration that has become totally unhinged from the Constitution. It is wholly set on doing whatever unconstitutional and lawless acts it can get away with. If they think something needs to be changed, forget consensus building and two-way compromise with Congress, the President has a pen and phone in hand to, as Captain Picard on Star Trek says, "make it so." With the help of an obedient national media, the left works to brainwash people into thinking that anything the Democrats decide is the right thing and opponents are simply evil or stupid people that need to be stopped at all costs. To them, the Constitution, which gives us an amazing system of participatory government, needs to be set aside by them as much as possible, because they have determined their Party line is the only correct viewpoint and all other perspectives and their adherents need to be demonized and even suppressed. As the Head Cheerleader, President Obama travels around the country on the taxpayers' dime to stir up the anger of all those who are, or feel they are, oppressed, and direct their anger against those whom the leadership of the Left has determined to be the political opposition. The way they see it, political party line is the new morality and those in society who don't accept this new "morality" are all responsible for this oppression and need to be put in their place. Last week was Independence Day, when we celebrated 238 years of independence from British rule and the Declaration that set us on an irreversible course toward what would become the most successful effort at participatory government in history. What an amazing time in world history when a group of educated and very wise people took what they learned from past governments, movements, and philosophies and created a government that was intended to be, as Abraham Lincoln described it, "of the people, by the people, and for the people." A system of checks and balances was set up so that a small group of people would not tell everyone else what to do. A government was set up that would have to answer to the citizenry of the nation. And a Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution, not to give people "rights" through government programs, but to guarantee us freedom FROM government control of our lives. However, in the last 100 plus years, the Progressive movement has whittled away at Constitutional government in an effort to make their political views the only perspective involved in running the government of this great country. Freedom-loving people have resisted these efforts, and continue to do so, but a new level of involvement in preserving our freedoms is necessary now. We must strive to educate ourselves on the issues of the day at the national, state, and local level and avail ourselves to make our views known to our legislators, to the regulators proposing new layers of government on our lives, and to those in office or seeking office at all levels of government. Talk to others, meet with like-minded people to find more effective ways to get the word out to others, run for political office if that is possible or applicable, and do all you can to support the campaigns of those running for office who share your views.