Random thought

There are so many topics to comment upon—where to begin.  Following on the heels of gas prices is Obama, and the typical Democrat/Socialist demagoguery that threatens the foundations on which this country was formed.  As in criminal cases, we need only “follow the money.”  This is the typical starting place for “change”—though it is only the starting place. 

One need only look to California for guidance—it is the most populous state in the union and has a GDP of many large countries.  What happens when one targets a few, for the betterment of the many?  We raise capital gains taxes while lowering (or nullifying) taxes on the poor to reach economic equanimity; but at what price?  As we are now experiencing in California, when Google has a bad year, we are in trouble.  We cannot put the economic burden solely on less than 1% of the population, and then panic when there is no more money. 

But this is the 1% of the issue that we see.  Like we see all across the nation, with each targeted group—they are picking us off one by one.  Martin Niemöller’s words may have reached the dreaded cliché status, but we should remember them now and take them as an aphorism of guidance—remembrance of another aphorism that holds more dust than the chancellery building; remember history or you are doomed to repeat it. 

Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,

habe ich geschwiegen;

ich war ja kein Kommunist.

Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,

habe ich geschwiegen;

ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,

habe ich nicht protestiert;

ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

Als sie die Juden holten,

habe ich geschwiegen;

ich war ja kein Jude.

Als sie mich holten,

gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.

When the Nazis came for the communists,

I remained silent;

I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,

I remained silent;

I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,

I did not speak out;

I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,

I remained silent;

I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,

there was no one left to speak out.

They say money is evil; and for the those who do not posses it, this may be a readily held belief—prejudiced as it may be.  But money is an easy target—we can see its beneficiaries abound.  But when they come for the capitalists, who will speak out?

Look at the party affiliations for the past 100 years—Republican, Democrat, Republican, Republican, Democrat, et cetera. Nothing changes. Does anyone remember the Whigs, or the Democratic-Republicans? If the current Liberals-self-proclaimed-Progressives want real “change,” why do they back a Pseudo-Socialist (Obama) when they have 3 (yes, there are 3) actual Socialist parties on the ballets? Apropos of this, why is each Socialist candidate listed as an “antiwar activist?” Socialists start more wars than any other political party does. We have become deadlocked to our reliance on the ‘big two’—it’s not that we need another party, there are plenty to choose from—

You can’t blame John McCain—nobody said he was a Conservative. He is running for the Republican Party so get used to it. The Conservatives have been latched to the Republican ticket since the Civil War. It has been good to them thus far, but, as we see in this election, there are times when they need their own voice. 

The bifurcation of America is coming to a head—each side proclaiming superiority, and one side in particular moving into the dangerous zone of ‘radicalism.’ Each party has them, radicals, but this is the first time one has slipped through the cracks and onto a major Party’s ticket.