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Written by Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
July 2009
There are three kinds of organizations that require coercion for their
successful function: governments, utopians, and criminals. Because the
Founding Fathers understood the coercive power of government, they
crafted a Constitution that gave our government limited powers so that
Americans could exercise and enjoy a maximum of individual freedom.
Thus, for most of our history Americans have considered their
government to be a benign force, securing the God-given unalienable
rights of the American people.
But our system has been under the assault of socialists for over a
century. Socialists, by definition, are utopians. But voluntary
utopianism has always failed, because most people cannot live up to the
utopian ideals which require self-abnegation to the extreme. The only
utopian societies that survive for any length of time are those that
use force to get the people to comply with the utopia's dictates. That
is how Lenin and Stalin were able to maintain utopian communism in
Russia: through the brute force of terror and dictatorship. But even
that failed after 75 years of unadulterated tyranny.
What the
socialist thugs in Washington are now trying to do is pass as many laws
as possible, in order to impose as quickly as possible, a coercive
system of government that will end individual freedom and create the
infrastructure of a socialist system. This is being done as speedily as
possible, so that the new system will be in place before the American
people begin to understand what hit them. That is why the legislators
are not even being given the time to read the mammoth thousand-page
bills presented to Congress , because if they actually read them,
they’d probably vote against them.
Criminals and utopians are
attracted to governments because they know that that is where legal
coercion lies. Criminals may kidnap one or several people in order to
gain ransom money. But utopian socialists must kidnap an entire nation
in order to succeed in their quest for total power. Since we know that
communists and socialists cannot create a productive economy, they must
deceive the electorate into believing that what they will produce is
equality in paradise, such as they have in Cuba: free medical care and
free education and equality of poverty and enslavement.
While
the liberals and socialists are celebrating the supposed demise of
free-market capitalism, the world knows that socialist societies
produce economic stagnation, unemployment, and food shortages. But a
generation of young Americans, educated to believe that socialism is
good and capitalism is evil, will be easily convinced that poverty is
good and wealth immoral, just as they believe that man is causing
global warming even though we are experiencing some of the coolest
springs and summers on record.
This is simply mass hypnosis in
action, in which people prefer to believe a celebrated authority like
Al Gore rather than their own senses. And there is no doubt that the
liberal mass media has succumbed to the same mass hypnosis and is on
its knees worshipping the new messiah in the White House.
John
Dewey, the master strategist of the socialist movement, wrote in 1898:
“Change must come gradually. To force it unduly would compromise its
final success by favoring a violent reaction.” Taking a page out of the
Fabian Socialist handbook, Dewey knew that gradualism was the only way
to deceive Americans into giving up their individual freedoms. The
Fabians had stressed the need for patience while they undermined the
system. Fabian Tract No. 1 described that strategy in these words:
“For
the right moment you must wait, as Fabius did most patiently when
warring against Hannibal, though many censured his delays; but when the
time comes, you must strike hard, as Fabius did, or your waiting will
be in vain and fruitless.”
And that is why the Obama administration
is “striking hard,” while Obama has the power to move Congress in the
direction he wants it to go. In 2010, he may lose that precious
Democratic majority, and then the socialist opportunity will be lost.
And
in case you’ve forgotten what socialists really want, in 1887 the
Fabian Society openly published its credo to which every member was
obliged to subscribe:
“The Fabian Society consists of
Socialists….It aims at the reorganization of society by the
emancipation of land and Industrial Capital from individual and class
ownership, and the vesting of them in the community for the general
benefit….The Society accordingly works for the extinction of private
property in land. The Society further works for the transfer to the
Community of such Industrial Capital as can conveniently be handled
socially. For the attainment of these ends the Fabian Society looks to
the spread of Socialist opinions, and the social and political
consequent thereon.”
American socialists are generally Marxists
who prefer violent revolution to the gradualism of the Fabians, but
they have realized over the years that such a revolution is impossible
in America and thus have followed Dewey’s strategy. The election of
2008 finally gave them the victory they had wanted for over 100 years.
Today,
the American people are in a state of mass confusion. Economic turmoil
has thrown them off-balance. Gas prices go up and down. There is
confusion of apparent inflation and deflation at the same time. Credit
card debt is at an all-time high. House foreclosures are taking their
toll on thousands of families. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is
piling up debt in the trillions of dollars. And a sclerotic socialist
system will only make things worse.
We wonder what will be left after the socialists in Washington have done their work. Stay tuned.
Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld is the author of nine books on education including NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education, The Whole Language/OBE Fraud, and The Victims of Dick & Jane and Other Essays. Of NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education,
former U.S. Senator Steve Symms of Idaho said: “Every so often a book
is written that can change the thinking of a nation. This book is one
of them.” Mr. Blumenfeld’s columns have appeared in such diverse
publications as Reason, The New American, The Chalcedon Report, Insight, Education Digest, Vital Speeches, WorldNetDaily, and others.
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