Ron Paul's quest to undo the party of Lincoln ... Let us count the ways in which the nomination of Ron Paul would be groundbreaking for the GOP. No other recent candidate hailing from the party of Lincoln has accused Abraham Lincoln of causing a "senseless" war and ruling with an "iron fist." Or regarded Ronald Reagan's presidency a "dramatic failure." Or proposed the legalization of prostitution and heroin use.
Or called America the most "aggressive, extended and expansionist" empire in world history. Or promised to abolish the CIA, depart NATO and withdraw military protection from South Korea. Or blamed terrorism on American militarism, since "they're terrorists because we're occupiers." Or accused the American government of a Sept. 11 "coverup" and called for an investigation headed by Dennis Kucinich. Or described the killing of Osama bin Laden as "absolutely not necessary." – Washington Post /Michael Gerson
Dominant Social Theme: Ron Paul is a horrible US candidate for president and an even more horrible man.
Free-Market Analysis: This article presents reasons for opposing libertarian candidate for US president Dr. Ron Paul that tick many of the dominant social themes of the elite that have been used to frighten middle classes into giving up wealth and power to globalist institutions like the UN, IMF, World Bank, etc.
These fear-based promotions are seemingly the product of an Anglosphere power elite that seeks to run the world – formally as opposed to informally. The power of this intergenerational familial elite comes from the central banks they apparently control and the ability to print trillions of dollars of money-from-nothing.
Ron Paul's libertarian conservative message, grounded in hundreds of years of economic history, culminates in the resonant insight that it is individual people taking Misesian "human action" that forms a successful society.
People taking "human action" (as people will do) do not need formal leaders or standing armies to protect them. They are likely capable of their own defense (singly or in aggregate) and simply need to be left alone in freedom to make their own ways. This, of course, is a direct threat to the larger establishment that has been created and supported by the power elite.
Without government, there can be no authority organizing people and ultimately creating world government. Without government, the elites would not be able to control people from behind the scenes using mercantilist methodologies – taxes, war, environmental legislation, etc.
The power elite has apparently created a full matrix of media apologists to promote their government-over-all message. The matrix includes the British-based Tavistock think-tank that apparently creates many of these promotions and disseminates them via an "open conspiracy."
Once they are disseminated they are reported on by a controlled media, elaborated on by controlled think-tanks and eventually put into law by various legislatures. Every part of the process is apparently bought and paid for.
If direct action is needed to reinforce an elite meme, the power elite will make sure that world events conform to the promotion they are trying to create. For instance, as we have pointed out in the past, the Anglosphere has used NATO to destabilize many secular regimes in the Middle East.
These regimes are now likely being replaced by the CIA-penetrated Muslim Brotherhood, thus allowing the formation of an expanded war on terror. But it is seemingly a phony one. It is actually being designed in the West, one could hypothesize, for purposes of imposing more domestic control.
Western elites always seek more domestic control, especially in America where libertarian exceptionalism is still a culturally dominant trend for tens of millions in "Red" America. The goal apparently is world government, and American exceptionalism must be eradicated in order to realize it.
But this is not easy to do. And Ron Paul is immeasurably complicating the issue with a campaign that is as educational when it comes to freedom as it is political. He has been very effective at helping to tear down many elite memes that have been promoted for a century or more to confuse Americans (and the West generally) about the Way the World Works.
And so, as Ron Paul proves hard to stop, the powers-that-be begin to train their bigger guns on Dr. Paul and his freedom message. He is not good for business and must be taken down. This article by Michael John Gerson in the Washington Post, for instance, is a good example.
According to Wikipedia, Michael John Gerson is a famous speechwriter for George W. Bush who (arguably) coined the phrase "Axis of Evil." More: "He is former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001 until June 2006, as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006, and was a member of the White House Iraq Group."
Gerson's article – as we can see in the article excerpt above – touches on many major themes of the power elite. They are phony memes that have been put in place to confuse people about the power and beneficence of government.
The elites are desperate to salvage them – and thus Gerson treats them as true and self-evident. Maybe a decade or two ago they were. But no more. Let's examine them one by one.
No other recent candidate hailing from the party of Lincoln has accused Abraham Lincoln of causing a "senseless" war and ruling with an "iron fist."
There is plenty of written evidence that the Civil War was indeed "senseless." Much recent history has shown us that the War Between the States was started by Lincoln at the behest of the Northern banking establishment, which wanted to consolidate its power over Southern agrarianism.
The Civil War essentially marked the end of a quasi-free society in the US and ushered in a much more problematical system – one whereby no single state could secede. This has led to the creeping totalitarianism and outright militarism of America today.
Or regarded Ronald Reagan's presidency a "dramatic failure." ... Read more @DailyBell
