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The United States of Socialist Republics

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 08:42 PM PDT

What exactly was the difference between the United States and
the USSR? Both were political unions occupying large land masses. Both
believed themselves to be unique political experiments which would
redefine the nature of human governance around the world. Both even
believed that government existed for the benefit of the people. Yet beyond
the specifics, there was one fundamental difference between the two. Not
simply in how they were governed, but why they were
governed.

In the United States, government existed through the consent of
the governed. Government was simply a mechanism through which the people
ruled themselves. In the USSR by contrast, government derived not from the
people, but for the people. Not "Of" or "By", just "For". With the typical
logic familiar to the nanny state, Communism existed to benefit the
people, and so did not require their actual input, only their support. And
their support was assumed to be a given, because after all the government
existed for their benefit. Therefore it was completely impossible for them
not to support it.

This kind of circular political logic routinely
runs through the intellectual veins of progressives. It can be seen
blatantly in the health care power grab, as Democrats insist that they are
passing a bill for the people, while completely ignoring the polls showing
widespread opposition to the bill. But that is the difference between the
US and the USSR. While the US grounded its idea of "The People" in one
man, one vote, representation-- ideological tyrannies such as the USSR or
the EU, ground theirs in an ideological understanding of "The
People."

When Americans used to talk about the "Will of the
People", they meant the voting citizens. When the left talks about the
"Will of the People", what they mean is the people's will as expressed in
the tenets of their socialist ideology. Thus when an American said, "The
People Want Change", he meant that it was the express view of the American
people, on a person to person basis that there be a change. When a
Communist or Leftist said, "The People Want Change", he was expressing an
ideological conception of what his ideological conception of the people
wanted. It had nothing to do with what the people, individually or
collectively, might want. Because they didn't figure into it.

To
the left, "The People, were and are an ideological construct, not a real
living and breathing group. But to poll them would in their mind be
generally useless and redundant. Similarly a scientist might conduct a
research study to determine the healthiest diet for monkeys. But it would
never occur to him to ask the monkeys what they want to eat. Because not
only don't monkeys have any opinions worth listening to, but he considers
his own research methodology to be the best way of finding out what
monkeys should be eating. Similarly when the left wants to find out what
they people want, they wouldn't bother asking the people except as a
political tactic. Instead they would read their Alinsky or their Marx or
their Moore or Ehrenreich, if they want people they feel are
"qualified" to talk about the working class, and what "The People" really
want.

To understand this better, think
about a theocracy. Imagine a country led by a man who claims to follow the
Will of God. But he does not actually ask God what to do. God to him is a
"concept". He uses that concept to justify his rule and his actions. He is
not doing the will of God, he is doing his own will, as he derives from
whatever framework of ideas and beliefs he uses to rule. He is sure that
God would approve, but he is not actually interested in any feedback from
him. So too the Left and "The People". The left rules on behalf of the
People, and in their name. It just isn't interested in hearing from
them.

This in a nutshell is why the US is slowly
becoming the USSR, the United States of Socialist Republics. Because its
transition into a socialist nanny state moves it further from a nation of,
for and by the people-- and toward a generic socialist tyranny in which
the people are not meant to have any say in its governance. As the
Democratic Party has slid further and further to the left, it has parted
from Jeffersonian democracy, and embraced an ideological radicalism in
which the wishes of the people are already embedded in the ideology, thus
making democracy itself redundant. And the result is tyranny, as liberals
replace the Will of the People, with their ideology, while pretending that
the two are really one and the same.

Where the United States believed that
government exists as a tool of the people to manage their larger affairs,
the USSR, both the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Obama's United
States of Socialist Republics, believe that government exists to manage
the lives of the people in tune with their ideology. The ideology of the
rulers, not the people. To the left, whether it be the Politburo or the
present day Democratic congress, the people are the ruled, not the rulers.
Where the United States was founded on the belief that the people are
naturally free, the Left rules on the belief that the people are naturally
slaves.

In the ideological formulae of the
Left, the American people are slaves of capitalism, industry and political
elites, and the reactionary ideologies that these use to control them. The
Left seeks to "liberate" them from their oppression, but since the people
are not ready or mature enough to handle their own affairs, the Left's
"activists" and "organizers" must first teach and enforce the tenets of
their own ideology on them in order to set them free. Once again this is
the circular logic of the left at work, in which freedom and the will of
the people can only be derived from and measured in relation to their
compliance with the left's own ideology.

This is George Owell's 1984's "Freedom is
Slavery", the formula by which the will of the people is defined as
obedience to party doctrine. Anyone who disagrees with party doctrine is a
reactionary, a tool of the astroturfing elites, a racist, a right wing
extremist, a fascist-- and so on and so forth. But the essence is that the
Nanny State disposes of democracy, replacing it with political conformity.
Which is inevitable when you define the Will of the People based on
ideology, rather than what they people actually want. That too is why the
Republican Party goes back and forth in its positions, while the
Democratic Party only grows more extreme in its
own.

When you replace the Will of the People with
ideology, what remains is the tyranny of the few over the many. Power is
concentrated in the hands of a small number, for the supposed benefit of
the many. The state extends its control into the daily life of every man,
woman and child-- for their supposed benefit again. There is no freedom
anywhere, only an omnipotent tyranny that proclaims its own benevolence at
every turn. And so in the "Name of the People", the people are deprived of
their freedom, their income and their lives. This is the ultimate and
final hypocrisy of the Left.

The Left is not democratic. It cannot be
democratic, because it believes that the will of the people is knowable
only through their ideology, not through the ballot box. And when and
where it takes over, democracy and freedom wither and die. The left's
takeover of America, at the cultural, economic and political levels is
ushering in a United States of Socialist Republics, detached from the
original America, even as it uses the old country's symbols. Much as
Orwell predicted in the forties that a Socialist dictatorship in England
would still make use of the monarchy as a
symbol.

And that is why only the Will of People can
defeat the Left and its tyrannical ideology. Because the Left is built on
the lie that its ideological agenda is that of the people. Once in power
it works to suppress the people, precisely because their will is a threat
to it. The Elitism and Collectivism of the Left is built to dominate and
control the people. And when confronting popular discontent, the Left's
only mechanisms are political propaganda and tyrannical force. When the
former is swept away, only the naked reality of the latter remains. And so
the masks come off and the Left is seen for what it really is.
Tyranny.

And the United States of America was built
on destroying tyranny by the will of the people.