About
About the Book
Introduction
Like the great F.A. Hayek, I have dedicated this book to the forces that are leading us on the road to serfdom with a slight twist for the reality of America in the early 21st Century: To the community organizers of all parties. Hayek’s socialists (who he dedicated his classic work to in Road to Serfdom) of the mid 20th century have morphed into benign sounding names such as community organizers, but ultimately their goal for a collectivist utopia is essentially the same as their Marxist, Fascist friends hiding behind a religion, and socialist brothers. For these elitists and Philosopher Kings, individuals are not smart enough to run their own government, so it is up to the wise community organizing leaders and a big centralized government to plan and “to organize” for the helpless ignorant masses, to guide them, and as one well known successful politician put it, help direct the poor misguided fools who sadly still manage to “cling to their guns and religion”. Ultimately, I am optimistic that America will survive this onslaught of Statism and Collectivism and will once again become a beacon of freedom for a world where too many individuals are in chains, to give them real hope that they too might one day live where individual freedom and opportunity are available to all, where laws and moral order are derived from God and not man or any group of men.
Note to Mark Levin. I am a great admirer of your talk show, your "take no prisoners" style and your excellent Conservative Manifesto - Liberty and Tyranny. However, I do have one bone to pick with you and it centers around your disdain for the term "Middle Class". I follow your point of view that Americans should not participate in "class" warfare of any kind, but until someone comes up with a better term to describe the great backbone of this country that is neither rich nor poor I will continue to use it. I will gladly change all my chapter headings if you or someone else can come up with a better descriptive term.
Note: Every week or so there will be a new question for comment on the author's premise that America is on the road to serfdom. Arguments pro and con are encouraged. Chapters will be posted monthly starting in October until the entire book is available on line. For those who can not wait – a download of the first revision of the book is available free of charge by going to the Contact Us and Download Book Tab.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. Like Abraham Lincolnwho made that statement, I am proud to count myself in the company of the author of this book.
I appreciate the kind words. It brings to mind the complaint that many Conservatives and critics of Obama make – that Obama is not proud of America – and in fact has spent a great deal of his time in foreign lands “apologizing” for America. Does this behavior make Obama un-American or is this behavior the actions of an enlightened and sophisticated leader?
Obama is a delusional malignant narcissist who might well be the anti-Christ. He is a danger to truth and the free world. May G-D deliver us from this madman.
I suspect that half of the country (more or less) agrees with you about the part that Obama is a “danger to truth and the free world”. I’m not sure everyone is quite ready for labeling him the “anti-Christ”. I think that title belongs to a puppet master like George Soros. I also agree that it may take divine intervention to save us.
I haven't trademarked the phrase "Illiberal locusts of the left" – but I should. You heard it here first I can assure you. Most conservatives have tried to keep the debate civil, but I am tired of playing their game. For example, "racist" – it only applies to white males to the locusts of the left. Of course, all other minority groups – and certainly the supercilious left never show a sign of racism. No the Marxist left simply wants to have a solid voting block by creating the lie that Conservatives are racist – when it is clear to anyone paying attention that the Tea party has a very strong contingency of females and minorities who’s common denominator is lower taxes and getting the Govt off of their backs.
So these Alinsky-ite drones and illiberal locusts of left continue to push for the failed policies – Johnson's war on poverty and Obama's miserable stimulus crony slush funds that have left Blacks and other minorities with staggering unemployment rates and economic misery. True conservatives are believers in the words of King – “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” I have a dream that one day all children of all races and colors will be judged by the content of the character and not be used as pawns by illiberal locusts of the left.
I actually think the most descriptive phrase for the nasty folks who have taken over the Dem Party is "Illiberal locusts of the left". You see, the term "Liberal" in the classical sense is a more accurate moniker for Conservatives. From Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, pg. 597 Touchstone edition: “Early Liberalism was a product of England and Holland and had certain well-marked characteristics. It stood for religious toleration; it was Protestant, but of a latitudinarian rather than of a fanatical kind; it regarded the wars of religion silly. It valued commerce and industry, and favoured the rising middle class rather than the monarchy and the aristocracy; it had immense respect for the rights of property, especially when accumulated by the labours of the individual possessor…Implicitly, the tendency of early liberalism was toward democracy tempered by the rights of property…There was a certain bias against government, because governments almost everywhere were in the hands of kings or aristocracies, who seldom either understood or respected the needs of the merchants…”
Conservatives are for the most part religious; they believe in individual property rights, commerce and they certainly have a “bias against” a totalitarian government. Today’s progressives who have stolen the “liberal” label are not religious, they are certainly not Protestant, and in many cases they are proud Atheists. They also are big believers in the State – not the individual. They prefer govt solutions over solutions of individuals engaging in commerce. Although there is no direct attack on private property, many of the govt programs they advocate either limit or trump the rights of individual ownership of property. Yes, the leaders and drones of today’s Dem party are “Illiberal Locusts of the Left”.