http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/08/27/the-struggle-for-the-soul-of-the-democrat-party/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/08/27/the-struggle-for-the-soul-of-the-democrat-party/comment-page-1/#comment-54375 ChemistMike Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:39:04 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/08/27/the-struggle-for-the-soul-of-the-democrat-party/#comment-54375 The Democratic Party is the Party of Permission, as compared to inalienable rights. That is why they prefer the dictates and fiats of non-elected UN officials or judicial activist judges. They assume the role of Plato's enlightened philopher kings, relegating their opponents to the realm of the stupid or evil , who only see the shadows on the cave, Take for example their subserveience to and emulation of the communist Chinese. This is especially evident in the realm of contributions and the pretext of global warming. China is exempt rom the Kyoto Treaty. In James Michener’s novel, Poland, there is a story of how the feudal lords made it a capital offense for a peasant to grind their own grain with a private millstone to make bread to feed their families. Today’s would be aristocrats are trying to institute a new lucrative measure of control and rationing; carbon credits. In this new scheme, certain well-connected bureaucrats and politicians will determine and ration how much coal, wood or petroleum products they will allow a person, business and even country to use. Under the ruse and pretense of “protecting the planet” they will be the sole, non-elected arbiters on how much carbon one can use for travel, heating and industry. In short, they will control all industrial processes along with modes and amount of travel. First, they will paraphrase Henny Penny’s portentous, despairing cry of imminent doom, “The sky is heating!” Then, the only solution proffered will be absolute control of all combustion. Finally, only friends, contributors and companies in which they (or their collaborators) own stock will be allowed access to resources needed for industry and the economy. This resembles the government-chartered monopolies in the age of Mercantilism. In fact, it will be a type of Marxist monopoly envisioned in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged. And who stands to benefit for this feudal right to allocate resources and sell the permission to use carbon? It will be their new majesties, Al Gore, Robert Kennedy, John Edwards and the rest of the Democratic progressive elite. In James Michener’s novel, Poland, there is a story of how the feudal lords made it a capital offense for a peasant to grind their own grain with a private millstone to make bread to feed their families. Today’s would be aristocrats are trying to institute a new lucrative measure of control and rationing; carbon credits. In this new scheme, certain well-connected bureaucrats and politicians will determine and ration how much coal, wood or petroleum products they will allow a person, business and even country to use. Under the ruse and pretense of “protecting the planet” they will be the sole, non-elected arbiters on how much carbon one can use for travel, heating and industry. In short, they will control all industrial processes along with modes and amount of travel. First, they will paraphrase Henny Penny’s portentous, despairing cry of imminent doom, “The sky is heating!” Then, the only solution proffered will be absolute control of all combustion. Finally, only friends, contributors and companies in which they (or their collaborators) own stock will be allowed access to resources needed for industry and the economy. This resembles the government-chartered monopolies in the age of Mercantilism. In fact, it will be a type of Marxist monopoly envisioned in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged. And who stands to benefit for this feudal right to allocate resources and sell the permission to use carbon? It will be their new majesties, Al Gore, Robert Kennedy, John Edwards and the rest of the Democratic progressive elite.(And the Chinese Industries that fund them.) The Democratic Party is the Party of Permission, as compared to inalienable rights. That is why they prefer the dictates and fiats of non-elected UN officials or judicial activist judges. They assume the role of Plato’s enlightened philopher kings, relegating their opponents to the realm of the stupid or evil , who only see the shadows on the cave, Take for example their subserveience to and emulation of the communist Chinese. This is especially evident in the realm of contributions and the pretext of global warming. China is exempt rom the Kyoto Treaty.
In James Michener’s novel, Poland, there is a story of how the feudal lords made it a capital offense for a peasant to grind their own grain with a private millstone to make bread to feed their families. Today’s would be aristocrats are trying to institute a new lucrative measure of control and rationing; carbon credits. In this new scheme, certain well-connected bureaucrats and politicians will determine and ration how much coal, wood or petroleum products they will allow a person, business and even country to use. Under the ruse and pretense of “protecting the planet” they will be the sole, non-elected arbiters on how much carbon one can use for travel, heating and industry. In short, they will control all industrial processes along with modes and amount of travel. First, they will paraphrase Henny Penny’s portentous, despairing cry of imminent doom, “The sky is heating!” Then, the only solution proffered will be absolute control of all combustion. Finally, only friends, contributors and companies in which they (or their collaborators) own stock will be allowed access to resources needed for industry and the economy. This resembles the government-chartered monopolies in the age of Mercantilism. In fact, it will be a type of Marxist monopoly envisioned in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged. And who stands to benefit for this feudal right to allocate resources and sell the permission to use carbon? It will be their new majesties, Al Gore, Robert Kennedy, John Edwards and the rest of the Democratic progressive elite.
In James Michener’s novel, Poland, there is a story of how the feudal lords made it a capital offense for a peasant to grind their own grain with a private millstone to make bread to feed their families. Today’s would be aristocrats are trying to institute a new lucrative measure of control and rationing; carbon credits. In this new scheme, certain well-connected bureaucrats and politicians will determine and ration how much coal, wood or petroleum products they will allow a person, business and even country to use. Under the ruse and pretense of “protecting the planet” they will be the sole, non-elected arbiters on how much carbon one can use for travel, heating and industry. In short, they will control all industrial processes along with modes and amount of travel. First, they will paraphrase Henny Penny’s portentous, despairing cry of imminent doom, “The sky is heating!” Then, the only solution proffered will be absolute control of all combustion. Finally, only friends, contributors and companies in which they (or their collaborators) own stock will be allowed access to resources needed for industry and the economy. This resembles the government-chartered monopolies in the age of Mercantilism. In fact, it will be a type of Marxist monopoly envisioned in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged. And who stands to benefit for this feudal right to allocate resources and sell the permission to use carbon? It will be their new majesties, Al Gore, Robert Kennedy, John Edwards and the rest of the Democratic progressive elite.(And the Chinese Industries that fund them.)

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