Sasquatch The Yeti

The left thinks that they are winning…and they are – in the sense that Charlie Sheen was “winning” as he lost his mind and immersed himself in drugs and hookers a while back. For an ideology that has been incredibly patient over the past 100 years while insinuating itself millimeter by millimeter into American society, Obama’s re-election now has it swinging for the fences. The evidence is in Obama’s “progressive” inauguration speech – he’s taken off the transparent mask now and is out in the open.

The “progressive” movement thinks that is has integrated itself into the American republic to the point that it now has a patina of legitimacy on its skin. It now seems to think that it is also safe to come out of the shadows and for the first time in a very long time, the discredited philosophy of Marxism is attempting to go mainstream. Hardly a surprising trend given the exalted status good old Karl is seeing through puff pieces like this in the New York Times: “A Young Publisher Takes Marx Into the Mainstream” and this from the Guardian in the UK: “Why the ideas of Karl Marx are more relevant than ever in the 21st century”.

Stacey McCain notes that it doesn’t take much to get glowing praise in the NYT as long as you are a Bolshevik. The Jacobin website gets an “estimated” 250,000 views a month – little ole TRNL gets around 160,000 a month, The Other McCain over 300,000 a month and Ace of Spades HQ gets over 300,000 a day - and yet none of us have never had a puff piece in any major outlet, much less the Times or the Guardian. For the record, the Guardian is a leftist rag and the New York Times is the home of communist China loving Tom Friedman (a theater critic turned political expert), Malthusian economist Paul Krugman and to add icing on the cake – was home to the noted Pulitzer Prize winning Soviet apologist, Walter Duranty, who covered up Stalin’s “man-caused disaster” famine in the Ukraine and the forced resettlement of the Ukrainian people as punishment for dissent.

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

- Ayn Rand

Rand understood, as the Founders did, that individual freedoms are the basis for collective freedom. Freedom is not a collective concept to be achieved at a national level first and then awarded to citizens by some benevolent authority.

Statists – like the President and the others who populate and support his regime, demonstrate their antipathy to individual freedoms and rights in the economic policies they pursue. Their policies seek to subrogate the success of the individual for the success of the collective in an attempt to maximize the success of the collective, that “success” then is redistributed among the people according to the decision of some authority in an arbitrary manner. This “redistribution” is considered by the authority to be “fair” because it is based on a concept of “equality” that is based on nothing but the capriciousness of the authority without regard for effort, innovation, risk, skill or talent.

Rene Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.”

Statists say, “They are, therefore they are entitled.”

The poor, ignorant souls who voted for Obama actually think that the government will take from the rich and give to them. They believe that just because they can fog up a mirror that they have a right to a job regardless of their ability and that if you have a 65” flat screen, the government will give them one, too. They believe that their lives will be made equal to the most successful in society and they will want for nothing – because the government will provide food, clothing, shelter, transportation and healthcare simply for the asking.

The problem is that it has never worked that way in the history of collectivism when collectivism is involuntary. Look at North Korea, Cuba and the former Soviet Union. What happens in non-capitalist economies where the individual is not valued and the collective is supreme is that the individual standard of living actually is REDUCED, not increased. Of course, everybody is equal in these collectivist societies – equal in their misery.

In a collectivist society, the most successful are the members of the regime and its hanger’s on.

That’s why Washington D.C. is now the richest city in America. The most profitable activity  is now interaction with the crony capitalists there.

Hunger Games, anyone?

Capitalism and individual freedom actually do constitute the tide that raises all boats.

The Obama supporting petit communists got a little taste of forced collectivism in their surprise at the 2% payroll tax increases on January 1 of this year…and they squealed like the little piglets they are.

They had better get used to it because there are not enough of “the rich” to go around to pay for Chairman Maobama’s Great Leap Forward. Collectivism bleeds everybody, not just “the rich”.