A Voice of Sanity – RobertRinger.com

Because both the art of repression and the art of bribery require so much subtlety to keep the have nots in place, governments are constantly vacillating between the two. Left wing dictatorships, while controlling the masses through brute force, like to create the impression they are benevolent. However, the skimpy food and minimal shelter they provide their citizens, along with the miserable and nonproductive jobs they force upon them, are but a charade.

As state workers used to put it in the good old days in communist Poland: “Whether you stand up or lie down, you get paid just the same.” Or, simply put: “The government pretends to pay us a wage, and we pretend to work.”

How does the way of life in America — a political democracy fit in with the historical realities of class warfare? As practiced in the real world, the nature of a political democracy opens the door to the ultimate bribery scenario. The problem is that the have nots, brainwashed through the government’s mass education programs, become experts at the ballot box game.

As a result, they no longer wait to be bought off. Instead, they begin to dictate the terms of the buyoff by lynching the haves through the political system. And in exchange for holding office (i.e., power), politicians willingly agree to carry out these lynchings on behalf of the voting class.

This is the political reality that assures that all government proposed solutions will be, at best, short-term and cosmetic. As can be seen in the shameless, evasive rhetoric of B. and J. McBama, no politician dare attack the real problem. To tell the recipient of a forced buyoff that his little game of “my desires are rights” is immoral would be political suicide.

Have you ever heard even the most conservative elected official (Ronald Reagan, George Bush, et al) tell his constituents that the U.S.’s financial problems are a direct result of the covetousness and envy of voters? Of course not. Yet, until people understand this truth, a renaissance of Western values is not possible.

The fact is that the public is hooked on our legalized system of plunder. In one way, it’s far worse than drug addiction, because it has entrapped a majority of the population of the Western world. Unfortunately, there is an inherent desire in men to prosper without effort, and it is the repression of this desire, both voluntary and through the institution of laws, that makes a civilized society civilized.

But as Western Civilization’s collapse has accelerated, its legal system has been turned upside-down. It now sanctions — in fact, enforces — the taking of others’ property. Wealth without work is now encouraged by the power structures of all Western countries. And since it is only natural for men to want to avoid hardship while, at the same time, enjoying the good things in life, the masses are not about to let go of their something for nothing cornucopia without a fight.

Having been sold on the egalitarian illusion that their desires can be fulfilled through the use of force, they desperately fear any proposed change in the lynch mob rule structure that has, for decades, filled their consumption cup to the brim. Sadly, the average person believes it is to his advantage to perpetuate the immoral redistribution system that has become so firmly entrenched, because he ignorantly believes he is a net beneficiary of this political bribery.

But it is not just the masses that stand in the way of a return to a moral society. As paradoxical as it may seem, big business, whose leaders are established members of the upper class, fully support the plunder system along with the proletariat. Why? Because major corporations, having adjusted their financial planning, product designs, and marketing strategies to a theft is moral society, have a major stake in seeing to it that the rules of the game remain unchanged.

Were it not for continued inflation, taxation, government subsidies, plunder laws, and other forms of government intervention in the economy, many large companies would simply cease to exist. At the very least, they would cease to be large.

In Part IV of this article, we’ll take a look at some of the industries that profit the most from monetary inflation and redistribution laws.