A Voice of Sanity – RobertRinger.com

By Robert Ringer

As I said at the end of Part I of this article, myths aside, the facts clearly show that for the past hundred years, Democrats, by and large, have been The Party of War.

Consider:

• Woodrow Wilson led the U.S. into World War I in 1917. (A true fascist, Wilson also got Congress to pass the U.S. Sedition Act of 1918, which made it a crime to “willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States.”)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt took the U.S. into World War II in 1941. (His fascist actions are widely known to any casual student of history, such as his attempt to increase the size of the Supreme Court and bring in “liberal” justices to outvote conservatives on the bench — those who believed that many of his New Deal programs were unconstitutional.)

• After practically blowing Japan off the map in 1945, Harry Truman, in 1950, committed U.S. troops to fight against the North Koreans in what became known as the Korean War.

• John F. Kennedy clumsily got the U.S. into a “police action” in a country no one had ever heard of before (to help the French, no less!), and that little police action became a national nightmare — a losing national nightmare: the Vietnam War. (Under Great Society leader Lyndon Johnson, the Vietnam War escalated out of control. Ditto with Republican Richard Nixon, though he did finally end the fiasco and leave behind millions of South Vietnamese to be at the mercy of the Viet Cong butchers.)

• And when the Monica Lewinsky problem got out of control, what did Bill Clinton do? He ordered a massive attack on Iraq hours before the House of Representatives was scheduled to debate his impeachment! They say that love is grand — but when presidents are in serious trouble, war is grander.

Through centuries, wars have served many purposes for many different factions. Obviously, they are loved by those who finance them and those who manufacture bombs, bullets, and weapons. But for a political leader, one of war’s most useful purposes is to divert attention. Had World War II not happened by, FDR would have kept on trying to get us out of the Great Depression through never-ending, economy-draining government works programs and draconian taxation on producers.

But the war changed everything for FDR. War “brought us all together.” It made us feel good about America and about ourselves. It took people’s minds off their economic misery and refocused them on patriotism. Then came the baby boom and fifty-plus years of the power of capitalism fending off the relentless assault of American progressivism (i.e., “social progressivism”).

Fast-forward to 2008. Economic forces finally expose artificial prosperity in the U.S. for what it is — artificial! — which causes millions of Americans to think, “Gee, if Republicans are going to act like Democrats, why not just vote for real Democrats?” And, by golly, that’s what they did. They voted for some vague notion of change they thought they could believe in. The only trouble was that they had no idea what kind of change was in the making.

And, as they say, the rest is history — history that is, at this very moment, unfolding before our eyes: a total disregard for the Constitution, citizens being forced to bail out companies that the government deems to be “too big to fail,” and talk of a clampdown on free speech, gun ownership, and, above all, free enterprise … to name but a few examples of what’s going on.

Now, millions of Americans are wondering, “What’s next?” Well, the truth is that no one knows for sure, because the emerging dictatorship in Washington is thrashing about so wildly in an effort to “not let a good crisis go to waste” that things are spinning out of control. Anything is possible — inflation and deflation at the same time … timid submission to servitude … even an armed insurrection by millions of people who are mad as hell and unwilling to take it anymore (such as those attending today’s “tea parties” from coast to coast).

Of course, history has seen all this before. And all too often the solution for a president is to play the Great Attention-Diverter Card: War. Didn’t the first of the many Obamas we’ve seen start out as the candidate who was against war? Now, many Obamas later, the candidate of peace is expanding the war in Afghanistan.

Surely, even he knows that no one ever defeats the Afghanis (even if you call them Taliban). Fighting is what they live for. Neither time nor the loss of human life is relevant to them. The Russians found this out the hard way.

So, the W Factor is really the X factor in the economic chaos that the socialist progressives have wreaked upon us. (Yes, George Bush started the whole thing with his massive spending spree, but the solution wasn’t to repeat his mistake times ten — in two months, no less!)

As a result of the over-the-top spending the fascists have already put in place, the lives of most Americans — not to mention their children and grandchildren — are guaranteed to get much worse in the years ahead. That’s written in stone.

Even if a miracle happened and conservatives got control of both the Senate and the House in 2010, it would take years of fiscal responsibility and deregulation to undo the damage that’s been done. And that presumes that conservatives would have the political courage to roll back the massive spending programs that would already be in place.

So, yes, I’m worried about BHO and his comrades putting the W Factor into play in a serious way … say, with another Vietnam … in an effort to distract people’s attention away from their economic misery. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen. But, as Glenn Beck would say, “I’m just sayin’ … ya know?”

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