Your last paragraph is the biggest crock of wishful thinking I have read or heard in some time. It would be nice if everyone was taught to think so critically, but the ruling elites intentionally do not teach that in the state schools because that would be a threat to their status quo. The looters will retain their power as long as their enemies (strong people) do not unite with other strong people, and believe that everyone else is weak in ability to think.

You see, paper money is a cornerstone to American Socialism and that’s why it will be defended to the death by the socialists and the central organizers. With paper money the masses can be easily fooled. However, paper money and the corrupt fractional banking system can be turned against the socialists. The fractional banking system is the socialist’s Achilles Heel. The fractional banking system could be exploited with a grass roots movement that centers on individuals withdrawing all their paper money out of the banks and exchanging it for a diversified amount of hard assets and dealing in a black market. Of course, in this case, the name Black Market might be a misnomer. A Protest Market might be a better name than a Black Market. Participating in a protest market would be done as both an investment and a protest against the governmental abuse of creating dollars out of thin air—which is the true source of inflation.

Protesting the inflation tax by proactively withdrawing money from the banks and dealing in hard currencies would be a real protest. Nothing like those ineffectual, but well meaning, Tea Parties that took place on April 15th. They were almost laughable. However, I did enjoy watching Ted Nugent. In my opinion, Mr. Nugent has both brains and guts. I believe Mr. Nugent when he says that he’s sorry that he missed his chance at the Alamo.

Right now the federal government and the politically connected bankers are working together to steal wealth that has been deposited and saved in paper money. By educating ourselves on how this theft is taking place and just how weak the fractional banking system really is, then we can put together a meaningful strategy that would be easily understood by the uninformed masses and turn enough of them against the corrupt social-economic-political system to cripple socialism— and maybe even deal it a fatal blow. There will be a way and there will be a time to kill socialism, freedom’s enemy. Those who deeply love freedom will offer a viable solution to crush the enemy when the opportune time arrives.

The traitor, that Mr. Ringer refers to, will not remain unknown forever. I think that when the masses start to experience the deep pain that socialism always causes, they will want blood. Who’s blood will they want? That depends on how well the truth can be articulated by the informed minority who understand the differences about how The Constitution and The Rule of Law serve the long-term best interests of the people and how socialism and those politicians who are full of speciousness have allowed political expediency to flourish and destroy what could of been a bright future for America. If the truth can be articulated well, then the truth can win. If the lie prevails, then it’s my blood, and others like me, that the masses will want.

“Economics is a side issue.”

A good article. Interestingly, I am just finishing reading Francis Schaeffer’s 1970′s book, “How should we then live?” which predicts precisely the scenario you describe. In Schaeffer’s ‘brave new world’, we will have so lost sight of our historical roots (including the reason for our freedoms), and we will be so entirely obsessed with economic ease, that we will be prepared to accept any erosion of liberty, just so we get to keep our Ipods, wide-screen TVs and cheap food.

I find it interesting, and not a little scary, how left-wing politics has now formed dubious alliances with islamism, so that (alluding to your ‘enemy within’ argument) we are no longer allowed to critique these potent anti-western forces which are eating our society out from the inside. The few who are brave enough to critique these worldviews are either labelled ‘islamophobic’ by the administration, or are forced to live under permanent guard.

It seems that we are now too ashamed of our culture to want to defend it.