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From Monarchy to Monarchy 1776 - 2011

Independence from King George III to the Tyranny of the Ivy League Ruling Class

By 1776 America’s founding generation had witnessed enough tyrannical oppression in their lives, learned enough political and philosophical thought, understood enough of their combined economic viability to consider favorably that independence was worth the risk. That risk included their lives, their livelihoods, their property and their money. Through their correspondence, pamphleteering, newspaper debates, and tavern meetings they were able to realize that about 40% of the populace agreed. 25% would remain, both in thought and obligation, loyal to the crown. While 35% were undecided, uninvolved, and otherwise motivated with the hard tasks of living. Having formed a Continental Congress of representatives from each of the 13 colonies they set about to reconcile their grievances through a unified voice to the Parliament representing the king. The royal response was rejection and the pursued threat of suppression by the armed forces of His Majesty. It was only then, that an army was formed, a general was chosen and the Declaration of Independence was signed.

After 8 yrs, the battles were over and an independent nation emerged. Beginning with the articles of confederation and each state having its own constitution, the united states (13 former colonies) began to move forward, with much trepidation, towards a carefully defined, strongly debated constitutional form of limited government. The strongest principles and tremendous recognition of the individual are contained within its preamble and the original 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights. In others words, these freedoms/rights preexist the government and cannot be repressed by the government. The constitution in clear, basic and common language set in place the 18 enumerated powers the states were willing to allow for the general welfare of the nation as a whole; primarily, the defense of the entire country and the promotion of commerce between the states. A system of checks and balances against tyranny were understood to be written in place through three equal branches of
government: executive, legislative and judicial offices. Finally, as never before experienced in the history of mankind; a republican form of self government.

           

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, Provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Monarchy was ended and individuals were now free to pursue their own chosen happiness, their education, morality and religion was per their choice, their prosperity was by their own industry. Their property and possessions were deeded in their names and under very strict legal protection. The “Blessings of Liberty” were secure. There was no class system. Your relation to nobility did not matter, you were free; GO!

BOOM!!! An economic explosion took place; America quickly rose to the greatest prosperity the world had ever witnessed. A land of bountiful natural resources, within its first 100yrs became the envy of the world; attracting immigrants by the tens of thousands from every land; first, for prosperity, second, for their new understanding of freedom. Many of these immigrants assimilated into a new culture, keeping the fondness of their heritage, but promoting and defending with vigor the cosmopolitanism; they were proudly American with strong accents as they made very strong efforts to speak a unified language. Unfortunately, the freedom, prosperity and seeming endlessness of it all, led to a laxity that provided footholds for every sort of contrary thought.

Karl Marx’s 1848 Communist Manifesto with its distracted view of economic understanding based on a European still feudal/mercantilism system of economics. He became the accepted promoter of a utopian system that never had a chance of pragmatic success (due to complete lack of understanding of the basics of human nature), nor did he ever plan to be subject to it.  He was, after all married to an heir of Barons and drew financial support from Fredrick Engels and later in life, his wife’s inheritances.

By the early 1900’s many of Marx’s thoughts were finding acceptance in worldwide academics. Where you had such a contrast between European

Despotism, corrupt economies and ancient serfdoms still in place, his ideals had a resonance. However, the growing acceptance in American universities was due to laxity in thought and understanding; professors were teaching something new and different not because there was validity or virtue, but because it was new and different. This inanity was deemed advanced. Then like now, was a spirit of change, abandoning the old for new. By the teens and twenties of the 20th century these new graduates were entering the American political system as members of the progressive movement, at least in thought, as actual political association was non-electable.

Woodrow Wilson embodied this thinking. After his tenure as President of Princeton, he was elected to two terms as President of the United States, 1912-1920. He engaged America in the most repressive administration this country has ever known before or since. Through his justice department there were nearly 200,000 people incarcerated over political issues. He not only entered WWI contrary to his campaign promises, he did so that the country would allow the expansion of governmental control over the economy and resources, as well the raising of new tax rates under the newly approved income tax. Of course, in spite of the creation, in 1913 of the Federal Reserve, to prevent such things, a recession was tossed into the 1920 election. Wilson was defeated, a republican, Warren G. Harding was elected. He died shortly thereafter and Vice-President Calvin Coolidge became the President. Known as a ‘do nothing’ President, Coolidge stayed out of the economy, which recovered and prospered within 18 months, and we had an unparalleled growth known as , ‘the roaring 20’s’.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1932, returned us to the controlled economy of the ‘new’ thinking and we remained in a government caused depression for the next 12 yrs. The good news, of course, was now as an American, all of your personal information was known to the government. Through the Internal Revenue Service, your income, your charitable contributions, your business ventures, your real estate purchases, your bank balance,

Your phone bill and grocery expenses were all in the knowledge of the government. The tax laws were now so expansive that 23% was owed on an income of $500.

The expansion of this thinking and the laws enacted to support them  have brought our country nearly 240 yrs later to ask, where is security of our “Blessing of Liberty”? The current Occupy Wall Street protestors are asking for free education and an end to greed.  Give me a break! I want an end to a ruling class supposedly endorsed and encouraged by their Ivy League educations to oppress Americans. You are expressly forbidden by the Constitution to supersede my God given inalienable rights as an individual free man!