Progressivism: Our Road to Serfdom

THE DREAM Wealth: gold, silver, jewels, land, oil wells, factories, large corporations, ships, planes, a king's ransom, and a pirate's chest—words and fables that make our minds reel with the feel of power and independence. Where does it come from? How can we all get our share? These are questions that have been asked in every land by every race for thousands of years. Everyone wants a piece of the action, but few truly understand how to do this. Even the ones who have demonstrated their ability to amass fortunes have not successfully duplicated themselves in significant numbers. If they could have they would have, but even they find themselves amazed at their good fortune to have done so well in a world that is not known for revealing its secrets of wealth and its equitable distribution. To understand this dilemma, and to deliver ourselves from the jaws of socialism, we must first identify several key elements of the whole. We must take a little time and make an effort to understand the details of economic issues that we have often ignored as boring and uninteresting. It’s funny how economics gets very exciting when it is represented in the discovery of new wealth that one can call one’s own. It’s exciting when it is our money and our hope of fulfilling our dreams that we see laying there in our hands. We must also learn the identity of our enemies and those who work diligently to gain control over our lives and everything that we hold dear. We can no longer afford the luxury of sitting on the sidelines and letting everyone who wants a piece of us just walk into the offices of power and begin to dictate to us. Finally, we must join forces with other like-minded Americans who are demonstrating a willingness to speak out and to make themselves heard. Not only just to be heard, but also to take control of the outcome of elections through grassroots communication and education about these facts. Currently our most dynamic illustration of such a group is the Tea Party political activist movement who are making America’s political enemies tremble. UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF PROGRESS To be content with the same share year after year is not our nature. There is a basic human heartfelt need to have a sense of progress. This is lacking if there is not an increase each year in our individual share of the world's wealth. With every passing year the earth increases its total number of in¬habitants. Consequently, to satisfy the desires for progress of the present population—plus the new demands that come with each new member to the world population—the need for more wealth increases at a much faster pace than the world population. Indeed, the world at large cries out for more! It is not so much a matter of dividing up the wealth that has already been created. But it is our challenge to create more wealth, at a proportionate rate of in¬crease, to sufficiently satisfy both our individual heartfelt needs and to allow the new larger generations the same opportunity. This need for progress must not be confused with the term “Progressive.” Since the Civil War, Progressives by definition are promoters of Socialism and the Socialist state. Progressives are anti-capitalist and were known at the beginning of the twentieth century to be Socialists. When the term “Socialist” became associated with welfare programs and other state-owned programs to control our lives and our futures, the Socialists changed their name to Progressive. Progressive sounds like someone who supports and promotes the “progress” mentioned above. The truth is quite the opposite. Progressives support the long-term goal of Communism and state-controlled Socialism and seek to put all forms of the wealth mentioned above into the hands of the state. Progressive Socialists focus their behind-the-scenes attentions on reinterpreting our constitution with the intent and commitment to “progressively” expand the power of the central government to accomplish their long-term goal—Communism. This book contains the truth that destroys the dreams of the elitist progressives who want to control your life and mine. The truth is powerful and strengthens every heart to overcome all obstacles. America is poised to fight back and to overcome the juggernaut of Socialism that has us in its death grip. We end this book with insights into our opportunities for gaining a newfound political and ideological advantage that we, as American citizens, have never had before, not since before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. However, we must first appeal to your patience and your motivation for seeing your personal and family dreams come true. Not just for you but also for every American who will take personal ownership of their responsibility to be a productive citizen! Let us begin our journey of learning and equipping ourselves for the battle to come. A good student must be patient and let the learning process blossom into full bloom so that the result is more exciting than they first imagined. THE CASTE SYSTEM For centuries the most common answer was a simple matter of caste. If one was born into wealth, then some portion of wealth was guaranteed. Those born to a lower caste could not invade your realm and you in turn were unable to invade that of a higher caste. Thus, the concept of men being "created" unequal financially, through birth, prevailed. Such a view of mankind, and the subse¬quent division of the world's wealth in keeping with those views, was held by most for centuries as an undeniable universal truth. Little opportunity was afforded to newcomers on the world scene. One was limited for the most part by the family into which he had been born. Cobblers' sons tended to become cobblers, bankers' sons became bankers, farmers' sons became farmers, and so on. A close-knit social structure was the outcome, very predictable and slow to change. For centuries neither wars nor famines could make a dent in the established order. Then along came new technologies that allowed for a whole different scale of economies. Quality and individuality were overcome by an endless quest for more volume. Thus, the Industrial Revolution was born! INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, small cottage and personal crafts industries began to be wiped out at a phenomenal rate. The scale of the displacement was such that, within a few decades, the whole of Europe was in upheaval over the social and economic clashes that were produced. We felt little of this in America at first. Now not until the late 1800s did we begin to ex-perience similar unrest and discord. Actually, our earliest pilgrims and settlers were part of the overflow from the English and Euro-pean industrial development. In America, unlike those old established societies across the Atlantic, we had lots of new land for the taking. The lure of land and a new start far from the effects of the old world centralized industry, with its poor working and living condi¬tions, brought millions of settlers to America. MANY SPEAK OUT Throughout the centuries, different voices have been heard lamenting the plight of the working class. However, none had ever been able to effect any major changes in the concept of how wealth is created until the Industrial Revolution. As our own industrial centers began to appear on the East Coast and in the Great Lakes area, labor representatives began to join in a chorus of growing worker unrest, with demands for better working conditions and better pay. There were many speaking out at that time, but none spoke as eloquently or as convincingly as a German Progressive Socialist politician of the 1840s named Karl Marx. along with his lifelong friend, Friedrich Engels, Marx had spoken out for years against the abuses that were being leveled at the workers of his time. Finally, in 1848, Marx published the results of their joint studies called The Communist Manifesto. One of the main concepts of this exhaustive work was t