The Road to Ruin

The Tea Party Movement can put us back on the right track in one generation

Communism has failed everywhere it has been tried. In 1989 – just 20 years ago – the fall of the Soviet Union with unprecedented speed of a major world power should have made this clear. The incorporation of markets and near free enterprise into the Chinese economy while still maintaining authoritarian rule in government further emphasizes this fact: Communism does not work.

Why is this important to the Tea Party movement? If we are to take this country back, that process cannot be left incomplete. There are political systems in place in this country that cannot be changed overnight without tremendous upheaval and suffering. Nevertheless, and no matter how long it takes, those systems must be changed.

These systems began to be introduced in the American government in the early 1900’s and proponents of communism (often begins with armed rebellion) or socialism (a gradual non-violent progression toward the same goals) have infested our free-market, capitalist system with these systems over the past 100 years. They cannot be overturned overnight.

It’s really quite simple to identify those systems. One only has to read the list of changes proposed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The Communist Manifesto written in 1848 and used as a blueprint for the Soviet Union and communist China and weed out those things from the American Political system.

Here are the “10 Commandments” of the Communist Manifesto as they have been incorporated in this country:

1. Abolition of property rights

2. A heavy, progressive income tax

3. Abolition of inheritance rights

4. Confiscation of the property of rebels

5. Centralization of credit into a national bank

6. Centralization of the means of communication in the hands of the State

7. Nationalization of industry and control of agriculture

8. Control of the workplaces

9. Relocation of the population according to government standards

10. Free public education under the control of the State

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm

If you don’t get a chill up your spine when you read those words, you need to re-read the list and consider the following:

1 Recent Supreme Court rulings having to do with “eminent domain”

2 Our income tax is a “heavy, progressive” tax

3 The inheritance tax effectively ends the inheritance of property

4 Tax protestors, those charged with certain crimes and one who violates Internal Revenue Service rules have their property confiscated

5 The Federal Reserve System

6 Our government licenses radio & television stations and sets their standards and there is an effort to insert government control over the Internet

7 Our present President and his administration nationalized two of three major automobile manufacturers, at least one major insurance company and the Department of Agriculture has major control over farming

8 OSHA and other regulatory bodies mandate standards of employment for private companies and set “minimum wages”

9 To this date, this objective has not been set in motion but in times of economic and social upheaval, this would not be too difficult

10 From the control by local school boards first to the state and more and more control has been taken by the Federal government.

How did our country allow these systems that assure eventual failure to be incorporated into our free-market, capitalist system? It’s the anecdotal analogy of the frog in the boiling water. If you’re not familiar with it read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog. It has taken over 100 years for these systems to be set in place but their placement has been deliberate by those who are the “true believers” in communism or socialism. They will only be removed by a political movement willing to spend the time, money, effort and endurance to get the job done.

The good news is that it won’t take 100 years – it will only take one generation that recognizes the problems and is willing to stand up to the “progressive” movement that began with Marx and Engels and is continued today by those who call themselves “progressives”.

Further good news is found in the large number of women involved in the “Tea Party” movement. This support for the statement that the change can be accomplished in one generation is quite involved but I’ve written a paper explaining how one generation of women – who realize their God-given role in shaping the next generation – can completely change a society and its culture. Click here to read “The Truth about Men and Women”.

There is another adage that shows the way to rapid change: “follow the money”. Change the tax structure of this nation: abolish the present tax code, eliminate the Internal Revenue Service, repeal the 16^th Amendment and enact the Fair Tax that already has substantial Congressional support and that more than 20 million voters are already aware of and understand to some degree.

http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer

Stop politicians from gaming the tax system to benefit their friends and benefactors and you shift the balance of power immediately. The other systems have to be gradually eliminated but it will only take one generation.

Is the Tea Party movement that generation?

Clay Willis

February 14, 2010