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America's real party system-Part 1

[Every now and then something I read produces a critical reaction that impels me to focus on the background historical and other assumptions that I take for granted  in my thinking.  This article is the first in a series that developed as I took note of my reaction to a piece about the significance and possible future of the Tea Party movement.  Labor Day has traditionally marked the formal kick-off of the "campaign season" in American politics.  It seems an appropriate day to publishing a series that aims to help readers think through the political reality veiled by the appearance of the so-called two-party system. ] Not long ago I read an article signed J. R. Dunn that offered a plausible history of the relationship between conservatives and the GOP.  It portrays a party in which the “liberal” tail has usually been  wagging the  “conservative dog”, the exception being the era ...

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America's real party system- Part 3

If, during eras of elite ascendancy, the two most visible parties are tools of elite manipulation, then there is at all times a third party involved in all our political activities.  It is the populist party, normally divided against itself by successful elite manipulation.  In terms of its potential, it is always the majority party.  The notion that “third parties fail” is therefore less an observation of fact than a statement of elite intention. In the past, some pervasive material or moral passion occasionally roused this third party to unify under its own leadership .  In our current circumstances the unifying impulse comes in reaction against the elite itself.  There is a widespread sense that the nation suffers from a general failure of elite leadership (in particular, the failure of both elite manipulated parties),  a failure connected with the elite's cynical, purely self-aggrandizing ambition.  The Obama faction's open contempt for ...

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America's real party system-Part 2

In the years that followed the Lincoln era, the United States faced a new organizational imperative.  As in the post-Jackson era, it involved continental expansion.  But in addition to this there were  the material challenges of accommodating new technology’s rapid transformation of economic life, and the moral challenge of reconstituting the nation’s unity despite the persistent post-traumatic stresses still reverberating from the Civil War. These challenges allowed the elite to regain a leadership position, this time co-opting the populist moral passion of the Lincoln era with ideas of national destiny and administrative reform. The result was  an era of unprecedented elite ascendancy marked off by the two Roosevelts, the Republican, Teddy and the Democrat, FDR.  Their familiar nicknames represent the complete submergence of elite ascendancy in the streams of populist passion.  They signify the virtually complete success of the elite divisional strategy. The two Roosevelts aptly represent this success.  Their family relationship ...

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Is Lakin’s court-martial an American ‘Dreyfus affair’?

I doubt that most people would be shocked to learn that sometimes the influence of power can interfere with and even derail the course of justice in our legal system.  Behind the scenes, a phone call from a powerful politician, or a corporate mogul often affects the actions or judgments of people whose personal ambitions they are in a position to help or hinder.  Usually though, people giving heed to such considerations have enough sense to cloak what they do with words or actions that give their corruption at least the appearance of probity.  Maybe its the tribute that vice renders to virtue.  Maybe its nothing more than self-serving prudence (the mask of honesty that facilitates corruption.) However, when court officers conclude that such hypocrisy is no longer worth the effort, things are pretty far gone.  The video featured with this post  focuses on the recent decision by Col. Denise R. ...

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Planned Parenthood’s moral insanity

Daily Brief #13 The video featured on this page is a news report out of Texas about a pro-life billboard campaign just launched there by the Radiance Foundation and the Life Education Resource Network (L.E.A.R.N.).  It’s an effort to focus attention on the disproportionate number of nascent blacks being murdered in Texas under the rubric of abortion rights. What especially provoked my interest was criticism of the project from a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman quoted in the report.  “This is about trying to interfere with women making private personal decisions and unfortunately and really shockingly, this group has decided to use racism as a wedge issue,” Rochelle Tafolla said. “We think that  is just reprehensible…” So its reprehensible to focus an individual’s attention on the impact her individual action has on her community.  Could there be a more perfect illustration of Planned Parenthood’s moral insanity? In many U.S. communities today local laws encourage or even ...

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Was Jesus a leader?

Daily Brief #12 “Asked who would be considered conservative Christian leaders today- with Graham in his 90s and the recent death of Jerry Falwell – Land said that “leaders are leaders because people follow them.”  So says Richard Land. Every year as we approach the commemoration of Christ’s passion, crucifixion and resurrection the people Jesus has saved recall his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. And the most part of the multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut branches from the trees, and spread them in the way.  And the multitudes that went before him, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.” Judging by the multitudes that followed him, and the words of Richard Land, in this grand triumphal entry, Jesus was a leader. But after he drove the money lenders from the Temple, confounded the ...

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A Meditation on Glenn Beck’s Divine Mission

[I have been in prayerful thought about the events taking place this weekend under Glenn Beck’s auspices.  He portrays them as the beginning of a Great Revival of faith in America.  People I know and think well of are involved.  Yet I find I cannot ignore the check in my spirit that prevents me from accepting that the events or their sponsor are what he professes them to be.  This posting is an effort to lay out the elements that contribute to my misgivings, insofar as they are susceptible to articulation.  Herein I attempt to share a train of thought and the destination toward which  it points.   Is it the right one? With God’s help, time may tell.] Glenn Beck: “I mean, the one part of culture that I am doing a lot of is faith.  But general faith.  We have got to get back to our churches, our synagogues, our mosques, ...

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Obama’s ‘noble truth’ is a Lie

July 17, 2009 · 58 comments

Here is my latest article at WND.com, then return here to post and read comments.


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gilbertabrett July 29, 2009 at 11:50 pm

Mr. PB,

I want you to know I NEVER knew there were black slave owners until I read Thomas Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals earlier this year. I also was always lead to believe that white people just walked around in Africa, picking up slaves like they were at Wal-Mart… it was not until I grew older and could CHOOSE what to read, without the US Dept of Edumacation shoving their nonsense down my throat, that I realized that many Africans made a lot of money off of selling their brothers, sisters, cousins, grannies and whoever they could – AND STILL DO TO THIS DAY. It is also understood that King Hussein's (O'Drama's) tribe in Kenya was well known for going into the jungle for the Portuguese to bring them slaves.

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pbunyon July 27, 2009 at 9:12 am

I understand you Mr. Gilbert. I reference about winning something is more to do with the spiritual battles that go on and how in that sense it can be very calming.

All the parenthesis of course were an attempt to meet TSAQ where he/she is. In the mean time, Mr.Gilbert, check this out: There were black slave owners in the south who attempted to join the Confederacy. This is one of those things many of us know in the deep south but were never taught in school. You should go to Scroogle.org and hit the Scroogle Scraper and then enter the search terms "Black Slave Owners". They were throughout the coastal plains of the south, most notably in New Orleans.

Maybe TSAQ can chew on that for a while.

PB

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gilbertabrett July 26, 2009 at 9:41 pm

I need rest? At least I do not write with parenthesis around every other word… Is that code for something? I have a day off on Thursday and I will get some rest – I promise. Maybe there will be a new post by Dr. Keyes by then (HINT, HINT). I don't remember Africa being mentioned in the Bible – Egypt and some other countries, but not the continent per se. I am so tired of people that have never been a slave crying about their "ancestors" being slaves. Most black people do not know what side of slavery their ancestors were on – the slave side or the selling into slavery side – like King Hussein, Massa O'Drama or as some refer to him, the President of the United States… I am not too sure what we are going to win here Mr. PBunyon, but I do not think it will be anything MY ancestors would recognize.

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Terry Morris July 25, 2009 at 8:38 pm

tsaq,

Any relation to "Kid?"

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pbunyon July 25, 2009 at 6:59 pm

TSAQ,

I guess people really do hear what they want! WOW! You are good at that.

Ya know, the two oldest remains found in (AMERICA), one in Canada and one in Peru are both NOT (RED MAN). A Scandinavian boy was found in Canada predating all known (RED MEN). The older remains found in South (AMERICA) are of Polynesian decent. I say (AMERICA) belongs to the white man and South (AMERICA) belongs to the Polynesians. It makes sense right?

As far as (AMERICA) goes I gotta say the bible talks directly about it. The meek indeed did and will inherit the earth. That might explain why you have so much angst. I cannot speak for Dr. Keyes but I am assuming that (SOPHOMORE) is the last status anyone will give you.

Do you still think that (AFRICANS) or Negroes are the original people of the earth? I am betting you do!

I am Blessed,
-PB

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chiu_chunling July 25, 2009 at 5:35 pm

God isn't a (thief), (robber), nor (murderer)?

Since when?

Er…not that I'm saying such things, but doesn't it depend on who you ask? Which, come to think of it, might be a point that bears examination.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but my cousins didn't exactly find America unpopulated when they first moved in either. The Asiatic races, beginning from a very small 'inheritance' in Mongolia, used their advantages (whether genetic or cultural) to…ah, expand that inheritance. At the expense of several earlier races, some of whom are not entirely extinct.

The Ainu, for example. And…er, I can't think of any others off the top of my head. Certainly I cannot recall what the original inhabitants of America would have been called. I don't know that the (RED MAN) bothered to learn their languages. You know, back when they were…gaining citizenship.

Anyway getting back to more relevant matters….

The revenue shortfall is already much worse than can be plausibly explained by the (current) economic picture. You can participate in that much more directly than by putting off your shopping for a week, if you really like. But…while someone might inform Obama if ten million people did so, it's not like it would deter him. The difference between tax receipts and the economic figures indicate that far more than ten million Americans are already doing this to some extent or another.

Obama, except for a very brief and promptly forgotten announcement that he was going to double the funding for IRS enforcement, has not thus far acknowledged the implications. I think that means he simply doesn't want to do so. By all means, try to keep those dollars from going back to Washington…but don't forget that they can always just print more (or, actual printing being expensive, they can just issue trillions of dollars through electronically recorded loans to themselves).

Which is why taxes have been a complete charade since the invention of fiat currency. Back when money was based on actual amounts of precious metals in coins, governments needed to get their hands on that metal in order to spend it as currency. Now we only have a tax collection structure at all (and I mean everyone, not just Americans) to keep up the illusion that governments consider their monetary instruments to have "real value". Oh, and to satisfy class-warfare rhetoric about "soaking the rich". Does anyone believe that actually works in real life?

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TSAQ July 25, 2009 at 2:23 pm

Thank you (pbunyon) for evidencing that the (GOD OF HEAVEN) did not create a nation called (AMERICA). No, the (GOD OF HEAVEN) is not a (thief), (robber), nor (murderer). In other words, the (RED MAN'S) homeland. Therefore, the (ONLY), (CITIZENS), on these shores. May God Bless You, Too

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pbunyon July 25, 2009 at 1:53 pm

TSAQ,

I take it you are one of those people who thinks that Negroes are the original humans of the earth. Do you also think it is possible that any part of the physical earth was not created by the "God of Heaven"? If so, then what part? What does the "Red Man" have to do with the BC issue?? That is like suggesting that you don't need a driver's license because your great grandfather didn't have one. If you need closure on the whole "enslavement" issue, remember "your" ancestors were brought out of slavery in AFRICA which is still happening over there. Unfortunately you show the manifestation of an enslaved mind. You have to get past that.

God Bless

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