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While Left And Right Fight, Power Wins
My experience with the American left and right leads to the
conclusion that the left sees private power as the source of oppression
and government as the countervailing and rectifying power, while the
right sees government as the source of oppression and a free and
unregulated private sector as the countervailing and rectifying power.
Both are concerned with restraining the power to oppress, but they take
opposite positions on the source of the oppressive power and remedy.
The right is correct that government power is the problem, and the
left is correct that private power is the problem. Therefore, whether
power is located within the government or private sectors cannot reduce,
constrain, or minimize power.
How does the progressive Obama Regime differ from the tax-cut,
deregulation Bush/Cheney Regime? Both are complicit in the maximization
of executive branch power and in the minimization of citizens’ civil
liberties and, thus, of the people’s power. Did the progressive Obama
reverse the right-wing Bush’s destruction of habeas corpus and due
process? No. Obama further minimized the people’s power. Bush could
throw us in prison for life without proof of cause. Obama can execute us
without proof of cause. They do this in the name of protecting us from
terrorism, but not from their terrorism.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny
believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the
state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their
children, or their friends.
The view of human nature held by the right and the left depends on
whether the human nature is located in the private sector or the
government sector (“public sector”). For the right (and for
libertarians) human nature in the private sector is good and serves the
public; in the government sector human nature is evil and oppressive.
For the left, it is the opposite. As the same people go back and forth
from one sector to the other, one marvels at the transformations of
their character and morality. A good man becomes evil, and an evil man
becomes good, depending on the location of his activities.
One of my professors, James M. Buchanan who won a Nobel Prize,
pointed out that people are just as self-serving whether they are in the
private sector or in government. The problem is how to constrain
government and private power to the best extent possible.
Our Founding Fathers’ solution was to minimize the power of
government and to rely on contending factions among private interests to
prevent the rise of an oligarchy. In the event that contending private
interests failed, the oligarchy that seized the government would not
have much public power to exercise.
The Founding Fathers’ design more or less worked except for
interludes of civil war and economic crisis until the cold war built up
the power of government and the deregulation of the Clinton and Bush
presidencies built up the power of private interests. It all came
together with the accumulation of new, dictatorial powers in the
executive branch in the name of protecting us from terrorists and with
deregulation’s creation of powerful corporations “too big to fail.”
Now we have a government, whose elected members are beholden to a
private oligarchy, consisting of the military/security complex, Wall
Street and the financial sector, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness,
pharmaceuticals, and the energy, mining, and timber businesses, with the
power to shut down people’s protests at their exploitation by robber
barons and government alike.
Vast amounts of government debt have been added to taxpayers’
burdens in order to fight wars that only benefit the military/security
complex and the Israel Lobby. More vast amounts have been added in
order to force taxpayers to cover the reckless gambling bets of the
financial sector. Taxpayers are denied interest on their savings in
order to protect the balance sheets of a corrupt financial sector.
Legitimate protestors are brutalized by police and equated by Homeland
Security with “domestic extremists,” defined by Homeland Security as a
close relation to terrorists.
Today Americans are not safe from government or private power and suffer at the hands of both.
What can be done? From within probably very little. The right
blames the left, and the left blames the right. The two sides are locked
in ideological combat while power grows in the private and public
sectors, but not the benevolent power that the two ideologies suppose.
Instead, a two-headed power monster has risen.
If the power that has been established over the American people is
to be shattered, it will come from outside. The Federal Reserve’s
continuing monetization of the enormous debt that Washington is
generating can destroy the dollar’s exchange value, sending up interest
rates, collapsing the bond, stock, and real estate markets, and sinking
the economy into deep depression at a time in history when Americans
have exhausted their savings and are deeply in debt with high levels of
joblessness and homelessness. The rise in import prices from a drop in
the dollar’s exchange value would make survival an issue for a large
percentage of the population.
Overnight the US could transition from superpower to third world penitent begging for a rescue program.
Who would grant it? The Russians encircled by US military bases
and whose internal serenity is disrupted by inflows of American money to
dissident groups in an effort to destabilize the Russian State? The
Chinese, the government of which is routinely denounced by a
hypocritical Washington for human rights abuses while Washington
surrounds China with newly constructed military bases and new
deployments of troops and naval vessels? South America, a long-suffering
victim of Washington’s oppression? Europe, exhausted by conflicts and
by Washington’s organization of them as puppet states and use of them as
mercenaries in Washington’s wars for hegemony?
No country, except perhaps the bought-and-paid-for puppets of
Britain, Canada, Australia, and Japan, would come to Washington’s aid.
In the ensuing collapse, the power of Washington and the power of
the private robber barons would evaporate. Americans would suffer, but
they would be rid of the power that has been established over them and
that has changed them from a free people to exploited serfs.
This is, perhaps, an optimistic conclusion, but those relatively
few Americans who are aware need some hope. This is the best that I can
do. The majority of Americans remain trapped in their unawareness,
which implies a bleak future. The insouciance of the American population
is its downfall.
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