Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade?

The United States government and its NATO puppets have been killing Muslim men, women and children for a decade in the name of bringing them democracy. But is the West itself a democracy?

Skeptics point out that President George W. Bush was put in office by the Supreme Court and that a number of other elections have been decided by electronic voting machines that leave no paper trail. Others note that elected officials represent the special interests that fund their campaigns and not the voters. The bailout of the banks arranged by Bush’s Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs chairman, Henry Paulson, and Washington’s failure to indict any banksters for the fraud that contributed to the financial crisis, are evidence in support of the view that the US government represents money and not the voters.

Recent events in Greece and Italy have created more skepticism of the West’s claim to be democratic. Two elected European prime ministers, George Papandreou of Greece and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, were forced to resign over the sovereign debt issue. Not even Berlusconi, a billionaire who continues to lead the largest Italian political party, could stand up to the pressure brought by private bankers and unelected European Union officials.

Papandreou lasted only 10 days after announcing on October 31, 2011, that he would let the Greek voters decide in a referendum whether or not to accept the austerity being imposed on the Greek people from the outside. Austerity is the price charged by the EU for lending the Greek government the money to pay to the banks. In other words, the question was austerity or default. However, the question was decided without the participation of the Greek people.

Consequently, Greeks have taken to the streets. The conditions accompanying the latest tranche of the bailout have again brought large numbers of Greeks into the streets of Athens and other cities. Citizens are protesting a 20% cut both in the minimum wage and in pensions larger than 12,000 euros ($15,800) annually and more cuts in public sector jobs. Greek taxes were raised 2.3 billion euros last year and are scheduled to rise another 3.4 billion euros in 2013. The austerity is being imposed despite Greece’s unemployment rate of 21% overall and 48% for those under the age of 25.

One interpretation is that the banks, which were careless in their loans to governments, are forcing the people to save the banks from the consequences of their bad decisions.

Another interpretation is that the European Union is using the sovereign debt crisis to extend its power and control over the individual member states of the EU.

Some say that the EU is using the banks for the EU’s agenda, and others say the banks are using the EU for the banks’ agenda.

Indeed, they may be using each other. Regardless, democracy is not part of the process.

Greece’s appointed–not elected–prime minister is Lucas Papademos, He is a former governor of the Bank of Greece, a member of Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission, and former vice president of the European Central Bank. In other words, he is a banker appointed to represent the banks.

On February 12 the appointed prime minister, whose job is to deliver Greece to the banks or to Brussels, failed to see the irony in his statement that “violence has no place in a democracy.” Neither did he see any irony in the fact that 40 elected representatives in the Greek parliament who rejected the bailout terms were expelled by the ruling coalition parties. Violence begets violence. Violence in the streets is a response to the economic violence being committed against the Greek people.

Italy has formed a second democratic government devoid of democracy. The appointed prime minister, Mario Monti, doesn’t have to face an election until April 2013. Moreover, according to news reports, his “technocratic cabinet” does not include a single elected politician. The banks are taking no chances: Monti is both prime minister and minister of economics and finance.

Monti’s background indicates that he represents both the EU and the banks. He is former European advisor to Goldman Sachs, European chairman of the Trilateral Commission, a member of the Bilderberg Group, a former EU Commissioner, and a founding member of the Spinelli Group, an organization launched in September 2010 to facilitate integration within the EU, that is, to advance central power over the member states.

There is little doubt that European governments, like Washington, have been financially improvident, living beyond their means and building up debt burdens on citizens. Something needed to be done. However, what is being done is extra-democratic. This is an indication that Western elites–the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group, the EU, transnational corporations, oversized banks, and the mega-rich–no longer believe in democracy.

Perhaps future historians will conclude that democracy once served the interests of money in order to break free of the power of kings, aristocracy, and government predations, but as money established control over governments, democracy became a liability. Historians will speak of the transition from the divine right of kings to the divine right of money.

About Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following.

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    the only hope- and it is more of a pipe dream, is that the Amerikan public wake up and stop supporting their own continued
    enslavement. It can only happen on an individual basis, and sadly it will not likely ever happen in large enough numbers to change things

    By: Tom . February 14, 2012 . 6:47 pm | Flag this comment

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      I believe you are incorrect that it takes large numbers to change what is happening. It is a concept that is pushed to the American people so that a lot will not even bother. If you study history, change is always made by a small bunch of dedicated people.

      Dr. Roberts brings up the “NATO puppets”, but what he did not bring up that it is treasonous and illegal, nor valid to give the UN and NATO “Supreme Authority” over the actions of the United States military or anything else in America. It is an ATTACK on the US and its people by domestic enemies. When we realize this is an attack on us (traitors, domestic enemies, spys have been in every war in every country in the history of mankind), then we realize that we can be overthrown without doing a thing or DEFEND our nation, our people, our way of life by arresting, holding, then prosecuting the traitors, domestic enemies within the three branches of our government.

      I have started by writing every person in the legislative branch reminding them of the Oath they took and are required to keep to be in the position they are currently occupying. I also wrote all law enforcement agencies letting them know the same things and reminding them of their Oath. (I don’t recommend doing this for everyone, but those of you who have family/friends in those positions can remind them) Then I let them know that we are sick of their corrupt ways, and that we will have them arrested, held for prosecution. Then I also listed the crimes they have done, pointed out that they are domestic enemies of the USA, no longer meet the requirements position they are currently in, but are also traitors to the USA attempting to bring it down from within.
      We have military and law enforcement who can start arrests, who will keep their Oath, and who relize that the fight for our nation is no longer on foreign grounds.
      I am also fighting for the arrests and prosecutions of POTUS Obama, Defense Secretary Panetta, & Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey as traitors to the US: The Pentagon & Obama declared a Coup D’etat on our Constitutional government. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s testimony asserting that the United Nations and NATO have supreme authority over the actions of the United States military. During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday, Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey brazenly admitted that their authority comes not from the U.S. Constitution, but that the United States is subservient to and takes its marching orders from the United Nations and NATO, international bodies over which the American people have no democratic influence. Obama and his administration has routinely cited the authority of the United Nations over the US Constitution, over the country he was elected to represent. Congressman Jones introduces bill that subjects Panetta & Obama to impeachment, but we need to get all three of them as traitors, adn the rest of the crimes they have committed. (Remember it is murder when people are killed in the commission of illegal acts).
      And the next point is this: If their “authority” comes from UN and NATO, then they have NO authority here in the USA.
      Their treasonous acts and words are on video, and there is no excuse for them to have not been arrested.

      Please realize that they no longer meet the requirements of the office they occupy, they are traitors, they can be arrested though I do not expect them to make it easy since WE have let them get by with their corrupt ways for a very long time, adn they believe they are now untouchable.
      The hardest thing is to let everyone know since mainstream media does not. But I write in every mainstream comment section I can (plus everywhere else), working in this knowledge as I can, educating about our US Constitution and our laws.

      By: Cal . March 13, 2012 . 1:09 pm | Flag this comment

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      The ending of our enslavement does not require a majority of Americans to “wake up.” During the American Revolutionary War, one-third of American colonist were for revolution, while another third wanted to remain loyal to the British crown, while yet another one-third wanted to remain neutral in that conflict. As history shows, it was the one-third that wanted revolution that carried the day.
      As Leonard E. Read once noted, it is the quality of our argument for freedom that must improve, not the quantity of people that must agrees with it.

      By: William . April 22, 2012 . 4:30 pm | Flag this comment

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    Good question, Dr Roberts.

    I will only note that Americans, over the last 30 years, have had their “democracy” swiped by do-gooders and “experts” of one kind or another so completely that for us, at least, the question is moot.

    Told a “growing population” was necessary to markets, we were given high level of immigration despite universal American dislike of it.

    Told “free trade” was always wonderful we were given “trade agreements” with most of the world despite the American workers’ complete distrust of all of them.

    Told deindustrialization would create the “economy of the future” we sent every loose job to somewhere between Mexico and Mongolia and now cannot make a single screwdriver from Sea to Shining Sea.

    Every one of these propositions was backed by one or more think-tanks and many degreed idiots, the point being had America been in any way Democratic none of this would now be public policy. In small ways and large, Post War America was impervious to any deviation from Corporate or NGO rule, now they have everything they presumably wanted.

    The fair question to my mind being, WHY did they want all this? Is there some secret prize at the end of the rainbow Americans are now going to get, having stood helplessly by as their nation was wrecked? It would be good to think there was a goal of some sort, no matter how vile or strange.

    By: Franz . February 14, 2012 . 8:28 pm | Flag this comment

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    I agree there are no panaceas, and the Founders knew this. They knew the constitution could not, and never could be, a perfect document. They could only go by there considerable knowledge of history and liberal (in the classical sense) governance, and hope experience and vigilance would forge good government. What they hoped for is that political forces would compete against each other over their own turf – the states against the federal government, counties against state, etc. Unfortunately, the Civil War and the 17th amendment put paid to that – namely, the understanding that what you join voluntarily also means you can leave voluntarily (the states seceding from the union) having been quashed by force and the election of senators rather than their appointment by the state.

    So, this leaves it all up to the voter who, we hope, is better able to recognize chicanery up close rather than far away. I know the mayor of my town and have no problem calling him out on the street for stupidity, and he knows it. Unfortunately, I’ve never laid eyes on my congresswoman, and if I said anything untoward I’d probably end up in jail, especially after Arizona.

    By: Mark . February 14, 2012 . 8:30 pm | Flag this comment

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    This meeting seems almost like Obama’s State of the Union address. It is surreal because it has no relationship with the central issues that need to be addressed. Nice article, thank you.

    By: John Beasley . February 15, 2012 . 8:28 am | Flag this comment

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    Dr.Paul Craig Roberts, 2/15/2012
    Very informative and interesting. We must likewise question the veracity of most of the liberal democrats and progressives.If they are in fact a facade – voting is meaningless.
    Thanking you for this opportunity to comment -
    Keep up the good work
    James M. de Laurier

    By: James de Laurier . February 15, 2012 . 9:16 am | Flag this comment

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      Voting is not meaningless when “We the People” demand HONEST vote. AT this time we have much voter fraud happening (as in the past), but WE allow it to continue. it is past time where we take over the voting mechanism and make sure it is honest instead of allowing some nameless entity place another within our government.

      WE also are allowing those who have openly admitted to being traitors to continue on as if nothing has happened. For example: Congressman Jones introduced a bill that would subject Panetta & Obama to impeachment because the Pentagon, (Gen. Martin Dempsey) & POTUS Obama along with US. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta have been trying to declare a Coup D’etat (takeover by a foreign entity, person, or nation) on our Constitutional government by giving the United Nations, NATO “Supreme Authority” over the United States of America.
      President Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey think they have the power to put us, our military under UN power; but they legally/constitutionally cannot do so under OUR laws and constitution (those are the only laws that matter here). We are NOT under the UN; we are a free and independent nation, a constitutional republic under the Constitution of the United States. Though we are under attack by domestic enemies of the USA.

      Over his 3 years in office, ever since Obama was Chair for the UN, he and his administration has routinely cited the authority of the United Nations over the US Constitution, the United States of America. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave testimony (Senate Armed Services Committee hearing ) asserting that the United Nations and NATO have “supreme authority” over the actions of the United States military (Notice our military is still called the United States military, not the UN military, and that it is still made up of American citizens, plus we Americans still pay their salary). It is imporatnt to realize that if their “authority” comes from UN and NATO, then they have NO authority in the USA.

      Their treasonous acts and words are on video, and there is no longer any excuse for them to have not been arrested. “We the people” need to insist on impeachment, arrest, holding for prosecution of those three.

      Remember we are a a Constitutional Republic which has some similarities to democracy in that it uses democratic processes to elect representatives and pass new laws, etc. The critical difference lies in the fact that a Constitutional Republic has a Constitution that LIMITS the powers of the government, nor does not allow those who serve within the three branches to take more power for themselves. It also is the blueprint for how our government is structured; creates checks on its power and balances the federal power between the different branches. Also it puts into writing the guarantee that no one who serves within our government will ever have the power to take away our rights.

      All Three Branches of our Government, the military, all law enforcement, the heads of the States, all federal employees are required to take an Oath to support and defend the Constitution and not an individual leader, ruler, office, or entity to get into the Office or Position they want; and they must keep that Oath until they leave office to be able to stay in that position. The president takes an oath to “… preserve, protect, and defend the US Constitution” and not an individual leader, ruler, office, or entity to get into the Office. Once given, the Oath is binding for life, unless renounced, refused, and abjured. It does not cease upon the occasions of leaving office or of discharge. (“Bound” – Being under legal or moral obligation).

      The structure of the Constitution emphasizes the principle of separation of powers. Article I established the legislative branch with the power to make laws; Article II, the executive branch with the authority to enforce the laws; and Article III, the judicial branch with jurisdiction over legal disputes. (Important is the Constitution in no way granted the federal courts the power of judicial review, or an ultimate interpretive power over the constitutional issues).
      The principle of federalism is another part of this separation of powers: the national or federal government shares power with state governments; each maintaining some degree of sovereignty. The Constitution determines the roles of the federal government by spelling out its limited powers within the first three Articles.
      Section 10 of Article I places specific, limited restrictions on the states; however, these restrictions actually emphasize the powers reserved exclusively to the federal government.
      Article IV describes the fundamental requirements required by state governments, as well as guaranteeing to each state a republican form of government. Other than that small guidance given to the states, the Constitution does not allow those who serve within the three branches tell the states how to establish and run the state governments.
      The Bill of Rights places limits upon our federal government.

      By: Cal . March 13, 2012 . 2:04 pm | Flag this comment

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        The only thing I have to add is:
        GET US OUT OF THE U.N. !
        GET THE U.N. OUT OF THE U.S.!

        By: JohnZ . March 13, 2012 . 7:10 pm | Flag this comment

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    Franz: This was all done to reduce the middle class to poverty. Add an extra 20 million unwanted immigrants, mostly illegal, and is it any wonder that we’re in the mess we’re in. Some companies absolutely refuse to hire Americans. Instead they bring in cheap labor from India with the help of the critters in congress, who passed more work visas out.
    In another 10 or 20 years America will be no different than some Latin American nation that existed 30 years ago: owned and run by the wealthy elite, using the police and military to put down any and all form of dissent, with the help of course, of the U.S. government via the CIA. We are headed in that direction. Obomber singed away the last of our rights and we are all now subject to being swept up and thrown into a black hole without any charges. We have no 4th or 5th Amendment protection anymore. Our right to freedom of speech is being curtailed by not only the government but also by those who run sites such as this. Just write a few wrong words which may upset a few people and see what happens to your posts.
    The reaction of the police against OWS which was put into place by the DHS shows how far the government will go.
    How soon before the cops are given orders to open fire?

    By: JohnZ . February 15, 2012 . 10:39 am | Flag this comment

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      You’re right about OWS.

      I was fully expecting armor to take out blocks of them before it ended, lucky for them the weather turned foul first.

      Americans used to be good citizens, I can’t help remembering. Still are, since lots of the protestors were not in danger themselves. But now good citizenship probably gets you flagged as a terror suspect. Shame, really.

      By: Franz . February 16, 2012 . 1:25 am | Flag this comment

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    Dr. Roberts, you wrote a very good piece here but the problem is that the morons in the U.S. are neither capable of understanding what is going on, nor are they bright enough to get a clue about any of it. Not that too many european’s are too very sharp knives in the drawer alongside their distant moron cousins in the U.S., but the fluoridation and the 24/7 Faux Noize bullshit has rendered most of the United States more or less unto the same I.Q. as tarnished door knobs in a sack in the damp basement. The people just are incapable of understanding what is happening, much in the same way your common pet goldfish has no clue it is a prisoner in a bowl and will die a prisoner in a bowl.

    In 1774, by large, people in the colonies were by far and by large, smart enough to get a grip on reality. There was no mass fluoridation of water supplies, nor were there television sets blaring propaganda at them around the clock.

    it’s time for you to write an ‘eipitaph’ for the ‘deceased’ Mr. Roberts. It is over with. this nation is DEAD.

    By: Eric Petrovich . February 16, 2012 . 7:45 am | Flag this comment

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      You may very well be right. But, in the long term we’re all dead. So the question is, what do you choose to do with the life and time you have while youre here ?
      Its obvious that PCR, like many others, has chosen to do all he can to perhaps get us started back on the right track again. That turn around may not happen in our lifetimes.

      By: Jed Smith . February 16, 2012 . 1:13 pm | Flag this comment

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    The psychopath power elites do believe in ‘democracy’ . . . as a weapon used to manipulate people with their mass media and sponsored NGOs. (Thats why they always talk about ‘democracy’. The methods for manipulating the public have been very sophisticated going back to the time of WW1.) They have done this in the U.S., and with ‘color revolutions’ to destabilize governments thoughout the world.
    What they don’t believe in is a democratic Republic – - – whose prime purpose is the protection of individual Liberty and which is as small and local (thus accountable) as possible. They don’t believe in minding our own business, or the warnings of some of the Founding Generation regarding the dangers of seeking empire. Power and self aggrandizement is everything to them.

    It seems that most of the politicians are either manipulators aware of all this, or dumb pawns paid to carry out their master’s orders.

    By: Jed Smith . February 16, 2012 . 10:20 am | Flag this comment

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      A timely article. At last the Americans will grow up and become proper Europeans, one way or another. The “divine” or aristocratic aspects of life (war, race, religion) can not be ignored forever and the British Empire is no longer in place to indulge the American Republic as a vast amusement park for rich and poor peasants. Time to grow up and start acting like adults: 1) Smack this nonsense about democracy out of one’s head. Oligarchy ruled by 1890 and “democracy” since the ’30s has merely meant including an elective aspect to dictatorship, something Uncle Stalin was good at as well. Today we live in political tyrannies and any more talk about “democracy’ demands a good whipping. 2) Reality is aristocratic and human life is therefore all about race and religion, not low-class comfort. “Money” is merely a cipher for the ruling racial and religious elite and the existing environment is simply what agrees with their age-old Babylonian religion and their ancient racial proclivities. Vampires do best in deep dark caverns. 3) Divine right is for neither kings nor money, but for God alone. We can ignore Nobility, but it is there nonetheless. in short: the Great White Hope is National Socialism!!

      By: Eric Townsend . February 16, 2012 . 1:53 pm | Flag this comment

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    National Socialism means many things to different people. If by that you mean some form of nationalism which takes precedence over say, supporting israhell or bailing out foreign banksters( zionist owned), and ending all foreign aid to the despots in the middle east ie: Saudi Arabia, Qutar, UAE and elsewhere and instead spending the money here where it will do the most good instead of bribing worthless little tinpot tyrants with hooked noses and a penchant for little boys, then I guess it would be a form of National Socialism. Which I of course would support. In fact I would support even some more than moderate nationalistic ideas.
    Maybe some sharp punishment for those who sent our jobs to China, Bangladesh and India, Including those who continue to hire only foreign “guest workers” instead of Americans. I could suggest a few forms of punishment here but it would not be appropriate.
    It might also promote the idea of eliminating all illegals and revoking many guest worker visas. Maybe even closing down immigration for a couple decades or so.
    Maybe we do need a form of the BNP ( British Nationalist Party) here. I guess that I’ve run out of patience with the status quo in D.C. and their lack of patriotism, their treasonous acts ,their cowardice, greed and corruption. I no longer support that which calls itself the government of the United States of America as it has betrayed and abandoned us( 99%) to the wolves.
    As time goes by it will become obvious to more and more people that this may be the only way to straighten out the mess we’re in. Obviously continuing to use the same methods has created no results.
    Both parties have to go the way of the Dodo. The time has long past when attempting to make changes via the way of the ballot box is come and gone. Elections are a fraud. We here, on this website know it to be true. Voting machines are rigged. The mainstream media is nothing more than means to control the vote process by promoting cesspool dwellers, snakeoil salesmen, liars, thieves , adulterers and child molesters as the best America has to offer. I want to puke! Is this what we are expected to support? Is this what we are expected to believe? Is this the best we can do?
    Those of here know who is behind all this and why. If you don’t know it by now, then you probably never will.
    Time is running out. It’s the 4th quarter and the two minute warning has sounded.
    America is now in the last and final act. It is about to commit suicide.

    As Albert Einstein once said, ” Insanity is doing the same thing over and expecting different results.”

    By: JOhnZ . February 16, 2012 . 9:02 pm | Flag this comment

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      @JOhnZ, By “Nationalism” I mean a dynamic Pan-Europeanism encompassing the European Folk around the world, though centered in Europe and the Americas. The Western nation-states are pretty much dead (by the 1990s at the latest) so our Nation is Greater Europa and the former “nations” are now merely our provinces. By “Socialism” I mean the obvious point that to help one’s own requires doing so and not pretending that “tough love” is the best and only “love.” Maximum vices do not harmonise into virtue as the advocates of capitalism falsely claim and “laissez-faire” is absurd. More powerful technology requires stronger government, not weak government. Hence Socialism. And National Socialism because Socialism must be real in actual history, not an abstract monstrosity. Also, Marxism is as dead as the nation-state. Why beat such a dead dog as Marxism? Of course, other peoples have their own directions. This is not a global idea and leaves room for Islam and China, but not much in our territory. (The actual “master race” can either assimilate or get along fine with the Muslims–they will manage as they always do. They demand but do not deserve our pity. We should feel sorry only for those who deserve it.) And, yes, America is dead. Best to move on and welcome in the Fourth Reich…

      By: Eric Townsend . February 17, 2012 . 3:35 am | Flag this comment

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        Eric Townsend –

        The USA actually HAD that sort of national socialism under FDR and it more or less worked.

        It was a laundry list of trade-offs. The Republicans got their tarrifs and the unions got to represent people who already expected to be paid enough to live on.

        It lasted till the Steel Strike (during Late Eisenhower) and was broken to bits by the Steel Barons themselves during Kennedy. After which either the Barons themselves or their friends killed Kennedy and we are where we are now.

        There is no permissible level of discussion of returning to the happy days of, say, 1950 till 1963. Many, including me, will tell you it was hardly paradise.

        But i repeat, IT WORKED.

        By: Franz . February 17, 2012 . 3:44 am | Flag this comment

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    I have no problem with a Pan-European discussion concerning National Socialism. Certainly the European peoples have been denigrated far too long by a certain other group which is untrustworthy to begin with. It is time for the European people to stand up for themselves and create a new European nationalism. A renewed sense of self worth within the European peoples. The destruction of the European Union is a good first start. They and those of their ilk are directly responsible for the massive influx of unwanted immigrants throughout Europe, Britain and the U.S. with the intention of destroying the European culture which has in the past proven to be so dynamic, creative and resourceful. After all most of us came from a European nation and we need not nor should we be ashamed of our European ancestry.
    There is a caution that National Socialism become tyrannical and dictatorial as it often has in the past. It is a fine line to tread and a tip in the wrong direction can be disastrous.
    Cheers

    By: JohnZ . February 17, 2012 . 11:46 am | Flag this comment

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    Thanks for the great comments. F.D.R. seems to have been amazingly opportune through his career. His domestic policy wasn’t consistent with his foreign policy and the former does appear to be “National Socialist” while the latter was almost Stalinist in character. Did F.D.R. suffer from multiple personalities? Of course the greater difficulty is that National Socialism is a military government like those of Augustus Caesar and Charlemagne. Perhaps any revival of such military politics would have to be much more religious than was the case in the ’30s and ’40s, especially given the collapse of most nation-states. As for guilt-feelings about H: Civilians could substitute other heroes for him (Napoleon, Frederick the Great, George III, Queen Victoria, etc.), but the soldiers will have to deal with it. H was much the greatest military hero the Roman Catholics have had and that must impact the Protestants more than a little as well. A National Socialist imperium would not be the contemporary Socialist Party with a little spicing added. Only H could serve as the exemplar for a new aristocracy of Warrior Knighthood. To quote the immortal Dorothy: “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore!”

    By: Eric Townsend . February 17, 2012 . 5:16 pm | Flag this comment

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    Sir, you completely invalidate all that you write when you make the statement that the US Government has been “living beyond their means”. What exactly does that mean? What empirical evidence can you bring forth to support that particular contention? You obviously do not comprehend the fact that the US is Monetarily Sovereign and thus can pay any bill at any time. It cannot and will not go bankrupt or bounce a check (it actually simply credits accounts electronically). You then exacerbate this issue when you make a comparison between nations that have done their populace the grave disservice of giving up their Monetary Sovereignty by accepting the Euro. You cannot compare the two, just like you cannot compare our households or state/local governments. The problem that is seldom if ever mentioned by the vast majority of commentators on matters economic is that laws created by our ignorant representatives such as the requirement to issue debt and borrow from banksters, therefore laying the weight of usury upon the commons, in an amount equal to expenditures or such lunacy as debt ceilings stifles any chance that government will work for the interests of the people or common good. Our Government has the ability, constitutionally, to create its currency directly, without debt and the dominance of the criminal private banking interests involvement explicitly. Until the people are properly educated on economic matters and are saved from the propaganda and misinformation being peddled by all sides, until Government takes control of the creation and issuance of its currency, the dominance of our Government by the global elite and the corrupting influence of their enormous wealth upon the creation of laws will continue unabated. Finally, for the most part Human beings are greedy and will always tend to put personal well-being and gain above the interests of society as a whole. Regulating greed by regulating the means by which wealth is accumulated and thereby ensuring the public interest always takes precedence is an absolute necessity. That will be a tough sell to our apathetic, John Wayne like, rugged individualists most Americans believe themselves to be.

    By: Charles Fasola . April 22, 2012 . 9:31 am | Flag this comment

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      @Charles Fasola:

      You make some very insightful comments. The idea that the public realm might be more powerful than the private realm offends the fatuous self-importance of the slaves of the system, who therefore delight in presuming that the Nation-State is simply “little Suzy housewife” writ large. But the answer to this catastrophic idiocy of the masses is not, this writer fears, anything nearly so easy or comforting as “Until the people are properly educated on economic matters and are saved from the propaganda and misinformation being peddled by all sides…”

      Instead, as we Americans of all people ought to know, this is another example of “When in the course of human events…” We don’t lack knowledge, so more knowledge will benefit us exactly nothing. What we lack is COURAGE. That is what is in extremely short supply among us. Cowards are always very good at dreaming up excuses for inaction and will continue to do so “until hell freezes over,” as they say.

      Geopolitics abhors a vacuum and therefore the BRICS shall rule the earth. The Western World will politically implode beneath the rising global hegemony of the BRIC Axis, now perhaps best typified by Iran in Asia and Venezuela in the Americas. The Weimar Republic is being recreated on a global scale and then “history” (or human adulthood) will recommence and men will return to the normalcy of having to FIGHT for a living. (The notion that men actually “work” for their livings is the prevailing cowardice in a nutshell.)

      In brief, “WELCOME TO GERMANY”! We are all Germans now. On our horizons, the Fuhrer returneth.

      By: Eric Townsend . April 22, 2012 . 11:16 am | Flag this comment

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