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Anarchy is Swallowing Up the Social Order
To use a term from Greek philosophy, the telos (purpose) of government has been misplaced. Instead of designing laws and methods to enhance the dignity and freedom of the individuals living in our society, the government has been designing laws and projects that are either (1) guided exclusively or primarily by utilitarian goals of the greatest good for the greatest number, or (2) by socialistic goals that government expansion is the greatest good in itself, or (3) by identity politics where the good of identity collectives is more important than the good of individuals.
But the answer is not more government programs, more government authority, or more emphasis on collective identity rather than individual identity. Rather, it is a government with a correct understanding of its purpose that is needed. The true conservatives have it right. We need to go back to our Christian biblical moral roots, and to checks and balances and federalism as understood by the Founders, as well as a more unwavering belief in free enterprise.
The above three purposes of government thus diverge from the founding values of the United States. The biblical/founding values are based on government’s existence to promote the well-being of the individuals living under that government, individuals as individuals, not members of a subgrouping according to sex, race, age, mental functioning, health, etc. Thus, there is a divergence between the path taken by government in recent decades and the philosophical premises of our society as built upon a foundation of biblical morality. This writer used the word “telos” purposely in the above first paragraph. This term taken right out of Aristotelian philosophy fits perfectly with biblical teaching. The holy revelations of God have given meaning to the idea of purpose in life that mere dependence on human reasoning -- the approach taken by the Greeks -- could never achieve.
Government in the name of order, control, efficiency, organization, the greatest good for the greatest number, solidarity, social justice, and safety is instead ruling over a society that is increasingly disordered, crime-ridden, unjust, and disturbed to an extreme. While violent crime peaked in the 1990s, today it is still more than double what it was in 1960.
A word that describes the direction of our acceleration through space and time is “anarchy.” Synonyms for anarchy are lawlessness, nihilism, mobocracy, revolution, insurrection, disorder, chaos, mayhem, tumult, turmoil. Instead of looking at discrete issues in our classic pragmatic way, is it not necessary that we revamp our thinking, see what society has become, and work through our issues as a culture in light of the general disintegration. Who is the only One who can bring hope to our fallen, desperate, disintegrating society and world?
Thus, despite increased government controls of everyday life in education, policing and citizen surveillance (don’t forget those traffic tickets based on surveillance cameras), and dictation of many aspects of everyday living, we do not observe increasing order. We observe increasing social anarchy. Let’s look at a somewhat truncated list of what we have endured and are enduring as a society. We have seen horrible onslaughts as follows: the Fort Hood jihad massacre, the Boston Bombing jihad massacre, the San Bernardino jihad massacre, the Pulse Nightclub massacre, riots in Berkeley, Ferguson, and Baltimore, cop shootings in Dallas and New York City, the Sandy Hook massacre, the Las Vegas massacre, the Texas church massacre, the Florida HS massacre, the Chattanooga recruiting station attack, and the jihad attack in Garland, TX against Pamela Geller.
We see anarchy further revealed by regular and frequent breakdowns of mass transit systems in metropolitan New York City and elsewhere and massive infiltration of our country by illegals (reminiscent of flooding in of Germanic tribes leading to collapse of the Roman Empire). The anarchy occasioned by mass illegal immigration is encouraged by sanctuary cities with the avowed policy of protecting illegals, even those with multiple illegal border crossings, from apprehension by ICE. Also, there is a drug use and abuse health crisis of epidemic proportions. Further, the family in America is also being ripped to shreds as the number of children born outside of the marriage bond was 5% in 1960 and is 40% for the last few years. This statistic does not include the children who are born into intact families, but are raised by a single parent as the divorce rate rises.
Thus, we see that the scope of government has grown and become more intrusive, but at the same time, anarchy seems to be racing forward at warp speed. The leftists seem to think that anarchy is growing because government, despite its growth, has not been growing big enough or fast enough. According to their thinking, growth in government power is the answer to anarchy. They think this partially for a good reason: namely, the purpose of a government is to protect the citizens from the bad people and from the wrong activities that threaten social safety, unity, and order. However, given the present size, scope, and cost of our government, it never seems to occur to them that governmental policies have been wrongheaded and guided by a flawed philosophy or purpose(s) for the past 100 years. Growth in government size and authority cannot solve or even reduce anarchy if it is in service to the wrong purpose.
When discussing socialism vs. free enterprise with a leftist acquaintance (who stopped speaking to me after I said I was happy with Trump’s victory despite some of his personality flaws) he was stunned when I suggested that perhaps it is time for the New York City subways to again be privatized. Perhaps that is the only answer to the filth, signal problems, breakdowns, delays, overcrowding, and surging fare prices? Could it be that people having to do their jobs in order to keep their jobs and make a profit for investors would actually incentivize improvements? Notice I said “again be privatized.” Many people are unaware that the subways of this great metropolis were once privately owned, and that the City of New York bought the two existing private lines in 1940. This was augmented by purchase of the transportation line on Staten Island in 1971 as well as various bus lines in intervening years.
Do we really need the vast apparatus known as the U.S. Postal Service? Literally 90-95% of the mail delivered to my home is in the category of “junk mail.” I have to buy trash bags in order to regularly get rid of it in the biweekly sanitation department pickups. Is the cost and delivery of all this mail worth paying all those mail carrier salaries, and buying and maintaining all the sorting equipment that is used in its dissemination?
We must face facts: anarchy exists. Government is creeping along, puttering along, with its bureaucratic successes, and by keeping a mere semblance of order. However, anarchy is the true MO of our era. Our present southern border controversy is not only a particular issue, but it is symbolic of the wider controversy over dealing with mergent anarchy. The leftist Democrats want bigger government but, at the same time, continued anarchy, and deplorables like myself want the anarchy to be acknowledged and addressed in practical ways based on classic American principles.
E.Jeffrey Ludwig teaches philosophy in New York City, and has been a contributor to americanthinker.com since July 4, 2010. He has published the best-selling book The Catastrophic Decline of America’s Public High Schools: New York City, A Case Study.
BILLIONAIRES, BANKSTERS AND THE RICH PARTNER WITH TRUMP TO FIGHT … economic
equality.
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"JPMorgan
Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who was known as Barack Obama’s
favorite banker and who has been a major donor to
the
Democratic Party, centered his annual letter to shareholders on a
denunciation of socialism."
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BANKSTER SOCIALISM
Dimon’s bank received tens
of billions of dollars in government bailouts and many billions more
from the Obama administration’s ultra-low interest rate
and “quantitative easing” money-printing policies. He told his
shareholders that “socialism inevitably produces stagnation,
corruption” and “authoritarian government,” and would be “a
disaster for our country.”… UNLESS IT IS SOCIALISM FOR BANKSTERS AND WALL
STREET!
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"This paved
the way for the elevation of Trump, the personification of the criminality and
backwardness of the ruling oligarchy."
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"The
very fact that the US government officially acknowledges a growth of
popular support for socialism, particularly among the nation’s youth,
testifies to vast changes taking place in the political consciousness of
the
working
class and the terror this is striking within the ruling elite. America is,
after all, a country where anti-communism was for the greater part of
a century a state-sponsored secular religion. No ruling class has so
ruthlessly
sought to exclude socialist politics from political discourse as the
American ruling class."
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Socialism haunts the American ruling class In the
two months since Donald Trump vowed in his State of the Union Address that
“America will never be a socialist country,” the right-wing demagogue president
and the Republican Party have embraced anti-socialism as the defining theme of
their campaign in the 2020 elections.
WALL STREET CRIMINALS and the ultimate death of America’s
middle-class
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Jim Carrey: America ‘Doomed’ If
We Don’t Regulate Capitalism
"The American phenomenon of record stock values
fueling an ever greater concentration of wealth at the very top of
society, while the economy is starved of productive investment,
the social infrastructure crumbles, and working class
living standards are driven down by entrenched
unemployment, wage-cutting and government austerity policies, is part of
a broader global process."
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"Hillary will do anything to distract you from her reckless record and the damage to the Democratic Party and the America she and The Obama's have created."
"Hillary will do anything to distract you from her reckless record and the damage to the Democratic Party and the America she and The Obama's have created."
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“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned
an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility
to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy
alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the
statesmanship of today.” THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
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"But
what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of
the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power,
use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and
venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear
to every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy
- AMERICANTHINKER.com
AMNESTY AND OPEN BORDERS: IT’S ALL TO
SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS AND KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!
STARING IN THE FACE of
AMERICA’S UNRAVELING and the ROAD TO REVOLUTION
“It will more likely come on the heels of
economic dislocation and dwindling wealth to redistribute.”
“Our
entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become
a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This
is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” -- Karen McQuillan THEAMERICAN
THINKER.com
"The
kind of people needed for violent change these days are living in
off-the-grid rural compounds, or the “gangster paradise” where
the businesses of drugs, guns, and prostitution are much more
lucrative than “transforming” America along Cuban lines." BRUCE
THORNTON
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There can be no resolution to any social problem confronting the
population in the United States and internationally outside of a frontal
assault on the wealth of the financial elite.
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The political system is controlled by this
social layer, which uses a portion of its economic plunder to bribe politicians
and government officials, whether Democratic or Republican.
IS
A SECOND REVOLUTION BREWING? THE AMERCAN PEOPLE vs WALL ST. MEX INVADERS,
CONGRESS, THE WHITE HOUSE, AND THE HISPANIC CAUCUS OF LA RAZA?
TAKING BACK OUR NATION
FROM THE MEXICAN OCCUPIERS
THE COMING REVOLUTION...
get on board or live in a graffiti covered Mexican dumpster. If you think we’re
exaggerating, in today’s Los Angeles Times there’s an article on dump off of
garbage etc., in Mexican occupied district of Los Angeles. Collected it would
equal in volume a twelve story building... THE MEXICANS ARE HERE.
As Sirota’s book
suggests, there is a new revolution brewing. And it’s brewing all over the
country by small groups and even individual activist determined to take back
our nation from the corporate pillage, corruption, and 38 million illegals
waving their Mexican flags.
The invasion of 38 million
Mexicans since the “amnesty” of ‘86 didn’t happen by accident. It has been
entirely calculated by our elected and their corporate paymasters. The
objective is to depress wages which currently hovers in the figure of $200
billion per year. Add to that figure what it costs to subsidize this “cheap”
labor, the welfare costs, which over around $300 billion per year. And then you
have the genocide of American culture by the Mexicans who have utter contempt
for the Mexican welfare state Washington, on behalf of big business, as fronted
by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and fought for in the trenches by the ACLU,
has created in encourage their invasion. They hate our laws, ordinances, flag,
language, and culture.
A glance at the American
corporate donors to La Raza, the racist Mexican supremacist front would shock
you. Would it shock you even more that your tax dollars are paid out to La
Raza, which takes money from the Government of Mexico?
The following is a
partial list of politicians that are La Raza members working for open borders,
amnesty (illegal Mexicans are not interested in citizenship) and no wall. The
ultimate goal of Mexico is to continue successfully using the United States as
their welfare system, cut a deal whereby the illegals can hop the border, give
birth, pillage, make their pesos and then return home.
Virulently racist
Mexicans serving Congress are Joe Baca of California, Loretta Sanchez and
sister Linda, also of California. Luis Gutierrez, the rabidly Mexican racist
Congressman from Illinois Chicago. Grace F. Napolitano (D- CA) and Xavier
Becerra.
Here’s Napolitano’s quote
in Congressional Quarterly on Barack Obama and the representative for illegals
in Congress:
“Unless I see something
inherently helpful to our community, I’m going to sit back and see what
happens,” Napolitano said. Napolitano and some of her Hispanic colleagues are
informally boycotting Obama campaign events aimed at reaching out to Clinton
supporters because the candidate himself has not asked for their help. (NAPOLITANO’S
COMMENT ON “OUR” COMMUNITY, IS NOT THAT OF THE AMERICA PEOPLE. IT IS MEXICAN
ILLEGALS WHOM SHE REPRESENTS IN CONGRESS)
Here’s Becerra’s quote
from the same article in Congressional Quarterly:
But the wound was
exacerbated earlier this week when Rep. Becerra, one of Obama’s most prominent
Hispanic supporters, told Politico that he advised the Obama campaign that he
could wrap up Hispanic backing by saying “Just give him to me for a week, and I
will deliver the Latino vote.” (NO ILLEGAL FRONT HAS FAILED TO SEE OBAMA
HISPANDER TO THEM TO DATE)
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LOOMING REVOLUTION!
“Our entire crony
capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great
country is raided by its elite.” – Karen McQuillan AMERICAN
THINKER.com
Amnesty is all about keeping wages depressed and
passing the true cost along to what is left of the America middle-class.
The
huge inflow of migrants and asylum seekers forced officials to issue 400,000 work permits in
2017. That is roughly one new migrant worker for every 10 Americans who entered
the workforce that year. The huge inflow has also jammed the immigration
courts, ensuring that new migrants can work for a few years before a judge
decides their case.
The inflow of asylum-seeking
migrants, nonetheless, is far smaller than the inflow of legal immigrants and
temporary visa-workers, which added roughly 2 workers in 2017 for every four
Americans who entered the workforce.
Nationwide,
the U.S. establishment’s economic policy of using legal migration to boost
economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the
market with cheap white collar and blue collar foreign labor. That flood
of outside labor spikes profits
and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for
manual and skilled labor that blue collar and white collar employees.
The
cheap labor policy widens wealth
gaps, reduces high
tech investment, increases state
and local tax burdens, hurts kids’
schools and college education, pushes Americans
away from high tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans
and their families, including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions.
Immigration
also steers investment and wealth away from towns in heartland
states because coastal investors can more easily hire and
supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in
coastal cities. In turn, that investment flow drives up
coastal real-estate prices, pricing poor U.S. Latinos and blacks out of
prosperous cities, such as Berkeley and Oakland. NEIL MUNRO
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