Originally appeared in American Thinker on July 6, 2019
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I recently watched a German-made political movie “The Lives of Others” which was released back in 2006. Every American should take the opportunity to watch this movie for it portrayed the destructive consequences for the people and a society living under what was formally an all-powerful East German police state.
Their state police agency which was called the Stasi was granted virtually unlimited power to monitor and spy on the lives of their citizens with the objective of maintaining absolute control over all aspects of the personal and professional lives of its people. The Stasi was renowned for being highly proficient and effective in their ability to subjugate their citizens.
This movie is a potential warning to Americans about the dire consequences of increasing the powers of the state. As we face the 2020 elections, it is an advantageous time for as many as possible to watch this movie. Too many American people take for granted the continued blessings of our great American system instituted by the Founding Fathers that is based on the premise that man can rule himself.
As responsible citizens, we must always keep in mind that millions of Americans over the years have worked and fought tirelessly so all of us can live in freedom. Freedom can be won as the American Revolution and subsequent Founding demonstrated; however, we must remain constantly vigilant as current threats to our democratic way of life must always be vigorously challenged.
We must acknowledge that we have an increasingly radicalized and left leaning Big Government Democratic Party relentlessly driven to assume power by any means possible. Their host of twenty plus Presidential candidates are campaigning on platforms dedicated to imposing on our country Socialist political agendas of various types.
Most alarming, the majority of policies advocated by Democrats involves the Federal Government becoming more involved in an increasingly pervasive way in our lives. Underlying their support of the Green New Deal, Identity Politics, a Socialist style economy, government control of Health Care, open borders and attacks on the First and Second Amendments all add up to a substantial loss of our personal freedoms.
These policies involve moving decision making on daily life decisions from an individual to a Government imposing ever increasing numbers of laws to regulate a citizen’s behavior. Creating new Government rules and regulations brings along mechanisms for compliance and enforcement and an increased stratification of society between an elite that rules and masses that must obey the rules and live in a mandated and prescribed fashion. This will grow the power of a larger and permanent Washington administrative bureaucracy.
More government means less accountability, unsustainable levels of spending, inefficient and inadequate delivery of basic services, inadequate economic growth, an increasingly stratified society offering fewer choices for people on a daily basis and the inevitability an increasing level of official corruption. This accurately describes what occurred under the Obama Administration.
What makes the Democrats especially dangerous these days is they are highly united in their attempt to impose in an increasingly totalitarian fashion their Progressive and Socialist agenda by any means possible. They often use the tactics of overtly attempting to silence and eliminate conservative opposition and practicing the policy of personal destruction of their opponents.
It reached a point where seemingly an alliance of “Deep State” Federal bureaucracy players including high ranking members of the Obama Administration consisting of the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA united with Hillary Clinton to participate in a comprehensive campaign to rig the outcome of the 2016 election in her favor.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team was appointed and led an ongoing and destructive attempt to unseat the dully elected President Trump with ultimately unproven accusations that his campaign colluded with the Russians for political advantage in the 2016 election. It is remains to be seen if investigative efforts led by Attorney General William Barr will result in justice being served and the Deep State actors playing key roles in this potentially largest political scandal in American history are brought to justice for weaponizing key American law enforcement institutions in the pursuit of subverting our election process.
Gone are the days of Democrats attempting to win potential voters in the court of public opinion with a free, open and honest debate of ideas and policies. With the complicit support of a Democratic Party aligned Main Stream Media plus Academia, the Entertainment industry along with much of Big Tech including the most important players such as Google, Facebook and Amazon; traditional democratic practices including the free and open exchange of ideas, transparency and open debate on policies and the proper direction for our country are rapidly disappearing from our political landscape.
Journalism is dead with the Main Stream Media predominately invested in promoting progressive politics and deeply aligned with the Democratic Party. It is difficult to determine the long term damage to this country given a Main Stream Media morphed into the active working partner of the Democratic Party which increasingly resorts to the use of Fake News to gain political advantage for the other side.
It is an American citizen’s fundamental duty to be well enough informed about the leading issues of the day so when it is time to enter the voting booth an informed decision can be made. How can this happen in today’s political environment? Are the lies becoming the truth and the truth becoming the lies for an increasing number of Americans due to the media’s extensive and biased influence?
During the first two years of President Trump’s Administration when the Republicans hold a majority in the House, many Republicans in Congress followed suit with the Democrats and actively protected the political status quo rather than join with the President to implement several important agenda items such as health care and immigration reform. An important explanation is that the majority of our elected officials including those in both parties are positioned literally as insiders. Republicans and Democrats in office often in effect work as one party; a party that opposes change at all costs and this often works to supersede the interests of the American voter.
In 2016, Americans voted for a Government to become more reflective of traditional American values and most importantly to break the monopoly of politicians and a Washington entrenched permanent bureaucracy mired in a system dedicated to maintaining their own power.
The Trump supporter continues to believe that the ultimate outcome of his election in 2016 and re-election in 2020 will create a better future for all of us. If our elected officials in Congress continue to not respond to the strong messages directed their way that political changes are required and support for the Trump Agenda is necessary to fix our country – our future is in serious peril. The success or failure of the Trump Agenda may be our very last chance to ensure the ultimate well-being of our country and our continued ability to live free in a functioning democracy.
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