USING A CRISIS TO FURTHER GOVERNMENT DEPENDENCY

USING A CRISIS TO FURTHER GOVERNMENT DEPENDENCY

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

The United States was established by people who were fed up with religious and political repression. They resisted King George III’s attempts to rule the North American colonies. Without granting significant freedoms and rights held by citizens of England, Americans bravely banded together in a revolution against impossible odds.

The new nation grew and prospered on the individual initiative of its people who braved the hardships of settling the wilderness. These citizens were not given anything tangible by their new constitutional republic but the greatest blessings of a limited government. The eliminating of English oppression allowed Americans to focus their energies on improving their personal lives through individual initiative. For the most part, citizens were allowed to build and do what they wanted on their own land and keep most of their property and assets without government confiscation.

President Andrew Jackson’s election was a rejection of the eastern financial system’s attempt to use monetary power to control the freedom and rights of western expansion. This was a non-violent mini revolution for settlers to be treated as viable, free citizens.

The Civil War, WWI, the Great Depression, WWII and the Covid-19 pandemic are some crisis periods in our history. These world-wide incidents usually forced our citizens to unite to battle an enemy that threatened our existence. During each of these traumatic events there was a battle between people who wanted to strip our rights and force citizens to be more compliant with the dictates of government and others who wanted to protect the rights to preserve our unique constitutional republic. These opposing viewpoints were evident in every crisis. This internal battle was not settled but fought out through the particular emergency. We temporarily and reluctantly sacrificed our freedoms until a solution was debated and established.

Once everything settled down, most of our rights were restored. Things certainly changed after each significant challenge to our existence. Restoration of our sacred rights and freedoms is not 

automatic, the battle has to be fought. Great statesmen have heroically confronted our government bureaucracy and elite politicians who desired the power of government in their own hands and not in the people’s hands. This battle takes place every year in our governmental halls, catastrophe or not.

It is easier to maintain the people’s power than to fight to regain the ones the establishment wrestled away from the citizens. The government bureaucrats claim they are the ones who have the ability to grease the machinery to pass the funding bills. These non-elected officials feel they deserve recognition and respect. They are the shadow government who resist abdicating their power after the crisis has subsided.  

The progressives want to increase the unemployment insurance to exceed what the employee was paid for his position. This will overload the financial system to maintain this unfeasible policy. This give away progressive program will only add to the debt and dependency of the people on government handouts. The collapse of the US economy would be a perfect situation to end our constitutional republic and force socialism/communism down our throats.

The more progressive officials provide what citizen’s want with other citizen’s tax money the greater the probability that capitalism collapses and socialism rises. The government will expand. The day will come when the gravy train is empty, and the naïve citizens realize the “game” was played to gain control for these self-serving politicians not for the citizens. Socialism will take root by feeding off the capitalist bounty left behind while diminishing people’s rights and power.

The gravy train approach is a subtle form of confiscation of citizens property. This is not a violent revolution. This is a political “con job” to convince people that they have a right to everything they desire. In other words, citizens get hooked on government dependency by the promises that cannot be met. Many indoctrinated citizens give up the freedom of being independent producers in order to become wards of the state. These citizens sell their soul for the government “safety net” promises of “free everything” by political shysters. These slackers will wind up with empty cupboards and servitude.

Direct confiscation of private assets is a more violent and messy phase, which ends this charade, although it does work. The final undermining of any free nation is when the majority of citizens have been sufficiently indoctrinated to believe a central controlled government can meet everyone’s needs better than can individual initiative. When this happens, most people are afraid that their government is the only thing that can protect them. When we reach this state, the people have been converted into pathetic “sheeple” who lose their individualism to the collective state.

The current rebellion against the “lock-down” orders has revised the spirit of Americans which cannot be extinguished. After all, we Americans have our Constitution and the Bill of Rights-thanks to the brilliant founders of this country. Remember Cuba, Venezuela, Cameroon, the Soviet Union and China.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.

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