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The drill sergeant’s famous shout in the movies is “I own you recruit!” or even something a little more earthy stating very clearly that the recruit has lost every element of control of his life to the military. It was this image that immediately came to mind when Peacock read the opening paragraphs of Susanne M. Schafer’s AP article on January 27, 2011 titled “First lady: Army health initiative may be a model”.

Given the context of Obamacare and other clearly socialist initiatives designed to exercise greater control over our lives I don’t think I am overreacting to the following paragraph from the article quoting the First Lady.

“A lack of fitness is ‘not just a health issue but a national security issue,’ she said, and the military’s health initiatives could be a model for youngsters elsewhere.”

That comment from a First Lady gives me the creeps.

Obamacare scares me in many ways. At the outset it creates a situation in which all personal health care is eventually and inevitably forced to migrate to a government plan and federal control. In the long run, as  the private systems are, by design, driven out of business there ends up being no choice. Obamacare will be the only health care option left. Anyone who examines the numbers sees that this is the only outcome. So, we end up with Obamacare and Social Security to take care of us from cradle to grave. The nanny state promoters like the First Lady will then see it as a national security issue to make sure we all eat and exercise properly. We will be told that if we don’t stay fit we will not be healthy enough to keep the nationally run system financially viable and therefore assure that the nation is secure.

At some point down the road I am concerned that some federal executive going to scream at our descendants through the television, “You will stay fit and eat properly because I own you, it is a national security issue, and we have to keep the health care system solvent”.

Considering what has been happening since FDR dramatically accelerated socialism I don’t think this scenario is a stretch.

Through some unknown means, Progressives have an institutional memory and a long term plan which they have been steadily working at for the past one hundred years.  They have had grand achievements along the way: a progressive income tax, Social Security, Welfare, Aid for Dependent Children, Medicare and Medicaid, and their latest achievement, government run healthcare.  Yet, for the most part, it has been the constant stream of little things that has paved the way for the big things.  Similar to the constant drip, drip, drip of water upon rock, great canyons can be formed over long periods of time.

Conservatives, on the other hand, by definition, really have no forward looking goals.  They are stuck with a life role of perpetual defense, defending the Constitution and the thinking of our Founding Fathers, defending the status quo.  They have no real plan other than defending the line of scrimmage.  Independents, and many in their own party, push for more accommodation, more “reaching across the isle”, so they give up a yard here and a yard there, and oops, the other team has scored a touchdown.  They have no plan, only the dogged task of trying to defend.  They ARE the Party of NO.

This lopsided game, played over a hundred years, has yielded a country and government that would not be recognized by our Founding Fathers.  It has taken us to the precipice of socialism and a failing, if not failed country.  It has placed us on the path taken by so many countries before us, and all have ended up in the same miserable place.  Misery surely loves company, so Europe has welcomed President Obama with open arms.

The Republicans have now taken back the House and picked up six seats in the Senate, a tidal wave by historic standards.  The voters have said that they want a reduction in spending and in the size of government, but they did not vote so much for Republicans as much as they did against the Obama agenda of European style socialism.  Yet, Americans are an inpatient lot, and the Republicans will fail without a radical change in their playbook.

It took a hundred years to get here, and our country will not be restored overnight.  Further, it will not be restored using the same defensive strategies that Conservatives have employed for the past one hundred years.  In short, the historic roles must be reversed.  The Republicans must become the Progressive party and go on the offense.  Such a move would force the Democrats into the role of conservatives, i.e., attempting to preserve the gains they have made and thereby blunting their offense.

The Republican Party must unite and articulate what they stand for, and what their objectives are.  At the same time, they must inculcate in the party the same institutional memory and long term game plan that the Progressives have been so good at over the last century.  As sure as the sun rises, they will be thrown again out of the majority, but in power or out, they must keep working at their plan, being ready to strike when opportunity presents itself. As the Progressives are fond of saying, they must “keep their eyes on the prize”.  There are no short term fixes to the problems we have created over a long period of time.

What might these objectives look like?  Here, in no particular order, are Peacock’s top ten priorities.

I. Tax Reform

II. Social Security Reform

III. Healthcare Repeal and Reform

IV. Shrink the actual size of the Federal Government

V. Reclamation of power by the states

VI. Election Reform

VII. Elimination of government unions and collective bargaining

VIII. Foreign Policy coherence and consistency

IX. Immigration Reform and secure borders

X. Statuary limits upon spending

Peacock will be exploring each of these objectives in depth in future articles.

There is no need in this article to list again the inalienable rights from God that our founding fathers pledged everything to found America on. Even those who are liberation theory proponents or progressives know the list well. If you are using the Internet or in a secondary school in most places of the world you know this famous short list.

Perhaps there is not even a need to point out that these rights are under attack like never before in the history of the United States of America. They have been quietly under attack for 100 years. They have been a bit more aggressively, but somewhat quietly, under attack since the 1960s. Under the Obama presidency they are both aggressively and visibly under attack. They are so visibly under attack that the debate has divided our country to a greater degree than since the Civil War.

The media likes to point to the economy as the catalyst for the unprecedented citizen interest in government and the angry debate on Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The person on the street will give a different story. This amazing level of interest, and the amazing conservative voter turnout in the primary elections, has much more to do with fear of losing the rights that our ancestors have fought for than it has to do with the economy. The insulting and degrading way in which Pennsylvania Avenue refers to the Main Street citizen is simply an ineffective way of demeaning people who are catching on to the truth. The deliberate destruction of the economy by progressives is the progressive’s way to deflect attention from the deliberate destruction of the United States as it was founded.

That truth is that bloated, ineffective government is claiming that it, not God, is the provider and definer of basic human rights. The truth is that the United States government, as it becomes larger and seeks more control, is the destroyer of the economy. Perhaps in the past this destruction of the economy may have been more through incompetence than through the design laid out by Cloward and Piven. Recently it is the Cloward and Piven design, strongly promoted by President Obama and his staff, that is the chief force in the destruction of our economy. The truth is that this deliberate bloating of government coupled with the orchestrated destruction of our economy through the Cloward and Piven design are the twin excuses that Progressive government will use to usurp God-given inalienable rights and replace them with “rights” benignly bestowed by a government whose purpose is to drive our country, and perhaps the world, to Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction”.

This writer, and an increasing number of people I encounter, do not believe that our horrible and erratic economy is the primary problem we have in America or in the world. In the U.S. the primary problem is a never ending series of multiple personality disorder administrations that have created massive year to year uncertainty while acting like control freaks on a spending binge. The horrible and erratic economy is the result of our government’s “mental illness”.

It is this “mental illness” that is bent on taking away our God given inalienable rights and replacing than with government-approved rights. It is this “mental illness” that makes government believe that it can, at will, levy extremely high taxes on everyone and make the decision for us on how to redistribute our income to others in our country and around the world. It is this “mental illness” that makes government believe it can escalate these oppressive activities to unprecedented levels and then accuse citizens of being “Homer Simpsons” who just don’t understand. If our federal government were an individual under care of a psychiatrist I wonder if the psychiatrist would suggest that such a mentally delusional person be locked up for the protection of society.

Of course, all of this is from the perspective of a conservative who believes that the founding fathers were right and that the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are just as relevant today as they were 200 years ago. On the other hand, the true believers among the progressives, of whom President Obama seems to be one, believe in government control, rights bestowed by government instead of God and redistribution of hard-earned wealth by the government to every corner of the planet. The last time the writers at Peacock Watch checked, ours is the only country on the planet that states in its founding document that our rights flow from God; not kings, dictators or faceless governments.

This writer had the unexpected pleasure of spending a week next to an extremely small town buried in a national forest in the mid-west. When driving into town I first saw banners from several churches on the telephone poles. In the middle of town there is a store with a large plate glass window facing the main street. In that window are proudly displayed the American flag and next to it the Ten Commandments. Across the street is a restaurant that replaces one that burned down, along with the family home of the owners, many years ago. The family owners couldn’t afford insurance but the town pitched in to help them restart their restaurant in another building and move into another home. Pride and self-respect required that the family repay their friends, and they finally did. No one asked for government help. Inside this restaurant are walking sticks and stone animals made by the owner’s very elderly father. On the walls there are pictures of friends going back to high school days. In particular, there are newspaper articles about childhood friends who joined the military and thus became heroes in the eyes of those who stayed behind. These are people who know fear of the Lord. These are people who will do whatever it takes to make sure they don’t have to fear our government.

Progressives and conservatives are thus locked in a titanic struggle that has gone on for at least one hundred years, has now reached a massively visible do or die decision point, and which, on some scale, will frankly never end.

Within the framework of United States society and constitution this is a war. It is a war to be fought at each voting precinct and is as serious as any fighting war our country has been involved in. Every voter in this country has an obligation to themselves, to our founding fathers, to our ancestors, to our descendents, and to all the military and civilian people who have fought for, and continue to fight for, our country.

This writer believes that our voting box war will in 2010 and 2012 decide the future of our country for a long time to come. It is not what has become the traditional choice between a democrat or republican. It is a choice between voting for those who want large, expensive, powerful government that defines our rights and limitations and those who believe, as our founding fathers did, in extremely limited government , God-given rights, balanced budget, minimal taxation and control and distribution of wealth by those who earn it.

It is a war as real and as important as any fighting war and it must be fought at the local, state and federal level.

Any conservative who doesn’t vote has betrayed all those in the past and present who have fought, and are now, fighting for our freedom to vote and decide the future of our country. Those non-voters are also betraying the children and grandchildren we know, and all of our descendents who we will never have the privilege of meeting. This obligation to engage in the voting booth war is so clear that even the Homer Simpsons in office in Washington should understand it.

We must meet this obligation starting now and do it in numbers that clog our streets with unprecedented numbers of people standing in line to vote to preserve our country as it was established by our founding fathers.

A recent poll shows that 84% of Europeans have a favorable view of President Obama.  This relatively high favorability rating is not surprising, as Europe needs President Obama in order to survive.

The European Union is composed of socialistic states, characterized by very high tax rates, high social costs, and low or non-existent defense budgets.  Capital flows away from socialistic states and into capitalistic countries.  Indeed, Lenin himself conceded to the fact that socialism would not work unless implemented on a worldwide basis.

For many years, the flow of capital has all been toward the United States, one of the few countries unscathed after WWII and considered one of the most economically free countries in the world.  This capital fertilized a culture of innovation and risk taking, and, the rest, as they say, is history. Economically we became that “shining city on the hill”, with a standard of living unlike anywhere in the world.  Not only did capital want to flow here, but the best and brightest people from almost all other countries wanted to flow also.  Because of our great wealth, we also became a military superpower, and took on the yoke of world cop.

The fly in the ointment can be traced to Lenin’s observation.  Socialistic countries find it difficult to compete with free, capitalistic economies.  So, if you cannot raise the bridge, lower the river.

This has been President Obama’s historic mission, and he is applauded by European and American elite alike. Bring down the United States to the same level as the Euro economies by implementing their same recipe for socialism, we can all sing “com by yea”, and Europe will be saved.

However, unlike the past historic episodes when we bailed out Europe with our blood and treasure, this time they are asking us for something much more dear to us: our vary way of life and our standard of living.

There is one other little sticking point in this one world approach.  Even before the economic meltdown, the countries of the EU were barley able to meet their social costs.  The only way they could pull this off is that they existed under the defense umbrella of the United States.  So, if America will become like Europe, who will fill the historic defense role of America?

There certainly is no shortage of candidates who would like to apply.  Russia would like to play again on the world stage. China certainly is rising economically and militarily, and just today, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told us that he feels this to be Iran’s historic role.  Actually, any country with an atomic bomb could claim this role in the absence of a benign superpower.

So, as the United Nations begins to have its dreams of a post-American World, it might contemplate the resumes of the states that would take its place.