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On Dystopia in America

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In his extremely interesting 'must-read' review of Mark R. Levin's 'must-read' new blockbuster, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America, Andrew C. McCarthy writes:

[...] Acquisitiveness is an inextinguishable component of human nature. It motivates us to act, to achieve. Yes, like any attribute, it can be a severe danger if allowed to overwhelm the others -- or, for that matter, if unduly suppressed. And yes, the talent and drive to acquire are unevenly distributed in nature. But these are not injustices; they are the human condition. In his radical egalitarianism and contempt for private gain, the utopian statist endeavors to program humanity against its nature -- in contrast, one might add, to the Aristotelian strain of Greek philosophy which, taking nature as it finds it, recognizes the communal property scheme to be a prescription for rewarding sloth and provoking conflict.

Naturally, in proposing theories so contrary to human nature, utopians must offer implausible scenarios to rationalize their ideologies. For Marx and Engels, it is dialectic materialism: a Manichean world of bourgeoisie and the proletariat, the haves and have-nots, the capitalist and the relentlessly exploited laborer -- their relations bowdlerized into a purely economic class struggle. It is, Levin argues, as if "religion, war, nationalism, law, and politics," in all their complexity, have played no role in human history.

[...] For the last century, it is the statists who have done the fighting. Woodrow Wilson's campaign to discredit the Constitution as an obsolescent relic has been inculcated in generations of legal scholars and social scientists. Franklin Roosevelt's welfare state has radically reversed our conception of "rights" from protections of individual liberty to redistributionist guarantees of security. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society erected profligate, degenerative healthcare and antipoverty programs. Now, finally, we have the copestone: Barack Obama's dizzying seizure of effective control over vast sectors of the economy -- healthcare, housing, financial services, energy -- and the economy's consequent paralysis and impending collapse under unprecedented mountains of debt.

As a result, liberty's defenses are long past being breached. If you doubt that, Levin suggests having a gander at your pantry, your garage, your medicine cabinet, your child's bedroom (or, indeed, your own), your business, and the stuff of your hobbies -- try to find something, anything, the manufacture or use of which is not regulated by at least one of the myriad bureaus of a federal behemoth that recently announced its determination to regulate carbon dioxide (the air we exhale) as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

The stark question Mark Levin poses is whether we are so far gone that the losses are permanent. Do we throw off Ameritopia and pivot back toward liberty and self-determination? Or will we remember this pass as "the good old days," the soft tyranny in an inexorable disintegration into some harsher variety that has, for millennia, been the fate of failed democracies? Levin -- insightful, fact-driven, pulling no punches -- characteristically declines to don rose-tinted glasses. Ameritopia is the deep contemplation of a staunch believer in the vision of the American founding, one who sees that if dramatic counteraction does not begin promptly, all will be lost. The chilling part is that he is anything but sanguine about the likely outcome.

Read the whole thing here, and you'll have a better understanding of where the left's agenda is taking us unless enough American's muster the will and determination to stop them.

Posted by Hyscience at March 1, 2012 11:07 AM

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