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Title: The CWR Blog A watershed election. A Weimar election?
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URL Source: http://www.catholicworldreport.com/ ... lection_a_weimar_election.aspx
Published: Nov 11, 2012
Author: James V. Schall, S.J.
Post Date: 2012-11-11 14:42:31 by A K A Stone
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The 2012 presidential election will be analyzed to death. Then, it will be commented on for years or decades to come. Before the election, we heard various hypotheses about its import: “The year 2012 will see the last ‘free’ election.” It will reveal a deeply divided people, divided over the most fundamental issues of right and wrong. It is a “Weimar Election.” That was the vote of the Germans in the 1930s about who would rule the country. They did not read the party leader carefully or watch what he did. “The majority in the country is not ‘white’ but ‘brown.’” They dance to a different tune. “No real unified Catholic vote exists.” Some even think that Robert Hugh Benson’s 1907 novel, The Lord of the World, describes what next to expect. The notion that some things, especially the important ones, should not fall within the jurisdiction of the state is no longer to be taken for granted. The state, with its main duties, the taking care of everyone, defines what is important from now on. One might say that our people coldly looked the Leviathan in its eyes. They did not flinch as he brought them into his body. These are dramatic observations, no doubt. We now wait to see what happens next. We have established who is in power. We will not pass this way again. And in establishing who is to rule us, we reveal our own souls. The liberty to do whatever we want that Aristotle spoke of while describing democracies is now firmly rooted among us. No real opposition will be tolerated. Liberty means doing what state demands. Generally speaking, we prefer a political system, the result of which is that either candidate could rule reasonably well. The vital principals of the regime would remain intact, even with disagreement. In Australia, a citizen has to pay a fine if he does not vote. This is a dubious law. It is much better to give a citizen the freedom to vote or not to vote. After all, when it comes to the crunch, a mandatory voting law doubtfully fares better than a less rigid one. A democracy can in theory produce a wiser ruler than other systems. But in practice it can do the opposite even if everyone votes freely with no worry about being fined. This election was not an elections between two candidates whose vision of reality is the same or even reconcilable. The election was about whether a “new” idea of the state would replace the basic principles of the Founding of the country. Most of the directions of this “new” state—its nature and roots—were already described by Plato and Aristotle, but they knew them as disorders. The moral and political tendencies were visible in the first term for everyone to see. Now there is little reason to think such policies will not be carried out. The courts and the House may still be something of a counter balance, as well as the relative autonomy of the individual states. We can expect any new Supreme Court justice will be appointed by the same ideology that won the election. No one will ask if there are standards and principles that stand behind all government, including democratic ones. We may need to be preparing for more direct persecution for religious doctrines and prudential norms. The state in effect has now consolidated its responsibility for all aspects of our lives from before conception to “helping” us to the cemeteries as expeditiously and conveniently as possible. The Church will be deeply divided; those who voted for the president will now claim that they have been “protecting” the Church all along. But, in exchange, the Church will need to “downplay” (read, stop) its strident opposition to the now widely approved “rights” that justify these actions. It will only be necessary on a few outmoded doctrines about sex to change things. In any case, those who gets any assistance from the state must conform to all the laws and mandates of the state, including ones that go against objective standards or subjective conscience. The Acton Institute recently published a small book entitled: After the Welfare State. This election tells us that there is not going to be anything after the welfare state. Once it is set up, there is no going back short of revolution, and revolutions usually produce something worse. Government redistribution of wealth must now be the central moral feature of our society. Somebody is always responsible and that is the government. Government will define who gets what and who pays for it. Thus, ever increasing percentages of the citizens of the country will be directly dependent on the government. This is what this government has strived for. It prevents much dissent if all livelihood originates from the state. The state is not only in the business of distributing wealth but in the business of informing us what we must do or hold to receive this largess. Little discussion of producing wealth comes up because the new state realizes that its security depends not on production but on distribution. It is perfectly comfortable with shortages as they generate more power for the state. The churches will have nothing to say outside church walls. Every religious institution will be required to deal with the public according to standards specified by the government. There will be no active dissent. Religion has long been looked at by modern politicians and philosophers as the cause of societal turmoil. The goal would be to establish a bureau or cabinet level secretary of religion in charge of forming acceptable dogmas and distributing what goods the government thinks the churches need. There will be a “parliament” of religion in which all legal religious bodies will be represented as equals, whatever they hold in private about themselves Doctrinal or liturgical differences can go on so long as the church leaders and members accept the government definitions of anything outside the walls of the church. The older notions of charity and truth claimed by the churches as justifications for their activities will be absorbed by state institutions. In effect, we will have a new syncretic religion that can hold whatever it wants inside the churches, but all the other human things—education, aid, health, beauty—will be supplied by the state so that it will be seen as doing everything the older religions thought they were doing. In the end, I must ask myself: “Will these things come to pass?” Many of them have already come to pass. What is left is the completion of the state as the sole provider of moral, economic, cultural, and even religious goods. We have just witnessed a watershed election. The earliest years of the 21st century are rapidly seeing the logic of political and philosophical ideas that, in their origins, were deviations from the truth. We witness not merely a voluntary acceptance of these ideas in the political order through election, but also an abdication of serious reasoning about them in the public order.
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This person is wrong!!! This socialist system is destined for COLLAPSE when the fiat money supply drives prices to unpayable levels for everything. While most of us Christians believe that this will lead to the Antichrist new world order and the tribulation period the fact is that God may still terry in bringing this about. In that case we will have to go beyond the organized Jury Nullification Movement. One of the few good things about the Roman Catholic Church was that it helped to preserve Civilization after the collpse of the Roman Pagan system through its own antichrist immoral excesses which in fact are quite similar to their own. As a forinstance the Romans practiced infanticides by "exposure" at a rate similar to the infanticides by abortion today and this activity was banned by the Catholics. The Romans were also rampant "gays" and the Emperor Nero even practiced SAME SEX MARRAIGE. They also killed their own slaves and the Christian population of Rome in "games" which were ACTUAL and not just simulated violence like we have today. The catholics banned these practices as well and therby preserved genuine civilization through the fall of the Roman Empire. If God terries in bringing about the tribulation and the Second Coming than it is up to our current Christian community to be the "catholics" of our time and preserve as much of civilization as possible through the coming economic and moral collapse. Along these lines I will be thinking about setting up the following subdivisions along with the Organized Jury Nullification Movement in the Covenental Action Corps. The Covenantal Science Division. - This will be designed to replace the current "progressive" dominated university system in teaching the hard sciences. The Covenantal Education system and Discovery Corps - To provide Kintergarten through end of life education and to replace the Boy and Girl Scout programs which I think will eventually cave in and accept "gays" and atheists. (The Girls Scouts have already caved on this and the Boy Scouts include merit badges supportive of the Antichrist "New World Order" (Wolrd Citizenship, Environmental Sciences) in their program which show their tendancies for caving as well despite their prostations otherwise.) The Discovery Corps replacement for the scouting programs will include the following sections. 1, Ranger Pups - for grades Kindergarten through fourth. 2, Rangers - for grades fifth through twelth 3, Senior Rangers - For college fresman to end of life. This section will also provide the adult leaders for the other sections. In addition to the Discovery Corps the Education division will provide alternative K to 12 schools to the Government brainwashing center schools that we currently call "public" schools. (All LEGITIMTE university level education that is not "Progressive" BRAINWASHING will be handled by the Covenantal Science Division, The Covenantal Technology and Engineering Division and the Senior Rangers merit badge program of the Discovery Corps.) The Covenantal Media Division - To cover all radio, television, cinema and music related activities of the Covenantal Action Corps. The Covenantal Publishing Division - To cover all publishing activities of the Covenantal Action Corps. The Covenantal Currency Division - To design and mantain a Debt Free Currency to eventually replace the dollar when it dies of hyper-inflation using the "local currency" and silver backing models with the United States Silver Dime (.900 fine silver) as the new monetary unit. The Covenantal Technology and Engineering Division - to design new energy, rocketry, computer, transportation, communication and weapons technologies and to train people for careers in these areas. The Main Covenantal Action Corps Division - To train an organized jury nullification movement to protect the civilization preserving activities of the other divisions and to Covenantal God given rights of all American citizens that wish to retain them together with a uniformed corps that will monitor police arrrests for potential jury nullification cases. (My view of this subject is that if they can wear "official costumes" in order to do their work of taking away our God given Covenantal rights than SO CAN WE wear "official costumes" to defend and protect those rights.)
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