Something Wicked This Way Comes

American Thinker ^ | March 15, 2009 | J.C. Smith

[neverdem]

The darkest times in human history have all begun when someone decided "not to let a serious crisis go to waste". In fact, it is in times of economic crisis that folks are most susceptible to the ideas of tyrants. We look for an answer, any port in a storm that will shield us from the unknown. And in our desire to be safe, we open ourselves up to things that we would never have dreamed of allowing in normal times.

Consider, my friends that Germany in the 1930's was suffering from massive unemployment and high inflation, mostly due to the effects of the Great Depression. Hitler appointed Hjalmar Schacht as Minister of Economics to combat this and bring Germany into fresh prosperity. Schacht leaned on Keynesian Economics to this end, specifically in the areas of large public works programs supported by deficit spending. For those that don't know, deficit spending is when the Government purposefully spends more money than they receive through tax revenues. The theory is that by spending into deficit, the government creates jobs which increases consumer spending. This in turn, creates more business by supplying for the new spending being done.

The natural reaction that rational people have to deficit spending is to talk about the "burden of the national debt". The idea of course is that if we create debt now, future generation s will have to pay that debt off and we therefore are saddling them with a burden that is unfair. Interestingly, this reaction has been in place since the 1930's when Keynes first introduced his theory.  Now, is it any wonder that the current administration has been untouched by the Right's cries regarding the burden of the national debt? To them it is the expected and naïve cry of the bourgeoisie used to scare the ignorant proletariat.. To the Keynesians, the debt-income ratio would disappear over time anyway, provided the economy grew fast enough.

Forgive my descent into macroeconomic theory, friends, I do have a point here. However, I want you folks to understand what is happening all around you right as we speak. Obama's administration has embraced Keynesian economic theory. That is the reason for the massive spending bill, the Omnibus bill and the bailouts. They believe that by combating the current recession with massive governmental public works and deficit spending, they can end the economic crisis. Hjalmar Schacht and Adolf Hitler believed the exact same thing and Schacht applied the theory to Germany's Depression economy. After jolting the economy with massive deficit spending, the next step was to implement the Reinhardt Program, combining tax reductions with public investment in roads, railways and waterways. Now while it cannot be argued that both practices worked in getting Germany well on the road to recovery, it also is evident that it was the death of the free market in Germany and the perfect springboard for Hitler's rise to dictatorship.

In the Germany of the 1930's, the economic troubles served as a serious crisis in which the National Socialist Party could push through major reforms. When your job, your home, your livelihood seems to be in peril, people look for a voice, any voice, that seems to have the answer for their day-to-day problems. The more charismatic that leader is, the quicker his ascent to power during a crisis. Not only that, the more charismatic the leader is, the further people will allow themselves to be led down a path that they would normally rebel against.

Hence, the Keynesian theories that Hitler introduced to a desperate population not only served to  jolt Germany's economy into recovery, it also served to make the Germans dependent on the government for their welfare and by extension then, on Hitler himself. He became their savior when in fact, he was their greatest doom.

There is no better time to introduce seismic shifts in a nation's identity than during an economic crisis, if you are the right kind of despot. In the years before the French Revolution, Necker borrowed and Calonne spent to combat the crisis caused by France's financing of the American Revolution. This led to a deepening of the crisis and eventual overthrow of the government. In 1917 in Tsarist Russia, the Bolsheviks used the economic crisis to overthrow the government and Lenin rose to power amidst the flames. Over and over throughout history we see the same pattern playing itself out; in the midst of crisis, the crazies take over the nuthouse.

We stand on a treacherous precipice here in America today. Had you been able to ask a German prior to Hitler's rise to power if Germany was capable of the Final Solution, do you think that they would have laughed you to scorn? Do we see that it was not a monstrous sub-class of people who carried out the orders of the Reich but rather normal people who were living their normal lives and were carried away into madness in degrees by a man who understood that times of crisis were perfect opportunities for major reform? The story of the Russian Revolution carries with it the exact same lessons that we fail to see. It was economic crisis that lent itself to the ascent of the Communist party and to the deaths of multiplied millions of Russians at the hands of that regime.

When good people relinquish the power of the free market, the power that rests in the hands of the individual, and look to a charismatic figure for help, disaster is right around the corner. It is nothing new that is happening in the world today, my friends. It is the same thing that has been happening since the dawn of time; it takes a crisis to enthrone a monster and I fear that something wicked this way comes.

[unkus]

Thank you for posting this.

We are SO vulnerable for Something Wicked This Way Comes.

And the Wicked is knocking on our door.

[LuxMaker]

Thanks, good read.

[freekitty]

No wonder Rahm says don’t let a a crisis go to waste. It’s just ripe for takeover by the wrong people such as himself.

[genetic homophobe]

self ping

[piytar]

He isb not just knocking, he is already in charge. Zero isn’t an idiot. He knows these lessons of history well. He just intends to be that charismatic leader who takes over (see tagline). Fortunately, his arrogance guarantees he won’t. Unfortunately, zero is setting the stage for the next monster.

In other words, zero is Lennin. The question is will American wake up in time, or will we get a Stalin?

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[unkus]

Yes, we are in the Crisis stage and the next stage is Normilization.

I had talks with the KGB defector Yuri Besmeanov in 1983.

It’s here!

Now the battle begins.

America has a strong Spirit and it won’t go down without a fight!

[unkus]

Communists follow their plan.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[TheCipher]

[FrogMom]

I do NOT understand why people can’t see this.

I read an article just a while ago where the author was snickering at the “right wing” because they think that BO is a socialist. There can’t be THAT many ignorant people out there! Can there?

This is more evidence that on 11-04-08 we entered the twilight zone.

[jonrick46]

It is ironic that the Angel of Darkness, the anti Christ, is indeed the Dark One. It is most interesting that to describe this phenomenon for what it is, one must overcome the false accusation of racism.

[rawcatslyentist]

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true...

[ripley]

You’re all going to suffer the consequences for criticizing President Imanuel and Vice President Soros.

Absolutely disgusting!

/s/

IMHO

[Kanzan]

Imagine where we’d be if we only had the MSM, especially now that it’s run out of the White House. 0bama isn’t all that charsimatic. At this point, a lot of the previously befuddled are losing the battle trying to keep convinced that he’s The One. No thanks to the MSM, but thanks to everyone on these sites.

[stevie_d_64]

...and be coming thru a digital TV conversion box already in your home by June 12th...

[freema]

Tell me more.

[timetostand]

Fifty years of public school indoctrination has prepared the way for these Marxists! There is no doubt that the enemy is in the gates and we are in a war to the death!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

The author was unable to see the difference here.

Hitler reduced taxes plus, increased large infrastructure projects. On top of that, Hitler began building his Military machines, which employed most everyone in Germany, as well as he took all the young Men and many young Women and placed them in his Military.

Obama has done something similar, with his Civilian Service Corps, but the biggest difference is, his Civilian Force will not produce anything. It will be nothing more that a drain on the Treasury. He will have to increase all Taxes by at least 100% to pay for his massive Government, non-productive plan.

This will completely defeat the very thing that let Hitler achieve God like status with the German people. Next will come runaway Inflation and later Stagflation. Any temporary economic gains made from his current scam, will quickly dry up after the bill comes due. Don't forget, he biggest difference between ‘30’s Germany and now, is ALL of Obama’s money is being borrowed to fund this Marxist scam.

It simply won't work. I cannot work. It goes against all economic laws which will soon enforce themselves, regardless of how Obama tries to defy them or rewrite them.