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The politics of identity results first in the loss of personal integrity followed ultimately by the loss of soul itself. The political end goal of building a constituency, a coalition among a rainbow of special interests which have been created by the divide-and-conquer group identity practices of community organizers and radicals, requires deceit by the politician and self-deceit by the voter. The mendacious politician and the compliant voter rationalize and justify their behavior based on the end goals.  In their minds, the end goals are justified by the means.  They disregard the psychic effects of mendacity.

There is an exception: if all are welcome in the big tent, and the politician stands on principles, tells the truth and allows the votes to fall where they may.

However, remembering and repeating all the lies, their slippery rhetoric, and the various constituent audiences for each has a dire price to the politician’s psyche.  Mendacity requires space in conscious and unconscious mind, reinforced burned-in synapses, which progressively color, then block reception and memory of real life events. So we frequently hear of a politician who is “out of touch.”  And so they are.

Both liar and persuaded voter, true believers as Eric Hoffer calls them, progressively lose their identity and become the lie, emotionally identified with it, living the lie. Unlearning is much more difficult than learning.  The person, whether politician or persuaded voter, progressively becomes pathological, no longer able to think freely, or even to push back against habits of mind reinforced by their emotion.  They become physically addicted to the lies.  Freedom of thought is thwarted, even though the apparent intelligence of the politician may be enormous.

Genius among sociopaths, psychopaths and character disorders is common.  For them, the barriers to unlimited and immoral action are gone.  They are typically charismatic and appear confident.  What Freud called the superego or conscience is warped into narcissism, a defense mechanism by the brain to prevent its disintegration.

The soul is based in freedom, a gift of God, to know thyself.  When constrained by the habits of body or mind or both, the soul flees to find freedom again.  Trust the more humble person who stands on principles rather than rhetoric and is willing to test those principles by defending them in the court of public opinion.  Be highly skeptical of any secretive politician or when their words are so smooth or they seem to be too good to be true; these are the disguises of liars in the process of losing their souls.

The Obama administration is destroying America, yet a large portion of Democrats are calling for more of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton’s socialism.

Fifty-two (52) million people or “21.3 Percent of U.S. Population Participates in Government [means tested] Assistance Programs Each Month.” Between 2004 and 2012, this is an increase of almost 25%. This does not include regular Social Security or regular Medicare. Means-tested programs include Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and General Assistance (GA).   http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/…/cb15-97.html

Bernie Sanders continues to gain support from Democrats.

https://reason.com/archives/2015/07/08/lots-of-democrats-want-socialism#.ymrne6:bJCG

More reports show Donald J. Trump was right on with his immigration comments and Obama is derelict of his sworn duty to protect and probably criminally negligent: “According to a March 2, 2015 “ICE Weekly Departures and Detention Report,…There were 168,680 convicted criminal immigrants who had final orders of removal but who remained at large in the U.S.” …”Another 179,018 convicted criminal immigrants with deportation cases pending also remained at large.”…”In 2013 the Obama administration released 36,007 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. Those convictions included 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, 303 kidnapping convictions, and 1,075 aggravated assault convictions.”…”In January, the Department of Homeland Security revealed in a 38-page document to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) showing that of those criminals released in 2013, 1,000 had gone on to commit additional crimes including, terroristic threats, lewd acts with a minor, various types of assault, DUI, robbery, hit-and-run, gang activity, rape, and child cruelty.”   http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/07/more-than-347000-convicted-criminal-immigrants-at-large-in-u-s/

“The Betrayal and Coverup by the U.S. Government of the Union Bank of Switzerland – Terrorist httpThreat Finance Connection to Booz Allen Hamilton and U.S. Cental Command.”  A Whistleblowing Report to The United States Congress.  ://sttpml.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SHELL_GAME.pdf

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his opinion for the majority, “Finally, it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned. The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered. The same is true of those who oppose same-sex marriage for other reasons.”

I was shocked to hear a dear friend jump into Bernie Sanders’ camp upon his revulsion with Hillary. He said he assumed that Sanders as President would not be able to accomplish the blatantly hard line socialist policies Bernie promises, such as 90% income tax rate, as if that made Sanders acceptable.

Sanders said to CNBC: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country.” This is pure populist rhetoric typical of the Kingfish. It says nothing about the policies that Sanders would pursue, or even if he would pursue a policy to help hungry children in this country, nor any details about his intended policies to help hungry children. Nor does it recognize that the trillions of dollars already spent on the War on Poverty have shown: “Based on a measure of pre-tax, pre-transfer income, the poverty rate would be about as high today as in 1967: over 28 percent.” (quote: Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, 2014 report) “Nearly 50 million Americans still live in poverty, however, including 13.4 million children, and so there remains a need to do more to help the poor. The 1964 Economic Report of the President estimated that the total shortfall in income necessary to bring all poor families up to the poverty level was $11 billion (about $71 billion in today’s dollars), or about 1.6 percent of the country’s annual Gross Domestic Product.” (IBID)

Of course, Obama’s Council of Economics Advisers report glowing results of the 50 year War on Poverty, which they explain by manipulated statistics, and recommend spending more, raising the minimum wage, and basically continuing to make Americans dependent on their government.

By one simpler measure, observe the rapid growth of the Food Stamp program during the Obama administration. If poverty is declining, then why is the rate of Food Stamp users increasing?

Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and expert in government welfare programs reported in the subtitle of his article in the Wall Street Journal, (link below) “Fifty years and $20 trillion later, LBJ’s goal to help the poor become self-supporting has failed.”

Dear Bernie and friends, clearly, more of the same socialist policies will not be helpful. Lovers of liberty recognize government welfare as totalitarian policy.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303345104579282760272285556

Click to access 50th_anniversary_cea_report_-_final_post_embargo.pdf

Democrat politicians and media have created a straw man issue and inserted it into the public’s mind share – that is, a 150 year old Confederate battle flag which was created by Democrats in the South who fought for states rights (one of which was their believed right to own slaves). The same Democrat party supported the KKK and fought against freedom for slaves, fought against the right to vote for women, blacks and Indians. This is the same Democrat party that today funds and fully supports financial welfare dependence (i.e. slavery to the government) of blacks, women, Indians and now Hispanics. This is the very same Democrat party that funds and fully supports government-funded abortions (even late term) which have decimated the population of black people in America. Incredibly, Democrats are accomplishing the eugenics goal of the KKK, Margaret Sanger and John Holdren, Obama’s chief science advisor. Incredibly, they have done that by making a majority of the population believe that Republicans are racists and conducting a “war of women” and minorities. Incredibly, they are doing this by asserting federal authorities which do not exist in the Constitution against the rights of the states and individuals which do exist.

If your goal is getting rid of racism, then you must get rid of the source that maintains and foments identity politics: the Democrat Party.

Excerpt:  “The fact that many people are still prepared to vote for Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States, in times made incredibly dangerous by the foreign policy disasters on her watch as Secretary of State, raises painful questions about this country.

A President of the United States — any president — has the lives of more than 300 million Americans in his or her hands, and the future of Western civilization. If the debacles and disasters of the Obama administration have still not demonstrated the irresponsibility of choosing a president on the basis of demographic characteristics, it is hard to imagine what could.

With our enemies around the world arming while we are disarming, such self-indulgent choices for president can leave our children and grandchildren a future that will be grim, if not catastrophic.”

More here:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/thomas-sowell/hillary-and-history/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6677d599b9-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-6677d599b9-156960277

Revolution usually comes from the left and revelation from the right. This is not name-calling, it’s an observation of life.   Revolutions have seldom led to success for the revolutionaries or those they proposed to help.  Revolutions are usually based on an idea, an ideology, which has become incredible.

Ideologies collapse under their own weight because they were created atomistically…they are theories created in isolation (which is normal) but then not reconnected and tested against the empirical realities of life before being put into practice.  The ideology did not fit the reality.  In other words, they are impractical.  As the saying goes, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”   Ideologies are subsets of reality that may be totally rational as a subset theory, but collapse when interconnected to the facts of reality.  The theoretician did not connect all the dots. Thus, Keynesian economics collapses. Socialism and communism collapse.  Atheism collapses.  Moral relativism collapses.

Fascists and tyrants almost always are overthrown in violent revolution by the people or else the chaos of war.  When people spend their lives, energies, resources and hopes on ideologies and then their ideology collapses, these people become angry and hateful.  Rage and hate can come from any direction, but like today, it usually comes from the left because the left tends to cling to ideologies and disregards natural connections.  When the left finally realizes their mistake, then they finally revolt.  The right has been waiting.  A more successful model of adaptation is to overthrow the erstwhile tyranny when their direction becomes clear and before they entrench their power in government.

Absolutes come from the right.  Those absolutes were always there as natural laws.   We progressively become aware of them as we go through life, or we ignore or forget them.  The absolutes of natural laws eventually are revealed even if hidden, thus they are revelations.  There are absolute rights and wrongs, contrary to the claims of moral relativists for the last 100 years.

Liberty is the absence of ideology.  The path which increases liberty provides the best chance to adapt to the natural changes in life.  But, our intuition about change is not always correct.  We tend to overlook the many but reproducible fractals that occur in natural absolutes.  In the real world, change over time is rarely if ever a straight rational line from point A to point B.  It is a curve-fitting, an adaptation.  Ideologies inhibit if not prohibit adaptation, denying liberty.

The commonly accepted belief about Darwin’s theory of evolution is that it is the strongest who survive.  But Darwin did not say that.  It is not the strongest who survive, but rather it is the most adaptable who survive.

One hundred and forty million years ago reptiles began adapting, changing into what we know today as birds.  And almost all of that genetic code is still in your DNA today, in addition to the genetic code of bacteria and most other forms of life.    At the present rate of expanding knowledge, humans will be able to personally control and change their DNA code and other forms of biological code in 100 years or less.  However, there will be fractals of natural laws of which we are not yet aware because we are living among them and discovering them as we go.  The consequences are today unknown, but it would be a denial of natural law to prohibit the inevitable experiments.  For example, the first humans who decide to grow wings and fly may also discover that they cannot also regenerate their internal organs and thus cannot extend their lifespan.  Or those who decide to extend their lifespan indefinitely may also discover that they also become unable to have children.  Fractals are the natural changes in absolute laws which occur at event horizons.  Today, we cannot predict what the outcome of these experimental events will be, but natural law (in this example: entropy always increases and is thermodynamically irreversible) says that these experiments in adaptation will occur.  Life is an expanding fractal.

Life will continue changing and expanding.  Adaptation is accepted theory, not an ideology.  An ideology is a rationale based on assumptions.  Resistance to adaption is futile and self defeating if continued.  This means that you should discriminate.  Discrimination is itself a natural law of survival.  The immune system is the origin of the nervous system including the brain, which is fundamentally a system of discrimination and self defense based on fractal differentiation, a testing of fractal molecular variations until a successful fit to form succeeds.  Denial of your natural ability to discriminate, to decide, to judge what is best for yourself and your family is denial of nature itself, a denial of reality.  Reject political correctness.  Judge and let yourself be judged.

Increasing government control by any mechanism contradicts the natural law of entropy and is obviously moving in the wrong direction, which is moving in the direction of self-destruction.  The objective of governments today and their bureaucracy is to maintain the status quo for those in power.  Growth of the bureaucracy is built into the technology of government management.  In stark contrast, the bold, genius objective of the U.S. Constitution – including its first 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights – is to protect people’s liberty, since liberty is a right derived from natural laws and God.  The Constitution and Bill of Rights were specifically designed to protect the people from their government, to limit government.  (Don’t believe me.  Read the papers of the founders and framers to discover their genius.)

Anyone wishing to subvert and change the Constitution is your enemy.  Today, there are many and we count the President among them.  Demonstrably, the group of enemies includes members of Congress, many in the boated bureaucracy and certain members of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Their intent and actions are to defeat liberty by blurring the lines drawn in the Constitution, by convincing you that the Constitution is a “living document,” that it should be subjugated to international laws, and by introducing confusion and  changes in laws which defy natural laws.  They persuade you in mass media that we should tolerate behaviors that we abhor.

For example, redistribution of wealth by anything other than the freely shared gift by an individual is rejection of natural law and acceptance of an unproven hypothesis of collective consciousness.  This is true regardless if proposed by a church, a government or a non-governmental organization and for whatever reason it might be proposed.  This   redistribution hypothesis is derived from the ideology of “social justice,” a belief-based ideology (as opposed to a theory or law which has been empirically tested) which encompasses moral equivalence, moral relativity, multi-culturalism and supposed “rights” (which are really choices) specific to an identified group.  It is the in-vogue means of persuasion for political conspirators to control you.  A free man will stand against it with all his being.

So-called “social justice” is the ideology derived from collectivism which is being used, has been used since the 1950’s, to ‘close the American mind’ in the words of the late philosopher Allan Bloom.  Everything, for example the social cost of carbon, is to be judged based on “social justice.”  If you believe that, then you are signing up for Aryanism,  Nihilism, more divisiveness and more of the everlasting war predicted in the dystopian book “1984” by George Orwell.