By Bruce Walker
Some conservatives have begun to
openly wonder if Obama is going to seize power in America. Would he want
to do this? Perhaps so (which is a scary.) No one dreamed that
Carter, the worst president of the last century, wanted or planned to seize
power. Clinton wanted to win power, but the worst anyone expected of
Clinton was Huey Long bossism.
Obama rose in politics through the
thoroughly corrupt one-part government of Chicago. His spiritual advisor
sounds like a rabble-rousing storm trooper. His intellectual mentor, Saul
Alinksy, like the Bolsheviks and Nazis, believed in state terrorism. If Obama
wanted to, could he? I believe not.
Once it became clear that Obama was
acting without any pretense of constitutionality, he would need muscle to back
him up. Yet the greatest source of that muscle, the United States
Military, loathes Obama as much as he loathes them. He would need intelligence,
yet his maltreatment of the CIA insures that those operatives who toss more
bananas peels in front of him than real information.
Obama would also need the police,
yet the president’s comments about a Cambridge policeman, a member of what has
to be among the most politically correct in America, shows the natural
antipathy between Obama and law enforcement officers. The police, “pigs,”
to the crowd that Obama belonged to growing up, cannot be a solid support of
any seizure of power.
What about the civilian army
promised by Obama during the campaign? Conservatives are much more likely
to be veterans and own guns than Leftists. The creation and coordination
of a real civilian army would also profoundly antagonize all state and local
police forces.
Our federal system still exists,
although states’ rights have declined greatly, but state governments still
exercise real power (as several governors demonstrated in rejecting stimulus
funds.) Nazis, Soviets, and Fascists all had to first crush federalism before
gaining absolute power. States founded America, something almost unique
among nations – state governments still have a special role in our United
States. Crushing states completely would be very hard and very risky.
Beginning a coup or a revolution
from above, as some fear Obama may do, also presumes that the revolution will
end in a certain direction. If Obama and his elitist cohorts began a
revolution, it would surely end: but how? Not only are the
military, the CIA, and the police generally disgusted with Obama, but the
ideological sentiment of the American people is profoundly out of step with
Obama.
In every single state of the nation,
according to a recent Gallup Poll, conservatives outnumber liberals.
Consistently over the last decade, including the most recent, Battleground
Poll, sixty percent of Americans call themselves conservatives. It is
impossible to imagine conservatives support a Leftist coup or revolution from
above.
But the problem for Obama would
extend beyond that. Attempting something like a seizure of power could be
expected to alienate vast numbers of moderates and many self-defined liberals
as well. Probably three-quarters or more of Americans would oppose any
practical effort to end democracy, suspend civil rights, or end the
Constitution which was open and clear.
Even his political party would have
nightmares about any attempt by Obama to seize political power. The
consequences of failure, which would be likely, could be a conservative
counter-revolution. More likely, though, would be an electoral nightmare for
Democrats which would last for decades. This is why a seizure of power is
unheard of in the English-speaking democracies of Britain, Canada, America,
Australia, and New Zealand.
The British Parliament, in which the
Labor Party has huge majorities, has the theoretical power to pass a law which
ended the requirement for new elections at least every five years. The
Labor Party could simply make its power permanent. This would not even be
an unconstitutional seizure of power. Yet no one believes Prime Minister
Brown would ever propose that or that he could persuade his party to accept
that. Even though he will be thoroughly trounced in the next general
election, there will be an election in about nine months.
Politicians need elections just like
lawyers need lawsuits. Without contested elections, Congress becomes as
irrelevant as the Reichstag after Hitler got the Enabling Act passed.
So even his own party, or much of it, would oppose a seizure of
power.
Finally, if Obama attempted an
effective seizure of power and provoked a real national revolution, the
repercussions for Democrats and the Left in a successful counter-revolution
could lead to a second American revolution in which vast amounts of political
power could be explicitly returned to the states, the role of government in our
lives precisely defined, the semi-divine status of judges overthrown, and power
returned to the people.
Could the Leftist chokehold on the
media prevent a new revolution? Well, the Left has tried to stop the Tea
Party movement and the Town Hall protests with no success at all. Polling
data shows the increasing ineffectiveness of the establishment media in
controlling American’s thinking and actions.
Obama is not going to try to seize
power, because he would fail utterly and damn his precious radicalism for
decades in America. What he will do is what his predecessors on the Left
have done: acquire power through Fabian tactics; win one battle (like
increasing union bosses’ power) and then move to the next lever of power in
government and society. That is the dangerous path we have been on for
many decades. We need to fight the very real enemies, not imaginary
ones.
© 2009 Bruce Walker — All Rights Reserved
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Bruce Walker is the author of two
books: Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the Lie and The
Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity.
http://outskirtspress.com/swastika_against_the_cross
http://outskirtspress.com/Sinisterism
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