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.Humphrey.Conservatives are going to have to recognize that the Nixon Administration willembrace most of the socialism of the Democratic administrations, while professing toimprove it."The Establishment promotes the idea of the inevitability of Communism through itsperversion of terms used in describing the political spectrum.(See Chart 1) We aretold that on the far Left of the political spectrum we find Communism, which isadmittedly dictatorial.But, we are also told that equally to be feared is the opposite of the far Left, i.e., the far Right, which is labeled Fascism.We are constantly told that we should all try to stay in the middle of the road, which is termed democracy, but bywhich the Establishment means Fabian (or creeping) socialism.(The fact that themiddle of the road has been moving inexorably leftward for forty years is ignored.)Here is an excellent example of the use of false alternatives.We are given the choicebetween Communism (international socialism) on one end of the spectrum, Naziism(national socialism) on the other end, or Fabian socialism in the middle.The wholespectrum is socialist!This is absurd.Where would you put an anarchist on this spectrum? Where do you puta person who believes in a Constitutional Republic and the free enterprise system? Heis not represented here, yet this spectrum is used for political definitions by a probable ninety percent of the people of the nation.Charts 1 and 2Chart 1 depicts a false Left-Right political spectrum used by Liberals which has Communism (International Socialism) on the far Left and its twin, Fascism (National Socialism) on the far Right with the "middle of the road" being Fabian Socialism.The entire spectrum is Socialist!Chart 2 is a more rational political spectrum with total government in any form on the far Left and no government or anarchy on the far right.The U.S.was a Republic with a limited government, but for the past 60 years we have been moving leftwardacross the spectrum towards total government with each new piece of socialist legislation.There is an accurate political spectrum.(See Chart 2.) Communism is, by definition,total government.If you have total government it makes little difference whether youcall it Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Caesarism or Pharaohism.It's all pretty muchthe same from the standpoint of the people who must live and suffer under it.If totalgovernment (by any of its pseudonyms) stands on the far Left, then by logic the farRight should represent anarchy, or no government.Our Founding Fathers revolted against the near-total government of the Englishmonarchy.But they knew that having no government at all would lead to chaos.Sothey set up a Constitutional Republic with a very limited government.They knew thatmen prospered in freedom.Although the free enterprise system is not mentionedspecifically in the Constitution, it is the only one which can exist under aConstitutional Republic.All collectivist systems require power in government whichthe Constitution did not grant.Our Founding Fathers had no intention of allowing thegovernment to become an instrument to steal the fruit of one man's labor and give it to another who had not earned it.Our government was to be one of severely limitedpowers.Thomas Jefferson said: "In questions of power then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of theConstitution." Jefferson knew that if the government were not enslaved, people soon would be.It was Jefferson's view that government governs best which governs least.Ourforefathers established this country with the very least possible amount ofgovernment.Although they lived in an age before automobiles, electric lights andtelevision, they understood human nature and its relation to political systems far better than do most Americans today.Times change, technology changes, but principles areeternal [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]