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Chamberlain and the Right

The specter of an Iranian nuclear weapon permeates the Conservative platform, while in near McCarthyite fashion, the advocacy of a non-interventionist foreign policy is labeled as clownish naïve isolationism reminiscent of British appeasement of German rearmament in the 1930’s. But it is a straw man. The realty of an Iranian nuclear weapons program is moot – there is no capital for an invasion. For a generation, it has been squandered by Democrat and Republican governments alike. Yet it is the Republicans who have appeased the left in its need for statist socially engineered internationalism. It is the Republicans who have appeased or propagated the growth of leviathan government, crippling debt, and the profound economic, spiritual and cultural ruination of socialist inflationism. And yet it is the Republicans who have held high the American contract of negative powers, just as Chamberlain did the Munich Agreement, claiming there is no socialist threat on the continent.

To where have liberty-minded conservatives fled? Then, leftist idealists in international relations said we could through diplomacy or technocracy avoid a war. This was a dire misunderstanding human nature, of economic history and reality, and of Adolf Hitler, who the next year at Ribbentrop snidely but casually dismissed the very Munich Agreement which he had signed. Today the Right has the same pettiness of judgment, willful ignorance, and misunderstanding of domestic socialists, who snidely or casually dismiss both the spirit and letter of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution which Democrat and Republican alike have taken oaths to uphold. The most hawkish man on Iran is the pretty favorite, as Chamberlain was the pretty favorite of Roosevelt and the naïve British people.

The danger to American life lies in the Republican facilitation of the left’s monarchical socialism within the Federal government, not in the deserts of Iran. That self-serving unaccountable parasitic criminal bureaucracy is more dangerous to us and the world than Hitler ever was.

Its is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations. A refusal to the doubling in size of the federal budget, paid for exclusively by southern farmers, was claimed to spell the end of that government, a government which then raised massive armies to extinguish a full 5% of the nation’s population for the sake of its own perpetuity. It has arrogated to itself the entirety of property in the realm, whimsically or greedily deciding for itself what portion it will allow its producers to use. It has herded the entirety of children in the nation into prison-like cesspools of violence, drugs, and statist inculcation and in Orwellian fashion called them schools. It has pressed into involuntary servitude forces to secure in foreign lands its interests which may expand its financial capacity to perpetuate ever-increasing domestic socialist ‘redistribution,’ thus ensuring favor among the masses, while seeking to pervert the ‘our blood, our soil, our ways’ sentiment of honorable patriots. It has by violence declared the bodily health of a man to be the obligation of all the men of the nation.

It has refused its assent to laws most necessary and wholesome for the public good. It has forbidden governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, or suspended their operation till its assent has been obtained; and when so suspended, has utterly neglected them. In order to remake the demography, cultural landscape, and closely-held values of entire regions of the nation, and thus ensure its democratic favor, it has encouraged, through financial support of corrupt foreign governments and guarantees of socialist benefits to wide swaths of foreign nationals whom illegally inhabit the several states, while not acting to enforce the borders which is its Constitutional charge. It has increased its debts, mortgaged the production of the citizenry, and imperiled the solvency of their money and property, in direct violation of the law, while with force preventing the several states from enacting sound monetary practices, striking at the heart of healthy local commerce. Such is the Sudetenland of the American people, their rightful province, the theft of which Chamberlainite Republicans have observed continually without action or sincere protest.

It has called together legislative bodies at places uncomfortable and distant, where local representatives have ‘jobs in Washington’ and stay there through the year, superimposing its parasitic self-interested will over the political and economic will of local communities, with the express intention of substituting popular support for private lobby, hiding is actions from the plain view of the citizenry.

It has obstructed the administration of justice, which is its charge, and attempted to undermine the law to elevate unqualified imposters to office to carry out its socialist agenda.

It has erected a multitude of new offices from agriculture to espionage, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their sustenance. It has affected to render the military superior to the civil power, through abrogation of posse comitatus, habeas corpus, unreasonable search and seizure, and the prosecution of citizens as guilty of capital crimes without indictment by jury.

It has combined with others to subject us to jurisdictions foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws, giving its assent to their acts of pretended legislation. As the celebrated internationalist Chamberlain would have so hoped, we are subject to any manner of environmental taxes and curtailments of industry, of monetary system corruption, and of national defense strategy on account of foreign bodies.

It has cutoff trade with any or all parts of the world and imposed taxes on us without consent.

It has interrupted the internal affairs of other nations, and imperiled the citizenry at home and abroad.

It is these evils which appeasement Republicans claim are sufferable, while the reality of accumulated obligations against irreplaceable cultural and physical capital and the concurrent unprecedented growth of socialism has mortgaged its inheritors beyond possibility. The consequences of a generation of lavish squander must produce such gut-wrenching, vast economic and social repercussions we can scarcely imagine on this continent, that the personal success of ayatollahs in Iran could scarcely compare in import.

It is pure contrivance to believe we should rely only on one party, itself extra-legal, for the protection of our natural liberties from tyranny. It is contrivance to think we can vote ourselves liberty, all the while – in voting – giving our consent to whatever liberty-stifling policies ‘lawmakers’, so gratuitously named, may conjure from one six month session to the next. Yet it is the Republican party who markets itself as the defender of these liberties, inducing the voters to believe it will and can deliver on the mark. They have absconded with the political conversation which may impel men to act on the behalf of liberty rather than on behalf of the state, which can never be purveyor of these freedoms, only the defiler. They have erroneously and dishonestly couched themselves as the property protectors, ‘blood and soil’ defenders, and keepers of moral order. Yet it is they who have sat by passively at our expropriation, mortgaging of blood and soil, and corruption of our individualist virtues toward multiculturalism.

Warring in Iran, and the maintenance of a continual global military presence itself, simply requires more of the same socialist abrogation of American liberty, more inflationism and spendthrift debt across the economy so conspicuous and pervasive it cannot be ascertained that the inflation itself was not the original goal. The clear and present threat is Washington, not Tehran.