Peace, Love, Flowers, Bullets

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So, where Hanson calls what is happening in Washington today a revolution, he is more clearly describing a coup d’etat. As long as we understand that a coup d’etat does not have to be violent, but can easily use the mechanisms of government to subvert the system, we have no problem grasping what is going on.

As Hanson describes it, you have an elite minority, American liberals, who have seized control of the Democratic party and the national government. They know that their days are numbered, but they want to make the best use of this opportunity to change the system to empower people like them.

They want to disempower bankers, industrialists, and entrepreneurs in favor of government workers, union members, trial lawyers, media intellectuals, academics, and stand-up comics.

Now, we are not just seeing the intellectual elites, filled with Nietzschean resentment, punishing the productive class of society, we are also seeing them create fault lines of social division.

As Hanson and many others have pointed out, you cannot tax the productive sector into submission and assume that it is going to continue to produce the wealth that will keep the rest of the nation afloat. At some point, you are going to cook the goose and it will no longer produce those golden eggs.

Whatever happens this weekend in Congress, the fact remains that the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats have borrowed so much money in the last fourteen months that we are unlikely to dig our way out without major social unrest.