Events Will Always Trumpet Ideology

50,000,000 Mark Note 1923

Recently I have been reading a number of post from various sites indicating that many young people who are now gravitating toward the left  will be difficult for conservatives to retrieve  in the foreseeable future. I strongly disagree. Ideologies on the left and on the right are often over-ridden by onrushing events. Events will always trumpet ideology. History is full of great changes in public opinion.  First the events in Germany during the 1920's and early 1930's. As a result of WWI Germany found itself in a severely weakened position. Germany was left with a destroyed economy and huge war reparations. This lead to hyperinflation and eventually, the demise of the Weimar Republic.

"A medal commemorating Germany's 1923 hyperinflation. The engraving reads: "On November 1923 1 pound of bread cost 3 billion, 1 pound of meat: 36 billion, 1 glass of beer: 4 billion."During the first half of 1922 the mark stabilized at about 320 Marks per Dollar accompanied by international reparations conferences including one in June 1922 organized by U.S. investment banker J. P. Morgan, Jr.[3] When these meetings produced no workable solution, the inflation changed to hyperinflation and the Mark fell to 8000 Marks per Dollar by December 1922. The cost of living index was 41 in June 1922 and 685 in December, an increase of more than 16 times. In January 1923 French and Belgian troops occupied the industrial region of Germany in the Ruhr valley to ensure that the reparations were paid in goods, such as coal from the Ruhr and other industrial zones of Germany, because the Mark was practically worthless. Although reparations accounted for about one third of the German deficit from 1920 to 1923,[4] the government found reparations a convenient scapegoat. Other scapegoats included bankers and speculators (particularly foreign), both of which groups had, in fact, exacerbated the hyperinflation through the normal course of their profit-seeking. The inflation reached its peak by November 1923, but ended when a new currency (the Rentenmark) was introduced. The government stated that this new currency had a fixed value, secured by real estate, and this was accepted.

Although the inflation ended with the introduction of the Rentenmark and the Weimar Republic continued for a decade afterwards, hyperinflation is widely believed to have contributed to the Nazi takeover of Germany. Adolf Hitler himself in his book, Mein Kampf, makes many references to the German debt and the negative consequences that brought about the "necessity" of National Socialism. The inflation also raised doubts about the competence of liberal institutions, especially amongst a middle class who had held cash savings and bonds. It also produced resentment of Germany's bankers and speculators, many of them Jewish, whom the government and press blamed for the inflation." The previous two paragraphs taken from Wikipedia .

The other example I will mention in the U.S. involvement in WWII. Prior to Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt had favored the U.S. getting into the war in Europe, but the American public would not support this move. Roosevelt's reasoning on this was swayed by his support for Great Britain, but another factor was Germany's invasion of Russia in June 1941 negating the non-aggression treaty the two countries had entered into in 1939. Russia was viewed by many in the American progressive movement at that time as a great social experiment which the left in this country supported and Roosevelt was eager to assist Russia in the conflict against Germany. But as earlier mentioned the American people did not want to become involved in the war in Europe. Then came Pearl Harbor and minds were quickly changed.

 

As I said before, events not ideologies shape the opinions of the masses. Those on the extremes of the political spectrum will seldom change, but the vast middle will ebb and flow depending on the onrushing events.
by Ron Russell

Two Faces of Obama

by Ron Russell

I generally, like to poke fun at this new occupant of the White House thinking like most that this is only another president and that things will change after the next election. But I'm beginning to face the stark reality that this maniac, this madman, could in just a few years destroy what its taken this country hundreds of years to build. I suppose the final straw for me was the new budget plan. Obama with his twisted understanding of history and his alien social and economic ideals, many of which he learned from the years he spent in the pews of Pastor Wright's church; will in the end not only change this country, as he has promised, but will destroy the very fabric of this great nation. He plan represents a threat far more formidable than any invading army could mount. Great nations generally fall from within, their fate sealed by the common masses who fail to see or understand the onrush of events. Events that are obvious to a few and invisible to the many. Such is the position we find ourselves in now. This man, this misguided fool, must be stopped. I beg, I plead, I pray that each of you raise the alarm---the enemy is not at the gates, but in the house; its not the Russians, its not the terrorist, its not the Iranians--its a charming, likable, young man who wants change. Unfortunately, its a change that will destroy this nation and its way of life. All despots think theirs in the road to greatness for their peoples and this leader is no different. No doubt about it, he is a leader and his followers love and adore him and they wait with eager anticipation for his next words and the next words come and flow over the masses and they believe. They compare him to past great leaders and look to him to provide them with a better life. He promises more and more and the people believe and revel in the changes he trumpets. Changes that will give birth to a new nation, changes for a new millennium. A casting aside of the old order and the establishment of a new Utopian-like society where all the needs of the common man will be met. He tells the masses that our problems are so great that only government can solve them and he will lead us to greatness again. His vision of American is a dark one, remember he sat in Pastor Wright's pews for years and was completely indoctrinated by his message of an "evil and corrupt" nation. He disavowed him when it suited his purpose, but gradually we are seeing his true feeling about the Pastor's teachings emerge.

The upcoming tea parties on April 15 are being heralded as tax revolt, a revolt against big government in general, and higher taxes specifically. Those going are being urged not to make these events demonstrations against Obama--no he is too popular and we dare not say things against him the elite news organizations will turn those comments on us. Yes, there is a fear, a fear not of the unknown, but a fear of the power of Obama. Ideas will these are not only dangerous, but un-American and an insult to right thinking Americans. We must rip off the mask of this man, we must show him for what he is, now! The tea parties will take place, and they must be used to condemn and begin to expose this man. They would be a perfect venue for the beginning of the end for this despotic leader.

Yes, Obama in the end will reveal himself, but by that time it may be too late for this great nation to recover. Help me reveal, help me expose the other face of this great deceiver, this forked tongued snake, this fraud, and this corrupter of the young. We must set the country on a new path, a path to a greater freedom, a path back to the land of Jefferson and Washington and rid ourselves of this new progressivism (liberal fascism) begun with Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson and FDR. This new threat to our freedoms which is sweeping the nation must be stopped and a return to sanity must be restored.