The History of Politics
Part 4: Attempt at Repetition and the Result
As we have seen, the Democratic Party started out as the big business, whites only, small central government party. There were Progressives (as they were called before 1917) but those people tended to be on the Republican side of the aisle. Theodore Roosevelt was considered a Progressive and he was a Republican. Woodrow Wilson was considered Conservative, and he was a Democrat. But that all changed with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and the 1935 relief act. Brief Description (FDR signs Emergency Relief Appropriation Act – HISTORY.)
To understand what happened, you have to look at what happened in Russia in 1917. There was a revolution. Actually, there were a series of revolutions: the Tsar was overthrown; the Mensheviks took power; the Bolsheviks overthrew the Mensheviks and established a Marxist state run by a triumvirate of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. While Lenin and Trotsky were working towards the creation of a Communist/Marxist state, Stalin was working behind the scenes to take full power. He made his move when Lenin died. He ousted Trotsky and assumed complete control of the Russian Communist Party.
Books have been written about what Stalin did and the millions he murdered in his quest for power. One of the best was written by Trotsky before his assassination in Mexico in August of 1940. The upshot of the whole thing was that Stalin was NOT a Marxist/Communist. He was one of the Reactionaries that Marx warned about in the Communist Manifesto. He basically reinstated Tsarist policies under the guise of Communism and made himself the sole, unquestioned ruler of the reconstituted U.S.S.R. (The Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics). The old-timers knew what he had done. My grandparents and their friends who fled the 1912 revolution in Russia called Stalin “The Red Tsar”. He hid his totalitarianism behind the façade of communist jargon. What the Left, the media, and the pundits are all spouting today are not Marxist principles but Stalinist ones.
Now, into that mishmash, we have to throw in a little American Exceptionalism.
Americans have a way of adapting European concepts to fit themselves in a totally unique way. There are some politicians who try to deny this, but a simple reading of world history will put the lie to them. Americans broke from England with its King and parliamentary style of government and created one with a revolving President and an offsetting Congress and Supreme Court. They took the Leftist ideas coming out of the Soviet Union and adapted them to the American Experience. All worker’s jobs in the USSR were protected. There was no unemployment because the government found you a job whether you liked it or not. Millions died in Soviet Government-owned factories, worked to death and Stalin simply murdered anyone who tried to tell about it. It was years before the truth of what was happening behind his Iron Curtain, as Winston Churchill called it, came out.
But what FDR did with the 1935 bill was add protection to the unemployed, something that was totally anathema to the Marxist concept. Yes, the US Government established a work program, the WPA, but there were some people who did not or could not work. In Marxist theory, these people should have been allowed to die off. They would become the collateral damage of establishing a new social order, as one former American President described them. By extending this protection to non-workers, FDR created a class of individuals who were dependent on the Government for their sustenance without contributing to the fund from which that sustenance derived. Some may think this is great, it will provide for those that can’t provide for themselves. Well, consider this story that was told to me…..
A mouse is placed in a glass jar filled with its favorite grain, corn. He thinks to himself, this is Amazing! I don’t have to search for food any longer, fearing for my life, wondering whether I will starve or not. So the mouse beings to eat freely whenever he wants. As time goes on, he begins to taste some things that he doesn’t necessarily like, but hey, there is still plenty of corn, so he dismisses the things he doesn’t like and continues to eat the free corn. More time passes and now the mouse is at the bottom of the glass jar and he finds nothing but dirt, rock, and weeds. No more corn. Then the mouse realizes that he is at the bottom of the jar and cannot even climb out to go find food for himself. Then one day, some corn is dropped into the jar. He thinks I am saved, I have corn to eat. But the corn does not come when he wants. Now he realizes that the food will only come when someone drops it into the jar, otherwise, he has nothing to eat. At that moment, he begins to think that he is doomed because he is now at the mercy of someone else for his food and he is no longer able to forge for himself, so if no one drops corn into the jar, he will surely starve to death.
I ask, what does this sound like to you? What do you think this will create?
This created the underclass that Marx warned about, a class of non-workers that Politicians would keep subservient to them in order to ensure their elections. But to what end? Marx called the politicians who used this subservient class, Reactionaries because they were using their political power to return the government/society to something that had gone before and was not progressing towards the sought-after Communist utopia. But just what is it that the people who run the Democratic Party want to return to?
For Stalin, the only kind of Totalitarian government they knew was the Tsar. Remember, they had been ruled by one family since the 1600s, yet the first Tsar was Ivan the Terrible, and he took control in 1547. Europe had seen various families controlling the governments of vast regions of the continent: Frederick III, a Habsburg, was confirmed the first Holy Roman Emperor in 1452. The last Habsburg Emperor, Frans Joseph died in 1916. At one point in European history, there was a Habsburg on virtually every throne in Europe except England. The Prussian states, which eventually became Germany had the Hohenzollerns. France had the Bourbons. England had the Plantagenets, Stuarts, and others. So, when we look at the history of European Totalitarians, the “Left” has numerous examples of ruling families to emulate in the New World Order.
But, what about America? We have never had a ruling family. But, we have had people who knew how to rule on the same level of subjugation. Remember Andrew Jackson and his plantation? Just look at Cuba and Venezuela. The Castros, hiding behind the façade of communism/socialism have basically reinstated the old Colonial paradigm with themselves as the rulers over a captive population, Venezuela, the same. The colonial paradigm works as long as the conquered colonials are kept a step or two above the level of desperation. Only desperate people revolt.
In America, the paradigm is the Plantation, and as we have seen from history 1620-1865, the Plantation system works. It wasn’t the slaves who rebelled and started the Civil War. It was the plantations’ economic competitors in the North. On a plantation, you had masters and slaves. The slaves worked to provide the master with things to sell (cotton or tobacco); the master would sell those commodities and then provide the slaves with what they needed to live from clothes to food to shelter to medical.
In my humble opinion, the Democratic Party is a party of Reactionary elites who are trying to re-establish a national plantation with themselves as the masters and the rest of us as their slaves. The middle-class, the new proletariat, the workers are being taxed with ever higher and higher taxes to get them used to the government taking all and then giving back just what the proletariat needs to be a step or three above the survival level. They are taking the money, now, and rather than redistributing it among the workers, they are giving it to the non-workers only because they have to have a place to put it. Once they achieve their goals and convert the working middle class into their slaves, they can get rid of those on welfare, just as Venezuela has done by either allowing them to starve or run away. But in all honesty, there is nowhere else to run. Anyone on welfare today will become the collateral damage of tomorrow when they are no longer needed to vote the Democratic elite into power because once the Reactionary Elite has achieved that level of power, elections will no longer be necessary or will be so controlled as to be meaningless. Stalin had elections. He always won. One day, in the not too distant future, we will have elections here in America and the Democrats will always win as will a couple of Republican flunkies just to make the corrupt elections seem honest.
But the Democrats will be in for a big surprise. They have ignored the Bible and the last day prophesies. As the Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky triumvirate, or the Pompey, Crassus, Caesar triumvirate, or the triumvirate of Octavianus, Antony, and Lepidus, someone will emerge from the shadows to assume supreme power with an angel of Satan, or Satan himself empowering him. And he or she will rule until the Saints of God return in their power to establish the millennium. Consider these scriptures….
Revelation 6:2-8 “(2) And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. (3) And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. (4) And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. (5) And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. (6) And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. (7) And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. (8) And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”
Now with those verses in mind, take a look around the world today, and hopefully, your eyes will be opened.
Written by Eric B. Ruark and Tanya J. Tillman
3 thoughts on “The History of Politics”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Great article Eric/Tanya! I enjoyed it very much!
Lots of interesting information in this series. Appreciate the time and effort!
Really good article! Perfect comparison to what is going on today! People need to wake up, but we know they won’t because of what God’s Word says!!