Steven Bannon Attacked by Doug Irwin! Get It While It's Hot.

w

History Good And Bad:

Steve Bannon Attacked By Doug Irwin

by

R. E. Prindle

 

Hot stuff in the WSJ today (7/20/17).  Douglas A. Irwin contributed a piece he titled Steve Bannon’s Bad History.  Doug is apparently a big deal from Dartmouth with several learned tomes dealing with free trade to his credit.

Through no fault of his own his fame had escaped me till now.  We have a clever double entendre in his title.   It can be interpreted as Steve has a malodorous past or, as the article makes clear, a weak grasp of history.  From the title I thought the former but fortunately I sought further enlightenment in the body of the piece and learned differently.  Is that called research?

Doug is critical of Steve’s ‘faulty’ thinking concerning the tariff issue.  His highlight blurb blazons, ‘Immigration and rapid industrialization – not tariffs – made the nineteenth century economy great.’  I take exception to the blurb.

While it may be arguable, the modern economic nineteenth century didn’t begin until after the Civil War.  And the economy wasn’t that great in the remaining thirty-five years of the century that included the near collapse of society in the crash of 1873, and that was worldwide,  and the equally horrendous crash of 1893.  Between the two of them they consumed at least ten of the thirty-five years.

However, even with 1873 and 1893 the industrial base expanded enormously.  Time were tough but not for everybody.

Immigration and rapid industrialization can also be written as cheap unskilled labor and amazing scientific and technological discoveries.  The century or latter part of it was built on steel rails and high powered locomotives and starvation slave wages paid for unskilled labor.

 

I’ve been working on the railroad,

Sleeping on the ground,

Eating saltine crackers

Ten cents a pound.

 

Causes for great pride and no pride at all.  History is uneven.

The tariff that restricted European competition, the rest of the world was of no account at the time, facilitated rapid growth as it provided the sufficient profits to develop industries.  Believe it or not the US prided itself on its high wage structure, immigrants and underpaid unskilled labor aside.  Somebody had to buy all that wonderful stuff.  Short life light bulbs weren’t all that cheap.

Doug may think tariffs didn’t help but, perhaps he should tell that to the current Chinese.  They don’t bother with tariffs they just forbid foreign competition as they build up their industries often with pirated technology.  As Doug ought to know the Chinese are famous for hacking computers and stealing trade secrets.

I know it is politically incorrect to point out these obvious facts but, what the hell, the truth is the truth.  But, no defense.

Steve’s history may not be all that good but it may equal Doug’s.

How The West Was Lost

The Past Is Prologue:

How The West Was Lost

by

R.E. Prindle

 

The following is a quote from Vo. V of Mark Sullivan’s great social history, Our Times.  The quote is a critique of Woodrow Wilson’s politics:

Of the effects of (WWI) on America, by far the most fundamental was our submission to autocracy in government.  Every male between 18 and 45 had been deprived of freedom of his body – for refusing or evading the surrender, 163,738 were apprehended and disciplined, many by jail sentences.  Every person had been deprived of freedom of his tongue, no one could utter dissent from the purpose or the method of war – for violating the sedition act, 1597 persons were arrested.  Every business man was shorn of dominion over his factory or store, every housewife surrendered control of her table, every farmer was forbidden to sell his wheat except at the price the government fixed.  Our institutions, the railroads, the telephones and telegraphs, the coal mines were taken under government control—the list was complete when, after the war and preceding the Peace Conference, Wilson took control of the trans-Atlantic cables.  The prohibition of individual liberty in the interest of the state could hardly be more complete.  “In the six months after our entry into the war the United States had been transformed from a highly individualistic system…into what was almost a great socialistic state in which the control of the whole industry, life and purpose of the nation was directed from Washington.  It was an amazing transformation, for nothing like it had ever been attempted before on any such scale, and the process was wholly antipathetic to our ordinary ways of doing things.”  It was the greatest submission by the individual to the state that had occurred in any country at any time.  It was an abrupt reversal of the evolution that had been under way for centuries.  Since the Magna Charta, substantially all political change had been in the direction of cumulative taking of power from the state for the benefit of the individual.  Now in six months, in America the state took back, the individual gave up, what had taken centuries of contest to win.

It was not merely that we had passed through the experience of enforced submission or voluntary surrender or both.  The results remained with us.  Government had learned that we could be led to do it, had learned the technique of bringing the individual to give up his liberty, the cunning of propaganda, the artfulness of slogans, and the other methods for inciting mass solidarity and mass action, for causing majorities to insist on conformance by minorities.

The purpose for which we did this, as described by the one who urged us to it and led us into it was “the destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere,”  “ to make the world safe for democracy,”  a purpose to save the peoples of all nations, including and especially Germany, from autocratic government; a purpose to have the individualist ideal of society…triumph in a struggle against the ideal of regimentation….

That purpose reviewed fifteen years later in the light of what had meantime happened in the world, seemed very ironic indeed – Germany and Italy under dictators, Russia under a dictatorship called proletarian but more extreme in its deprivation of individual liberty than any personal dictator or absolute monarch attempted, American industry and social organization in the beginning of what was aimed toward regimentation. (Roosevelt administration.) End of quote’

 

Thus Wilson’s socialist politics violently wrenched Americans from a history of freedom into one of servitude.  The people who aided Wilson in his attempt at a dictatorship and socialist organization of society did not disappear when Harding was elected.  The Council On Foreign Affairs was set up in 1921 on Wilsonian principles.  They continued in their attempt to shape America into a socialist state hindered by the three Republican presidents of the twenties, finally getting their man FDR elected in 1932.  They then, the same Wilsonian crowd, returned to power setting about to complete what Wilson had begun.

Much of their program was achieved but hindered by the Second World War and Roosevelt’s death.  Then began a long clandestine effort to change American mores.  They seized moral control so that any who dissented from their program was labeled as anti-social, a racist or whatever.  Then, when Obama was elected their man was in the Office again.  Obama immediately set about to reestablish the Wilsonian dictatorship. He made great strides but the CFR wished to proceed more or less Constitutionally so they allowed an election fully expecting it to be between their two candidates Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.  A wild card, Donald Trump, unexpectedly ‘stole’ the election.  Had Hillary been elected she would have been able to complete the socialist revolution clamping the Wilsonian dictatorship on us.

Currently they are involved in discrediting Pres. Trump in preparation for forcing him to resign as they did Richard Nixon.  I’m sure they will succeed.

Trump Vs. The Autocrats

Trump vs. The Autocrats

by

R.E. Prindle

 

In a passage thoroughly Wilsonian, serving his purpose of stirring America to fight by citing German plots, intrigues and crimes… he cunningly served his other purpose by adding that these crimes were committed only by the German Government – “their source lay, not in any hostile feeling or purpose of the German people, who were, no doubt, ignorant of them.”

Mark Sullivan, Our Times,

Vol. V, Over Here, p. 283

 

This essay follows the thought, both written and implied, of the great social historian Mark Sullivan from Vo. V of his great work, Our Times.  Vol. V is perhaps the most thoughtful and serious of the six volumes.  When I say implied I mean that Sullivan either didn’t know or drew back from the obvious conclusions.  The changes America went through during the war years make somber reading.

While Sullivan doesn’t say that President Wilson was the most devious of all men yet the portrait he paints is of the most devious of men.  Certainly his friend Theodore Roosevelt, of whom Sullivan was something of a confidant, thought so.  TR considered Wilson the master of weasel words; he gave with one word and took back with another.  Sullivan’s conclusions agree with the opinion I had previously formed of Wilson.

The above quote is an example of the ambiguity of Wilson’s expression as he clandestinely prepared America for entry into the European war after campaigning scarcely a year before that ‘he kept us out of war’ with the implied assurance that he would continue that policy.  This was after the Germans proposed a ceasefire and a peace settlement among the combatants in 1916, about the same time that Henry Ford was setting out on the much ridiculed peace mission aboard the Oscar II,  that Wilson rejected because he wanted to be the key peace maker and establish the League of Nations.

As the US was technically a neutral they would have had no place at the conference table.  The Allies rejected the offer anyway.  That was a case where the governments and the soldiers probably would have disagreed.

Having now a firm objective in mind Wilson ordered mobilization shortly after and declared war on Germany.

As the opening quote shows he thought of himself as declaring war on the German government that he set somehow apart from the German soldiers actually fighting the war.

Now, Wilson’s own government was no longer ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’  His was an authoritarian government granted unlimited dictatorial powers backed by the full force of law that began the long transition to what we have today.  A government over the people essentially considered as nonentities, deplorables as that country hick from Arkansas, Hillary Clinton, described us.  Sub-humans, people completely separated from our governors or masters.

Thus Wilson placed himself on a par with the Kaiser, although he would never have admitted it.  His treatment of the American people was contemptuous.  Make no mistake, war was declared to gratify Wilson’s ego; the welfare of the American people was in no way involved.  With that in mind Wilson trampled on American freedom, perhaps this was the New Freedom he had proclaimed.  He had obliterated American liberties opening the way to the supra government that followed in 1921 with the founding of the Council on Foreign Affairs, unelected then and unelected today.

As in WWII in which nearly the whole of American manhood was conscripted to craft social experiments, sixteen million men when half that number would have been excessive, Wilson built a huge army of many million men when only two million were ever sent to France.  This was obviously meant to regiment the country into one unit, one state of mind.

Wilson was socialist and as soon as war was declared under cover of that conflict, socialism was surreptitiously imposed on the American people, not different by much from that of Soviet Russia.  The railroads were nationalized.  Was that necessary?  No more than having millions of men in what were little more than concentration camps learning to think act, and dress alike.

The War Industries Board went great lengths toward nationalization of industry.  One man, a czar, Bernard Baruch, was put in charge with unlimited powers to organize the whole of American industry into one unit.  Fairly difficult in Wilson’s time it was much easier twenty years later during Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s time in WWII.

Perhaps Mark Sullivan, writing in 1933, saw it coming.  Perhaps Our times was the first warning flare, a star burst shell illuminating the future for a brief moment in time.  Certainly FDR was a disciple of Woodrow Wilson who by the United Nations, whiffed past the American people with no vote, succeeded where his predecessor failed.

Certainly FDR, having served Wilson, was in a position to learn from his mistakes.  While the point is argued, just as Wilson was a socialist, so too was Franklin Delano Roosevelt although he disguised it better.  Either that or the ground had been prepared by Wilson so as to be less noticeable under FDR.

So too was Barack Obama a socialist who emulated his hero FDR to the best of his abilities.  Obama’s administration was in complete defiance of the will of the American people.  America was not socialist.  Without the aid of financially dependent immigrants and his own Negro people Obama could not have been elected.  Without the supra government’s control of the media and the control of Congress through the ‘donor class’, he also could not have been elected.

Thus, Wilson’s great achievement was separating the government from the people.  The Government would no longer reflect the will of the people but the will of the people would be subject to the will of its governors.  Thus we live under a totalitarian government whose members have benefited from experience and learning so that it disguises its brutality under legal forms.  It is our duty to not only resist our enslavement but remove the slavemasters.

The case in point is that of our elected president Donald Trump who was elected against the will of the supra government and who they are quietly reducing to a cipher.  He will be removed so slickly it will almost be unnoticed.  Stand up now or live on your knees forever.  The times they are a changin’ so fast there is no time to think.  Act now.

President Trump On The Discard Pile

President Trump On The Discard Pile

by

R.E. Prindle

 

When you’re stuck in Juarez,

And it’s Eastertime too,

And your negativity fails you,

And gravity don’t pull you through…

Bob Dylan

 

It is clear at this point that Pres. Trump is going to be discarded.  The process by which it will be done may be becoming clear.  First he must be discredited in the eyes of his constituency so that sympathy for him is destroyed.  DACA, the Wall, Immigration, the renunciation of the will of the people who elected him will be essentially the final straw while at the same time being the Left’s renunciation of democracy.  The CFR triumphant.

What is the How?

Let us review the 1916 election between Wilson and Hughes.  It was a very close election, not unlike the 2016 election, and Wilson actually thought he had lost.  It was three days later when the results were determined that he knew he found himself still president.  In those days the inauguration was in March.  The World War was in progress and Wilson deemed it important that effective leadership be continuous in case he did lose.  He therefore devised a plan so that Hughes could seamlessly succeed him according to the Constitution.

Thus, following the succession in case of the President’s death or incapacity was and is to the VP, then to the Secretary of State.  In Wilson’s case the VP would resign, the serving Secretary of State would resign and the President would appoint Hughes to succeed him then resign himself.  Hughes thus being elevated immediately to the office.

In 1916 the plan wasn’t needed.  Let us transpose the plan to the present.  Trump is to be given a life or death choice, it probably has already happened, to resign or die. 

Trump’s situation can be compared to that of President Harding who won the 1920 election placing him in opposition to the League of Nation forces.  Not to be denied, Harding died of mysterious symptoms two years into his presidency.  It was assumed that the colorless VP, Calvin Coolidge, could be swept aside in 1924.  Such proved not to be the case so the League forces had to wait for the 1928 election where they were disappointed again by the election of Herbert Hoover.  Hoover was discredited by the staged stock market crash of 1929 and then manhandled for the duration of his presidency, much as Trump has been manhandled, opening the way for FDR.

Now, after Trump has disillusioned his constituency sufficiently Pence will resign as VP.  By my understanding Pence has always been a stooge of the CFR and will perform his role without a problem.  The succession then passes to Secretary of State Tillerson.  Trump has already renounced his control of the military to Mattis and has delegated his powers as President to Tillerson at State.  Tillerson has been given what is in effect a Power of Attorney to act in the President’s name.  Tillerson then in the affairs of State is already the de facto President.  That means he has the full approval of the CFR.  The transmission has been seamless.

Well, that’s in the eyes of the CFR not mine, and not in the eyes of the majority of Americans who will then, finally, realize that they have been taken for a ride.  Their will has been betrayed by a cabal.

The CFR would do well to pay attention to what’s happening to the attendance of professional football over the Kaepernick fiasco.  Those empty seats will not likely be soon filled.  The NFL has committed suicide by not responding appropriately to majority opinion.

As with the NFL the connection between the people and the US Government in Washington DC will be broken; all cooperation will cease.  The country will be adrift.  The government’s only choice will be to try to rule by force or terror.

Beware the consequences of thwarting or removing President Trump; the end game is at hand.