Occupy Hypocrisy

I know that they occupy movement is a little old and played out, and hopefully goes away soon. But with any left wing political movement, there is a great deal of hypocrisy and ignorance that goes into it.

The hypocrisy is in the fact that they target greed and yet they always talk about redistributing wealth. For me there is nothing more greedy than expecting to get money from someone else that you didn't earn. If someone works hard and makes a lot of money, then they have earned the right to keep it. It's theirs, they worked for it. No one else should be able to lay claim to it just because they think it's not fair that someone else has more money than them. That is greedy.

The occupy movement is also very ignorant to reality. I read the "declaration" of the occupation New York over the weekend and not only is one third of it based on lies and misinformation, the rest is completely misguided. Now, I have to note that they really haven't officially said how they will achieve their demands. But from what I have gathered through communications with members on social media channels is that they want the government to step in and make things right by taking from the rich and redistributing it out to everyone else. They are ignorant to the fact that government policies is what has created the corruption we have right now. There where a lot of policies during FDR's administration (like the AAA and the NRA) that actually hurt small business and put more power in the hands of large corporations and farms. FDR also set a new standard for political patronage and pork barrel spending. It is policies like this that have caused a lot of the problems we have today. If businesses have nothing to gain from lobbying washington, they wont do it. Congress has gotten into the habit of over stepping the constitution by spending money that they are not constitutionally at liberty to spend and creating bureaus that they are not constitutionally at liberty to create. (See how the word liberty is used. This is the mindset of the modern day "liberals." They think they have the liberty to spend your money how they see fit.)

If we hold congress to the limitations that are written out in the constitution then businesses and special interests will have nothing to gain through government legislation because there won't be any.

Fascism in America

I came across this poster the other day and it is quite frightening. I am sure that most of the agitators involved in the occupy movement aren't aware that the movement they are lobbying for is fascism. But that, unfortunately is how all of these eventual totalitarian movements start, by what Lenin referred to as "useful idiots." The word fascism is so often misused and thrown around today (usually by fascists or other types of socialists, ironically enough) that most people don't realize that they are using the word incorrectly. I don't have time to get into the entire history and nuances of fascism here but I can explain how it relates to this poster.

A large part of the history of fascism can be traced back to a man by the name of Georges Sorel. Here is an excerpt from the book "Liberal Fascism" by Jonah Goldberg. He articulated Sorel's contribution better then I can.

"...Sorel's greatest contribution to the left--and Mussolini in particular--lay elsewhere: in his concept of "myths," which he defined as "artificial combinations invented to give the appearance of reality to hopes that inspire men in their present activity." For Sorel, the Second Coming of Christ was a quintessential myth because it's underlying message--Jesus is coming, look busy--was crucial for organizing men in desirable ways.

For syndicalists at the time and, ultimately, for leftist revolutionaries of all stripes, Sorel's myth of the general strike was equivalent to the Second Coming. According to this myth, if all workers declared a general strike, it would crush capitalism and render the proletariate--rather than the meek--the inheritors of the earth. Whether the implementation of a general strike would actually have this result didn't matter, according to Sorel."

This poster calls for a "general strike" against the 1%, another myth created by the occupy movement.

If the occupy movement really wanted to reign in corporate corruption they should have joined the "tea party" movement. The best way to limit corruption is to limit the size and scope of government so Wall Street, corporations, or any other special interest is rendered incapable of lobbying for preferential treatment through legislation.