Hidden Truth: The Poison of Statism

The enemy is statism and the ideology of statism is being implemented in a fashion of creeping incrementalism

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The true enemy is statism. We can argue ideology, Democrat versus Republican, liberalism versus conservativism, or left versus right all we want, but in the end “big government,” especially in a manner that is in direct opposition to the rule of law, and the United States Constitution, is the enemy.

Every issue has its surface arguments, but in the end, the argument always comes down to if the issue is a local or central authority, and how it is being shoved down the throats of the American public…..Abraham Lincoln used what would become known as “progressive” ideas to anchor his war powers, and invade the States in the South to force them back into the union through military force. The Slaughterhouse cases began the damaging process of “Incorporating the Bill of Rights to the States,” and in 1913 the creation of the Federal Reserve, direct taxation (16th Amendment), and the elimination of the States’ voice in the lawmaking process (17th Amendment), sped up the downward spiral this nation was experiencing as the purveyors of statism worked to fundamentally change this country into something the framers of the United States Constitution never originally intended.....To Read More.....