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Social engineers face
resistance
By John Hayward
The great obstacle facing social engineers is resistance. The
re-distribution of wealth is an act of aggression against those who
provide the wealth. The forced transition to a planned economy
produces high unemployment, for the central State will never be as good
at assigning jobs as a great body of free people, seeking each other
out for mutual advantage.
Movement to a virtuous regime of “alternative” energy results in a
lower level of energy for society, because the old fossil fuels are
vastly more powerful and convenient. Many people will naturally
be unhappy with these effects of social engineering. Their
unhappiness grows as more force is deployed against them.
Collectivism finds its worst enemy among a large body of people whose
fortunes are tied to the general health of the economy, and have enough
votes to translate resistance into electoral defeat for social
engineers. In other words, the middle class.
Social engineers love to wax poetic about their eternal devotion to the
middle class, but their highest goal is to subdue it. This can be
done with dependency, which can be created by combining high
unemployment with long-term public benefits that slowly mutate into an
immense welfare program. The golden dream of socialists is the
control of health care, which forever changes the relationship between
citizens and their government, creating a permanent bureaucracy with
roots that tap into blood and bone.
The middle class can also be weakened by destroying its mobility, and
destroying the value of its property. Above all, the accumulation
of vast government debt is a weight poised above the heads of the
reluctant middle class. Eventually that debt will become
unbearable… and if enough of the populace is so dependent on government
spending that it cannot be reduced, debt becomes the irresistible
leverage for tax increases on the middle class.
Have you found the economic policies of President Barack Obama to be
confusing and incomprehensible? They’re not. Everything he
has done is part of an effort to solve the middle class problem.
—John Hayward
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