ISMS

By Terry bannen

The basic flaw in “Ecologicalism”/Environmentalism is that it never considers the possibility that man’s existence and advances in science could have a positive impact on the world’s environment.

This country was established by the flight of the “Pilgrims” from England to have the freedom to practice their religion without persecution by the state. The founders of our Constitution expressly forbade the state to interfere with our freedoms “of” religion, not “from” religion.

Unfortunately, The question that begs to be asked at this point is; if religion, in and of itself, is to be denied at the governmental level and our system of laws are expressly “Judeo/Christian,” have not the Atheist/Secularist re-established the persecution of a (Christian) religious belief through governmental denial?

Anti-Capitalist Agenda Through “Isms”
Utopianism
Progressivism
Socialism
Communism
Fascism Stateism

The basic premise of all of the above “isms” is the unsuccessful, yet oft attempted, utopian belief that government by the intellectual few will result in the improvement of the basic human condition. The core belief of “ism” governance is that the disadvantaged and downtrodden will be elevated by a benevolent and enlightened leader(s) who will punish the successful and privileged. Unfortunately, as was defined by Machiavelli, man is ultimately corrupted by the reigns of power and benevolence is replaced by tyranny in every case. History is littered with the killing fields of these various governmental experiments, yet man continues to repackage centralized government in an attempt to intellectually prove that “utopia” can be achieved.

Our founders deftly addressed the faults of these governmental failures by placing severe limits on mans natural Machiavellian avarices. The checks and balances provided by our Constitution and the Bill of Rights were designed to confound the ability of any of the subdivisions of government to gain unrestrained power.

It seems, however, that our Founders neglected to directly address the premise by which all the experiments in governance have failed.

The erosion of these fundamental limits was feared and duly noted in the beginning by Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and Franklin. Lincoln addressed the insidious and evil corruptibility of power, and in modern times by Reagan.