The Statist Veils His Pursuits In Moral

Class Warfare Or Soaking The So-called Rich May Make For Good Populist Demagoguery And Serve The Political Ends Of The Governing Masterminds, But It Does Nothing To Solve The Grave Realities Of The Federal Government's Insatiable Appetite For Spending And Its Inability To Reform Itself.

The Statist Has An Insatiable Appetite For Control. His Sights Are Set On His Next Meal Even Before He Has Fully Digested His Last. He Is Constantly Agitating For Government Action. And In Furtherance Of That Purpose, The Statist Speaks In The Tongue Of The Demagogue, Concocting One Pretext And Grievance After Another To Manipulate Public Perceptions And Build Popular Momentum For The Divestiture Of Liberty And Property From Its Rightful Possessors.

The Intensive And Concerted Effort To Exclude References To Religion Or God From Public Places Is An Attack On Our Founding Principles. It's An Attempt To Bolster A Growing Reliance On The Government--especially The Judiciary--as The Source Of Our Rights. But If Our Rights Are Not Unalienable, If They Don't Come From A Source Higher Than Ourselves, Then They're Malleable At The Will Of The State. This Is A Prescription For Tyranny.

The Oil Industry Is Hardly Free To Operate As Efficiently As It Could Or To Be As Responsive To Consumer Demands As It Would Like. It Has Become, In Essence, A Quasi-state-run Enterprise, Because It Cannot Drill, Transport, Refine, And Store Fuel Without Receiving Government Permission, Complying With Government Regulations, And Paying Taxes At Every Level Or Production.

Where Utopianism Is Advanced Through Gradualism Rather Than Revolution, Albeit Steady And Persistent As In Democratic Societies, It Can Deceive And Disarm An Unsuspecting Population, Which Is Largely Content And Passive. It Is Sold As Reforming And Improving The Existing Society's Imperfections And Weaknesses Without Imperiling Its Basic Nature. Under These Conditions, It Is Mostly Ignored, Dismissed, Or Tolerated By Much Of The Citizenry And Celebrated By Some. Transformation Is Deemed Innocuous, Well-intentioned, And Perhaps Constructive But Not A Dangerous Trespass On Fundamental Liberties.