Many members of the "Old Right" railed against the Progressives during the 1910s and 1920s. A small group of libertarian thinkers wrote extensively against the corporate statism of the Republican right and the equally nefarious welfare/warfare Democratic left. Although their voices were muffled by expediencies of the moment, their grasp on the gravity of the situation was prescient; the republic, our Republic was in the balance.

From the time of the Constitutional Convention and the dismantling of the Confederation to the early 1900s, big government had been fairly checked, more or less, by a fragmented, decentralized, loosely coupled federal system. Once the money changers, the corporate statist and the power hungry political class began to collaborate, our Republic was doomed to the ash-heap.

One of the members of the "Old Right", Garet Garrett, wrote eloquently of the final stages of this "non-violent" coup d'etat. I highly recommend his piece entitled "The Revolution Was". It goes a long way to describing and detailing the continuation of the collusion between big government and corporate statism (circa 1930). His piece is a little lenghty however drawing on the words of Thomas Paine for motivation:

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."

I challenge readers at BTM to read "The Revolution Was" by Garet Garrett. We have seen this before and now must gaze upon it again. Are you ready to face down this continuing tyranny? What say you now?

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