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(A response to Brad DeLong’s lament about the feckless “moderate Republicans”, who may exist, but will never oppose the Republican Party).

Conservatives generally have always been willing to support the worst demagogues if that’s what’s needed. Hitler got a lot of support from people who despised him.

In the post mortem on the Late Great USA one chapter will be “Liberals Never Knew What Hit Them”. It’s a war, not a debate or an argument or a discussion or a negotiation. And the other side is organized and disciplined, and our side is wandering around in circles sucking their fingers.

“Organized”: actually, it’s a conspiracy but that word can’t be used. Hillary was right in every way. Many many players do not acknowledge which side they are on, but instead pretend to be thoughtful, concerned citizens and neutral professionals. Many flatly lie about their commitments and associations. Millions of dollars change hands.

Liberals have been screaming “conspiracy theory” for so long that they can’t recognize a conspiracy even when it’s killing them. (Yes, children, the reason why the English language includes the word “conspiracy” is because conspiracies do exist in this world, and right here in the US, too! — not just in Foreign wog lands, or in the evil Caliphate.)

Another reason that liberals won’t talk about conspiracy is that if you ever use that evil word, you’re confessing that you’re an outsider, and liberals identify as insiders. Liberals are cool technocrats who calmly explain things to other, lesser people and help keep the lid on things that way – not alarmists who are capable of noticing when they’ve lost almost everything.

Here’s neutral Wiki smearing Hillary as a conspiracy theorist:

“Vast right-wing conspiracy” was a conspiracy theory advanced by then First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1998 in defense of her husband, President Bill Clinton, and his administration during the Lewinsky scandal, characterizing the Lewinsky charges as the latest in a long, organized, collaborative series of charges by Clinton’s

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political enemies… After the Starr investigation revealed the Lewinsky affair, and precipitated a deposition wherein it was suggested that Bill Clinton may have committed perjury, some conservatives began to mock the VRWC phrase. ^…The term ‘Vast Right Wing Conspiracy’ continues to be used only for tongue-in-cheek satire.[

But there WAS and still IS a vast rightwing conspiracy. The anti-Clinton conspiracy was documented by Lyons, Conason, Brock, and others. And even though Hillary is a model (centrist) liberal, she used the c-word and had to be punished. Bad Hillary!

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The debate over same sex “marriage” has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. Then there is Barack Obama.

In his ABC interview, the president pretended that his much touted “evolution” had now led him, ineluctably, to speak out now, today; he simply could longer stay silent. ABC let him off the hook, but this is not a credible account. In March, the Washington Post was reportingthe debate among his advisers on whether the issue would help or hurt the reelection campaign and what, therefore, Obama should say: “Obama’s top political advisers have held serious discussions with leading Democrats about the upsides and downsides of coming out for gay marriage before the fall election.”

The same advisers told the Post that Obama would make the decision based on his gut, but that is an insulting way to refer to the vice president. There is no evidence that Obama planned to speak until Joe Biden said last weekend that he was for gay “marriage” and forced the issue.

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Gradually, he began to notice that all these ideas in his head were spinning more or less in the same direction like a color wheel, some faster than others, some larger or more colorful, but all going in the same circuit! He thought he may have begun to hear a faint buzzing at this time from inside his ears, which he could tune out easily enough when he had to go out in the world and mingle, but he could tap into it at any time. He would sit on his bed with his eyes closed and watch the images swirl and listen to the hum they made. These were truths. These were the secrets that everyone knew about, but no one would mention out loud. He had a firm grasp on these ideas. He felt that he was closer to a becoming by staying in tune with these particular vibrations. He was, in fact, right.

By choice, and then habit, he spent less and less time out there, and more time inside his private space. His thoughts became more powerful. He could bend spoons, and levitation became easy for him. He began to be noticed when he left his building. Police cars followed him. He drew too much attention out there, and he knew they knew he knew. He would be detained while going for a walk. He began to recognize officers and know them by name, and once he learned that they could not tell the truth, he stopped speaking to them or trying to provide answers. People were stupid, he thought, and those that could recognize the truth would speak that language and make themselves recognized for it.

The hum was recognized as many many voices, whispering the ideas to him. The spinning became faster, and the colors and sparks and shapes all began to blend into one big mass, he could watch it as clearly as if it was in a big glass jar in front of him. It was like a nuclear reaction, or what he imagined the universe looked like before the Big Bang, the pitch of the voices rising higher and higher, slowly over months, he could not turn them off anymore, trips to the store impossible, eye contact too frightening to attempt, he could only stay inside and press the heels of his hands to his closed eyes and try to understand what he was supposed to do with all these secrets.

Finally, there was a flash as the matter crossed some sort of event horizon and blinded him momentarily. Then, he was blinded by the silence that followed. He removed his hands from his eyes. He listened intently. There was only one voice now, clear and high. There was only one thought. He was a machine with a single purpose. He was set free. He was going to go do what he was meant to do. He was going to go scratch his mark. He was going to go make a difference.

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Liberals and centrists need to figure out* that a significant conservative block WANTS pain and WANTS inequality and thinks that they are intrinsically good, godly, natural things and that without them the world is a worse place.

And that they are willing to harm the economy and even reduce their own absolute wealth in order to get the pain and inequality they want. (Though they plan to increase their relative wealth). After 1900 some Southern leaders knew that the steps they were taking to protect white supremacy came at the cost of continued underdevelopment, and they supported white supremacy anyway.

Beyond that, liberals and moderates need to know that some conservatives are long shot gamblers, not utility maximizers, and that they are willing to take big, rationally unjustifiable chances. Dick Cheney is a recent example. The Hunt Brothers trying to corner the precious metals market is a historic example.

*Figure of speech here. They won’t figure it out.

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As more details about wasteful spending and outright fraudulent practices at the General Services Administration are emerging, it becomes clearer every day that there is a far deeper, government-wide contracting problem plaguing the nation.

News of the scandal broke two weeks ago, when GSA Administrator Martha Johnson resigned following

the agency inspector general’s report claiming that more than $800,000 of federal spending on a GSA employee conference held in Las Vegas in 2010 was “excessive, wasteful, and in some cases, impermissible.”

Of particular concern to small-business advocates, the IG’s report found that the GSA allegedly awarded “a $58,000 contract to a large business in violation of small-business set-asides.”

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Ron Paul, by his own admission, has been heavily influenced by the late Ayn Rand. But, as we shall see, he appropriated her worst idea, the Gold Standard. But first, let’s take another peak at Miss Rand.

To get at her essence, we have to see the origins of her famous nom de plume Ayn Rand. She was born Alissa Rosenbaum in 1905. She adopted her new name when she arrived in the USA in the 1920s. Biographers, including two recent ones, have been consistently wrong as to where the ‘ayn’ and the ‘rand’ come from. ‘Ayn’ was not appropriated from a Finnish writer nor did ‘Rand’ come from the Remington Rand typewriter. Rather, Jeff Walker makes a convincing case in his 1999 book, THE AYN RAND CULT, that ‘Ayn’ was a common Jewish term of affection while ‘Rand’ was from the a

ssociation with South Africa gold which was mined by the Oppenheimers and the like.

Furthermore, Walker writes this:

“The word ‘gold’ and the imagery of gold saturate ATLAS SHRUGGED, and the gold standard plays a prominent role in her ideology. Even ‘Galt’ is ‘gold,’ pronounced with a Yiddish inflection.”

Rand also heavily promoted the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, whose one trick pony was the Gold Standard. Von Mises, of course, was sponsored by the Rothschilds and the Warburgs. These folks aren’t in the game for love.

Ron Paul, in turn, inherited this von Mises obsession. In fact, Ron Paul’s REAL campaign amounts to one long gold commercial, all the rest being crap. And you thought the drug-addled Glenn Beck was the only one whoring for gold?

To start with, the Gold Standard would be an impossibility. There is simply not enough gold in the entire world to monetize it in such a way as to meet the needs of the modern economy. Moreover, private bankers, who we need not name, have cornered the greater chunk of the gold available in the world.

Gaming with gold is a loaded proposition.

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I can hear them singing now by Hilton Hamann.

Set in the 1980s at the height of the political unrest in the black townships, this is the riveting story of a black South African policeman who is forced to make a terrible choice that could have catastrophic consequences.

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fying, moving and poignant account of a man and his family's struggles when they are thrown into crisis by political events over which they have no control and from which there appears no escape.

This book will both disturb and move you.

-Hilton Hanann is former journalist, published author and fine arts photographer specializing in handmade, hand-printed, cyanoypes. To view what a cyanotype is go to http://bighilt.smugmug.com/Art/cyanotypes/