Eisenhower was right, but he wasn’t clear when he told Americans in his last address to the nation to beware of the military industrial complex. There have always been two Americas in the United States. The America born of the Revolution, Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, and the other Amerika, land of the freeloader and home of the bum.
In the Revolution there were Americans who believed in liberty with their own government to protect them, founded by Washington and Jefferson called the Democratic-Republican Party based on our system of government. Land and business owners who were responsible for paying taxes could vote on how government would send those taxes. On the other side was the Federalist Party that would later become the Democratic Party.
These were the people who believed America should never have fought the Revolution, that people needed a king to rule them because they could not be trusted with freedom. Freedom, they thought, would lead to licentiousness and anarchy, (which is an amazing fact that their followers today have become exactly that!) Socialism under a dictator to impose restrictions on the people would keep any upstart merchants from becoming nobles who believed they have any right to rule.
The Democratic-Republicans were replaced by the Whigs who bungled elections allowing Democrats to gain power. They would be replaced by the party of Lincoln, the Republicans. They would be the party that would end slavery, break monopolies, form unions, and lower taxes imposed by Democrats.
The 20th century would prove to be the most amazing century in human history that would see technology leap forward while being written in blood. At the same time that American entrepreneurs are inventing and advancing civilization, socialists around the world are descending into barbarism and war. Democrats seized the opportunity to cement their power in government for generations through propaganda and various voter manipulations like gerrymandering and lack of identification allowing even the dead to vote multiple times.
Income tax was the idea of Republicans. The first was imposed by Lincoln to pay for the Civil War. After the federal debt was paid the tax was abolished. Theodore Roosevelt supported such a tax as a small percentage on the wealthiest Americans more due to the era of Robber Barons than to policy.
Wilson again imposed income tax, this time with an upper rate of 70% to pay for WWI. This tax rate caused a depression, but was relieved by Republicans in the mid-20s resulting in an economic boom. When that bubble burst, Democrats saw a new opportunity to profit at the expense of Republicans.
This turning point in the 20th Century came with the Great Depression in which Democrats in Congress convinced the people that a Republican president would not help them put them in charge of Congress. Once there, they enacted their policies and convinced the Republican president to support their raising wartime taxes. In doing so the depression became deeper and Democrats blamed the Republican president causing his ouster and the election of a Democrat with a Supermajority in Congress.
Keeping the people in line came easy with blaming Republicans as being rich men taking from the poor who were standing in bread lines because there were no jobs. Democrats used some of the high taxes they were confiscating to make some small jobs for people. The 1930s became a decade of drudgery and decay felt around the world enabling Democrats to initiate another new tax called Social Security.
Then came World War II and the war to stop socialist dictators from taking over the planet. Led by the Lion of England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill convinced Roosevelt to aid him. When America entered the war, he wisely permitted FDR to take the lead, but did his best to steer him the right way. Winning the war against the German socialist dictator required allying with the Russia socialist dictator.
After the war, Democrat raised the tax rate to 90% to pay for the war debt. America enjoyed an economic boom in the 50s because the rest of the world had burned. Leftists falsely proclaimed that war was good for the economy, when in actuality war drained the economy of men, resources, and material. But those who profited from providing government weapons wanted to keep their industry going, and Republican President Eisenhower warned from going down this road.
But Democrats were happy to keep it up having battled with the new Red Chinese socialist dictator through Korea, and now turned to extending that war into Vietnam. Their own President Kennedy cut tax rates back down to 70% and he was assassinated. While keeping geared for war and taxes high, Democrats blamed Republicans for the wars and their lack of conclusion.
The aggression of Red China in Southeast Asia and the Soviet Union into Eastern Europe kept fears alive and a desire for a strong, ready military. During the 60s Democrats again became desperate for more money and introduced Medicare and Medicaid to raise taxes. They raided the Social Security Fund, moving it into the General Fund where they could spend the surplus then declare the fund to be insurance instead.
Following Vietnam, Democrats saw more profit in their civil engineering than military so allowed the military to decay. Ronald Reagan reversed this trend setting himself up to be labelled a warmonger by Democrats who refused to cut one dime of their civil spending while supporting Reagan’s military build-up. They blamed the deficits on his efforts to keep America strong rather than on their desire to collect taxes for poor Americans, a façade they used to prop up their high taxes.
When the Soviet Union collapsed and Eastern Europe was freed, Democrats gave credit to the Soviet dictator rather than to a Republican president. The economic boom under Reagan after forcing Democrats to drastically reduce taxes they credited to Jimmy Carter who had led the country into the worst economy since the Great Depression. Everything they did and claimed was backwards from reality.
During the 90s when Republicans under the leadership of Newt Gingrich retook Congress for the first time since Eisenhower and balanced the budget, Democrats lauded Clinton for the achievement that brought the first capitalist driven boom since the 1920s. The last decade has been marked by 9-11 and the war with Islam, years of liberal propaganda declaring President Bush was destroying the economy followed by the election of Democrat to Congress to repeat their 1930s victory in the same way, by collapsing the economy on the backs of the banks they installed. Since then America has suffered under a Democrat leadership sundering the American Dream while blaming conservative Christians as the new enemy of the state.
Liberals Backwards Think 