Letter went over the top involving Constitution Party with Nazis
To the Editor:
Ordinarily when I see an article written to the editor by Dan Waters I am pleased to read it because I consider Dan a colorful character in our community. I hardly ever agree with what Dan says but would certainly defend his constitutional right to say what he pleases.
Having said that, I have to say that Dan's last letter to the editor went slightly over the top by involving the Constitution Party, by implication, in the events surrounding the harassment that occurred at McDonald's several weeks ago to a young mother and her children.
Because of Dan's comment on the Constitution Party I would like to clarify our position.
In my opinion totalitarianism was the dominant political feature of the 20th century. Even in the United States, the supposed defender of capitalism, we have assumed many of the characteristics of fascist and socialist states. Those industries that the government does not own outright, as in the communist variety of socialism are regulated and controlled, as in the fascist variety of socialism.
The dominant political ideologies of the 20th century were communism, socialism, liberalism and Nazism. The chief differences between them were the color of their shirts. They resembled some religions, and Nazism in particular attracted many religious totalitarians, but all were based primarily on the assumption that God and the Bible itself were mythology.
The Constitution Party rejects all of these forms of government and ideologies. We support restoring our government to a constitutional republic while thankfully acknowledging the sovereignty of God.
Our founding fathers founded a nation that, in the words of Benjamin Franklin, is a constitutional republic, if we can keep it. It seems though, that our current leaders prefer to refer to our government as a democracy. Men like Hitler came to power in governments that were democracies.
We should bear in mind the words of Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813):
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
"The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence. From bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
Russell Brown