by American Citizen

Created on: September 07, 2009   Last Updated: September 09, 2009

One hears a great deal about political opponents "reaching across the aisle" in order to produce results. Results in the real world lead to products and services that stimulate economic activity. Economic stimulation in the real world creates wealth and lifts Americans' standard of living. Results in Congress, however, mean nothing more than legislation and reams of paper.

The consequences of bureaucracy lead to regulatory hurdles that become permanent increased costs of doing business. In other words, centralized power that chokes economic activity and makes people poorer.

The ultimate problem of bi-partisanship is two-fold. First, it denies that there are more than two platforms of interest in a country of over 307,000,000. Anyone who has ever overcome psychological denial in life knows what a massive, counterproductive nemesis denial is. Second, when two parties find more and more common ground, they begin to behave in unison. This is a consolidation of power.

Politics is first and foremost, if not exclusively, about power. What happens when there is one ruling party? The Republic devolves into a totalitarian state. The evolution of America in lock-step with ancient Rome. Since American has institutionalized the parasitic policies of socialism since the 1930s (more on that later), we are following in the footsteps of the failed soviet experiment.

In Alvin and Heidi Toffler's "Creating a new Civilization", they say, "In fact, the central failure of the great socialist experiment of the twentieth century lay in its absolute ideas about knowledge. With minor exceptions, state socialism led not to affluence, equality and freedom, but to a one-party political system, a massive bureaucracy, heavy-handed secret police, government control of the media, secrecy and the repression of intellectual and artistic freedom."

What does it mean to control knowledge? One must take into consideration where knowledge originates to realize how insidious a totalitarian government is. In order to control knowledge, one must own it. If it's the government seeking control, it's seeking power of an owner. Knowledge originates in human beings' minds, in human ingenuity. The mind itself must be owned.

If one isn't at liberty to own and control one's own thoughts, ideas and property, one has little incentive to produce new ideas or technology. Everything produced in material form began as an idea - either in the mind of Nature's God or in a human mind. We have naturally-occurring goods

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