The New Carpetbaggers
Nelson Hultberg
April 4, 2004
Stuart Shoemaker [goldisfreedom.com]
has coined the perfect description of the nefarious elites who control
the Republican Party and why they are so hated by true conservatives
and hard money people. He calls them the "New Carpetbaggers."
These are the Big Government, Northeastern Republicans (the Rockefellers,
the Bushes, the Greenspans, etc.) who have throughout the 20th century
held prestigious positions in the corporate-banking-political triad
that runs Washington and Wall Street with fiat money inflation and
stock market manipulation.
Why the term, "New Carpetbaggers?" Because, as Shoemaker points
out, they have in the past few decades migrated south in order
to enhance their control over the levers of government. This
has allowed them to expand their grip on power, which is the real
lure that excites them. Freedom, justice, and the Constitution are
not values that motivate such men. Naked expansive power and control
are what move these velvet-glove authoritarians.
What they wish to control, of course, are the purse strings to the
economy and thus the political levers to the nation. Once these are
sufficiently centralized in Washington, then their New World Order
vision can begin to take shape. Just as the Northern Republicans
of the 1870's and their mega-bank backers came south to enlarge their
control over the country in the aftermath of the Civil War, so have
the New Carpetbaggers -- the Rockefeller/Bushite Republicans -- come
south to solidify their political grip on today's America. Their
migration takes a different shape from that of their predecessors
in the 1870's, but it accomplishes the same result. It expands centralization
of government in Washington. The difference today is that the power
horizon has been expanded. The ultimate goal is now world government
and the end of national sovereignties. But the mystic South, with
her prize electoral block, is still what draws the Yankee money elites
and their political henchmen. Like Antony to Cleopatra, they come
to court her.
Forty Acres and a Mule
The New Carpetbaggers began to realize the necessity of migrating
into the South back in 1968 when Richard Nixon (newly initiated into
the CFR oligarchy by the Rockefellers) won the Presidency by appealing
to the Southern conservative voters. That was the year George Wallace
was also wooing the Southern voters, which was why the race was so
close between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. If Wallace had stayed out,
the Southern conservatives would have overwhelmingly gone with Nixon
and created a landslide for the Republicans.
Suddenly the old political game had been transformed. The previously
solid Democratic South was now open territory to the GOP. Nixon was
the first to capitalize on this historic shift, and ever since then
the Northeastern Republicans have been "migrating south" to lure
Dixie's conservative voters into believing that the Republican Party
has come to restore the limited government Constitutional system
that the Democratic Party has so wantonly wasted.
And like credulous little children, the Southerners believe the
lies being spewed out. Every year they buy into the same old Rockfeller/Bushite
political malarky such as "Read my lips -- no new taxes," "Let's
dust off the Tenth Amendment and restore states rights," "We need
a foreign policy that eschews nation building," etc.
In the 1870's, the tune was 40 acres and a mule to be given to any
newly freed slave who voted for the Republican Party. Of course,
the carpetbagger Republicans neglected to tell the black voters that
they would be coming to live on a new plantation, one being
formed for them in Washington. Their status as slaves was not really
to change. They would just have a new master -- the ever burgeoning
bureaucracy on the Potomac. And this master was not just meant
for the black people; it was now meant for all people.
Well, today's Rockfeller/Bushite carpetbaggers see the same potential
for political power in the South. Thus, every election year they
offer the Southern voters what they want to hear about freedom from
Big Government. They offer them disingenuous campaign bull.
What is so mystifying to this writer is, how can the rank and file
voters of America continue to buy into endless streams of Republicans
coming before them during election season announcing their intentions
to cut back on government? Don't these rank and file Americans
have memories? Don't they read history? Aside from a few devout contrarians
such as Congressman Ron Paul, where in the past 40 years has there
ever been a Republican to really "walk the walk" on cutting back
government? There hasn't been anyone, and there won't be anyone because
the Republican Party pols are bought and paid for by the Wall Street
mega-bank crowd, both of whom live in mortal fear of having to give
up their game of fiat money and progressive taxation, which are their
instruments to power.
The way the game is played is by means of a tacit partnership between
the two power elites of society, the banks and the politicians. The
partnership is formed through the use of paper money and progressive
tax rates. The political elites give the mega-banks the power to
create paper wealth out of thin air via the Fed and its fractional
reserve cartel, and in turn the banking elites put up with the politicians'
employment of progressive tax rates. Even though a progressive tax
is not beneficial to the banking elites, they tolerate it because
it allows their partners the politicians to buy power through mass
subsidies, programs, and pork. Thus both elite groups get something
from their symbiotic relationship. The bankers get immensely wealthy
through inflation of the money supply via interest paybacks, and
the politicians get returned to power every year via the wealth they
redistribute from the productive classes to the parasitical classes.
What makes the two burdens of inflation and taxes tolerable to each
of the partners is that much of the progressive tax load is conveniently
avoided by the banks through legal maneuvers they buy with their
great wealth and through special privileges written into the law
by their political partners in Washington. Much of the inflation
burden is conveniently avoided by the politicians because of their
ability to legislate their own salary increases at will. Thus,
both partners are able to avoid the burden of the exploitation tool
that the other uses. Bankers avoid the politicians tax; and politicians
avoid the bankers debasement of the currency. The poor saps who
get left holding the bag are the productive middle class who have
to pay the confiscatory taxes and watch helplessly while the bankers
steal an additional 3%-5% of their wealth every year through inflation.
Can the System Be Reformed?
There are numerous libertarian-conservative activists trying to "reform" the
system by working in the Republican Party. I wish these hearty souls
well in their efforts to work WITHIN the party, but they are deluding
themselves.
The Republican power structure is shrewd enough to patronize all
freedom-oriented reform efforts with superficial concessions and
lip service to the Constitution. But this is about all the "in-party" activists
will get -- a few patronizing rhetorical bones thrown their way during
election season. The real essence of Republican administrations will
continue to be dominated by pragmatic, unprincipled power lust, i.e.,
the Rockfeller/Bushite mindset.
The only answer to this dilemma is a genuine third party challenge
that can circumvent the corporate-banking-political triad that has
turned our allegedly "two-party" politics into a Demopublican charade.
Without a genuine competitive third party in the campaign
and in the nationally televised debates, NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE!
Republicans and Democrats will alter their policies only if a counterveiling
power threatens their rule by appealing to large constituencies of
voters.
Why? Because the Demopublicans are blessed with a compliant media
and a vast supporting corps of academic sympathizers. This establishes
a near monopoly over what information is released through the media
and the schools to the electorate. The media lackeys will never bite
the hand that feeds them in Washington. They are today's version
of Lenin's apparatchiks in the 1920's. They have memorized the appropriate
cliches, and have accomplished the appropriate ethical-intellectual
blanking out that massive statism requires. They get, in return,
celebrity status in Washington and invitations to the palace dinners.
The academics in the universities have become part of this monopoly
because their Marxist sympathies long ago led them lockstep into
the Keynesian/anti-capitalist paradigm. Both of these institutions,
the media and the academy, have sold the idea of a free society down
the river for the warmth of social and intellectual popularity.
This gives the Demopublican elites control over what information
reaches the electorate. Since the media and the academics subscribe
to the same goal of government centralization that the Demopublicans
pursue, the electorate is never told that there is another political
philosophy around which to organize our country. The Demopublican
monopoly teaches statism, broadcasts statism, and presents only differing
versions of statism in the election debates. The message of freedom
and strict Constitutionalism is shut out.
The only way to break through this Demopublican vice grip is with
a third party that becomes prominent enough to gain 15% in the polls
and qualify for inclusion in the nationally televised election debates.
Then at least the cause of freedom would have a chance because it
would have a hearing in front of the voters.
If we cannot somehow break the Demopublican monopoly and open up
the political process with a competitive third party that has some
teeth, then America will continue to slip further and further into
Tocqueville's "benevolent dictatorship" in the upcoming decades.
This is the harsh reality that faces us as the entire world heads
deeper into an economic meltdown that is going to bring waves of
Demopublican demagoguery to our land in answer to the chaos that
the Demopublicans themselves have caused.
© 2005 Email Nelson
Hultberg .... Author's Bio .... More
articles by Nelson Hultberg
