Well stated. It is critical that we keep laughing at BHO. Typically, the conservative side of political reality "moves on" (as the Bubba WH encouraged us all those years ago and, unfortunately Dubya, moved on). History IS on our side -- Socialism in all it's forms (Democratic Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, etc.) DOES NOT WORK. Unfortunately, after Reagan we let the left write the narrative. I am hopeful the tweeter in chief will continue to react to every little piece of "historical" BS put out by the other side. If there is a use for the Dept. of Education it would be to mandate that education be educational, not misinformative. Glory in Eurocentric (Western) ideas that have created the best world culture we could hope for (ended slavery in the Western world -- it still exists almost everywhere else -- crushed the third Reich, empowered women and minorities, repelled the first Muslim invasion of the West, Created a few small pockets of civilization in Africa and parts of "the East" etc.

Hopefully I'll manage someday to make this a book, but for now...
http://noruler.net/?s=going+voluntary

The American revolution was "too sweeping" and was never supported by more than one third of the colonists. Things happen because a (usually) small band of people make it happen -- dragging the rest of the populace with them. (Unfortunately, lousy ideas (e.g. prohibition, income taxation, Obamacare) follow the same rules.) One per cent make it happen, nine per cent watch it happen, 90 per cent ask, "when did that happen?"

BTW, an excellent analysis, even if we differ over the history of the process. One thing to keep in mind is how/why Julius Caesar was able to overthrow the republic when he did. The only conclusion has to be that, long before he appeared on the scene, the foundation was laid for his usurpation.

Actually, it started with the politicians who passed the Clayton Act in the 1880s, followed by Teddy, then Woodrow, then Hoover, THEN FDR, who didn't sprout from a lotus, fully formed, but who was prepped by 50 years of government intrusion into the economy as a template that he could use.

Exactly, he is addicted to the adoration showered on him by the talking heads and the idiot celebrities.
He will spout of his worthless opinions till the cows come home.

Hi Objectiveanalyst,
Well said, what comes to mind is regarding the contradiction about FDR, here in accord with you. "By the essence and nature of existence, contradictions cannot exist.”
— Hugh Akston
Regards,
DOB

I like this! However, I think it is too sweeping and will never happen. Good thinking, though.

Please share your better vision.

Thank you. I mentioned Wilson but not the Fed, however, I addressed the Fed in The Golden Pinnacle, an excellent book that should be in every Galt's Gulcher's library.

A beginning to undoing the damage done by the statists (Wilson, FDR, BHO, etc.) is proposed here as an amendment to the Constitution. (There are several others designed to reign in power, but this one most works to address Mr. Gore's concerns. Article 7; Section 1: We hereby stipulate that all laws passed by the Congress of the United States and signed into law by the President of the United State or which became law through constitutional procedures without the President's signature shall become null and void after a period of fifteen years'
Section 2: We hereby stipulate that all laws passed by the Congress of the United States and signed into law by the President of the United States or which became law through constitutional procedures without the President's signature prior to the passage of this document shall be randomly assigned a numerical value from one to fifteen. Beginning in the second year after ratification of this amendment the laws numbered one through fifteen shall, with each subsequent year, become null and void.
Section 3: Excepting Amendments one through ten (the “Bill of Rights”) – and exempting the 16th, 17th, 22nd and 26th Amendments which are hereby immediately repealed – each amendment to the Constitution passed previous to this document and which shall have been in force for 50 or more years shall be submitted to the several States for re-ratification . If the previously ratified amendment is not again ratified by the necessary number of states it shall be considered repealed.
Section 5: Each article of this document and any future ratified Amendment to the Constitution shall likewise by submitted for “re-ratification” after 50 years.
Let's get started dismantling this disastrous behemoth! (Investigating and indicting any and all persons within the government who used their powers inappropriately -- in any recent government -- is another beginning step.

posted to facebook and forwarded to my many email friends....excellent surmise...and the mention of Wilson for creating the Fed...the entity that will collapse Western civilization...

Obama can't die quick enough because he plans to big time narcissist whiner stick around after January 20--and to the delight of his morally corrupt fawning lib media.
Think you're sick of that traitor now? Just wait.

While Obama may not be the worst President, I do believe he has been the most supremely arrogant. Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize even before he'd taken office, based on no accomplishments but his "potential" was a big warning sign of his unmatched hubris.

Every one of Obama's speeches have been about himself, with the words I, me, my, mine used more than in any other President's speeches. When the American people clearly were not in agreement with his position, he chalked it up to them being unable to understand, needing more explanation.

For one of the most voluble Presidents in history, his speeches have largely been forgettable, with few memorable phrases. Some of his speeches have been staggering in overblown self imagery, such as the one he made bragging about his pending actions on climate change, where he pronounced that history would mark this as the day the seas began to recede, as though he was a new Moses.

Obama skipped dictator, skipped monarch, and went straight to deity, in his own mind. More infallible than the Pope, thwarted by only those evil minions of hellfire, the Republicans. He will not be missed.

The worst? While I can agree with you, virtually the entire list of presidents belong on the long list. It all began when Our illustrious Founders created yet another GOVERNment of FORCE.
Can mankind not conceive of some better version? Sorry, that's out of reach for most everyone.

Hear hear

Well put.

I understand where you're coming from. Without FDR, there would have been no BHO.

Thank you, and I agree with you on the 20th/18th amendment thing. Burp!

Thank you.

Hello straightlinelogic,
"His tactic was breathtakingly simple: use the government’s failures to expand the government." I submit that this tactic has long legs and has been adopted many times by the statists. Creating a problem allows them to justify more statist action thus creating more "unintended" consequences, requiring more intervention.. Rinse and repeat... ad infinitum... until the inevitable collapse. It is the unavoidable, inevitable story of empire building. Jefferson knew of the perils- "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, & government to gain ground."
There are so many reputable books available now that clearly contradict the unearned elevation of near hero/savior status of FDR. And, yet it is still the predominant propaganda we were all fed decades ago by statist historians that dominate the thinking of the majority of citizens. The only good that FDR did was sign the 20th amendment/repeal the 18th amendment. :) Buuurp!
Obama was definitely cut from the same cloth. Yes, good riddance.

Always a pleasure reading your work SLL.
Respectfully,
O.A.

I agree with your assessment of FDR. I think Obama comes in a close second though and he had some stiff competition.

CircuitGuy, I apologize, I said you were unhinged. You're argument was unhinged. Everything that you said would make Trump a good president is the opposite of what Obama did, and you said Obama was a good president. Please explain the paradox. Also, I voted for Trump, but I agree with section a of your last sentence, and as I said in my article, it remains to be seen what Trump will do. That is, by the way, the only thing I said about what Trump will do in office.

I'm skeptical that Trump will do anything other than move the government along the same path his predecessors did, and which I deplored in my article. As for whether he's a clown and a showman, I'll judge the man by his results.

Another great article Robert. It was years after I graduated that I took the time to read more about Roosevelt and other Presidents. I have a much different opinion of them now than I did then. I would include in the criticisms of FDR his inability to give up power. By his fourth term it was known he would most likely not survive another 4 years especially with all the stress that office brings. I don't feel the need to rank the Presidents from worst to first. I group them and FDR, Obama, LBJ, Wilson and others belong to a group that should be exposed for their failure to follow the Constitution. I voted Trump and hope things will change. At the very least we are seeing a long list of Republicans and Democrats that clearly want nothing to change.

Play with fire? A flamethrower at 10 paces aimed at Obama and activated would be justice for his traitorous crimes. As you well know, I do not support Trump although I give him a chance to act in favor of individual liberty and free markets. That would be the opposite of Obama's disgusting, unconstitutional, statist, occasionally traitorous actions. Bush was a horrible president. Obama was much, much worse and between the two of them, they set back individual liberty a century.or more and crippled our country with insane debt, unnecessary war, and unconstitutional regulations and rights violations crushing the life out of the economy and personal liberty.
Obama can't die quick enough.