The Usurpent's Reign is a Do-Over, but Worse

I'm a collector of old architecture, history, medicine, and social science books. The reasons are few, mainly to see into a simpler world, to compare our knowledge of today with that of the past, and, of course, that old book smell--you have to wait nearly a half-century to acquire that aroma! I digress.

I've been reading James Truslow Adams' series of history books, that were published in the 1930s and 1940s. One in particular, History of the United States. Vol. V, chronicles each year from 1933 to 1941. I've been saying since January how the Usurpent's agenda is a mirror of FDR's socialist reign. This book of Adams is fascinating reading because it describes what we're experiencing today. Below are excerpts from pages 66-67 of The Record of 1935.

Fortunately our decision cannot be made hastily. In the great populations of our modern democracies false information and emotion derived from newspapers, the moving pictures and the radio, acting upon all of us simultaneously, may cause us to advocate a course of action which we may later regret. The example of the Hitler regime in Germany shows us how even a sober, orderly, and highly cultured and intelligent nation may embark upon a course which ends in economic, spiritual, and intellectual ruin, and once embarked finds it impossible to turn back...

Many of the most radical, indeed almost revolutionary, measures passed by the administration in the three years it has been in power has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935. This does not mean that the Court is oblivious to the social ills of our time or heedless of a humanitarian program. It does mean, however, that the methods of solution for our problems, proposed in haste and without due consideration, have not been in accord with the fundamentals of our form of government. These include certain defined relations of the citizen to his State and national governments. They also include certain relations between the States and the Federal Government which latter was erected to bind the States together, to perform certain functions for all better than the individual States could do, and also to guarantee certain personal liberties to all citizens...

Either of two things can be done. More carefully thought-out solutions might be found or less carelessly drawn laws enacted which might better meet the constitutional test; or the Constitution itself, if a real majority of the American people and not a mere minority group wish to do so, could be amended....

The only difference that I've seen so far is that no one is challenging the constitutionality of the actions taken by the Usurpent and his Congress. That is tragic, but do you see the similarities? Take all of this at face value. Apparently, the media certainly hasn't changed. In fact, the Usurpent, without trying very hard, controls the media just like the corrupt Senator of Louisiana, Huey Long. The Usurpent also takes the dictatorial approach to the presidency much like the assassinated Mr. Long. Acting in haste, pushing through soon to fail or punitive programs like "Cash for Clunkers", the energy bill, the stimulus bill, and, in September, Health Care Reform, is projected only to lead us to "embark upon a course which ends in economic, spiritual, and intellectual ruin, and once embarked finds it impossible to turn back".

There's Nothing Like a Cold Beer to End Racism

We've all read or heard the news about how the Usurpent decided to meddle in matters outside of his job description when he publicly chastised a cop for arresting a liberal professor friend of his based on supposed racial profiling.

I think it's odd that the cop has a stellar record on the force, and that he taught classes about the wrongs of racial profiling. Then, just when you thought it was a closed topic, an email appears where the cop used words referencing monkeys and bananas in a derogatory fashion. All of the sudden, the cop issues an apology for using those words. The whole thing is suspect.

The Usurpent never apologized for sticking his nose into someone else's business, but he used the situation to call attention to our history of racial problems in Cambridge and in the U.S. Now, I've been to Cambridge. It's probably the most politically correct town in America, next to Washington, D.C. (not a town, but a district set aside for government only--what happened there?)

So, the Usurpent decides that both parties, but not himself, had a misunderstanding and, gosh, let's just laugh this off over some cold ones at my house. Really? Beer? Really?

Since their happy hour meeting, I'm glad to report that racism has ended in America. It was a remarkably simple solution under our noses at the grocery store all this time. Who knew?