(Breitbart) – As President Barack Obama
prepares for his inauguration, Breitbart News sat down with radio talk show
host Mark Levin, the bestselling author of the blockbusters Liberty and
Tyranny, Ameritopia, Men in Black, and Rescuing Sprite. Levin painted a stark
picture of the reality facing the country – the rise of tyranny – but he also
offered hope in one word: “fight.”
“I don’t think Obama knows exactly what he’s
going to go for in his second term,” Levin said, “as he will look for
opportunities to exploit as events unfold. I am sure they’ve drawn up a
partial a list, and we already know that it includes, but is not limited to,
gun control; attacks on the First Amendment such as religious liberty; amnesty
for illegal aliens; union expansion; institutionalizing Obamacare;
institutionalizing voter corruption; de-industrialization via the EPA;
destroying the capitalist-based economy via tax increases, smothering
regulations, massive deficit spending, and endless borrowing; and hollowing out
our military; etc. This will effect all of us. It will do extreme damage
to the nation in many respects. I think Obama sees himself as correcting
historic wrongs in this country, as delivering the fruits of the labor of other
people to people who he believes have historically been put upon. I think
there’s a lot of perverse thinking that goes on in his mind, radical left-wing
thinking. He was indoctrinated with Marx and Alinksy propaganda. You not
only see it in his agenda but in his words — class warfare; degrading
successful people unless, of course, they help finance his elections, causes,
and organizations; pretending to speak for the so-called middle class when, in
fact, he is destroying their jobs, savings, and future. Obama’s war on
our society is intended to be an onslaught in which the system is overwhelmed.”
How to fight
that agenda? Levin said the answer certainly doesn’t lie in the current
Republican Party leadership. “I think the Republican Party, its apparatus, its
so-called leadership, the parasitic consultants, represent an institution that
is tired, old, almost decrepit, full of cowardice and vision-less. It has
abandoned the Declaration of Independence and any serious defense of
constitutional republicanism. The Democrat Party is now a radical 1960s
party; it’s the anti-Constitution, anti-capitalism, anti-individual
party. It largely controls the federal government, including the massive
bureaucracy and much of the judiciary — what I call the permanent branches of
the federal government. The Democrat Party represents the federal
government, and the federal government expands the power of the Democrat
Party. They’re appendages of each other. On the other hand, the GOP
today stands for capitulation, timidity, delusion — so mostly nothing.
Republicans may speak of the Constitution, limited government, low taxes, etc.,
but what have they done about them? Next to nothing if not nothing.
Even when Bush 43 was president and the Republicans controlled Congress.
What did they do? They went on a spending binge. They expanded
Medicare, the federal role in local education, drove up the debt, etc. Meanwhile,
we are lectured by putative Republicans like Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice,
Tom Ridge, and a conga line of others trashing often viciously NOT Obama and
what the Democrats are doing to our nation, but conservatives,
constitutionalists, and tea party activists who are the only people left
standing for liberty against tyranny in this country.”
But, said
Levin, the answer isn’t to start a third party – “The problem is a practical
one. If we go third party, I can see the Democrats winning elections for
a generation. Given the radicalized character of that party, that would
seal our fate, and the fate of our children and grandchildren to, as Reagan put
it, 1000 years of darkness. The day may come, perhaps soon, when
abandoning the GOP for a new party is the best way to deal with events and stop
the rise of tyranny. I think the answer at this moment is for
conservatives to retake the Republican Party. Reagan did it, and Reagan
was opposed by the Republican establishment every step of the way, including
the Bush family. But this is a constant fight, just as fighting the Democrats
is a constant fight. After the Reagan presidency, Bush 41 and Bush 43, who’d
opposed the Reagan Revolution, immediately dragged the nation back into the
Republican mush. In fact, they sought to distance themselves from Reagan and
his achievements, using such silly phrases as “a kinder and gentler”
conservatism or “compassionate conservatism,” as if all the opportunities,
wealth, jobs, and enterprises Reagan’s policies launched were neither kind nor
compassionate. There is an intransigence in the Republican Party that
sabotages and obstructs those who have answers for this nation based on our
founding principles. And so we had a brief eight-year period where Reagan
showed us the way and created a foundation on which future Republican
presidents could build, and they haven’t. They invoke Reagan because he
is beloved by the American people, but they reject his principles and
policies. Keep in mind, George W. Bush was the most profligate spender in
world history until Obama came along; the Tea Party grew out of the last months
of Bush 43 and the early months of the Obama presidency. Yet Bush
administration staffers are everywhere today: the media, advising candidates,
leading fundraisers, etc. And they arrogantly and condescendingly lecture
conservatives about responsible, moderate governance. They also cheerlead
for more establishment candidates, like John McCain, Mitt Romney, and the like,
who are not only sure losers, but have no grasp of the urgency of our times and
the principled agenda necessary to address it. Meanwhile, the Reagan and
traditional conservatives, the constitutionalists and the tea party leaders,
are all but unheard and unseen on TV, even some of our favorite outlets.”
The tendency
toward a meaningless Republicanism isn’t confined to the Republican Party,
Levin stated. It’s in the media, too. “I’m not that impressed with some of the
new conservative faces and voices. For starters, most of them aren’t
conservative at all. They’re establishment Republican, or at least
reflect that bunch too often. They are voices for the impotent GOP
leadership, giving them cover while shooting at real conservative voices who
are doing much of the heavy lifting. Sadly, when you look at some of the
great outlets for conservative thought and activism of the past, it’s a crying
shame, because many of them have abandoned their past role as serious and
substantive breeding grounds for conservative strategies, policies, and new
intellectuals. Instead, they spend an inordinate amount of time analyzing
polling data and otherwise naval gazing — when they’re not taking shots at
other conservatives or promoting their TV appearances. With respect to
policy, you could see this when the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Bill
Kristol attacked the tea party back in 2011, when the tea party opposed the
disastrous debt-ceiling deal. They even reduced themselves to calling
them Hobbits and Obama Republicans. But, of course, the tea party was
right, the Journal and Kristol were wrong, as recent events have
demonstrated. You can also see it with the recent fiscal cliff debacle,
which grew out of the 2011 debt ceiling deal, where certain columnists were
cheering the brilliance of the Republican leadership in agreeing with Obama to
not only raise taxes on the so-called rich and eliminating numerous deductions,
but they insisted they had actually cut taxes by defending the status quo re
most of the tax brackets that have existed for the last 12 years. And
now, having declared victory in the fiscal cliff matter, they’re already
surrendering ground on the latest debt ceiling deadline, arguing for a three
month deal. This is now said to be a new, ingenuous strategy for forcing
the Democrats in the Senate to pass a budget and expose Obama as a big
spender. It’s laughable and pathetic. Our society is deteriorating
as the federal government devours more and more of it, we are on an
unsustainable course that threatens our liberty and all we have built and
earned, and these people act as if it’s just another day of wheeling and
dealing. At a bare minimum, at least make the case to the American
people, and if the people decide they want to live in chains, then there’s not
much we can do about it. But make the damn case and fight like hell!”
“As for the new
media, I think they have already wrested some control away from the mainstream
media, which is more accurately characterized as the statist media. The
so-called mainstream media promotes big government and those who advance it.
Obama, for example, is their champion. When you look at the audience
numbers for the networks, and you see the newspaper subscriptions dropping,
that’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned. The years of near-monopoly
control over what is said to be news by self-serving liberal propagandists
needs to end, as the recent outrageous comments by Bob Schieffer and Tom Brokaw
make clear. And their progeny are no better — not just at MSNBC but at
other supposedly more mainstream outlets. I call these people pretend
journalists. So, I think the new media is absolutely crucial: the more
competition the better, the more citizen involvement not just in government but
in free speech the better. The more the merrier, and I think a difference has
been made and will continue to be made. In the end, though, the consumer
needs to be discerning. Just because something is said in the new media
or appears in the new media does not make it so. This is particularly true with
the Left’s emergence on the Internet and in social media. Over time, it
will sort itself out. But I would encourage conservatives to continue to
make maximum use of new technologies to preserve our nation and defeat the
Left.”
But Levin said
that the country rests on the blade of a knife right now, and that every effort
is necessary to preserve its liberty. “Right now we have a government with so
much power, a government so ubiquitous, a government so cancerous in its growth
and so exponential in its expanse, that I cannot conceal my great fear for the
future of this country. Trying to figure out how to unravel it all is a very
difficult undertaking. I have friends who are conservatives who are very
intelligent, I know a number of people who are in public office, and they say,
‘Be positive, if we win the next election, things will be okay.’ But it’s not
just about winning the next election. That’s the minimum we need to do. We need
to roll back the size of the federal Leviathan or it will surely be our
undoing. Republicans have been allergic to this. We need to roll
back the debt, even though the last Republican administration contributed
mightily to it. The way to start is by cleaning out the old guard in the GOP
and installing fresh, bold, articulate, knowledgeable, confident, courageous
conservatives. We must find a way to depose the old, decrepit, tired
so-called leaders who’ve used the system to climb to the top, but once at the
top demonstrate they don’t belong there. We also must find ways to
devolve political and economic power back to the states and the
individual. It is a fool’s errand to believe that the same people who’ve
brought us to the brink are the people who can solve the dire problems they’ve
contributed to. This is a puzzle that must be solved.”
Will the
country be able to come back from Obamaism? Levin said that the road would be
an uphill one: “To be perfectly honest, many countries haven’t come back from
this. It’s happening from within. When an individual like Obama uses the
instrumentalities of government against us, when he uses the power that the
Constitution grants to a president to evade the Constitution and abuse power,
when he uses liberty to exploit opportunities to promote the tyranny of
centralized government, it’s extremely difficult for people who are not paying
attention or who are not engaged in the political process to help us stop
what’s taking place. Only when things get so bad do many of them realize
what’s happening, and that’s usually too late. Reestablishing the civil
society will be extremely difficult. I have hope, but I’m not going to delude
myself or others that this is just another election cycle or just another
president or just another agenda we can easily overcome if we win the White
House back in 2016. The President is making institutional, structural changes
to our country. Do I think the country can survive? I think America will
certainly exist. But what kind of America? The question is whether
we will be a free and prosperous people or just another miserable place where
rights are denied and needs are scarce and distributed by the government.
I believe knowing the perilous state of the nation, and not pretending
otherwise, and knowing that only we conservatives have any hope of stemming
this tide and gradually reversing course, we will fight this in every
legitimate way we can. And hopefully our already significant ranks will
grow. We have no choice but to stand and fight. Everything is at stake,”
said Levin.
But there is a
bright spot: the American public still cares about the Constitution. In fact,
they care more than they did even a decade or two ago. “The one positive aspect
I see today,” Levin continued. “There are more people in America now who have
at least a general concept of how the Constitution is supposed to work,
including the Bill of Rights, and a general concept of what the Declaration of
Independence means, including the emphasis on the value of every
individual. This was not so 10 or 20 years ago. That’s not to say that
such an understanding can easily transfer into modern politics. But I think, in
part, that’s why you see so many millions of people frustrated, because they
know our government shouldn’t be operating this way. Even though we lost the
last two elections, and Obama’s reelection was by no means a blowout despite a
fairly weak Republican nominee, so many people keep talking about the
Constitution. I view this as a very positive thing. Are there more of us than
there are the others — that is, those who reject our heritage and are conquered
by or have surrendered to the Leviathan? History will tell us one
day. The choice is in our hands right now.”
Comments:
I am inviting you to attend the next County GOP meeting held
to elect Precinct Chairs and delegates.
In DeKalb County Georgia, this meeting is on Saturday, February 9, 2013
at 9:00 AM at Lakeside High School, 3801 Briarcliff Road NE Atlanta GA 30345.
We will be out by Noon. It’s free and you just need to be a registered voter.
If you live in another County, I urge you to find out when
and where your own County meeting is being held and go vote for your Precinct
Chair and delegates. Reforming our
government is a “bottom-up” job.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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