Here's a little quiz for all you history buffs out there.   Please enlighten those that don't know.  What was the very first form of governance by non-Native American peoples in America?  A.  Was it a push-poll driven hodge podge of ill thought out and reactionary populism?  B.  Was it a representative republic like we thankfully still have for the moment?  Or C.  Was it arranged much like an authoritarian and socialist society in the manner of Cold War Era Eastern Europe?

If you said C, you win a prize, Johnny tell them what they've won...  Ok, so you don't win anything, and if you listen to El Rushbo every Thanksgiving for the Pilgrim story, you already know what I'm talking about.  For those of you that don't, don't feel bad, because your about to be enlightened.

William Bradford's recollections of early America should be mandatory reading in school.  In the spirit of the modern "offset" fad, I think it would be a fabulous way for liberals to show their "compassion", "bi-partisanship" and "diversity" for the "inclusion" of different points of view.  If they could just empathically allow an occasional "liberal offset" once in awhile for a little tried and true conservatism, our kids and society would be better off.  Maybe if Karl Marx, Hugo Chavez or Hillary Clinton had any understanding of the historically proven failure of socialism or its baby step forward to communism, hundreds of millions of people would have been able, could be able, and will be able to live free  If only they would have, could have, and will be able to read Bradford.

I'll let Bradford talk for awhile, through Rush's words modified for clarity only.  "The experience we had in this comon course and condition", (starvation and death), "tried sundry years... that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing- as if they were wiser than God."  Bradford is saying they weren't happy, and it was against God's natural law to restrict an individual's pursuit of happiness.  "For this community [so far as it was], was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their comfort."  In saying "retard much employment", please understand that he meant people weren't working hard because they had NO INCENTIVE to, and that this lack of incentive was destroying the community.  "For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense... that was thought injustice."  Ask yourselves this question, how long would you work for free?  If forced to work, how hard would you work?  No incentive, no work, what's so hard to comprehend about that?

So, what happened when they (the Pilgrims)were unshackled from the dictates of their failed socialist utopia?  What happened when each family was given a plot of land to work as they saw fit?  Bradford wrote, "this had very good success, for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been."  "In no time, the Pilgims found they had more food than they could eat themselves."  This exemplifies why it is so important to maximize the individual's ability to pursue happiness and minimize the state's ability to dictate the pursuit.  When an individual fails, he hurts only himself, his family, and his employees if he's a businessman.  When a state fails, everyone in the society is damaged, Cambodia, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. etc. etc..  This is just common sense!  Why is it so hard for the average "well meaning" liberal to understand?

Now, let's flash forward to the present.  Has basic human nature changed?  Is there a mass of persons in this or any nation willing to contribute their blood, sweat and tears pro-bono from here to eternity for the "common good"?  Hillary apparently thinks there is, and here's an itty bitty bit of information you should learn and prothesize about her if you don't want to "repine"  too.

First, I'll set the mood a little with a statement she made to Rep. Dennis Hastert in 1993 that you can find in Thomas Kuiper's book "I've Always Been A Yankees Fan" on page 20.  "We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices...  Government has to make those choices for people", (reference-universal health care).  Getting the warm fuzzies?  Let's look at her website www.hillaryclinton.com for some more revelations of her comprehensive destroy American prosperity plan.

So, what does she want to do to "remedy" the high cost of prescription drugs?  Let's glean that straight from the donkey's mouth, shall we?  To combat costs, her plan is to "give FDA the authority to approve safe and effective biogeneric drugs- ending the monopoly currently enjoyed by large biopharmaceutical companies.  Creating biogeneric competion will spur innovation resulting in lower cost and more choices for patients, providers, and employers, providing such competition will save $5-7 billion per year."

Might I be so bold as to point out that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, created in 1790, was designed to spur "innovation" for the furtherance of the human condition by granting temporary "monopoly" status to free thinking, industrious persons for their ingenious creations?  A U.S. Patent is a sacred promise made by our government to the individual that enables said individual to reap the benefits of their invention without the fear of competition for a set period of time before the contributions from their art become available to be replicated.  Without this, who would bother spending their time to develop their musings into
the reality of a functional product?  Would Edison have bothered to develop the lightbulb?  Would Bill Gates have spent the time engaging his genius if he knew with surety that the government was just going to take his ideas and allow others to replicate them without compensation?  Would a better mouse trap than the family cat ever have come along?  Why would a drug company (or a gasp... OIL COMPANY) invest literally billions of dollars in research if they knew they would be prohibited from making a profit?  That's some twisted logic for you.  You don't "spur innovation" by doing that, you damn the world to a thousand years Of darkness!

She goes on by stating she will, "limit direct-to-consumer advertising, institute reporting requirement for financial arrangements between providers and manufactrues, and protect physician prescribing data from being sold to pharmaceutical manufactures.  So much for letting a business try to promote their good s and services to the masses.  Where does she get off thinking this swill resonates with anyone but dope smoking, maggot infested hippies?  Telling people that "we're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" might work well on those that never let dust settle on their well worn copies of 'Das Capital', but she must be inhaling if she thinks a majority of Americans will rally around her socialist cries.  As far as "reporting requirements for financial arrangements between providers and manufactures", she should lead by example.  Just what were the "arrangements" between the Rose Law Firm and a certain savings and loan company in Arkansas?  The world may never know.

Hillary's understanding of history is much the same as any fictional, authoritarian, Newspeak character in Orwell's book '1984'.  To her, "history is a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as necessary."  The bane to her existence is the soundbite, talk radio, and the internet blogger.  History of course is not a palimpsest, she can't run from her inconsistencies, hypocricies, and just downright mentally vacuous statements and actions.  The best she can hope for is a strong third party candidate that can siphon off Republican votes.  Bubba never had a 51% mandate to govern, and he's a lot more likable than Frau Hillary; mental image: "Young Frankenstein", horses wildly frantic at the very mention of the name.  Fight the good fight.  Learn lots, love liberty, lose liberals!