THE PRISON GUARDS OF THE PAST

It’s a brilliant metaphor, isn’t it? 

It’s all encompassing, describing Democrats led by their Prison-Guard-in-Chief, Establishment RINOs from Boehner on down, public unions, teachers unions, the welfare-state/social-worker bureaucracy, EPA fascisti, climate alarmists, eco-luddites, the Enemedia, the majority of professors and administrators in academia, all supported by a libtard judiciary.

All of them, epitomized by our Zero of a President, are prison guards of the past, desperately demanding they keep their corrupt perks and power by keeping us locked up in a prison of the status quo and government failure by force of arms – government guns and thieving taxes.  

I’d love to claim the metaphor as mine, but it’s not.  It’s Newt Gingrich’s in his new book Breakout.  It’s even in the subtitle: Breakout: Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America’s Fate.

Newt juxtaposes what a real "fundamental transformation" of society is like compared to the ridiculous regressiveness of Zero’s.  How about a world of candles and no electricity, of horses for transportation, of no cars or paved roads, no planes, telephones, radio or TV?  That was America not a lot longer than – and for rural America a lot less than – 100 years ago.

Light bulbs and electricity, car and planes etc., were technological breakthroughs that changed Americans’ lives immensely for the better.  What enabled them all to collectively emerge within a few decades such that they transformed the world?  It was a historical correlation of science, technology, and entrepreneurship creating surges of innovation in multiple fields all reinforcing each other.

When this collection of breakthroughs simultaneously synergize, you get a breakout far more powerful than breakthroughs by themselves.  You get a real transformation of how society lives and organizes. 

The recent breakthroughs in communication and information technology have synergized into just such a breakout.  How about a world of no laptop computers, iPhones and iPads, no Internet, Wikipedia, Google, Skype, YouTube, online shopping or maps – or TTP?  We all lived in that world just a few years ago.  Now most of us can’t imagine how exactly we lived without it.

What was the most necessary defining condition that made these two breakouts – the overall one of the late 19^th/early 20^th centuries, and the information one of today – possible?  The government wasn’t in the way.  There were far fewer prison guards of the past 100 years ago, and the recent computer/internet breakout happened too quickly for the prison guards to suffocate it with controls and regulation.

So, we’ve had an entrepreneurial information revolution – but we have seen no remotely revolutionary advances whatever in education, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, much less government.  How come?  Because the old order has a veto.

When Edison invented the light bulb, Newt notes,

 "There was no army of lobbyists, unions, bureaucrats, and litigators seeking to cancel the future and protect their own privileges… If all these organized and entrenched interests had been around in the late nineteenth century, then not only the light bulb but the entire breakout that produced the modern world might never have happened, or at least have been considerably delayed."

And today in Zero’s America?

"Wherever the future is happening, however, there are opponents who want to stop it-those who profit by the old order, who protect themselves and their privileges. These are the prison guards of the past.

A breakthrough in learning? The teachers’ unions and the mandarins of the academy will discredit it, insisting that they alone can be trusted with the welfare of our youth.

A breakthrough in energy? The extreme environmentalists will invoke an ecological catastrophe, accuse the pioneers of poisoning the wells, and try to regulate and litigate the breakthrough into oblivion.

A breakthrough in medicine? With a compliant administration in Washington, the Food and Drug Administration and the bureaucrats in both public and private insurance can make sure it never sees the light of day."

The cosmic irony is that at the very time America is poised for another breakout that rivals or even exceeds that of a century ago, her people have chosen a retrograde president determined to keep them in a prison of the past.  Newt elucidates:

"We are on the edge of an era of change the likes of which we have not seen since the period between 1870 and 1930. This astounding breakout could transform our lives in ways we can only begin to imagine today. It could all happen within our lifetimes-or not. The breakout first has to make it past the guardians of the old order, who will be only too happy to smother it.

The change that is coming won’t be simply more of the change we have seen in the last generation. It will be something else entirely-a change of kind, not just a change of degree. We are talking about a fundamental transformation of what is possible, what we can accomplish, and what it will cost. The scale of this transformation makes it a watershed. For it to happen, we must reorganize how we think and act, how we structure organizations, how we organize activities, the very questions we ask."

What is he talking about?  He details with specific examples coming breakthroughs in personalized education and personalized medicine that are night-and-day more effective and less costly than what we’ve got now, making government education and healthcare utterly obsolete.

Breakthroughs in energy like fracking, and manufacturing like 3-D printers are already happening.  Soon, you’ll be able to "print" in your own home most any physical object you can imagine.  Medical researchers are already using an "ink" of living cells to print new human organs to replace diseased ones.

But to what extent will they be stymied?  The eco-fascists are desperately demonizing fracking.  Fracking got underway before they could stop it in the US, but have succeeded in Europe.  3-D printing tech is in its infancy.  The prison guards could easily strangle it in its crib.

Newt’s optimism regarding America’s potential is the same as what we discussed last September in From 9/11 to 3.0. 

In America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century – Why America’s Greatest Days Are Yet to Come, authors James Bennett and Michael Lotus describe today’s America under Zero as an apotheosis of failure.  America’s government is today "in a state of decay reminiscent of the Brezhnev period of the Soviet Union," run by "apparatchiks with no new ideas, repeating the same clichés and failed policies, unaware their system was doomed."

That doom is what the prison guards of the past will do anything to avoid – for it is their personal doom.  They could not survive without government jobs and subsidies.  That doom is what makes them, for Newt, "Enemies of the future." Another great Newtonian phrase.

Last week (12/05), we talked about a demand we must make in every communicative way, that The President Must Resign.

Newt has given us more arrows in this quiver.  In every way we can – tweets, FB posts, emails, letters to editors, et al – we can paint Zero as obsolete, a man of the past, who has no demonstrated capacity for original thought, whose solution to any problem is a proven failure.  He can’t even build a website that works.  He is a prison guard of the past and an enemy of the future. 

This is also the time to rebrand libtards in general.  I’m sure you’ve noticed how they now insist on being called "progressives" instead of "liberals."  We should now insist on their being called regressives.  They are a regression to the past, to the maintenance of the status quo.  They are the enemies of innovation and the future.

It is time to end regressive tyranny.  It is time for a jailbreak out of Zero’s Prison.  It is time to escape to the future.  And furthermore, it is time to consider that