Now that it’s October, I can get WABC on my radio and hear Mark Levin again and his intelligence and occasional wisdom, and his occasional yelling and name calling. I don’t understand why 96.9 WTKK no longer has him on, but he also does provide audio rewinds to hear.

Levin sure has called a lot of people “statists” though, which he describes people on the left in their pursuit of Big Government social programs, bailouts and government takeovers of industries. However, in his “Conservative Manifesto” tirades, he tends to leave out people such as former President George W. Bush and the elder President Bush, whose statism would be overwhelmingly criticized by the American Founders and has done nothing but ruin this country.

Recently, I referred to expansionist “Military Industrial Complex” statism, which is hardly “conservative,” but of which Levin has been a staunch defender, particularly from both Bush presidents’ crusades of “nation building.” Levin often speaks of “independence” and “free markets” and “capitalism,” but still defends the Keynesian economics of expanding deficits and the National Debt as well as using taxation to fund the expansionism of the US Government on foreign lands.

Levin often praises the American Founders, who frequently promoted nothing but skepticism  and distrust of our politicians and government officials. I’ll never understand the blind trust that “conservatives” had in the Elder Bush who wanted our military to invade Iraq to protect Kuwait, and worse, the younger Bush’s taking us to Iraq to finish the job of getting Saddam. Defending America when attacked is a good idea, but using aggression for other purposes destroys America, as we are seeing right now.

This article, Reflections On the State And War by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, gives some insight and provides an understanding of how the state uses the intrusion into people’s liberty with taxation to fund its own increasing state-centralization, especially with the use of initiating aggression against other states to justify it. These US-led wars of the last 10-20 years are truly statist policies that serve the state (and don’t protect the country from other states’ aggression and from terrorism). If Levin is really interested in free markets and capitalism, he might be interested in reading Hoppe’s book, The Myth of National Defense, promoting an alternative to the status quo in “defense.”

Support for these statist, expansionist policies has given us a “kinder, gentler America” that is quickly becoming submissive to the “New World Order” of the international community and escalating us towards the international statism of its one “global government.”

Mark Levin