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DAWN of the ERA of COMMON-ISM
By Tom DeWeese
May 18, 2007
The lines used to be so clear. On one side were free markets, free societies and openly elected representative governments, normally defined as democracy. On the other, was the force of totalitarianism choking off individual initiative, private ownership of property, cynically providing a ballot box with but one choice, normally defined as Communism. In the end, the "Evil Empire" disintegrated under the weight of its own ignorance of human nature. Or did it?
Conservatives hailed the victory, dispatching Communism to the "ash-heap of history." Many Conservative leaders have put forth the idea that we are living in a "Conservative era," using as proof the Republican takeover of Congress and the worldwide movement toward democracy and free trade. The demise of Communism, some say, now allows a spirit of cooperation among nations that will bring on the benefits of worldwide prosperity and a universal increase in the standard of living.
Yet many Americans are concerned that the same leaders who proclaim American ideals are spreading across the globe have failed to protect constitutionally guaranteed liberties here at home. The assaults on property rights and personal privacy along with the transformation of local schools under federal programs, and above all, the seeming lack of concern for national sovereignty and protection of the nation's borders are the obvious contradictions to the proposition that Conservative ideas now reign supreme.
Other goals seem to be taking center stage. The rule of law in our Republic, designed to insure individual rights from intrusive government, is being replaced by a new ideology; one that tends to allow the concerns of interest groups to supersede the inherent rights of the individual. Further, the interests of the United States of America now seem to take a back seat to something called the "Global Commons." National identities and individual religions appear to be morphing into non-descript and indistinguishable arrangements to some unidentified whole. Science has been reduced to little more than a convenient political tool to promote agendas. Self-determination is being replaced with group-think.
What is happening to our way of life and to our nation, as it once was? Communism is dead. Capitalism is fading. We have begun a new era called Common-ism.
A New Threat For a New Century
When the walls of Soviet Communism fell over a decade ago, the world changed. Once-proud nations, that had been swallowed up by the Soviet empire, emerged as a new "democracy movement." Western forces were expected to rush forward and promote their ideology and bring Communism's formerly oppressed victims into the fold of free markets and freely elected representative government. But it didn't happened.
Instead, international Communists refused to hang their heads in defeat and leave the world stage. In fact, with the "death" of Communism, they were now freed from its negative baggage. They could begin a new movement able to reach across national boundaries - even into the West. As long as the title "Communist" was not hung around their neck to raise Western fears, the ideas of international Socialism could move forward unhindered. The world has responded in almost thunderous support. Thus, Common-ism was born.
The distinctive feature of Commonism is its intention to transform private intellectual property and nationally controlled natural resources into common property in the name of the "common heritage of mankind." The ideology of Commonism is based on political concepts and spiritual values, such as global commons, global village, global spirituality, equalitarianism, democratism, disarmament, environmentalism, interdependence, interconnectedness, and participation in world peace.
Commonism is a political ideology containing both a doctrine and a device for its expansion. Commonism advances on the idea that problems cross national and local boundaries. In that way, natural and political boundaries are conveniently traversed through treaties, legislation and policy statements, all under the excuse that it is necessary for improvement of the common good.
President Bill Clinton boldly announced a new initiative to "reinvent government." That reinvention was Commonism. Under Clinton's direction, the Federal Government began implementing Commonism policy. The promise of the reinvention was that "certain tools, approaches, and strategies...could result in more environmental protection, less economic cost, and... greater opportunity for the poor and disadvantaged." The core program of the reinvention, publicly presented as a way to protect the environment, also mysteriously involved itself in racial, economic and equality issues.
This is no accident. It is a tactic of Commonism to meld together a seemingly unconnected array of issues into one cause. It allows the formation of partnerships among a long list of interested parties.
The Clinton Administration explained how these partnerships were to be a first step. "Learning to use new approaches to achieve interrelated goals simultaneously will be an evolutionary process. It needs to build on the strengths and overcome the limitations of current economic and regulatory systems and recognize the interrelationships between economic and environmental policies." In describing "Intergovernmental Partnerships," the Administration explained, "Federal, state, and tribal governments need to work together in partnership with local communities to develop place-based strategies that integrate economic development, environmental quality, and social policymaking with broad public involvement."
In other words, local or state elected officials were no longer considered to be capable of making development decisions for the community. It was now necessary to expand the process through common consensus of an endless number of private organizations with their own political agendas. In this way the boundaries of government are blurred along with the clear definition of the rule of law.
That then was the new invention of government. Top-down control in partnership with private advocacy groups and international corporations.
The doctrine of Commonism is promoted through a restructured education system where old ideas of schools as centers of academic learning are replaced with systems designed to moderate behavior that will accept the aspects of the new Commonism. The very meaning of Outcome-based Education (OBE) is that students will leave school fully indoctrinated with, and sensitive to, the Commonism agenda.
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