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Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, Redux
We are now beginning to enter the Kansas-Nebraska Act stage of our republic's socialist crisis. At our constitutional founding, the evil of slavery was crudely evaded. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise, which prohibited the abomination north of 36°30' north latitude (about the middle of Missouri), was enacted.

But with the western push of the frontier, a new compromise was needed. So the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 decreed that the "popular sovereignty" of each territory should decide whether it would be a slave or a free state. The Civil War ensued, because, as Lincoln sagely explained:

A House divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure; permanently half slave and half free.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing or all the other.

But now, just as the (Democrat) Kansas-Nebraska Act broke through the geographic limit to slave states, the Democrat party's 2010 health-care law has broken the boundary that limited socialism. Now, the chains of socialism are to be clamped onto the able-bodied middle class -- not merely retirees who have paid their insurance premiums and the presumed-helpless poor.

And just as the free states could not tolerate the spread of slavery into their midst, so, too, free middle-class America -- if it still has its historic character -- will not tolerate the yoke of socialism being put upon their necks.

Come November, we shall see whether the system can still turn the popular will of the majority into legislative will. If it can, all will be well and the crisis will end.

But come November, if the majority will -- which opposes the socializing of health-care delivery and its associated government intrusions -- is denied its expression by the corrupt bargains and constitutional distortions of Washington, then, for the second time in our history, we will enter that dangerous period when the House resolves its temporary division. Let us devoutly pray -- and commit to ourselves -- that this time freedom shall be reacquired . . . peaceably.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-03-29
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