Season 3 Podcast 180 The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rule # 21, "Trample on Traditions"

The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rule # 21: “Trample on Traditions.”One of the first things any new tyrant must do is to destroy old traditions and old laws. Machiavelli understood that for a person to gain power and to hold power, he must not only destroy old laws, but he must establish new laws. In what I have called Machiavelli Rule # 21, Machiavelli said, “And nothing honours a man more than to establish new laws and new ordinances when he himself was newly risen.  Such things when they are well founded and dignified will make him revered and admired.” (Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince)To establish new laws and new ordinances one must destroy old laws and old ordnances. That is what is behind destroying our Bill of Rights, stacking the Supreme Court, and changing our Constitution. You cannot create a new world order unless you first destroy the old-world order. Tyrants who do not understand that do not remain in power very long.That is why there is a movement to destroy the Supreme Court. The left does not want justices who interpret the Constitution. That is why they tried to crucify Justice Kavanaugh.  They want justices who will write a new constitution. They do not want Justices who will uphold the Bill of Rights.  They want justices who will destroy the Bill of Rights and write new ones. That also explains the movement to open our borders and destroy our sovereignty, to take away our energy independence, to release prisoners in our streets and break down rule of law, to encourage the destruction of monuments and statues, to defund police, to destroy our faith in the fairness of the voting process, to encourage Black Lives Matter, to turn people of color against all whites by calling them white supremacists and systemic racists, to encourage riots in our streets. They want to destroy the old rule of law and replace it with a new rule of law.Tradition is the enemy of a new world order.  Everything must be new. Worship change.  Destroy old statues, destroy Christianity. Rewrite history.  Belittle the forefathers. Play down the sacrifice of others. We see that in America today. Statues of the following have been either systematically removed or destroyed by mobs:·      Christopher Columbus·      Thomas Jefferson·      George Washington·      Ulysses S. Grant·      Francis Scott KeyPerhaps those names are familiar. Christopher Columbus discovered America, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; George Washington—the father of our country, Valley Forge, The Leader of the army that defeated the British, The First President, the “first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of our countrymen; Ulysses S. Grant, the General who won the Civil War that abolished slavery; and Francis Scott Key, the poet who wrote our National Anthem. It was all done in the aftermath of the George Floyd tragedy under the pretense of social justice. Does one wrong, no matter how horrible, justify another. Not in a society that revered law and order.Why then didn’t the liberal Congress speak out against the riots.  The answer is simple.  The rioters furthered their agenda. Remember this as the “never let a good crisis go to waste’ Congress. In the aftermath of the riots, the democratic run house voted to remove all Confederate statues from the Capitol. It was supposedly in protest over systemic racism and injustice. When asked if it was right for a mob to destroy the statue of Christopher Columbus rather than say a commission by the city council, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “people will do what they do…if the community doesn’t want a statue, the statue should not be there.” The community she was speaking of were all rioters.