The path of Freedom, in contrast, is a path of abundance. A wealthy people are a free people. Many of the problems we experience today could easily be solved, or would even cease to exist with sufficient wealth. As pointed out in the Economic Freedom Index, the freest nations are also the most wealthy. Matt Ridley points out that one of the essentials supporting innovation is freedom.
Half of these same people polled believe that it is media misinformation and not genuine disagreements. This could be disturbing because each side may want to censor the other to get the “right” results. I would question whether this is true. There may be a true divide in America’s political views – the growing acceptance of socialism may be the source. In the past, this has not been so much the case.
The people actually in charge cannot be voted out. The foundations of the country now are the Federal Reserve, as well as those that provide a financial bonus to congress for services rendered. Jan 6 proved that non-violent protest will not work as intended. We have had citizens in jail for a year. Voting cannot be the answer as it stands today with the rampant cheating in blue states.
“Joe Biden” will travel to Buffalo Tuesday to offer his condolences to the families of the Topps shooting victims. (He did not travel to Waukesha last November, or New York in April.) It looks like the newspapers and cable news outfits will run with the Buffalo story a while longer, milking it to feed the narrative, which is that only the Democratic Party cares about black people and can save them from “white supremacy.”
So in spite of these horrific events and injustices, we slog along and try to live our lives, and hope for the best in the 2022 midterms. Truth Social, Trump’s media company, is beginning to take hold. Elon Musk may acquire Twitter and restore this platform as a place for Conservatives to present their beliefs and interpret world events.
Our fellow travelers, have yet to inoculate themselves against the raging epidemic of Contagious Apathy or cultivate inquiring minds to challenge the evil Government does. On the “glass-half-full” side, it does appear, thanks to shifting demographics and the ubiquity of social media, a growing number of people are becoming aware something doesn’t pass the Smell Test.
The beginning of official government thought control and censorship has been announced with a high school girl squealing in delight at being the center of attention on her phone as well as being the chief government censor. Heaven forbid that your peroxide style is out of date. You could be sent to Boston!
High and increasing prices for food, gas, housing, and nearly everything else, massive illegal immigration that is only getting worse, vaccination and mask mandates, destruction of our military, support for the Taliban and Iran, and so many other destructive acts have turned even some of their strongest supporters against them. One is inclined to attribute it all to massive stupidity and incompetence, but what if it’s not?
There isn’t any clause in our U.S. Constitution that can be interpreted to give Joe Biden, Congress, or any state’s legislatures the power to disarm Americans or exert gun control over them in the manner they are currently doing, and they certainly cannot do so by way of a Department of Justice “rule” and an illegal executive order handed down from on high by the tyrant wannabe, Biden.
I think Biden (vaguely) knows what he’s doing and that that’s to take America down as her last president. Coming across as a blithering idiot is probably not what he would have chosen if he had had the wits to choose, but behind the scenes, he doubtless gets plenty of pep talks and slaps on the back to keep his spirits up so he’ll hang in there. Somebody is telling Joe he’s a big dog and he’s lapping it up.
While touting their dedication to public service, they have shown that they would rather subjugate the public than serve them. We know many by name now and the list is longer than we ever could have imagined. Masks have obviously been ineffective at stopping the spread of the virus, but they have been incredibly effective at spreading fear, submissiveness, and collectivism.
Now we have Communist China that has developed techniques to turn its citizens against one another through “social credit”. It sends those who disagree with their rule to prisons, where they can be taken apart as living organ donors at the whim of the Socialist State. It deceives its citizens by rewriting history and controlling the information they are permitted to access and the news they are allowed to hear.
Our “leaders” in Washington apparently do not understand that if someone with sufficient gravitas and the makings of a real organization behind them were to take the stage with a true message of revolution, that revolution will absolutely come to pass. Again, this isn’t a call for it to happen; this is an honest assessment that it’s more than possible – it’s damned likely.
Every institution in American life is failing. The people are finally starting to see how this works at the same time that they see how the vaccines work. It did not have to be, but we allowed it to get this far, and now so many things are broken that there is barely any honorable and effective authority left. As the long night falls over the land, we survey the terrain and see fiery eruptions on the horizon. Is that the flashing of chaos in the distance?
The current trend towards fascism and totalitarianism in America is founded in the rejection of God and the rejection of a freely-lived life that confirms one has the liberty to do anything through God’s righteous moral code, as seen in the Ten Commandments and over 600 more Biblical commandments, that does no wrong to anyone else.
The need to justify force with righteousness is not limited to wartime. Every new coercive law or regulation is justified not on the basis of “I’m strong enough to take your stuff and so I think I will,” but because “our cause is just.” While some who would take your freedom or your life are motivated by their desire for power, the most vicious monsters in human history were all motivated by righteousness.
This question is not a joke. But it does show how a few people can impact all. People have been planting and growing vegetables in America since before the Pilgrims landed. The Indians gave the Pilgrims some pointers on gardening in the new world. Now a few people claim the gases emitting from our small gardens are harming the ecosystem. In response, a ballot question needs to be considered. It’s such a waste of energy and shines a negative light on the election process.
Personally, my wife and I have been vaccinated. We chose to. I exercised my freedom to choose what I believe is best for me. That’s a far cry from Biden’s refusal to allow free choice in such a personal matter, especially given the efficacy of immune protection for those who have already experienced the virus. Not to mention the special medical conditions of some people such that it mitigates against their using the vaccine.
Proponents of Marx and Mao see humanity as a whole, much like a massive thunderstorm, to be handled as an entire single unit, in unison under Communist and collectivist dogma, while advocates of Adam Smith Capitalism and freedom and liberty look at that same storm of humanity and see in each the uniqueness of each individual, each raindrop. And it is that distinction that results in extreme and vastly different results.
During his eight years in the Oval Office, Obama employed many of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules” but he was under the proverbial microscope and unable to make drastic moves as quickly as he wanted. He also discovered that neither “fundamental transformation” nor social re-engineering was going to come cheap. It needed a bankroll.