Hello?
America?
Are you there?
This is freedom speaking.
Have you forgotten about me?
Perhaps we have, as Americans, forgotten about our long lost friend that we so fondly call ‘freedom.’ Freedom is more than a guarantee, it is a state of mind, an emotion, and it is a rare commodity. It gives us the independence to be self regulating and allows us to decide what the best is for ourselves, our family, and our future. There is nowhere else in the world where you can experience freedom as boundlessly as you can here, in The United States of America. In the famous words of Ronald Reagan, ‘If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.’ Our freedom needs to be protected and watched over.
So why is it that so many Americans have lost sight of Freedom, in the name of being comfortable, having rights, and being ignorant to the perversion of our government? Ah, yes, our government, the very structure put into place to ensure that our freedoms never get taken away, diminished or re-interpreted. They promise not protection of our freedoms, but protection from ourselves, from our decisions and of our rights (which, by the way, they designate to us).
Isn’t that clear? They said, ‘you don’t have the ability to save money for your retirement’, so they tax us for social security and spend our hard earned money until we get to the age that they say we can retire at and slowly and systematically dispense our own money back to us. That is, if you qualify to get your money back. Social Security along with other government entitlement programs like welfare, unemployment and ‘Obama Care’ are the basically the governments way of saying, “you’re too stupid to know what to do with your money, and we know better than you, so let us PROTECT you from yourself by providing you with these ‘free’ services.” In the infamous words of Thomas Jefferson, “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
America, it is time to wake up. Wise up. And rise up. Educate yourself about what the government is serving up to us. Ask yourself how this is going to affect your freedom, and where it’s going to stop. Does is stop with another revolution? Or does it stop with enlightenment? We have a duty, as American citizens, to protect our freedoms and the things we believe in. What do you believe in?
The US Government is the product of the system through which it was created: a sytem in which people who do not truly understand it (but think they do) are empowered, even encouraged, to participate in its legislative direction and steer it. Drunks are at the wheel and this is perfectly fine because it's the democratic process we all love, right?
ReplyDeleteYes,we've all be trained to be good little socialists. We don't deserve freedom because we are too insignificant to handle such an awesome responsibility. And God? Who is he? Just a figment of our imaginations. We need polititions in washington to tell us what our rights are and what's best for us and our families. Because we are all good little socialists.
ReplyDeleteWhat you describe in your reply isn't Socialism.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, understanding systems of government does not make you an advocate of them. It only makes you better informed. This, of course, requires an investment above and beyond Fox News or MSNBC indoctrination. I haven't observed a swelling trend in armchair America to move past indoctrination and into personal, objective fact-checking. I haven't observed a tendency to make decisions logically instead of emotionally. What I have observed is something else entirely.
My point? Americans have a very disturbing tendency to form and join political tribes and to actively oppose its members from questioning the tribal lore. (If this doesn't remind you of religion, it should.) The only solution to this problem is education and a personal drive to understand what truth lays beneath the propaganda, and I stand by my personal opinion that people who willingly remain uneducated in the information age should consciensciously refrain from participating in a system they don't understand. It only perpetuates the problem.
To be clear, I would certainly not advocate taking away the right of these people to participate, but I won't feel sorry for the collective mass getting the government it deserves, either.
I've been around a few years and I've seen the pendulum swing back and forth, back and forth. The pattern is election, mid-term outrage, election that puts the other side in power (because there are only two, right?), mid-term outrage, election, etc. Rinse and repeat. What has really, really changed in all these years? Not much at all except the faces and names on TV. It's tiring.
I've said what I wanted to say and intend no offense (not even to Socialists). I look forward to your reply.