FreeDOM or free STUFF

Do Americans want free DOM, or free STUFF?
It comes down to the 'Great Fiction'. That govt can enable you to live off of everybody else. It IS an illusion, but a very persistent one, & it keeps on deceiving, generation after generation.

It is unbelievable that this delusion, which is illogical & untenable on the surface, still has dedicated followers. And it still is based on govt theft.. 'You loot, we'll mooch' is the motto. It is the bane of democracy, & is the primary driver in the decline of America. But no matter how many people warn, 'eventually you run out of other people's money', still they try to loot just a bit more, to make themselves rich, & hope to live on easy street.

The dream always ends, & badly, for the looters. The people tire of it & rise up, & they will again. We may be in the throes of economic collapse, or runaway inflation, or some other currency related bubble, but when the producers can no longer provide for themselves, they will cast off the looters & moochers, as they have always done throughout history. Of course, this does not mean that freedom will rise from the ashes. It usually doesn't. And the looters may only change hats.

The best we can hope for is enlightened revolution.. intelligent change, like we had in the first American revolution. That was not mob rule, or anarchy breeding despotism. If enough clear thinking Americans can lead the charge in an altruistic rebirth of American constitutional values, the dream of self rule can be kept alive. But collapse seems inevitable. The bubbles are too big, the moochers too many, the looters too corrupt for simple non violent reform. The question is, are there enough Americans willing to fight the hordes of moochers & looters, & put us back on track?

Communists are just looters. The only thing they offer is redistribution, which is just theft from the producers, to prop up the illusion.. to keep the 'Great Fiction' alive. No society can prosper if it is based on theft from their own people. Communism is just old fashioned tyranny of an elite ruling class. They are no different than any totalitarian system, they just have different labels & different ear tickling rhetoric.

A generation ago, people understood the dangers of collectivist thought. Now it is mainstream, & standard fare in academia. But it is an ideology that is built upon lies. It is fiction, masquerading as a valid social structure.

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." ~Frederic Bastiat

Roots of Freedom: Revolution

Revolution is a natural right

One of the things the progressive left has twisted & redefined is the roots of America. It is not lovey, dovey, warm & fuzzy platitudes of singing kumbaya & making smores. At the root of America is defiance. Rebellion. Insurrection. Revolution. 

Revolution is a core Natural Right.. it is the basis for America.

-That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.. ~Declaration of Independence

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. ~Abraham Lincoln

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels- men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ~Dwight Eisenhower

All men recognize the right of revolution: that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, or to resist, the government when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. ~Henry David Thoreau

But common core is teaching kids that respect for govt is paramount.. they are preparing fit tools for servitude, not an enlightened, involved electorate. Modern govt & the goals of academia are for indoctrination, not education.

This is not your father's America. THAT was one of cynicism & mistrust of govt officials, politicians, & a shrewd eye on corruption, supported by a watchful press. But now the watchdogs have become complicit with the foxes, & are fleecing the people together.

The problem with our govt today, is they do not fear the people. They think they can do whatever they want, be as corrupt & lie all they want, & the people will just take it. We will sell our freedoms for an illusion of prosperity, as they tell us how lucky we are to have such benevolent dictators.

But govt SHOULD fear the people. That is the source of liberty. If they think the slightest overreach or graft would enrage the public, & we would drag out guillotines for remedy, they would not so quickly neglect their vows of public service. But they do not, so corruption, graft, & cronyism is rampant. Election to public office is like winning the lottery. It is a magnet for corruptible, sleazy personalities, & the system has gathered a horde of such characters to plunder the treasury.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson 

"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." ~Samuel Adams 

The problem is we have lost our defiance.. our independence.. our rebelliousness. We have become soft & complacent. We have sold our birthright for a mess of pottage. It is long past time for Americans to rise up & throw off the corruption & worm tongued deception from the sleazy politicians. it is time for reform.. the currency is corrupted, the budget is filled with graft, cronyism, & waste, the producers of the nation are saddled with a growing horde of leeches & thieves who take everything they work for, including their future earnings, & their children's earnings.

We should get back to our roots. Is this a govt of, by & for the people? Or is it just another state centered swindle of the working man? The govt should fear us, we should not fear them.