"How can an otherwise sane individual become so enamored of a fantasy,
an imposture, that even after it´s exposed in the bright light of day,
he still clings to it – indeed, clings to it all the harder? No amount
of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." - Lamar Keene
on why it was so easy for him to fool people who believed deeply in his
ability to speak to spirits of the dead.
The purpose of our government, according to many, is to protect us. More
specifically, our form of government, the so called representative
republic so carefully crafted and established by the European settlers
of the colonies that came to be known as the United States of America,
was set up to protect smaller state governments from foreign
intervention while honoring the individual liberties of the singular
human being. Its powers were to be limited in scope. It was supposed to
protect the little guy, the least powerful individual, against the most
powerful individuals and organizations including other powerful
governments. Its focus was to be on protecting individual rights from
being violated by powerful special interest groups. This hasn't worked
out too well, has it?
Government in general, and the federal government in particular, has a
tendency to protect not the people, not individual rights, but the
interests that serve them. Government serves the wealthy and influential
because, well, they're wealthy and influential. Governments make laws
that tend to protect the wealthy and influential and at the same time do
harm to those who are not so wealthy and not so influential.
The evidence of this is all around us. It is on the nightly news. It is
the bailouts protecting the big banks and the financial sector. It is
Obamacare protecting the insurance industry. It is the supreme court
protecting Obamacare. It is the EPA protecting BP and big oil. It is the
drug war protecting the prison/industrial complex. It is the FDA and
the AMA protecting big pharma, etc., etc., etc. All these federal
agencies and others help to protect the big, multi-national corporations
while harming the little guy either through enforcement of the laws
created or by regulations making it financially impossible to compete
with the big boys.
We can question why this has happened. The answers will likely be many
and varied. We became too nationalistic in the 1940s in order to defeat
our enemies overseas. We became too socialistic in the 1930s because of
the economic downturn back then. A law was passed in 1913 that created a
privately owned central bank commonly referred to as the Fed in the
modern vernacular. The Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons
and entitled to the same rights as a person. Abraham Lincoln and the
Republicans didn't want to honor the spirit of the constitution and
allow states to secede when they felt the federal government had become
too powerful and intrusive. John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition
Acts. George Washington put down the Whiskey Rebellion.
In my view all these things helped to usher in the current environment
we live under. Yes, even things that happened hundreds of years ago
created ripples that still have effect in the modern age. Even though no
permanent laws came out of the two older examples, we are still shown
that even the smallest of governments wants to grow, wants to flex its
muscles and tyrannize someone. Even in its infancy the most freedom
oriented government the world had ever known was unfair to some of its
citizens. Now we are living in a nation that imprisons more of its
citizens than any other nation on earth. We are one of the most taxed
people on the planet, and now with the new supreme court ruling on
Obamacare we discover we are going to be taxed at an even higher rate.
How can we continue to believe we are the freest nation on earth?
Our descent into the collectivist society we have become with the
authoritarian government we have created did not happen overnight. It
happened over the course of a couple hundred years or so as little by
little the populace became less and less involved. They began to go
along to get along. They stopped speaking out when laws didn't affect
them directly. As long as they were in the majority and injustice wasn't
visited upon them, they ignored unjust laws. So long as a law was aimed
at someone else or "made sense" or didn't cost too much, it didn't
matter to most if it violated the individual liberties of a few. They
bowed to authority and let it have a little more power, let it get away
with a little more tyranny. That's how the cancer of collectivism works,
growing slowly at first and then speeding up in its later stages as it
eats away at the body politic and works on killing its host. Now we are
paying the price for our apathy. Now we just might begin to see just how
brutal and controlling the authoritarians can get.
The problem the authoritarian collectivists seem to be having these days
is that more and more people are catching onto their games. They're
beginning to realize that any talk of the federal government protecting
the individual is just fantasy. They're beginning to realize that the
federal government isn't protecting them, it's harassing and even
terrorizing them. It's herding them into a position they don't want to
be in. It's doing everything in its power to hold them down while the
mega wealthy sheer them for all they're worth.
They're beginning to understand the fear propagated by government. They
can correlate that whenever global corporate interests or government
wants something that public opinion is against, some newsworthy event
takes place to help sway public opinion. They wanted the Patriot Act,
9/11 happened. They wanted a bailout and they threatened economic chaos.
They wanted naked body scanners and there was suddenly an underwear
bomber. Every time new gun laws are being debated a lone nutcase shooter
suddenly pops up out of nowhere. How many times can something happen
that's coincidental before people start to think maybe there's something
more here than simple coincidence?
But if so many people are waking up, how is it they are able to continue
to get away with their malfeasance? It could be that too many people
still worship at the feet of the government god. Too many people still
look to government to provide answers for problems that government
created. Too many people still believe there is a significant difference
between Republicans and Democrats. Too many people trust party
politics. Too many people still believe some candidate for office is
going to change things and turn it around for them. Too many people
still believe we live in the best, freest nation on the face of this
planet with the best possible political system and the fairest justice
system and they are protected as long as they just keep their head down
and don't say nothing to no one. Even when shown the facts and while all
around them are shouting otherwise, these people want to believe in the
fantasy and so they put their blinders on and continue to make excuses
for government. These are the people who support the establishment, the
status quo, and the system as it exists. This is why government can get
away with so much criminal activity, because people would rather believe
in a fantasy than face reality.
What can be done in the face of such denial? I'm not sure. I'd like to
say ignore them. I'd like to say just walk away. I'd like to say just
move on to more enlightened souls and forget about the debris that will
be left floating adrift in the wake of a sinking ship of state, but
somehow that doesn't seem right. I suppose all you can do is politely as
possible explain your position and then stick with it. Keep pointing to
examples of the government caring for the elite instead of the common
folk. Sooner or later I think just about everyone is going to come to
the understanding that they have been depending on the system rather
than their own best judgment to get along in life.
Government doesn't care for you, it doesn't care for your family and it
doesn't care for your friends unless it serves its needs to do so. You
do care for yourself, your family and your friends. You can take care of
those entities much better than government ever could. The best you can
hope for right now is for government to simply leave you alone. The
best that you can hope for is that they keep their control freak noses
out of your business as much as possible. The best you can do is make it
known that you wish to be left alone. The best you can do is stop
asking the government for favors and start figuring out how to best take
care of yourself and your own. The best you can do is withdraw your
consent and help others determine that it is time for them to do the
same.
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