Posted on 08/04/2007 12:47:38 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Fifty years ago, the term "social engineering" referred to government policies that forced people to live as government dictated. In the United States, it was a hated term. Americans died to defeat the social engineering that Hitler imposed on the Germans, and tried to impose on the rest of the world. Communism, as practiced in the Soviet Union, was social engineering – the absolute opposite of the freedom Americans enjoyed and employed to limit the power of their government.
How things have changed in 50 years.
In Collier County Fla., – and many other counties – the government has determined that property owners cannot build more than one dwelling on five acres of land. In the Columbia River Gorge – and many other regional areas – a landowner must first get permission from an appointed commission to build even one home – then build it, paint it and landscape it as dictated by the appointed commission.
Actually, in the last two decades, social engineering in America has become the norm, not the exception. What once was hated in American is now welcomed, indeed, demanded. Social engineering was renamed; it is now called "sustainable development." Social engineering is no longer implemented by jack-booted brown-shirted SS types; it is implemented by "comprehensive plans" developed by "visioning councils" adopted by local governments to comply with state law, enacted by state legislatures to be eligible for promised federal funds.
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Good article
“visioning councils”
The Russians called them “soviets,” unelected, unaccountable bureaucracies that dictated policies for the Marxist common good, as defined by the state.
This country is filthy with these dictatorships, from regional planning commissions to zoning boards. These illegal facsist councils strip away the right of Americans to vote, via the ballot box, who will lawfully represent them and write the laws.
Ping
Freedom in America is being lost, not to a superior force or a better idea; it is being lost by good freedom-loving people who are too busy or too lazy to defend it.
IMO it's not the "too lazy" part.
If we don't keep our jobs (being busy) then we are nothing more than the bottom feeders we're already supporting.
“If we don’t keep our jobs (being busy) then we are nothing more than the bottom feeders we’re already supporting.”
Yeah, but who wants to work to support bottom feeders? Not me.
As it is, we cannot even manage literature drops for ID'ed Republicans in many of the county's precincts because there are too few of us volunteers.
We get the country we deserve. And when I raise the issue on the state board, all I hear back from are the naysayers ("they're all crooked," etc.). Funny how readily these same FReepers kvetch when the folks they failed to oppose to bad things in office. I guess some FReepers just love to complain -- they're certainly making sure they have much to complain about. < / complaint
*\;-)
But we recently replaced a worthless party hack chair (actually a series of same) with a SOLID and capable conservative. Sometimes one has to start locally and work one's way up -- but it is possible to do.
Perhaps it’s a good thing you’re not involved. Have fun at your job.
Have fun at your job.
I'll try, but it's rather boring in general.
And never yet have I seen a candidate who voted perfectly when elected, but at least our last R state rep (Toby Nixon, a relatively libertarian Mormon but one of the most conscientious legislators I've worked with -- also one of exceptional IQ) had carefully considered and thoughtful answers to our questions. We might still disagree, but at least we understood and could appreciate why he voted as he did. (Unfortunately he was targeted in the the last elections, and the Republican volunteer turnout was diminished, so he went down to defeat.)
My wife and I are also "citizen lobbyists" in areas of particular interest. Actively working on campaigns makes us known to our legislators and gives us readier access -- granted, more readily at state level than federal, but even our R congressman knows us by name.
But there is also this to consider: politicians have to keep a number of groups happy -- but at least at (WA) state levels their volunteer base is critical. Anger the volunteers and you've got no hope (though we're not formally organized we are a big network of friends).
Sorry about the job! Sometimes wish mine were more like that.
Exactly. And the socialists always schedule important meetings in a way that makes it almost impossible for a working stiff to attend.
Thanks for the ping
Turn it around. We can have our own meetings and have our own impact on the education of the American citizen.
A small group meeting in a home, a larger group meeting in a restaurant of meeting hall, we can make presentations that people will understand and support.
It has to be done locally and it has to be done one voter at a time, I’m afraid. And it will cost us our savings and our leisure time, that is also a given.
"Almost impossible" is the key. Sometimes we make it to meetings regardless -- but the more I hear such indifference on FR, the more I think I just need to retire outside the country and leave the indifferent FReepers to the future they passively accept for themselves and all the rest.
WRT working for getting good candidates in place, there are a bunch here that contributed time and money to three slots here in PA that the RNC blew us off -- Specter/Toomey, Santorum/Casey, and Irey/Murtha. The RNC is its own worst enemy.
There are so many erroneous conclusions in that reply, that I find no room for a reply less than five pages long, which your posting history doesn't justify.
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