I found the recent flag-waiving bittersweet. At first I thought it was refreshing to witness some patriotism. Then, though I love my flag and the ideas that made my country great, I found myself getting annoyed by it. All I saw were patriotic bromides. Sheep, only half-conscious.
The left is winning. Half of your productive life will be sacrificed for "the common good." Your children are next in line at this alter.
How much more will Americans stand. How much more will a people spoiled with freedom sacrifice for the illusion of security?
Government is inherently evil. Whenever men have great power over men you will find corruption, stagnation, and injustice. Do you suppose the Founding Fathers thought differently?
So just sit by while your political "leaders" deliver your livelihood and your life into the power of an omnipotent government--it's "for your own good." Pick your slogan by which your rulers delude you--the enslaved subject.
Join in the chant. Submit I to thou. Sacrifice for the "common good." Sacrifice is a virtue.
Observe that any social movement which begins by "redistributing" income, ends up distributing sacrifices.
If a man proposes to redistribute wealth, he means that the wealth is his to distribute. If he proposes it in the name of government, then the wealth belongs to the government; if in the name of society, then it belongs to society. No one, did or could define a difference between this proposal and the basic principle of communism.
They're rounding up the chattel--busily creating one neck for one leash.
No, the Founding Fathers understood that as a government grows larger relative to the people that corruption is a natural outgrowth. And there is that tendency for those consumed by power to work their way into governments. As things are today the Founding Fathers, if alive, would be aghast at how our government as departed from the constitution and limited government framework that they hammered out three centuries ago.