yes... i heard a radio call in show tonight where the mostly-young callers kept saying they voted for X or Y because s/he would give them more “affordable housing” and “access to medical care” and “my right to go to college (without paying for it)” and so forth and so on.
What a tragic situation we’ve reached.
obviously unsustainable but in the meanwhile, tragic.
one thing, tho.... not only benefits can be taken away. our rights, too, can be taken away. such as what’s been happeninng to us these past several years with the Bill of Rights (1, 2, etc.)
‘the price of liberty is eternal vigilence’
people who are glued to their computer games or porno or sports spectacles (Christians and Lions coming before Obama’s term ends).... are not ‘vigilent’
Though I realize this might sound like I’m splitting hairs here, I really don’t believe I am.
Your rights can’t be taken away from you. You can be restrained from exercising those rights, but they remain yours. Your rights come from your Creator.
The reason I make this distinction is because rights are like ideas, they’re not physical. Like ideas, you can’t “kill” rights. And because they can’t be taken away, one can continue to fight to exercise your rights, even while they’re being denied.
Mark