For more than two decades on my office wall at home, the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights have hung proudly. I took them down today and carefully packed them away in the attic. Those documents used to mean a great deal to this country, but that time has passed. While they still mean a great deal to many people - myself included - they are no longer the Supreme Law of the Land. Instead, they're a tool used by a few evil people, to ignore or invoke, depending on circumstances.
Much more importantly, the vast majority of people are either too afraid, too ignorant, or too busy toeing the popular narrative to understand or do anything to prevent the tragedy of this loss.
For more than a century, our government and Federal Reserve have betrayed the idea of free-market capitalism by crushing the value of the currency we use. Politicians who care only about being re-elected have spent far more on "benefits" for their constituencies, military contractors, and other huge business than the Constitution, or common sense, allow. The ace up the sleeve had been the U.S. dollar being the world's reserve currency; that's the only way we have been able to keep the dollar in demand and thus worth anything. But that deal is crumbling. Iraq, Iran, Germany, France, Russia, China, Brazil, India - the list of countries no longer willing to play that game grows longer. Soon, the dollar won't be in demand. Our national debt is enormous and it is a debt we cannot pay off.
But rather than default, our bankers and other elites in government and big business have another plan: deliberately bring about economic collapse and blame it on this virus. They can't prevent the economic apocalypse, but they can deflect the blame.
We have seen censorship of views antithetical to the WHO, mainstream media, Dr. Fauci, and others. Youtube, google, twitter, facebook and other social media have launched an all-out campaign to silence voices.
In the United States. Think about that.
We have seen this with people clamoring for "climate change deniers" to be silenced and locked up.
In the United States. No discussion and no dissenting view is tolerated.
The concept of "settled science" is not scientific at all. Science seeks the truth, even if it turns conventional wisdom on its ear.
We have seen outrageous acts by state and local governments that infringe on our rights as free people. Businesses closed and business owners fined for opening up against the "rules" (not laws!). Moms arrested for bringing their children to the park. People forced to wear masks and practice "social distancing" which we knew early on would have no effect but which all were forced to participate in.
We have seen politicians make good use of this crisis by passing spending bills - but refusing to record a vote count - that were ostensibly to help the individual and small business. But instead, the bulk of the money went to very large businesses. The next "relief" bill promises to pay money to non-citizens and open the door to mail-in votes with no identity verification at all.
We have seen self-proclaimed globalists, who advocate population control, speak about a lockdown until a vaccine - for a disease with a very low mortality rate - is injected into everyone.
There's no telling, yet, whether the politicians or globalists will get their wishes, but it is telling that they are so open, vocal and vehement about what they want.
For the record, I do not wish to be kept safe by my government. I have a brain and I can keep myself safe. Instead, I need a government that will get out of my way and let me thrive or fail.
I don't agree that this is "the new normal" or that "we're all in this together". This isn't the new normal. The new normal hasn't hit us, yet, and God help us when it does.
And no, we aren't all in this together. Many middle-class people have lost their livelihoods, homes, savings and personal belongings all due to a contrived catastrophe. When an equal number of millionaires and billionaires and politicians and celebrities (but I repeat myself) have lost everything, THEN we can talk about "we're all in this together".
Screw the "curve", I'm not staying home anymore, and I don't give a damn how close I get to others.
A wise friend once told me, "You're only as free as you choose to be." I choose to be free. While the borders I'm within tell me this is the United States, the vapid, shallow, idiotic behavior of its inhabitants tell me otherwise. It would be marvelous if the people would wake up, but even with the living memory of what was done to the Jews in Nazi Germany, Americans today still amble along, naked in the snow (metaphorically, for now) boarding the boxcar. I don't have high hopes things will change for the better any time soon.
Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Washington and many others were brilliant. They must not be forgotten. But their time has passed. Our nation today in no way resembles what the Founders gave us. So the founding documents come down. The wall is bare. I'm interested to see what will go up next.
I invite you all: change my mind.
Much more importantly, the vast majority of people are either too afraid, too ignorant, or too busy toeing the popular narrative to understand or do anything to prevent the tragedy of this loss.
For more than a century, our government and Federal Reserve have betrayed the idea of free-market capitalism by crushing the value of the currency we use. Politicians who care only about being re-elected have spent far more on "benefits" for their constituencies, military contractors, and other huge business than the Constitution, or common sense, allow. The ace up the sleeve had been the U.S. dollar being the world's reserve currency; that's the only way we have been able to keep the dollar in demand and thus worth anything. But that deal is crumbling. Iraq, Iran, Germany, France, Russia, China, Brazil, India - the list of countries no longer willing to play that game grows longer. Soon, the dollar won't be in demand. Our national debt is enormous and it is a debt we cannot pay off.
But rather than default, our bankers and other elites in government and big business have another plan: deliberately bring about economic collapse and blame it on this virus. They can't prevent the economic apocalypse, but they can deflect the blame.
We have seen censorship of views antithetical to the WHO, mainstream media, Dr. Fauci, and others. Youtube, google, twitter, facebook and other social media have launched an all-out campaign to silence voices.
In the United States. Think about that.
We have seen this with people clamoring for "climate change deniers" to be silenced and locked up.
In the United States. No discussion and no dissenting view is tolerated.
The concept of "settled science" is not scientific at all. Science seeks the truth, even if it turns conventional wisdom on its ear.
We have seen outrageous acts by state and local governments that infringe on our rights as free people. Businesses closed and business owners fined for opening up against the "rules" (not laws!). Moms arrested for bringing their children to the park. People forced to wear masks and practice "social distancing" which we knew early on would have no effect but which all were forced to participate in.
We have seen politicians make good use of this crisis by passing spending bills - but refusing to record a vote count - that were ostensibly to help the individual and small business. But instead, the bulk of the money went to very large businesses. The next "relief" bill promises to pay money to non-citizens and open the door to mail-in votes with no identity verification at all.
We have seen self-proclaimed globalists, who advocate population control, speak about a lockdown until a vaccine - for a disease with a very low mortality rate - is injected into everyone.
There's no telling, yet, whether the politicians or globalists will get their wishes, but it is telling that they are so open, vocal and vehement about what they want.
For the record, I do not wish to be kept safe by my government. I have a brain and I can keep myself safe. Instead, I need a government that will get out of my way and let me thrive or fail.
I don't agree that this is "the new normal" or that "we're all in this together". This isn't the new normal. The new normal hasn't hit us, yet, and God help us when it does.
And no, we aren't all in this together. Many middle-class people have lost their livelihoods, homes, savings and personal belongings all due to a contrived catastrophe. When an equal number of millionaires and billionaires and politicians and celebrities (but I repeat myself) have lost everything, THEN we can talk about "we're all in this together".
Screw the "curve", I'm not staying home anymore, and I don't give a damn how close I get to others.
A wise friend once told me, "You're only as free as you choose to be." I choose to be free. While the borders I'm within tell me this is the United States, the vapid, shallow, idiotic behavior of its inhabitants tell me otherwise. It would be marvelous if the people would wake up, but even with the living memory of what was done to the Jews in Nazi Germany, Americans today still amble along, naked in the snow (metaphorically, for now) boarding the boxcar. I don't have high hopes things will change for the better any time soon.
Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Washington and many others were brilliant. They must not be forgotten. But their time has passed. Our nation today in no way resembles what the Founders gave us. So the founding documents come down. The wall is bare. I'm interested to see what will go up next.
I invite you all: change my mind.
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