And, we’re gonna be happy
Where individual rights exist, tyranny cannot.
My political understanding is this: governments are insatiable consumers of an individual’s assets, whatever those might be. They want it all and most people in government feel that they’re entitled to everything a person has. In their minds, you would have nothing if they had not educated you, given you a place to open your business, or a place to work. They provided you with streets, water and power. They attracted customers so you would have a business or a job. They were the ones who provided police and courts so that you could operate your business or get to work and back without getting robbed and/or murdered. They provided fire departments and hospitals. They’re in charge and you’re just some hapless victim at their mercy and anything they want to do to you, you should accept with grace.
This is why governments must be kept constantly at bay and the only thing that has ever kept them at bay are individual rights, natural law, respect for the individual over the majority. Where they are not kept under strict guidelines and dealt with severely when they step out of line, they will victimize the population.
This understanding has guided me through the past several decades and has dictated how I dealt with them. It’s why I take every ticket to court. It’s why I challenge the property tax rates I pay. It’s why I go to the courthouse and try to push things like the autonomous county project, because as much as possible, we have to push back against one form of government or another, using them to go after each other whenever possible.
Though I have kept all of this in mind from the earliest times, it does no good if there’s a bunch of suckers out there willing to forfeit their leverage in order to seem like a good person or to get some city or county contract. “To seem like a good person,” is the worst sort of evil and unleashes hell. It’s led to our current infection of the woke. It’s costly, too; it’s the motivation behind the Green New Deal, practiced by those too politically illiterate to recognize brash, arrogant communism when they see it.
Spot on! I’ve been quoting this Ayn Rand gem for decades:
“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
There is not much left to save. School system? Judicial system? Medical system? We have some documents, declarations, articles of guidance but no land where they are applied. ATF, Illinois, California and New Mexico are openly shredding the second, more states will follow. We are in the disarmament phase, enslavement and genocide of our population. We lost the United States, that place is never coming back. It’s a new world waiting for new founding fathers. Stop looking back at what those dudes did and start doing what is now demanded of us.
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