I don’t think I’d ever consider just how bad things have gotten in this country over time. For some reason we’ve all come to expect each downgrade in our lifestyle as the new normal. As a result people just don’t make much of a stink over where things are going.
When I was a child people didn’t live in houses that were always uncomfortably cold. Contrary to what the left would have us believe this is not because the rich have gotten richer at our expense, or even because the middle class is shrinking. This is because of all the government regulations against every form of energy known to man. They feel that any form of energy use is prohibitively damaging to the environment and therefore must be squashed. As a result of this extreme leftist, globalist, environmentalist view the cost of energy has skyrocketed even as Obama warned us it “Must!”
This has not happened by accident. It hasn’t happened because we’ve run out of fuel. It hasn’t happened because we all love living in the cold even in our own homes. It’s happened because we’ve allowed whackos to take over the policies of our nation.
People are now told what they can and can’t eat. Stores are told what is permissible to sell. It has reached the point where kids can’t even sell lemonade at lemonade stands without risking severe fines to their parents.
If you buy land it doesn’t mean it’s yours to do with as you please. In states like California you can’t even cut down or plant a tree on your own property without first getting permission from the government, which involves environmental studies, permits, arborists coming out to evaluate the property, all at the expense to the owner and even then he may not be able to cut it down or plan another. This means that your property is really not your own to do with as you please. Oddly at the same the right to privacy gives a woman the right to mutilate the unborn child she is carrying without any study or objections. If anything she is encouraged to take the life of that unborn child.
I wonder if our founders would have ever put up with this in the past. I cannot help but believe our founding fathers wouldn’t have stood for any of this. They would have viewed this as no less than the rule of the king over the lives, most especially because the rules imposed on us never apply to the people writing them, only the rest of us.
When OWS talks about the 1% maybe they should talk about the .001%, those people in congress and government who have not better to do than to constantly make new laws for the rest of us to comply with. Consider in California where this year alone there were over 700 new laws for the citizens to comply with. Do you think that the people who passed all those laws didn’t exempt themselves?
Consider for a moment what would happen if you didn’t pay your taxes, but those in congress make a habit of flaunting the fact they haven’t paid theirs’ and we’re suppose to just accept that fact.
We go to stores and frequently can’t find what we want any more as well as seeing the prices skyrocket on food. I am old enough to remember a time when all these things would be unthinkable.
Now we bow to the slightest threat of someone being offended with what we say, do, eat, smoke. The rule of our society has become that we are not to offend anyone or we might find ourselves brought into court, sued or even thrown in jail for saying something unpopular.
There is almost no area of your lives that is not effected by government anymore, yet we continue to put up with it. Congress has less than a 10% approval rating yet like idiots people continue to vote back in their own representatives at a rate of about 95%. No wonder they don’t really care what we think or want. They are not the least bit afraid of being voted out. All they have to do is lie to us and we like idiots think maybe they’ve really changed and will really do what is best for us even though they have shown absolutely no history of doing that in the past.
Do you think the communist leaders of any country are afraid of being voted out? This is the situation we find ourselves in now and yet we do nothing to stop it. The nation we live in differs little from any communist nation. You must get a permit from the government for almost everything. I joke about this, but only a little, it may not be long before you’ll need a permit to travel under the excuse that our travel needs to be limited for the environment.
The communist in this country, and don’t fool yourselves they are here, have found a real friend in the environmentalist movement. We may even have a communist in the seat of the presidency though everyone is afraid to say so. The unproven idea that man is responsible for global warming has led to every manner of regulation in almost every area of our lives and yet everyone is afraid to confront it for the big lie it is. It has gained religious status, it is to be believed regardless of how little proof there is for it.
We have leaders who refuse to let us drill for oil and now don’t even want us to be able to use it. They now want to mandate that they can turn off our electricity or gas when they deem we are using too much and of course no one is standing up against it. Houses have become more like caves than homes. Even cavemen had fires in their caves to stay warm, at least as much as they could. But we live in fine house in the cold all the time. We cannot even be comfortable in our own homes unless we are willing to live on bread and water so we can pay for the heat. We were even being told what kind of light bulbs we could have in our homes till they finally repealed that law. Of course they’ve throw enough scare into the light bulb manufacturers that they will probably not start producing them again.
The environmentalists threw such a scare into the dish washing soap makers that they “voluntarily” stopped using phosphates in their soaps before they were forced to. The phosphates are what make it so dirt, oil, grime and food don’t stick to surfaces and thus your dishes come out clean. But you have to know those same phosphates were blamed for causing massive algae growth and so that had to be stopped. Doesn’t anyone consider that phosphates are natural? They’ve been there all along. They are something found in nature. So why are we expected to live so apart from nature that we almost can’t live at all?
None of this matters to either the environmentalists or the communists. All they care about is more and ever more control over our lives and they are certainly getting that in spades, and still the people say and do nothing to stand up against it.
If we allow this to continue we will find we are no different than Russia during the high of the Soviet Union. Sadly too few people are alive anymore to remember what that was even like. Too many of our young people have not been taught about what it was like in Russia during the height of the communist regime. Our schools not only don’t teach it, they also are busy teaching communism is as though it was a good thing.
Too many of our youth are being brought up to think that communism isn’t really such a bad thing or at least that it wouldn’t be if it was just done right. We need leaders who are willing to stand up and confront this even if they are accused of McCarthyism.
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