So, we're coming up on another anniversary of the birth of our nation. This is a moment when we reflect on who we are and why, and we pay attention to history in order to provide our children with an understanding of why The United States of America is the world's most important nation and how it must, must, must remain vigilant as the beacon of light for all the world to see. Because when they see that light, they witness it illuminate a people who are free and self-governing; they choose their representatives who represent their best interests but otherwise oversee and govern the droll and practical function of government in order to allow the people to run this country as they see fit.
Isn't that how it's supposed to be? We are supposed to be the ones who put a thumb on the government in order to keep it in check and ensure it does not become something akin to other governments that stomp on their people and treat them as though they're minions and hostages because they somehow did not wind up in positions of political power. We were supposed to not only honor The Constitution but also the Declaration of Independence, which explains in plain language why we must not be a people protected by a dictatorial authority that picks and chooses its own level of compassion and understanding, and does not fall prey to the heady allure of power.
But let's take a look where we are in this regard: The people of this country have all been completely duped by the government into thinking that governmental operation is the key to ensuring July 4th isn't just a power bill due date. Sure, we can loathe the Progressive agendas and blame the Democratic Party (not the process, so please know the difference) for undermining what and who we are, and we can stand tall and assume there are still a few within the Republican ranks who care about The Constitution and who we are as the United States of America, but I see no practical evidence supporting that other than rants from stumps. The United States of America has become a Socialist Police State that placed a boot heel on the heart of this country's people at every turn in order to continually remind them of who is in charge.
We're supposed to be self-governing but the endless string of pointless laws and regulations along with the blatantly corrupt actions of our politically appointed place that in question. How much insight does an intelligent mind require to see the spirit of who we are is pissed on when several governmental entities thwart and threaten legally created organizations and associations in order to prevent them from functioning the way they intend (which is for the betterment of a challenged nation)? The IRS makes the North Korean strong arms seem like a pack of pussies and even Russia is looking at us as though we completely lost our way. What should burn the people most from this is these people populating the IRS, the ATF and so many of these other governmental departments are populated with treasonous goons who entirely dismissed everything about their country in order to just be poorly paid goons who are allowed to bully the citizenship. Even local law enforcement is heavily populated with treasonous goons who enjoy every opportunity to threaten and intimidate law-abiding and innocent people who just want to go their way. They rub themselves raw every time they get the chance to search a citizen's car and piss on the 4th Amendment when they know fully well there's likely nothing to be found other than something valuable to steal.
Our Conservative ranks and American idealist groups are filled with wonderful people who desire to return our country to a free, disciplined, responsible and lawful nation operated by those who populate it. A favorite of mine is Glenn Beck, who is one of the most admirable people I have ever heard of. But I do not believe his assertion that we've been duped into subservience through promises of the easy way out and a smiling removal of proper responsibility from the hands of the people to place all intelligent actions into the hands of appointed governmental employees. Sure, there has been an allure for many to forego personal responsibility in order to be on the government teat, but to say everyone surrendered (or even considered surrendering) a healthy dose of personal responsibility in order to have government take it over isn't accurate. The truth of the matter is government overstepped authority and the only recourse, unfortunately, is blowing off steam through free speech that falls on deaf ears.
What is more likely is that this government's worst has used simple tactics to lure the people away from their better judgment. They were happy to lure weaker minds to a cozy spot under the government teat, but what about the rest of us? What about the average individual who just wants to make their own way without someone's mile-long laundry list of what good citizens are supposed to do and think. In other words, political and philosophical polarization has torn the fabric of our nation. There are those on the far right who demand absolute responsibility (fair enough) on the part of the people, but many of these people also hint that rights come with income, stating that the wealthier must be the most influential for the country's best interests. I despise bashing people because they're wealthy and successful, but most wealthy and successful people ensure their level of influence of supporting the wealthy and successful remains at home. The influence of the wealth only trickles down just enough to keep the hungry on their feet. Another common argument is that people have so little money because they fell into the duped notion that they can have it all and have it now (because they deserve nothing less) if they're willing to pay for it in monthly installments via their numerous credit cards.
I am not buying into that simply because a good person asserts it. I need to see it and not just listen to the reported stats. I have seen a very limited number of people whom I have known over time who have allowed credit card games to overwhelm them. What I think is more likely is there are too many wealthy who believe the blue collar and working people need to be thankful for living in sheds and eating bologna until they develop the wherewithal to build an empire. But nobody wants to discuss an affordable monthly expense to afford a safe car and home along with a few affordable diversions. I don't believe in having it just because you desire it, but if you can take care of your responsibilities, including your monthly payments, then people rolling in millions should leave their level of judgment at their own gilded table.
We have to have the maturity to recognize that money woes are created not by irresponsible poor (believing our last recession was caused by people obtaining mortgages when they knowingly cannot pay them is like assuming we can get more rain by tossing virgins into the mouths of volcanoes) but by political powers surrounded by and controlling the wealth. The recession was caused by the powerful intentionally manipulating the system to collapse and then pointing fingers in order to prompt more polarization, and it is just that simple. Money is the perfect yoke and money is manipulated to ensure only a small percentage can wield it easily. The rest must be forced to sweat and bleed for what equates to just enough to get by and then get back to work. But if one also accepts the responsibility and maturity to recognize what is what, we could not function if part-time teens were making enough money to buy a new car every year. There must be a balance and there is one, even though they continually tell us they're at a loss of what to do about our economic woes. They are lying and the economic and monetary systems runs with clockwork precision despite the endless claims of otherwise.
But all of that describes a diversion; a trail of breadcrumbs luring people from who they are supposed to be as a nation in order to place authorities in more authority. Authorities wield overwhelming amounts of authority and boot heel stomping power just to screech over a blown headlight. People taking intelligent steps to support and defend who we are as a nation are seen by those who want us to be North Korea as extremists and potential threats. But the simple fact that this occurs demonstrates we have already been overrun and usurped by extremists and serious-as-hell threats. I have no hesitation in saying the IRS is a treasonous organization directly acting as a threat against this country, but what's going to be done about it?
Very little in the short-term, and that is because they have succeeded in creating this police state. We know these entities directly threaten what and who we are (as celebrated on July 4th) but we feel powerless to do something other than exercise the free speech. Sticks and stones, boys and girls...
So, what do we do? Pay attention to gun-toting, bible thumpers sporting their three-corner hats and marching to flutes demanding the government remember its place?
Well, how about hell yeah? But only to a point. Look, you can be a tree hugging whale lover who fully supports gay rights and tie-dyed love-ins and still believe in what and who we are supposed to be as a free nation of self-governing and hard-working people. You don't have to believe monetary influence is the only true power in a capitalist, free-market culture in order to look at socialistic principles as sugar-coated lies passed out with smiles by megalomaniacs.
You don't have to believe or listen to one single goddamned thing other than what genuinely supports the belief that we do not need monomaniacal liars and tyrants in order to function.
United we stand, divided we fall. We have become divided yet again. But we've been divided before (the Civil War) and largely recovered from that. If all of us, including those driving a Prius with a save the whales bumper sticker and those with The Constitution tattooed to their inner thigh covered by camouflage pants from within their HUMMWV recognize that a free and self-governed nation populated by courageous and responsible people who need no one to tell them what to do or how to live can do so effectively, then we will no longer need the left/right cold war.
Oh, and allow me to point out an obvious potential solution to our corruption woes. Every single incidence of the people being beaten down by a tyrannical force has not occurred by those claiming to possess the power, but by the citizenry becoming goons within the militant law enforcement ranks. Hitler didn't kill 6 million Jews; the duped morons who claimed they were just doing their job did.
If we would like to turn our power balance back to the people, then consider this- stop shaking fists at the ivory tower demigods in Washington and dismiss them just they way they dismiss us. Instead, we must turn to the authorities within each County Sheriff and those who report to them, and also to the fifty Governors of each of the states. As for the feds, enjoy the cheap thrill of telling Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi that if they don't appreciate our love for our free country, they can feel free to drop to their knees and suck our red, white and blue dick. In other words (that are not so vulgar), we no longer recognize their self-appointed superiority just because they demand it. Those in charge who have disregarded their oaths to our Constitution can all go fuck themselves.
But we must convince the enforcers who operate where the rubber meets the road that our country is worth saving without them selling their fucking souls to politicians. So, have our groups such as the Tea Party, Freedom Works and those who support a wondrous and strong nation, like Glenn Beck, reach out to law enforcement at local, county and state levels and have county sheriffs (the highest ranking politically appointed law enforcement official in the entire county) expect nothing other than this from police ranks. Then, turn to state Governors and reach out to them, demanding they support their oaths and the words of the Constitution, and if they do not, call them out on it. But Nancy and Diane will not pick up M-16 rifles and come and get us. Rather, they will send the sons and daughters, the husbands and wives, the mothers and fathers of our neighbors to put on the uniforms of stormtrooper goons and come and get us, because that is how it is done. So, to be the different nation from North Korea, the potential goons must be under the influence of the spirit of the nation and its people, not the corrupt tyrants.
This 4th of July, let us look at our nation not as a bunch of polarized simpering fools crying over gay marriage and Kim Kardashian (the assertion of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness supports gay marriage, and I don't give a shit if you don't like it) but as people who desire to be however they want to be and have every intention of continuing to do so because that is what free and liberated people do when they control the government rather than cowering to its demand to control them.
Enjoy the holiday.
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