You may not know if you are not a regular reader. Earlier this year, the partisan whackjobs at the Southern Poverty Law Center added us to their Hate map. Not for hate. They claim we are anti-government, which – in truth – makes us Americans.
True Americans are the only real resistance there’s ever been. Opposition to “big government” is how the county got its start. Job one was separating the men (and women) tasked with representing us from too much authority. Tyranny was a known quantity. Being American was about preventing it.
Millions left their homes, sometimes with nothing, to come here to escape heavy-handed governments. They arrived in search of lives they could build and control themselves with all the risk that entails. Not everyone would make it, but they embraced the concept and opposed government interference in people’s daily lives. The more the state intervened, the more likely it would become the things they thought they’d escaped.
The creators of the U.S. government did not intend for people to trust them or their successors with anything – no matter how well the federal government functioned. After all, they gave their own population the means to shoot them. And living today, we can see why. Trusting our government has yielded a war-hungry military-industrial-political complex that uses a professional army to create conflicts and instability abroad to justify a slo-mo totalitarian clampdown here. Or as James Madison put it, “liberty everywhere [is] crushed between standing armies and perpetual taxes.”
They were right, and so are we, and so our you. Look at what, if not trust in government, our ineffective multi-generational effort to constrain it has wrought. Corruption at the highest levels and a nation with two sets of laws. One for the elites and one for their enemies – which, if you’ve not figured it out yet – is anyone who dares to question their motives or their results regardless of race, gender, occupation, or even political Party.
Free Speech, constantly under attack because no one in power who is up to no good wants anyone to have the liberty to report it, hangs on by a thread (easily cut if you have a few more liberal justices).
The Party of bodily integrity (Democrats) abandoned everyone, especially women, when it went to war with anyone who thought they had a right to know what the government wanted to put into their bodies—fooling themselves and everyone else by passing constitutional amendments to protect reproductive freedom when the Jabs they tried to mandate interfered chemically with that very right.
It has only gotten worse. Governors are asking or pondering how to house all the illegals the Democrats have let into the country. The Third Amendment of the Constitution prohibits housing members of the military in private homes but what about military-aged foreign invaders?
Much like reparations, the Democrats who aided and abetted it should pay the price first. You wanted an open border and defended the practice and the politicians who made it happen. You first. And why not. You can ensure they get a driver’s license and show up to vote for the same folks who put them in your home and robbed you of your other rights.
It’s a mess, and historically, it is the practice of Americans to resist government overreach. Not resist in the progressive sense – a few radicals looting and burning, looking for ways to vent their unstable hatred for life and liberty as mob justice on private citizens. We’re talking about talking. Writing, emails, phone calls, showing up, standing up, speaking out, not acting out.
