Strike The Root Blog

Just as voluntary cooperation is natural amongst people, so is envy. The implication, for me, is that the battle for political anarchy is a path, not a destination. 

The thought struck me from this bit of honesty in a Ted Rall commentary:

“In Soviet times,” a man in present-day Tajikistan told me, “we lived worse than we do today. But we were all the same. Now we live a bit better, but we have to watch rich assholes pass us in their Benzes.” Which would he choose? No hesitation: “Soviet times.”

And even if some individuals can conquer coveting the property of their brothers, “replacements” are being born and trained all the time.

So said Eric Holder, who is somewhat ironically referred to by the mass media as “the first black attorney general.” He was talking about our reluctance to honestly discuss race issues.

We are indeed cowards for that and many other reasons–cowards for not having bucked the politically correct agenda forced down our throats for the past 30 years. Cowards for not speaking up against the censure of those who dared speak up in attempts to discuss race. Cowards for letting politicians run our lives. Cowards for electing politicians who brazenly express disdain for the very same people who voted for them. Cowards for helping chip away at freedoms in the name of personal greed and disdain for the way others live. Cowards for electing politicians who granted even more power to themselves and the corporations who controlled them.

Still, I don’t need to hear it from a hypocrite like Holder standing behind a bully pulpit. I think it’s a good harbinger of what to expect the next four years–browbeating easy targets who have been chastised into keeping their mouths shut. We’ve already heard Obama’s disdain for the average schmuck working-class American who clings to guns or religion. The attorney general echoes more of the same, no doubt smirking after he leaves his throne, knowing full well that most of us rednecks know better than to even mention race.

Next up, I fully expect the target to be the upper middle class as the handouts grow. A much larger number of Americans than before will owe nothing to the government, while a small percentage of us who are willingly struggling to achieve and attempt to improve our lot in life will pay the burden of the cost. We will be made to feel criminally guilty and will be painted as part of the problem, and our already higher percentage of money thieved will be deemed as not enough.

Obama’s administration will be as good at scapegoating people as was the Bush administration. Segments of us, the cowards, will become the axis of evil, no matter the battle. Mr Holder: You are a coward and a bully, but you’re welcome to come spout your bile face to face any time, to demonstrate otherwise.

Nadya Suleman is getting hate mail and death threats for having brought eight more babies into an environment where she cannot afford to raise them without outside help. I’m not at all surprised at the hate, but I’m very disturbed by it. When people are forced to pay for other people’s poor choices, they start to feel as if they have the right to control them.

This will only grow. Once Obama shoves through his massive (unconstitutional, as if that mattered) increases in government control of the health care system, we will start to see even more threats and attempts to control. Today, the food fascists use the force of law to ban specific food substances they deem unhealthy. Tomorrow, more of the same. We stand to have far fewer choices and freedom in all areas: recreation, dining, family planning, speech, self defense, and so on. The war against you and your freedoms continues as the government grows unchecked. Your neighbor already checks your trash can for recycling violations; tomorrow he will look for discarded Frito bags and then blow the whistle.
Freedom includes the right to make poor choices and also to suffer as a result. I note that Suleman received compassion from many of her fellow human beings, and I’m sure even those giving her compassion have offered sage advice. That’s how things are really supposed to work, but the pro-government-growth forces don’t believe in it.

I was at the gym, walking to warm up for running on the treadmill. The television was tuned to Fox (and I can hear all the shrill screams from readers), and it would have been clear to anyone that I was paying attention, as my treadmill was immediately in front of the screen. An older woman, perhaps 55, walked up to the treadmill to my left, looked at the screen, walked back to the towel ledge, grabbed a remote, walked back, and changed the channel before I knew what was happening. Not to her daily soaps, but to one of the other politically-biased news outlets (it might have been MSNBC).

Weird. This woman was obviously a Fox-hater. It doesn’t really matter to me which broadcast outlet I get my lies from, but I said to her anyway, “You don’t think that’s rude?” She had her headphones on and just gave me a strange look. I didn’t feel like causing a scene, so I moved treadmills to another TV and watched Martha Stewart (apparently there is a dearth of watchable stuff on TV nowadays).

The left fascists look to control you in different ways from the right fascists, most notably by suppression of belief systems they don’t like. They love the idea of larger government, because it grants them a larger sphere that they can influence.

Don’t like religion? Great, all we have to do is claim something to be under control of the government, and then the religious nuts can’t speak freely. Don’t like conservative radio? Great, let’s re-institute the ignominiously named “Fairness Doctrine” to try and force your viewpoints. (I wonder, will the Fairness Doctrine apply to the heavily left narrowcasting of NPR?) Or great, let’s institute “hate speech” laws and collegiate speech codes. Don’t like groups of people lobbying the government? Great, let’s push the right fascists and left fascists to get together to establish “campaign finance reform.” So much for the first amendment.

The [censored] who changed the channel without asking is representative of what we are in for under the thumb of left socialists. Don’t like what other people say or want to hear? Use force to shut them up or to shut off their source of information.