The image at the bottom of this blog post was
displayed on her Facebook page by a far Left acquaintance of my wife and I. (I
put the image at the bottom because I didn’t want to lead off this post with
that garbage.) The acquaintance, a woman named Cynthia, captioned her post with
this:
“This sums up my feelings for the past several
years, possibly decades. I want out.”
This in really interesting. Cynthia “wants out.”
But what is the only social condition that allows someone who wants out to
actually opt out? A free society. In its Founding principles, America is
the freest country ever. America guarantees every individual her inalienable
rights to her own life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness. The
government--again in accordance with America’s Founding philosophical
ideals--protects these rights. You are free to pursue your own values, but not
force your values on others--and vice-versa. If you “want out” of--want nothing
to do with--other people’s schemes and plans, you can simply say “no” and go
peaceably on your own way.
Now examine the diatribe below. To a
Leftist--that is, a collectivist/statist--“the country”, i.e., the state, takes
precedence over the individual and her rights. The state owns your life--which
means, people like the Leftist Cynthia can use the government as their “hired
gun” with which to force their values on everyone else whether they agree or
not. If they want to “assist’ the poor, they get to force you to pay for it.
That’s their world view. It is up to the government to manage food and
healthcare assistance to the poor, to own and run the schools, to take care of
unwanted babies, to dictate to farmers and other private industries how they
run their businesses, etc.
What if you simply want to make your own choices
on assistance to the poor or to the babies? On education? On your business?
What if you “want out” of these government programs and regulations? Well, just
try it! Just try not paying your taxes, or disobeying a regulation. You’ll be
seized by armed agents of the government, fined and/or jailed and/or have your home
seized for breaking their tax and regulatory laws. This, by the very government
that Americanism holds should protect your rights to your life, liberty, and
property.
The Left calls this “civilized.” Well, that’s
tyranny--and today, the American Left wants plenty more of it. To the collectivist
Left, every social problem, real or imagined, can only be dealt with by
government coercion. There is no room for voluntary action; no room for anyone
to choose for themselves with their own time, money, and effort. No room for
freedom--or personal achievement; to them, private initiative and prosperity--capitalism--means destroying the
Earth.
All of those tears in that frayed American flag
in the image below? They represent the statists ripping America’s freedom
ideals out from under us. Well, I want out of the collectivist tyranny of
the Left. No one wants to “limit” assistance for anyone. We who value
freedom and respect other people’s right to live by their own judgement want to
limit (and end) government’s power to force other people’s choices on us. So,
I’ll take Americanism. Cynthia and her ilk can opt out of America, go to Canada
(or North Korea, for that matter), and take their socialist agenda with them.
The rest of us who don’t “want out” can get to work restoring our constitutionally
limited government and our freedoms and our inalienable rights in healthcare,
education, charity, business, work, and other values.
Long live the “U.S. Empire”--a philosophical
empire built on universal human values of freedom and individualism.
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