Nov 9th
Well we are now election + 2 days.
I rarely discuss politics, save my usual rants about the 2nd
amendment or obvious political corruption…issues that should transcend
partisanship. Like religion,
sexual orientation, or a preference of dogs to cats these are deeply personal
issues. What I write will neither
motivate a change in belief amongst my readers, nor seriously bolster one who
agrees with me.
Frankly I’m just not that good.
That said, I will disclose that I voted for Romney.
I did not vote for him because I salivated over his economic
plan. He ran as a “business man”
and frankly I’ve been intimately involved with “big business” for the last
seventeen years…what I’ve seen does not fill my heart with tremendous resolve.
I did not vote for him because of his position on social
issues. Other than saying he would
not stop a woman from buying a condom….what the hell “social issues” were
involved here???
I didn’t even vote for him because of his stance on the 2nd
amendment. The party platform was
the most pro-second amendment platform in history, but Romney’s own record on
gun rights is checkered.
I voted for him because I seriously don’t like people
telling me what to do, and I felt…well still feel… that the chance to push
government apparatchiks away from
my life had a better chance under a Romney administration than under another
Obama administration.
Well….that is over with now.
The majority here in California also voted to confiscate the
wealth of minorities. Yep….you
read that right. Not racial
minorities, but rather, economic minorities. It seemed perfectly reasonable to allow one large group of
constituents to confiscate through force the property of a smaller group of
constituents.
Interestingly there were no provisions made for going after
the minority constituents when they decide to flee the state and set up shop
somewhere else. What to do then???
Yes the 2nd amendment took a blow. How it manifests itself we must wait
and see.
That said my paradigm has shifted, and in some sense possibly
elevated about the American people.
52ish percent of the population voted to make sure that the goodies
taken from the other 47is percent keep flowing too them. What’s worse is that the majority has
become collectivists. They think
of themselves as free thinkers, but they are not.
They are conformists.
They have accepted a lifestyle where others demand behavior
from them, and they have acquiesced….after all the Mandarins from above think
the “right” way and therefore must be correct in their executions.
We saw this disaster manifest in the Cultural Revolution in
China. In a sense it is coming to
pass here in the States. It didn’t
end well there, and I fear it won’t end well here.
One passing ray of hope though….
John Locke articulated a political philosophy which watered
down went something like this:
Each of us is born Sovereign. Completely free and in control of our destiny. To make a society function efficiently
and ensure that others don’t use brute force to take our stuff and enslave us
we slice off a tiny portion of that sovereignty and place it in trust with our
government. Their control over us
is limited to that tiny slice we willingly surrendered. If the leaders attempt to expand this
sphere beyond what has been enumerated the covenant is broken and the power
reverts to the individual to await a new legitimate government in which to once
again place our faith.
The President offered two things to the masses: Social
freedom, and economic slavery.
They couched Romney as offering the opposite…though as I mentioned
earlier that was probably a bit unfair.
What history teaches is that slaves are not content to
remain slaves. They are
destined to through off their yoke of oppression. Will the 47ish percent break their chains soon?
I don’t know.
It might take awhile, and self recognition may motivate the
majority to see things in a new light too….eventually.
That said a catalyst might speed things up:
Margaret Thatcher said that socialism is fine until the
other guy’s money runs out.
What will the majority do then?
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