I'm not a fan of our government. I am a bipartisan politician hater. I long for a symbol as clear as a box of tea to dump into a harbor to register my discontent. Failing that, I offer these words, originally offered before there even was a United States of America:
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams
We have the leaders that we have -in both parties- because people want to be taken care of. They'd rather have an illusory security net than seek their own best level of ability. In doing so, they drag their country men down with them, as they seek, sustain and elect men and women who relish only power.
It was a nice country while it lasted. I don't know whether to hope that those who prayed for it and worked for it are punished by the socialist nightmare that we are rapidly becoming, or to hope that some one (not a government official) will find happiness in it.
I've just recently finished reading "Animal Farm." It is intended to mirror the atrocities and ironies of the Russian Communist revolution - they threw off one set of shackles only to accept the same again from a new master. Some hate the book; I loved it, likely because it tallies so well with my negative opinion of people's ability to endure liberty.
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I agree entirely. Entirely. We have become a nation of entitlements. It's an easy road to fall onto, especially when we feel helpless to do so much because of restrictions to our freedoms. We start thinking, "The government should do something." It's way too easy. Freedom and liberty are hard.
ReplyDeleteNot as hard as life without, as I hope people figure out before we stray any further down the road to bondage!
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