My loyal readers know that I have been slacking as of late. The blog posts just don’t seem to be firing off with the same intensity and veracity that they were pre-November 4th.
I am in a deep sort of funk: I don’t feel that we have entered the era of “hope and change”. I feel like we have entered the era of “fear and tyranny”.
It’s not that I don’t care, it’s just that I don’t feel it makes any difference. It’s like I feel as if it is no longer worth my time to be politically engaged. Democrats are fully in charge now. The number of corporate and governmental bailouts grows every day. The stimulus bill has bloated itself to a massive $900 Billion. Obama is moving forward with plans to institute mandatory civil service for youths. Hell, even one of the most conservative states in the union (Idaho, my home state) voted a Democrat to congress this term.
I care so much I could scream in anger. Yell, claw, scratch, bite and kick, rally the townsmen and demand reform. But it wouldn’t do any good. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid could care less what a libertarian like me thinks.
I quit watching TV a long time ago, lately I have even quit reading the news online. I am completely unplugging from the system. I know this is wrong, but I just cannot muster the strength to continue to fight the fight, to continue to espouse the virtues that Washington toned out long ago.
I just feel like I am out of time to re-educate my fellow brainwashed citizens on the virtues of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. You want tyranny? Fine, take it. Just don’t expect me to go along willingly.
And yet, I know that response will only pull me into more government and more control as well.
I guess it boils down to a matter of principles. I know I am not going to like the next four to eight years. But, If I truly believe that the principals of liberty and freedom are a requirement for our freedoms to be preserved then I must find the will to write on.
I truly am an angry voter. These bailouts, the deficits, the fact that we are printing fiat money to produce fiat economic growth- where is the outrage? Am I alone?
Maybe the ideal doesn’t exist. Maybe their isn’t an ideal state that can be run without a welfare system, were people are left to their own merits and virtues to succeed or fail. A system where the government lives by its strictly enumerated powers and respects the proper role of the ninth and tenth amendments.
Maybe it’s a fairy tale to assume that when left to their own accord, free from government intervention and counterproductive regulations, people will naturally assume to live their lives in such a way that they can find their own meaning in this world.
But to me it seems that it boils down to a simple fundamental truth: compulsory taxation can only breed discord, strife and anger.
Attention Obama, Reid, Pelosi, anyone who will listen: I do not consent to you destroying the Constitution. I do not consent to you orchestrating massive government control over our lives. I do not consent to you saddling us with so much debt, so much taxation that we have no choice but to turn to your created benefits just to get by. Know that anything you take from me is taken by force, anything you offer, I reject.
We are shell shocked only because we are asking ourselves this simple question: how much am I willing to give up to fight for what I believe in? Our answer may very well determine our freedom.