Namaste and welcome to my blog. Today I want to talk about political ideologies and how they relate to our current American way of life.
Our founding fathers knew firsthand the struggle against tyranny as they fought side by side to defend a fledgling nation of colonists from the mother land of the British Empire. Each generation of Americans has done their part to defend the Republic for which we stand. Each generation made sacrifices for the next. Amid all the struggles of our nation, it was the individual, the citizen, the militias, that through ideology pressed forward into the future with the goal of individual liberty in mind.
Collectivism, be it socialism or communism have always been the burden and antithesis of individual liberty. There have been many attempts to reconcile the two, but the drain of demand from the central government, wasting the collective labor and resources of the people they were supposed to protect and serve always ultimately becomes too much. The disparity between the upper class and the working poor ultimately leads to revolution, and not always for the good. I do believe that there shouldn't be privatization of resources like water, solar, and wind... that's just silly.
As a veteran of the Navy and a patriot to this nation, I must say how disgusted I am when I turn on the television and hear Millenial's and Gen Y youth touting a dangerous level of speech that could very well be tantamount to communism and treason. These younger generations have grown up on the backs of the labor of their fathers and grandfathers and beyond. They have known NOTHING but prosper and unmatched abundance. On one hand, they have the absolute right to be disgusted by the perversion and debauchery occurring at all levels of our government. They have the right to be upset about gun violence and mass murders, BUT...
ahem... deep breath...
The perpetual fallacy of youth is lack of knowledge and real world experience. Even the poorest person in the United States of America STILL has access to clean water, food, and shelter, for the most part. The life and liberty that today's youth abhor so much didn't come easily or cheaply. It was paid for by many generations before with blood, sweat, and tears... just for these whiny little communist shits to be given an open microphone and hear them bash our nation and disrespect their elders, the veterans who sacrificed and served, and our Constitutional rights that SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED UPON. The mere thought of taking away individual liberty and freedom for some false sense of security is INSANE. All the laws in the world can be made to take away the rights of the LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN, but one must remember... CRIMINALS DON'T FOLLOW THE LAWS or really even give 2 shits about them. One must also remember that NO system of government has been EVER proven to be perfect. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. This communist bullshit I hear spewing from young mouths sounds real good on paper, and I can honestly understand why this sounds appealing to young people that don't truly understand the concepts of individual liberty or what the true nature of a Republic is. It sounds real good on paper to destroy the class system and let everyone have an equal share of the pie. Sounds good. EXCEPT, it is a governments sole function to consolidate power to said government, and in doing so, lowers the quality of life for every one of the working class citizens, which is the opposite of the said intention from the beginning. The problem comes in loss of individual liberty. A LOT of people don't want to work as hard as others, especially when the payoff came at the loss of freedom for a false sense of security. A false communist utopia sounds good until you realize that while you were disarmed, the government never is. Tyrannical power ultimately leads to things like mass genocide, war, spread of disease, famine, and death of the dream. This turns to revolution, which leads to prosperity, which leads to consolidation of power, which leads to tyranny and on and on and on. If the government is the sole possessor of arms against the people, than that is a dictatorship, not a Constitutional Republic.
We have institutions like the Electoral College, for example, for a good reason. It is so that large urban centers of industry and large populations don't get to make the exclusive laws governing the entire nation. If this weren't the case, New York, Florida, and California would be making the laws for everywhere else, due to their dense urban populated cities. It took me a long time to realize that there is a distinct difference between the mindset and ideologies of the urban citizen vs. the rural citizen. It doesn't really seem to matter where I go, dialects may change, but generally speaking city folk are city folk, and once you get outside of that, there are a lot of rednecks and backwater peoples. Not judging... the world and the USA needs all types. I personally believe it is the diversity of peoples in this nation that makes the United States great from sea to shining sea.
We must not let the actions of the few spread fear into the hearts and minds of the law abiding citizens. We must not let the words and feelings of our youth trigger us into giving up our most basic Constitutional rights. Look around at what is happening. We have a police force that has been trained to spread terror and to treat everyone like a criminal. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? Is there even such a thing when a police officer can gun you down in the street or arrest and detain you when no real crime was even committed, based on racial and ethnic stereotypes? I know this all is hard to follow, but it won't be solved by taking away the rights of those who have committed no crime.
What we need in this nation is an open line of communication rather than "free-speech zones".
What we need is adult discussion without people getting triggered, while thinking their emotions and under-educated opinions are equivalent to TRUE, logical facts.
What we need is MORE education for our citizens. In High School, students should be taught about the political process, our central government and how it works, about the political parties (and not just the biased and divisive 2 main political parties: Republicans and Democrats), how to vote, community involvement, civics, etc... and real life skills. But the very last thing we should condone is this hateful speech going on in this nation. Life is actually WAY WAY MORE SIMPLE with the individual freedom movement than with this other socialist/communist shit. And until we find and work together to create a better system, start with fixing yourself. We can't, as individuals of a greater society talk about ending war and violence without first ending the war within our own minds. How can we expect a society to work together and find peace and love if we are forever in inner turmoil, fighting over trivialities like geographical location, gender, skin color, religion, sexual orientation, etc.?
Life is simple...
If you don't like gay marriage... don't get one.
You don't like drugs... don't do them.
You don't like marijuana.... don't smoke it.
You don't like abortions... don't get one. Adopt instead of having more of your own.
You miss someone... call, write, text, e-mail that person.
You're hungry... eat.
You're thirsty... drink.
Life is simple, but it is also short. Is the legacy we want to leave behind to the next generation the degradation of individual liberty, taking away the rights of law abiding citizens, and the downward spiral to communism? We all know that things suck sometimes, but with simple changes we can all make it better. It's difficult to ever have that Utopian society because 7.5 billion people are all living a life of individual perspective reality, with desires, dreams, and ambitions different from one another, but all together in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Whether we have just this one life, or in an Eastern thought we reincarnate back again, shouldn't we do the best we can to leave the world BETTER than it was before? If we all could just adopt that one ideal, to leave the world better than before... I think that kind of small change could be viral. I urge my readers to just share that one thought and disseminate the knowledge down to future generations.
This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Truth.
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