One of the things sapping the gray matter of the American mind is the blurring of reality and fantasy. Just my thought.
I’m not offended by your comment, but I have to wonder what is going on in your head if you think me pointing out a few similarities between a cartoon character and a real person is a “blurring of reality and fantasy.”
One of my high school buddies used to call my Dad “Fred Flintstone. That doesn’t mean he thought my father was married to Wilma and worked at the Slate Quarry on the back of a brontosaurus.
>One of the things sapping the gray matter of the American mind is the blurring of reality and fantasy. Just my thought.
Can you blame people from wanting to escape a reality where:
- The higher-law of a Constitution is routinely ignored in favor of the lesser-law,
- The ‘public servant’ known as a police-officer may break into a house w/o a warrant [think SWAT-teams and ‘wrong address’ stories]
- The ‘public servant’ known as a police officer may assault, kidnap, or simply execute you for exercising your lawful rights [COSTCO, the MI open-carry, etc]
- The ‘public servants’ known as the Legislature may, contrary to both popular wishes AND Constitutional authority pass laws [TARP, Obamacare, etc]
- The Supreme Court may decree what the Constitution says, thereby becoming a super-legislature; they have virtually eliminated the 5th Amendment prohibition against unjust compensation for property [Keelo v. New England]; they have created new-law out of whole-cloth [the illegalization of anti-abortion laws in Roe v. Wade]; They have made the 4th Amendment of no effect by allowing no-knock warrants & allowing police search & seizure on “probable-cause” (proper reading of the 4th Amendment is that the warrant authorizing police action may be issued on ‘probable cause’)
- The politicians try to “spend our way out of debt”... using my money, not their own.
- The idea of standing up to/against authority is an anathema to the “average citizen” because they have been conditioned to believe that the very position of authority justifies that person’s use of ANY authority. [i.e. school bannings of weapons, despite the fact that is a FEDERAL OFFENSE under this law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000241——000-.html ]