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POLITICS America Moving From A Permission Society To A Repressive Regime
Issues & Insights ^ | 12 Apr, 2022 | I&I Editorial Board

Posted on 04/13/2022 5:27:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber

A few years ago, a book titled “​​The Permission Society” explained how the country’s ruling class had turned our God-given liberties into privileges granted by government. Is it possible that the U.S. has gone even beyond and become a nation of the ruled? There’s more evidence to support that proposition than there is to refute it.

We’re reminded of this by a set of new rules to live by proposed by the Biden White House. Last month, the Energy Department announced it was taking public comments on efficiency standards for residential air conditioners and pool heaters that are intended to “to help consumers save on their utility bills.”

The “savings” angle, though, feels more like cover for the department’s deeper agenda, which is its “commitment to reaching net zero carbon emissions.”

The Democrats who for now dominate policy making in Washington believe there is nothing so private that they cannot regulate, nothing so personal that it can’t be intruded upon. The only question is the pace of the arrogation of our freedoms. They have to be taken down in increments, so that the country won’t notice the slippery slope toward tyranny. In many cases, often regarding energy and conservation policies, restrictions are even celebrated by the loudest factions to help numb the public to the constant attacks on liberty.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 04/13/2022 5:27:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The road to hell is paved with leftist lies.


2 posted on 04/13/2022 5:28:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yep


3 posted on 04/13/2022 5:33:34 AM PDT by sauropod (So may we start? It's time to start.)
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To: MtnClimber
Mongrels at every level of govt erased Christ from the Republic. Big mistake, as every ill we're seeing is the result of a Christless society.

That created a vacuum and doesn't stay empty for long.

Matt 12:43-45: When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

Get ready America. Hell is coming for you.

4 posted on 04/13/2022 5:45:02 AM PDT by LouAvul
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Moving out of the USA May 1st.


5 posted on 04/13/2022 5:56:37 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: MtnClimber

‘Elite’ arrogance is ALWAYS eventually rewarded with an end of the ‘elite’. You’d think people would learn.


6 posted on 04/13/2022 6:27:10 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: neverevergiveup

People have incredibly short memories. And the vast majority of them are stupid and ignorant to boot (see “COVID”).


7 posted on 04/13/2022 7:15:33 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Jolla
The USA is the protector and defender of the free world. Once it falls, that protection ends.

Regardless where you try to hide, it's to no avail. Even if you flee to an aggressor totalitarian nation, you'll still suffer, at the hands of your host government.

Why do you think the superrich are building doomsday bunkers all over the world? Stupid people. They think they'll be safe, but as long as a human (contractor) built the bunkers, humans will know how to breach the bunkers.

People demand a world without Christ? They're not going to like what follows.

8 posted on 04/14/2022 6:53:42 AM PDT by LouAvul
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People demand a world without Christ? They’re not going to like what follows.

That is one reason I am moving to Christian country - 81% of the population believe in Christ.


9 posted on 04/14/2022 4:30:37 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: Jolla

Where?


10 posted on 04/15/2022 4:57:16 AM PDT by LouAvul
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