Posted on 09/10/2022 5:12:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It is understandable that folks are baffled and dismayed by the news that confronts us each day. The Babylon Bee can barely keep a step ahead of the nitwittery we see playing out in real time.
For example, California politicians decided to take money from taxpayers in order to buy medical insurance for illegal aliens. The federal government tossed bundles of COVID relief cash every which way, with over a billion dollars of it raining down on incarcerated convicts, including Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. And we witnessed government spend billions to fight the prospect of climate change, only to create the reality of crushing inflation.
Why are these things happening? Who benefits? Which politicians ran on a platform of doing any of this? And, if we claim to be a government by consent, who is it that consented?
For that matter, who among us asked government to restrict everything from what flavors of vape we can buy to what kind of cars we can drive? Who lobbied Congress to double the number of IRS agents or require banks to report every piddling transaction to the state? In short, in whose interest is it to restrict our liberty?
If we can rule out representative government as the driver of these unrequested unappreciated actions -- and we can -- what explains them?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The government identifies with those like themselves, the criminals. They impose their decisions through the threat of the use of force just like the government.
“Government is not Reason, it is Force....” etc.
Accumulation of power and control.
China.
Satan.
“In short, in whose interest is it to restrict our liberty?”
We all are to blame.
Every perosn is a part of some kind of group in opposition. Men/Women, Student/Faculty, Homeowner/Renter etc . . .
Those that seek power or money, use FEAR & JEALOUSY to drive support for whatever the group wants.
Lots of folks want power and money. Lots of folks are afraid.
And once the group gets their VIG, it never goes away.
Each person will use $99 to fight to kep their $100 bene.
You get nothing, but it costs you 50¢. How much will you spend to fight it?
There is your problem.
So you get a FED Rule governing how much water a toilet can use per flush.
A $3,200 replacement Catlaytic Converter for a California emission vehicle that’s worth $3,000.
Toddlers in Head Start still wearing masks.
Crony Cap NASA that can’t launch a rocket
Half of Utah doesn’t belong to Utah.
ROE, for 50 years
NFA of ‘34 and GA of ‘67
on and on . . .
National Divorce is the answer
No Civil War - Civil Separation
Choose Freedom - Choose Peace
Now, it’s just the mechanics of it all
Governments and politicians do not act. Governments and politicians react
Bureaucratic self preservation and growth.
1 Timothy 6:10-20
The alimony will be a bitch!
Maybe we should just cut up her credit cards, first.
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‘They impose their decisions through the threat of the use of force just like the government.’
just like churches, imposing decisions based on threats on eternal damnation...
LUST FOR POWER
IGNORANCE
There are other reasons that would go nicely with the above shouts.
“Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” Matthew 13:30
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