The New Counter Culture: Liberty

....The “establishment” these days is left wing. Look around, from the administration to most of the entertainers on TV, the message is left leaning despite the fact that the country is more right leaning. “The Man” is a leftie tyrant. You don’t dare speak against the system or be scorned by the media and all the yapping chihuahuas of the echo chamber.

We, the artists who reject the politics of “the man,” the propaganda of the state. We artists, writers and creative people who are tired of being pushed around and told what to do. Those of us who think everything is going wrong and it’s got to stop. We are using our art, our work, to show the folly of the ways of the “establishment”. We’re finding plenty to mock and criticize. And we don’t need the approval of the “cool kids” who really aren’t. Not even remotely.

The people have been sold out by those who never sought to give us freedom. They want to entrap the people in greater dependency on the state. They want to tax every person and business into the stone age. They want to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.

We say no. We reject that. “We” are those who are willing to speak out and ridicule the corrupt bureaucrats and their enablers....

Unlike the old guard entertainers who continue to shuck and jive for the state, we’re here to expose, reveal and satirize the endless tyranny being rammed down our throats. The real “change” is going to come from those us who have the guts to say NO.

America's founding ideas of liberty were revolutionary in 1776, and they are revolutionary today! They exploded old concepts that some imperfect persons in a society were somehow entitled to make decisions for other likewise imperfect persons. They affirmed the "self-evident" truth that rights are not grants from government, but they are inherent in individuals, Creator-endowed, and, therefore, unalienable.

If today's youth and their parents suddenly were to be exposed to those common sense, "self-evident" truths explained in the writings of the Founders and Framers of our Constitution, they would be aroused to such action that the current Congress and Administration would be stopped in their tracks in their efforts to unconstitutionally "rule" this nation.

The problem is that the "censors" have, over the past several decades, removed those ideas systematically from the nation's textbooks and public discourse, and those who knew better did little to counter their actions.

Now, however, technology has made it possible to access the Founders' writings and to cause them to, once again, explode into the current debate.

Are there enough patriots who will cause this to happen?

Ideas have consequences (Weaver)! In the battle of ideas, the ideas of liberty will defeat the ideas of tyranny, if they are allowed to be read and heard, because they appeal to the innate desire for liberty in each individual.

Of course, the counterfeit ideas of tyranny must be masked in order for politicians to gain the kind of power that has occurred in recent times. To gain that power, such politicians "buy" votes with promises of "goodies" and false solutions to "crises." Once they gain the power, then the tyranny begins.

Hope and change that is acquired in order to gain power over other people's lives is not a revolutionary idea. It is as old as the history of civilization and leads to tyranny.

Where to, America?

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