"the failure of the Republican leaders,” he said. “When they’re in power, they act like Democrats, except they grow government a little slower than the Democrats do.”
This is why I am NOT a Republican. What difference is it if the plane hits the the ground at a 90 degree angle or an 80? What difference is it if the government is a tyranny today or tomorrow?
I have studied history uncensored by the government while teaching my children (homeschool). What I have seen happen in other countries throughout history disturbs and scares me. America is behaving no differently than ancient Rome just before her fall, ancient Greece, China, India, several African empires, etc.
If I am right in what I am seeing we are now entering a time of oppression and tyranny. Our freedom is over.
My only hopes are the homeschool movement (which is inherently anti-big government) and modern technology. It's hard to disappear people when you are being filmed by 20 smart phones.
And this generation of young people all have rebellious Hippies for grandparents and no respect for authorities (which, ironically, are now those same hippies.)
What we need to do:
- Term limits (the longer someone is in DC the more liberal they become. This applies to SCOUTS as well as congressmen.)
- Transform all government bodies into virtual-governments. What I mean is, insist that all government officials live in the districts that elected them and meet virtually. It is hard to oppress the person you have to buy your milk from every week. Now more isolation from the very people they hurt most by moving to the richest zip code in America. (This would be better for security anyway. Instead of one nuke in the middle of DC taking out the entire government it would take at least 50!)
- Eliminate Public Schools. What is taught in the schools today will be the government tomorrow and taking money from one neighbor to pay for another neighbor's education is socialism and tyranny at its core. I would compromise with vouchers for a time as people become used to paying for their own children's education just like they pay for their food and to allow charities to be established to take care of the poor (as they did at the founding of this country). The only way we will permanently reestablish true freedom is if we start in kindergarten.
- Pass a law that no law can be more than one 8.5x11" paper long at 14pt font, and must not contain any word more than 3 symbols in length.
- Above all, those of us who have been blessed with the time and resources to study non-censored history MUST speak out, loudly and frequently! We must NOT allow ourselves to be cowed by mudslinging accusations of hater, bigot, etc. These are ad hominem attacks used to distract from the issue and discredit the speaker. We must fight back with our voices loud and strong.
I would love to hear more about your "non-censored history". I've never heard such a statement before. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWhether they know it or not, everyone has a bias, a world view if you will. This includes the writers of textbooks. The books used when I was in school praised big government, degraded America, ignored Christianity.
ReplyDeleteSince graduating and, especially, beginning to teach my own children, I have had the privilege of reading outside the state approved books. I have read some source documents, things written by contemporaries, books by people of all walks of life with many different opinions who have a passion for each subject, and even some older (pre 1960) textbooks.
These sources tell a different story than what we are told in public school. They tell of many empires rising because they offered the people greater freedom only to fall when they began raising taxes, giving out welfare, dis-valuing the home and family, slaughtering their children, ignoring morality. This fall includes ever increasing tyranny until the people "leave the gates open" and allow the enemy to come in (or the equivalent). This has happened in Rome, at least 3 times in China, at least twice in India, several different times in Africa (albeit on a smaller scale. Their empires haven't grown quiet as big) and many other times. I see so many similarities between our country and these just before their descent into the worst of the tyranny. I see no reason why we would be any different. People don't change, including people in government.
I have also learned that the people who founded this country, though flawed humans as we all are, were mostly people of firm faith in the God of the Bible. Our freedoms enumerated in the Constitution come from the Bible Itself. This country was based firmly on God and Christian principles.
We have allowed those in the government to remove these principles, especially from education.
My only real hope is that we live in a time when we have so much more information available and can seek out the truth instead of the bologna we are being fed in school and through the media. Also, the hippies of the 60s (who are now the ones in charge) taught their children and grandchildren to despise authority. These grandchildren are now seeing the bad of their grandparent's philosophies and are rebelling.