As opposed to America's founding, when it was believed that we have inalienable rights that come from God...
Our society, for a very long time, has believed that rights come from man himself, specifically the man (or group) that wields power.
If it's popular it's a right, if those who wield power "make it legal," then it's a right.
God and our natural and inalienable rights are a thing of the past.
Both sides believe in this...even those who use God as a smokescreen on the right.
Both sides censor, steal, redistribute, fight endless wars, and are beholden to foreign nations first.
The difference between the two sides is that when their opponents are in power, they scream "tyranny."
When they are in power, it is not.
And back and forth we go in "Our Democracy."β’οΈ
The U.S. government constantly brings shame to our nation.
Those who take away free speech always start their arguments with:
"This is not about free speech."
Left - censor for "the science"
Right - censor for Israel
Left - "expand the court."
Right - "impeach rogue judges."
Left - Everything for Ukraine
Right - Everything for Israel
Left - Trump is Hitler
Right - Massie is Liz Cheney
When will Left & Right come to realize that they are the same?
As much as I support Massie standing on principle (as he should) I would like to see spending actually cut.
But the way government works is to kick the can and have a new excuse to kick it again.
If history repeats, we'll hear something like this:
"Well, President Trump had a plan to cut, but then XYZ happened... You can't expect government spending to be cut after XYZ."
And this is how the spending goes...on and on, with no end.
Massie never has to worry about doing the right thing...simply because it's right, no matter what happens.
Will Democrats (when they're back in power) kick people with green cards and visas out for political views too?
Will getting a green card or visa going forward mean that you must have certain opinions?
If Republicans are in power, don't criticize foreign nation (A).
If Democrats are in power, don't criticize foreign nation (B).
Trump says that the EU was formed to "screw" the U.S. and that may be true, I don't know.
But one thing I do know, is that the EU is modeled after the U.S. (at least the post-1865 U.S.).
After the Civil War, the U.S. did not go back to being a decentralized union (without the slavery). That's what should have happened...ban slavery across the board, and go back to being decentralized and unique states.
Instead, the U.S. became a consolidated and centralized power located in DC.
Everything would flow from DC.
The states would be homogenized, and local cultures whisked away.
When you travel the U.S., it often feels like you never left home. With the exception of restaurants and the wonders of nature, the states have become a carbon copy of one another.
There's Home Depot, Lowe's, McDonalds, Best Buy, Kohl's...etc...etc.
Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike any of these places, but all of them are tentacles of the Grand Octopus in DC.
If DC says check for :vaccine passports," they'll all comply. If DC says "go woke," they will all go woke.
The European Union is modeled after this.
All of the European nations would be homogenized, and take their orders from their own DC (i.e., Brussels).
Local cultures would homogenized.
Is it a coincidence that both the United States and European opened their borders?
When is such insanity acceptable, unless there's an ulterior motive?
Both the United States (post-1865) and the European Union look to me to be the models of Globalism.
Do this to the whole world!
Any country that seeks to retain its own nationality and its own culture is labeled the enemy.
Every nation must be homogenized...to take orders from some centralized entity.
God forbid.
Good image.
But we certainly don't want to save the Empire...that's not worth saving.
However, the original pre-"Reconstructed" and decentralized Republic?*
That is worth living in.
*(minus the slavery, of course)
With the first Gulf War, George H.W. Bush was very happy that the resistance to war had passed in American minds.
Enough time had gone by since Vietnam, and new generations of Americans were ready to be crushed by endless war.
H.W. Bush said: βItβs a proud day for America. By God, weβve kicked the Vietnam Syndrome once and for all!β
Take a look at what has been done to the Middle East ever since.
Today, Christians are being slaughtered on the lands that Christ walked through in Syria; something that did not occur when Assad was in power.
But Assad had to go, we were told.
The "influencers" are starting to slow walk the narrative of Iran being next.
...to save "Western Civilization."
"Vietnam Syndrome" -- where art thou?
When the Soviet menace collapsed, an opportunity for America to be a normal country was becoming quite obvious.
Jeane Kirkpatrick was in the Reagan Administration.
She wrote in 1990 that it was time for the U.S. to get rid of:
βthe dubious benefits of superpower status and become again a usually successful, open American republicβ¦a normal country in normal timeβ¦an independent nation in a world of independent nations.β
Did America choose to be a normal nation? NO!
Instead, America would venture off into the Middle East and Ukraine.
None of it was for the benefit of America, and the costs are beyond mathematical justification anymore.
With the election of Trump, there (once again) is a desire to be a normal nation.
But that desire is countered by the pull of the Middle East and Ukraine.
Areas that have nothing to do with us.
Why can't America just be normal?
It's as if America has no independence of its own.