Neither the scumbag or the the other guy is going to save this country.
We have gone far astray.
People are not in danger any more.
People don’t work for their food.
I do almost nothing for the money I am given.
My dad worked 14 hours a day creating campsites out of the unexplored North woods of Minnesota. He would put a can of soup on the pilot light, so it would be good to eat when he would come home at lunch.
My dad’s hands were callouses over bone. His skin was so thick it made a sound like a baseball mitt when he made a fist, and it was not a noise you wanted to hear. He didn’t want any stuff from anyone, and he didn’t want us to do without, so he worked, and then he worked some more, He didn’t cry like a sissy-mary cause he had less than some other guy. He had goals that involved doing right by his wife and kids, and then, as often as could be managed, to go fishing.
What happened to this country? How did this piece of land, this one where I live, the one from Atlantic to Pacific, 51-40 to the Rio Grande, how did this patch get to peopled with such cunts?
People don’t write stories about countries like this. People mourn for countries like this.
This is not a shadow of what was meant by the founders when they had the crackerjack idea of breaking away from a monarchy that imposed intolerable taxes and wended their way into every facet of life, separated everyone into groups to be played off each other, and did not acknowledge the power of the people in the government.
Does that situation sound familiar?
We had great men over here, with great ideas that, once written, have stood as the longest lasting system of government in the history of the world, and they had princesses.
We don’t have many great men proposing great ideas, but we do have a protected class that does nothing but propagate itself, people of leisure that think it is beneath them to dirty their hands, they walk on the backs of the working man.
Oh, heavens! What shall we do? Vote for that guy? Nah, he’s got problems. How about him? Fuck you. Stick a needle in your eye? Hmmm.
What will fix this country has nothing to do with government, it is, and can only be the people of this country. The government derives its power from the people, and but for us, they are nothing but a gaggle of attorneys, 500 people intent on ruining this country.
There is a gateway question that will determine whether or not you will be able to hear the solution. The tone may not be in the range of some people. The question is simple, and divisive. Either you want for more and better, or what is, is fine, and maybe even more of this shit would be fine.
The question:
Do you think that this country is the greatest country on Earth?
If you cannot bear to say that this is the greatest country on the planet, even if you don’t mean it, then there is no job for you in the repair of what ails this country. If you cannot say that simple thing, then what do you have to offer, you will only be a hindrance, as your ilk has been since the beginning.
The fact is that this really is the greatest country ever to cleave the fertile earth. Any voice to the contrary will find no hearing beyond this point, as we are talking about solutions, not endlessly enumerating problems.
The source of the greatness of this country is literally between the lines. The federal government has limited and enumerated powers according to the constitution. Between those lines is the freedom that allows for the greatness of man to shine. The more lines there are, the more tufted the thatch becomes around us, then the less of our individual greatness will shine.
There are places in the world where people have greater acumen in certain areas, more resources, more sunshine, or where some kind of fruit grows better than here, but it is the freedom, given us by our creator, outlined to remind and restrict the GOVERNMENT that attracts the best and brightest from all over the world.
You have the power, and the reasoning processes to go to the market and get what you want, what you desire, what is best for you and your family, and you don’t need anyone looking over your shoulder to tell you what you want or need.
There are rules in place, we cling to these as a secondary hedge against prurient and scurrilous human instinct. Again, these rules keep things in line. Keep sellers from misrepresenting products, and not much else.
If there is a booth selling ‘Poison Pancakes’, then you may or may not want to buy them, depending on your situation, but at the point where someone steps in and says that you do not have the right to buy them or sell them, then your freedom is diminished by exactly that much, and the richness of your experience as well.
You may want to say that you didn’t want ‘Poison Pancakes’ anyway, but I hope you won’t. Maybe I do. I am right now actively avoiding further justification of that statement because it does not need it.
If you see that there is a real hunger for ‘Poison Pancakes’, ‘Poison’ pancakes, pancakes with poison, or any other type of pancakes, then in the US free market you are able to put them before people to buy. If you have the foresight to unveil ‘Dogshit on a Stick’, after years of research and development, then you will be rewarded or punished based on the whims and your knowledge the customers.
When you present a thing that does not fly, or if what you sell is not fairly labeled, then your punishment is rapid, and precipitous.
Nearby is the Free Market of Ideas. We all hang out our shingles. We all love this country, and the discussions all begin with that kernel. As the group expands and more people enter the marketplace, their voices are heard with all the others, and the people behind them sink or swim on the strength of what they have to say. There is no censorship, but the ideas that do not have at their heart a real and true love of this country are not supported, are not repeated, do not find voice, and eventually whither.
There is no other limit to the direction of conversation, but for your desire to be ostracized because you do not accept the central, and sensible tenet, which is to say that you live in a great country, worthy of praise.
I know people, quite a few, that not only would not say this, but do not believe it, and would not be comfortable with reading all of this love of country stuff. Say it once, if you must, they might say, for rhetorical collateral, but then get off of it. I am at this moment choosing to sequester myself from the people who cannot or will not speak this truth.
Look here, a Free Market of Actions. I will choose to be around people and do business with companies that I do not have to guess, or ask about their allegiances because by looking at their actions I can see that they have the well-being of the nation in mind. They realize that they are part of a greater whole. As they know that what is best for the country is best for them, then no further steering will be required.
There will be no effort to quash dissent, or argument, but if the good of the nation is at the heart all we do, then everyone can prosper. It is not good for society to have even one person marketing ‘Poison Pancakes’ as ‘Corn Bran Muffins’, and by that token, the option to do that will not be exercised because there will be no dividend.
To begin in this way, I ask myself, ‘How did we end up here?’
How did we end up in a place where people don’t simply express a distaste for work, or a preference for leisure, but who simply REFUSE to work. What good does it do for the country that you do not work?
What benefit is there to treating you differently because you are of a different race, or religion? That does not aid in the welfare of the country.
Why would I want you to provide me with any kind of service when you have proven yourself to be a liar? Presenting false information has consequences, one of them being that I would not deal with you again, natural, simple market forces at work.
When there is clarity, there is no need for limitation. If I am in a position to choose with every fact at my disposal, then my choice will be true to me, and I will not have to busy myself weighing evil to find which has less, and since I could trust that at the nut is that the country will be served by either choice, then I really can’t lose.
Instead we are a nation on the brink of moral bankruptcy. We have stretched thin over the years, any regard we may have started with, and by a number of wrong turns, we now find ourselves with a broken system that cannot be fixed.
Enjoy voting this year. This will be the last time we have an election like this one. Whoever ends up in the office will not make it through their term, and with any luck we will come out the other side with the willingness to establish standards of personal responsibility that have the good of the nation at the center of them. This simple test could be enough to turn it around, not quickly, but surely, and at no cost to you or I.
