The civil war we are living in is becoming more and more apparent. The left needs criminal aliens to vote for Democrats, to skew legislative seats away from Republicans through gerrymandered districts that only Democrats are allowed to gerrymander and no public issue can be agreed upon.
The only issue that the overwhelming majority of US citizens agree upon is the SAVE Act and the highly-partisan congress cannot pass it. That tells you all there is to know about the civil war within congress and if Republicans were not half communists themselves, this would be passed.
The long TSA lines at airports around the country is derived from the left’s unwillingness to allow ICE to operate. In other words, half of congress refuses to let lawful agents operate to enforce laws against criminal aliens and are willing to hold funding for TSA in order to accomplish their goal of denying a legal agency to enforce the laws. If it gets any more traitorous than that, I’d like to know what that would be.
Why TSA? Because it inconveniences the majority of the people and makes for great optics for a party incapable of enforcing the laws when it threatens their voter base, criminal aliens. The odd part is that ICE is already funded and this whole dog and pony show is to force changes to ICE procedures, something otherwise outside the purview of the congress. That’s an Executive branch responsibility, but the left has never been concerned about separation of powers where it interferes with political expedience.
I wish more of the average citizen were capable of recognizing what benefits them and what benefits congress. They are rarely the same thing, but on the left you have extremist Marxist ideology at work, it’s the same with fascist ideology as well, what damages the state must be obliterated and what damages the state is always the freedom and sovereignty of the people.
The Marxists call patriots “fascists” simply because it appeals to the communist rhetoric which frames all enemies as “reactionaries” or “fascists.” Definitions don’t matter in such cases as the one powerful weapon of the communists is rhetoric, it’s what has brought them to power every time.
If one wants to get to the heart of my political ideology, it’s not conservativism, or republicanism, it’s individual rights above the state. Not that the state can’t provide some services, but we’re moving into a whole new realm of technological control that cannot be battled through anything other than a demand for individual rights, already encoded in our system, but largely ignored to the benefit of those relied upon to enforce it. Many of whom are subsidized by those determined to deny individual rights in favor of corporate progressivism.
I saw at the Dollar General store, a sign that said: “We will scan ID or the purchase will be denied.” No, you will not scan my driver’s license. There’s information there that goes way beyond what is needed to figure out whether I’m old enough to purchase alcohol or tobacco, laws that are themselves suspect on constitutional grounds. All the information needed is on the front of the driver’s license, something racist Democrats claim no minority possesses.
The battle to secure individual privacy rights is the fight that should be waged across the US. If I were to recognize a war that should be fought, that is the war I would choose, not Iran, not Ukraine, not Gaza. The very idea that after first using a service, that the providers can then simply amend their contract, claiming further use signals acceptance should be outlawed. Based on the first contract, individuals and businesses have built promotional and advertising campaigns, real costs to the person or business, and simply taking advantage of that relationship to further erode individual privacy becomes a taking of the costs of those campaigns and refusal to use the service would cause financial damages in the billions of dollars. No other contractual relationship is treated in this way, but when it comes to accumulating private information, the government has already sided with their corporate donors.
And slowly we descend. Stores now demand to acquire that same level of information or refuse the purchase.
I know its a war that we’ve already lost. I’m not thinking about fixing this system. What I am proposing is that this system is subject to imminent failure, probably for all of the reasons above. That in the ultimate failure is an opportunity to correct this flawed presumption that individual rights are secondary to public good. That in the new system that follows, we are prepared first to secure these individual rights over the state, to build something that more closely recognizes the individual as supreme before the law. This is largely how the US grew and innovated to become the industrial power that it is and as those rights have been eroded either through pernicious banking laws or fiat currency or communist insurgency, we have declined in both economic strength and military capability.
We have allowed rhetoric and moral bullying to consume the discourse between citizens. Instead of looking at the government with equal distaste, one side has joined with the state to force others to comply with irrational and personally detrimental policies. The favorite communist phrase “for the greater good” has seeped into the individual psyche and destroyed it. That the individual doesn’t instantly reject that proposal is the degree to which the society has lost its way. If there is an alternate phrase it should be “for the mutual good” and where there is no mutual good, there is no good at all.
If one cannot see, through logic, how they will also benefit from a communal venture, they should not be forced to supply funds to accomplish it. That takes power from the state and forces it to design things that benefit all or a means of financing it that comes only from those who benefit from it, leaving those who do not to spend their funds on an alternative. That’s how great things are built and alternatives are devised.
Yes, the whole system is fraudulent and corrupt. There is no salvation and it will not continue. We go to war with people with whom we do not generally interact while we suffer at home from the viciousness of our own elected representatives. We are victimized by offices that have already extracted our funds before we have any say in their activities. It’s a system built on theft, driven by fraud and maintained by extortion.
Since we have not fought for these values, we have lost and will continue to lose until we realize the fight we are in and start to punch back.
T. L. Davis
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