I was driving back home from a doctor’s appoint, when a thought hit me, like a bolt from Zeus. I had just caught myself wondering, “How did our world get to this state?” Zeus reared up his godly head, cast his bolt, and the answer appeared. We chose this.
I’m Roman Catholic, so the concept of free choice is not new to me. Yet, we can definitely take that for granted. Through out history, man has strived to create a place where they could live in peace. Predatory animals, disease, natural disasters, predatory humans, all serve to threaten peace. The basic desire is to be left alone so we can pursue whatever we desire, and to be protected from danger of a scale we can’t handle ourselves.
248 years ago, we created a system of government with a type of government that was delineated in writing. First in the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and they are endowed with certain, unalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Guided by those principles, we then created the US Constitution. “We the People, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility. Provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty, to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution, for the United States of America.”
I was able to write those from memory, with a little help from Schoolhouse Rock. We used those concepts to create a government whose primary responsibility is the safety and security of its citizens. For the longest time, each citizen was actively involved in the enforcement of those concepts, sometimes giving their lives in its defense, voting for those in government who served the public interests, as outlined in the US Constitution.
The long and short of it is, I am able to drive peacefully to the doctor, receive some of the best health care in the world, drive peacefully home, and sit here and type out my thoughts without fear of governmental sanction. My two grandsons, the Devilish Duo, can play in the neighborhood and our backyard with little fear of predation. Our choices over the past 248 years have created one of the safest places in the world to live.
Get past the noise from social media. Yes, gun violence is a thing. Yes, child sex trafficking is a thing. Yes, crime is a thing. But, by and large, when you compare us to the world, we have the safest place to live. Based on our choices.
Yet, our recent choices have not been good. The news across the country is not good. Prosecutors setting aside the law to pursue personal agendas. Judges setting aside the law to pursue personal agendas. Crime is going unpunished. Our established borders are being willfully violated. Established science is being set aside for societal agendas. There are US citizens who are willfully, purposefully seeking the destruction of the world’s safest place to live. Our country, 248 years old, is under assault. I can spend the rest of this blog, and numerous others, expounding on the reasons why.
If you are looking for reasons, I would refer you to Mark Levin. He is a podcaster, radio talk show host, TV commentator, author and constitutional law attorney. He has written best-selling books like, Men In Black: How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America, Unfreedom of the Press and The Democratic Party Hates America. This books spell out, in detail, what is happening and why. He even outlines strategies for counteracting what is happening, with actions in line with our founding documents. His book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic, he spells out the framework for the Convention of States movement, designed to amend the US Constitution through Article 5 of the Constitution.
Rather than wade through all that, I’m going to bring it back to the topic at hand. Choices. We have allowed prosecutors to stop enforcing the law, or to substitute laws for their personal agendas. We have allowed judges to do the same. We have allowed our government to stop performing its primary function. We have allowed lawlessness to run rampant, and we have allowed science to be perverted and set aside for social agendas.
We can look at everything around us, throw up our hands and say, “Fuck it! I can’t do anything!” You would not be more wrong. Sure, taken in total, the moral rot and decay of our society can be overwhelming. However, we are Americans. We don’t shy away from fights that need fighting, and the heart and soul of this great nation is worth fighting for.
Dr. Jordan Peterson has a simple solution for life’s problems. Clean your room. Start with what is around you. Orient yourself to what is right and important, get your house in order, then find like-minded people who can work on your neighborhood, then your city, then your state. Demand that your government do its duty. It is unlawful for people to block city streets. Its is unlawful for people to cross our border without following the process. It is unlawful for government officials in any position to either not fulfill their duties, or to operate outside of those duties. Demand that laws are enforced.
Read the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. You cannot defend something you don’t understand. You can’t counter an argument without proper information. Know your city’s ordinances and state laws, and your state’s constitution. This is free, and only requires your time. Arm yourself with knowledge.
Don’t accept a politician’s cry for more legislation. If we are not enforcing what we already have, why in Hell would a new law help? Don’t accept demonization. A lot of the people crossing our borders illegally are human beings. Yes, they are violating our laws, and should be sent back, but they are human beings. But too many are criminals and terrorists. Find them, fix them, and don’t allow poison into our country to kill our fellow citizens. Our country allows peaceful assemblies. It doesn’t provide for non-peaceful assemblies. It doesn’t provide for riots, road-blocking, intimidation or violence.
We can bemoan that our current conditions force us into certain choices. That is a falsehood, based on personal convenience. We look at a choice, we see that making it will lead to hardship and pain, and we choose something else that is easier. We then attempt to justify it by saying we had no choice.
No. We have done this for the past 10-20 years, or more, and we can see the results. Now is the time to reassert our country’s core beliefs. Just like a Catholic who espouses non-Catholic beliefs is not a Catholic (I’m looking at YOU, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi!), a person who espouses anti-American beliefs is not an American. Don’t want to be labeled as Un-American? Espouse American beliefs.
#ChooseWisely
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