By
John Green
The MSM propaganda machinery is determined to sell the socialist narrative to the gullible. It does so by playing to their feelings. Socialism is described as “neighborliness.” Government seizure and redistribution is simply “spreading the wealth around.” The government picking commercial winners and losers is “saving the planet.” The propagandists hope the gullible find blind acceptance of the narrative less troublesome than observation and analysis.
The narrative asks us to sacrifice our freedom because
- Carbon dioxide is killing us -- even though it’s essential for life
- Speech is violence -- but actual violence requires context
- Killing the unborn is a fundamental right -- but defending ourselves is not, and
- All races are equal -- but some are incapable of achievement without government intervention.
The narrative is designed to make the gullible “feel good” about sacrificing their rights for centralized control.
Shortly before his death, I watched a Charles Krauthammer interview on Fox News in which he shared his accumulated wisdom (unfortunately I can’t find the link). He said that he didn’t think our civilization would end because of a meteor impact, or an extinction level pandemic. He suspected that mankind would die quietly as we stop caring enough to survive. We would give up on producing food, maintaining the infrastructure, and enforcing standards of civilized behavior. Krauthammer predicted that civilization would stop facing life’s challenges, and wither away from complacency. One need only take a tour through Kamala’s home state of California to see the beginning of that decline.
How did that happen?
During the 20th century, the government undertook a massive change of mission. It transitioned from being our protector, to being our provider. Our founder’s vision (as codified in the Constitution) was that the federal government exists to protect our inalienable rights, secure us from threats, and maintain civil order. But it has morphed into a leviathan that protects us from
- Loss of income with bailouts and unemployment compensation,
- Economic downturns with stimulus,
- Ethnic disparities with quotas, and
- Personal offense with censorship.
The gullible naively expect tomorrow to be just like today -- if not better -- due to the government’s benevolent oversight. The party of FDR, LBJ, and Kamala Harris offers us a world free of consequences, in exchange for our freedom. A disturbing number of voters will accept that deal.
But a world without consequences is a world without accountability -- failure costs nothing. But when failure is free, it is also abundant. That abundance applies equally to us, and to the government functionaries which the gullible trust as their caregivers, even though it has become obvious that such trust is misplaced. Those entrusted with our welfare, are totally unconcerned with our wellbeing. Do the TSA agents at the airport seem at all concerned about our travel experience? That indifference infects our entire government.
