I do believe that far too many Americans are suffering from a case of not knowing what you’ve got until it’s gone. Freedom is one of those rights granted us by God not by man but some are insistent to take that freedom away from you and I in order to bolster their own struggle for power. Self seeking power hucksters are so bedazzled by their own self importance they fail to see the ultimate destruction they will bring upon a free society including themselves.
Thomas Sowell says that politics and politicians are “Playing Freedom Cheap“.
If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, incessant distractions are the way that politicians take away our freedoms, in order to enhance their own power and longevity in office. Dire alarms and heady crusades are among the many distractions of our attention from the ever increasing ways that government finds to take away more of our money and more of our freedom.
Look back over the past year and honestly ask yourself how much of what this current administration, along with most all of Congress, has done to rush legislation, to quickly get things passed because there is no time. Recall also how many times this call to haste was followed by vacations and/or days of inaction.
If these power aspirants can stir up fear and trembling among the masses, cloudy thinking people become willing to give up things they normally wouldn’t do under rational thinking processes. Isn’t this what the freedom deniers are ultimately trying to do?
Alarms ranging from “overpopulation” to “global warming” and crusades ranging from “affordable housing” to “universal health care” have been among the distractions of political magicians. But few distractions have had such a long and impressive political track record as getting people to resent and, if necessary, hate other people.
Look around you. Ask yourself if you have encountered others who have made hate filled comments to you or shown obvious resentment? And then take a look at yourself. Do you have hatred toward other people? Do you resent what they have or what they do? If so, why? Is it because you have become a victim to this divisive wickedness perpetuated by the same domination aspirants whose aim is self gratification at the expense of God’s granted freedom?
Sowell is right. We can become distracted by a laundry list of emotionally charged agendas being crammed down our throats but the most successful methods to divide and conquer a society is to bolster distrust and hatred among the people.
This doesn’t mean we should all abandon our morals and personal convictions or turn our backs on our beliefs. It means we need to recognize who or what perpetuates the hatred and not succumb to it and then go about selling others what’s important through truth and respect.
Tom Remington
