At some point people will decide to not comply...
I'm finally there. As a guy who was living in California I struggled with the blunt force of laws being passed that violated the state and federal constitutions. Bad, stupid laws are hell to be subjected to. Eventually I made the comment to a good friend, "I can't live under this kind of system." Soon after that, I left. But, now that I sit here in my own Gulch and occasionally catch what politicians are saying I am realizing that I can't comply with their wishes. I've reached that point. When you hear the VP's rant about inflation or the "passage of time", when you hear Biden say he's worried about Putin invading Russia - You see militant trans who are into bondage shows being appointed to very high ranking, high-paying positions...You see some school districts now pushing sex toy use and transgenderism on 8 year olds (and younger)....One has to just say, "Well. I've thought this over and these people can go pound sand. I'm not going to do what they want me to do." Anybody else ever get that feeling?... I don't have a problem with the trans thing, sexuality, etc. But, children are off limits as far as I'm concerned. And the VP apparently has zero understanding of basic economics and often sounds like a 12-year old trying to explain quantum mechanics when asked a question about anything of substance. I actually kind of feel for her. It must be tough to stand there and bumble around at the mic like that. And Biden - Blaming Putin for the inflation. He's offering no hope on this - just some twisted, contrived blame game. As I was putting gas in my pickup today I clenched my teeth. These people have no clue what they're doing and there is zero accountability. I hope they all find happiness in a place where they're not making things worse for others and enjoy the rest of their days. If all of this reminds us of one thing it's this...Government has become much too omnipresent and omnipotent. It should reel itself back and focus on fixing potholes, securing borders and enforcing contracts. But, it's not doing any of that now. The media should stop asking them about stuff like inflation, the war, etc. The press conferences should just be about how their bunions are feeling and what their favorite ice cream flavor is. Stop even acting like we expect them to provide anything of any value for any important issue. They don't. Thanks for reading my late Friday rant... I just feel like we've reached the crossroads on this and am curious what you think... This is like the old "the king has no clothes..."
2-1/2 millenia past.
A man of sure fitness, without making a point of his fitness,
Stays fit;
A man of unsure fitness, assuming an appearance of fitness,
Becomes unfit.
The man of sure fitness never makes an act of it
Nor considers what it may profit him;
The man of unsure fitness makes an act of it
And considers what it may profit him.
However a man with a kind heart proceed,
He forgets what it may profit him;
However a man with a just mind proceed,
He remembers what it may profit him;
However a man of conventional conduct proceed, if he be not complied with
Out goes his fist to enforce compliance.
Here is what happens:
Losing the way of life, men rely first on their fitness;
Losing fitness, they turn to kindness;
Losing kindness, they turn to justness;
Losing justness, they turn to convention.
Conventions are fealty and honesty gone to waste,
They are the entrance of disorder.
False teachers of life use flowery words
And start nonsense.
The man of stamina stays with the root
Below the tapering,
Stays with the fruit
Beyond the flowering:
He has his no and he has his yes.
From Bynner, again,
The end of the life legend is that, saddened by men's tragic perversity,
their indisposition to accept "the way of life," to use life with
natural goodness, with serene and integral respect, Laotzu rode away
alone on a water-buffalo into the desert beyond the boundary of
civilization, the great wall of his period.
i do what i have to to keep my family safe
It doesn’t solve it...but it takes the edge off.
― Mark Twain
What are you prepared to do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ALcq...
If people who recognize the acts of government as acts of eventual enslavement
do nothing but watch as others are enslaved by government jackboots,
then the enslavement will continue until everyone is a slave.
NIFOITOWTBS
I am prepared to knock on doors and see how many people I could get to stop paying school taxes. But that would be useless unless 75% of the district had the balls to risk it. It would have to be a large enough number that enforcement of school tax evasion would be impossible. I'm not sure how that would go. I don't know much about the details of governance.
It's the only way to be sure.
"I don't have a problem with the trans thing, sexuality..." These sexually confused adults are mainly, for whatever the cause, living in their own fantasy land. I don't care what they do unless they start forcing youth to believe and practice their fantasy and thus ruin lives at the very beginning. Furthermore, it should be out of limits to petition government to force/enforce others to buy into the fantasy as well. When they do that they are invading my space and I should have the right to toss them out on their collective asses without repercussions. That includes male athletes fantasizing at being a female athletes - forcing so many innocent others to go along with and nurture the fantasy is pure evil. Why on earth should the rest of us be forced to buy that crap?
"When you hear the VP's rant about inflation..." When you hear the VP speak at all or dodge responsibility any time, we are shown an example of the Peter Principle on steroids. To be sure, she is living her own fantasy at the nations expense and the people are being brainwashed to accept it.
"And Biden - Blaming Putin for the inflation..." and other things. The blame game is common in the DC swamp, but this administration (regency?) has taken it to a whole new level. They've become totally disconnected with reality, like the entire left, and are living a self delusion in their own fantasy world. They imagine the real world is something different than it actually is and they are constantly trying to force solutions they conjure up in their delusions on reality and the results are failures. There should be no mystery as to why so many of these deluded people accept Joe Biden as "normal" - they are of the same asylum.
"The media should stop asking them about..." It can't because too many of them are suffering the same disease and are carriers - they are of the same asylum.
"Government has become much too omnipresent and omnipotent..." Yes and it profits from the all the fantasies and unrealistic crap it forces the people to accept. Government has become the tank and the Constitution is the person standing in front of it - not even a close match. IMHO, the latest nominee to SCOTUS doesn't even have to know what a Constitution is - just drive the tank.
The King certainly has no clothes.
1) What is being asked to comply with is in the best interest of each individual, not groups.
2) What is being asked to comply with is part of a commonly agreed upon sense of morality. (This was their first objective to destroy.)
3) The person requesting (not demanding) your compliance of worthy of respect.